Tag: nature
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . . more
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October 18, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
The developmental economic model of Western societies is based on the continued growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ascendancy up the corporate ladder. This model is now exposed to be ecologically . . . more
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September 03, 2006 06:09 AM EDT --
All religious consciousness like all life emerges from common ground. By reason of evolving commonalities, good faith emergence is enabled. Einstein's mind-expanding intuition that . . . more
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . . more
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October 07, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
The dominant ethics/politics in American culture, which came from Europe, have brought about the dead-end wasting of the global ecology/environment. American ecologies were pristine 600 years ago, not . . . more
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October 07, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Deep down, evolution and devolution are wave/particle dance, the rhythmic process of creation unfolding—sometimes pretty and sometimes…not so pretty—but always awesome. . . . more
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November 10, 2006 10:13 AM EST --
The election cycle of 2006 might be interpreted as a mission rescuing American culture from drowning in a sea of distrust. The danger of asphyxiation continues and so does the need of respiratory help. . . . more
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July 28, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
The joined offensive of dominion theology and imperial politics is lethal. Indeed, by culture and genetic hard-wiring, male domination continues to be a mortal threat to personal/social wellbeing. The . . . more
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May 19, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
panic tubaing
in frantic wilderness - moose
calls the rising sun
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September 17, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural . . . more
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December 16, 2006 07:05 AM EST --
At the beginning of the book RELIGION & CIVILITY (Sylvester L Steffen, 2004, third book of the Second Enlightenment Trilogy) is an Overview with 10 axioms (modified below), corollaries that derive . . . more
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January 31, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Changing Worldview, Changing Dogma
Worldview is a personally and socially developed consciousness. Personal consciousness dictates personal dogmas, the package of beliefs that inform personal . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . . more
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February 11, 2007 08:55 AM EST --
Ours is an epic time marked by wars between religion and civility, but also a time of the apocalyptical enlightenment of ignorance and arrogance. Each of us has a capacity to be irreligious and uncivil; . . . more
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February 18, 2007 02:57 AM EST --
Analogies are important tools of learning; they reveal the likenesses and connections of things. By way of analogies we come to enlightenment. By understanding likenesses and connections, knowledge enlarges . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . . more
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June 11, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
Earth is in crisis. Nation’s are in crisis. Churches are in crisis. Education is in crisis. Humankind is cornered now and forced to react to crises mostly of its own making in order to stem its own . . . more
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March 16, 2008 02:55 AM EDT --
As to the status of women in cultural history, there is indeed a long train of philosophical/ theological thinking back into the deep past of consciousness by which thought advances the ascendancy of . . . more
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September 20, 2006 02:38 AM EDT --
If she's said it once she's said it a thousand times, the incomparable value of learning! At age 75 my wife Felicitas is a retired teacher known to hundreds of her students as . . . more
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