Youtube Video Link Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystanders. Chris Rock A gun represents power. Safety. Protection. But even more than that, in America, it represents something far more valuable: A Right. The right to bear arms. The right to choose when I should/should not protect myself. The right to defend my property against someone else. The right... Read more
Hegel argues that Christianity is responsible for introducing the idea that all human beings are free – and possess thereby an innate and inviolable dignity. According to the Christian teaching, all men are ‘equal in the sight of God’. Further, in the person of Christ, the human and the divine (the absolutely free and self-determining being) actually coalesce. Historically, it is Christianity, therefore, that is responsible for raising our consciousness of who and what we are, and thus for helping... Read more
Franco Fornari was an Italian surgeon, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who served as director of the Psychology Institute of the Department of Literature and Philosophy at the State University of Milan. His interests included group dynamics and social conflict, leading him to research war. In The Psychoanalysis of War, Fornari located the anxieties and psychotic fantasies that govern the behavior of individuals in groups. War, he said, arises from the external projection of an internal danger in the face of an... Read more
All the videos in one place folks! – 4 interviews with the giants of radical philosophy and a talk by me on some of my work. Enjoy! Pass them along… Read more
the current vision of the cross, as an object, marginalizes femininity. in fact, it does something even more vulgar, it entrenches women deeper into the western stereotype of a weak woman in need of man to save her. in this light, the current theology surrounding the narrative of the crucifixion merely transfers the masochist paradigm from male to female. this is echoed in the words (taken literally) ‘take up your cross and follow me’, for one to own the object... Read more
when we define a christian in a positive sense; as in, a ‘christian is someone who gives to the poor’ what we do is marginalize someone who is unable to give to the poor. what we do is deny the essence of the person and impose a factory-like caricature upon those who might not fit that certain category. this method of defining another human denies the very ontological state of our being as beings. it transforms people into machinations of... Read more
so, what would god look like without a cross? well, a god who loves humanity. a god who is head-over-heels about the very essence of humanity itself. a god who champions the very divinity s/he created within humanity to shine. a god who doesn't need a stand-in to help him define his relationships. a god who is committed to the development of the very thing s/he created. Read more
ethics are that which erupt out of us. that which compels us to be responsible for another, not choose for them, not judge them, but merely and meagerly love them. love, to me, is both violent and meager. it is about the other, but it is also about meagerly exhausting one's self. i use meager not in the traditional sense, but rather to make the claim of non-value, that love cannot be a value of any kind that we either have to earn or even understand receive. meager violent love might be the thing we need to help make the world a better place. Read more
“The eternal extension of God serves, first of all, the objective of enabling each person who loses himself to refind himself in him. But what is then missing is the satisfaction of those who aspire only to be lost, without remission. When Teresa of Avila screamed that she was dying of not dying, her passion, moving beyond any possible barrier, broke an opening that leads into a universe where perhaps there is no composition either of form or of being,... Read more
A threshold (or limen), is the point of intensity at which the participant can just detect the presence of, or difference in, a stimulus. Stimuli with intensities below the threshold are considered not detectable (hence: sub-liminal). Stimuli at values close enough to a threshold will often be detectable some proportion of the time; therefore, a threshold is considered to be the point at which a stimulus, or change in a stimulus, is detected some proportion part of the time. There... Read more
God Without The Sacred
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