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Jomate  #115
“… Every Māori I speak to is adamant that the way to advance in the world is to gain as much knowledge as possible from as many places as possible and to use the best parts of that knowledge to sur […]

Michael  #112
 
The best way to answer your question is to make clear what is meant by ‘culture’. The first three senses of the word that my Collins English Dictionary sets out are relevant here:
 
“1. the to […]

Jomate  #110 
I agree that there is an important distinction between knowledge and myth, but the point you make in this context is only partly significant, because the distinction is not clearly made in m […]

Centauri  #195
Aye, the former pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, has lived. Because he was no longer pope when he died, the Vatican has no precedent for the appropriate funerary ceremonial. Back in 1415, […]

Strato.

Chris C Hedges is a rather important thinker and commentator, in my view. …

I agree! And I readily recommend any and all of Christopher Hedges’ books, public addresses and interviews. Mr Hedges has […]

Marco  #9
 
Although I take the view that Jesus Christ never existed in history but entered human culture as a mythical heavenly savior in a Jewish mystery cult during the intertestamental period, the p […]

Oops! The link to the online interview with Richard Dawkins referred to at #106 is here (I hope):

The brief online interview that Richard Dawkins had recently with New Zealand journalist Patrick Gower on television included a much better targeted and more precisely defined approach by Prof. Dawkins to the […]