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Archive for September 1, 2023
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| “All eternal questions have now become engineering problems.” –Meghan O’Gieblyn
Rather curiously, theologians and engineers are holding identical questions today: free will, causality, consciousness, identity. All around us, machines are being programmed to behave like humans, but perhaps what’s more revealing is that humans are being programmed to behave like machines. Or as T. S. Eliot nuanced many moons ago, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” |
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 Starting just before 9/11, we are hosting a global, 21-day Interfaith Compassion Challenge |
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Integrity has no need of rules.
– Albert Camus –
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Albert Camus on Writing, Creativity and Stubborness
“Three years after he became the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, awarded him for literature that “with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience,” Albert Camus (November 7, 1913January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. The writings he left behind — about the key to strength of character, about creativity as resistance, about the antidotes to the absurdity of life, about happiness as our moral obligation — endure as a living testament to Mary Shelley’s conviction that “it is by words that the worlds great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.” { read more }
Be The Change
Read the letter of gratitude Camus wrote to his teacher after winning the Nobel. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 