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WWB Key Ideas
Human attempts to understand the currently unknown and unknowable.
MODE:
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4 minutes
of short abstracts.
Religion.
Some random key ideas.
1.
The first century of the United States was shaped primarily by Protestant culture, Deism, and Enlightenment ideals
2.
Quote:
- William Kingdon Clifford.
- 1877.
From History:
Meaning:
Clifford argued that personal belief is a moral responsibility to humanity, not just a private habit. You have a moral obligation to be careful what you believe.
3.
From History: Reference Date: 2200 CE (+/- 50 years)
The Dawn of Empirical Spirituality imagines a future where religion better distinguishes truth from belief. Spiritual traditions may endure by honoring meaning, morality, and the unknowable while yielding empirical claims to science.
4.
The question of a creator is currently an unknown, and likely an unknowable. Belief in a creator is a personal matter, not a scientific one.
5.
Quote:
- Roger Williams.
- May 6, 1682..
Meaning:
We don’t know exactly when Roger Williams was born, nor died. For his birth, we don’t even know the year. He was born circa 1602. For his death, we know for sure it was 1683 and around March.
6.
From History: 2080: 60 Years From Now (+/- 10 years)
With small steps, help humanity strive for a shared empirical origin story. Only from that stable foundation will we acheive global cooperation.
7.
Plato’s detailed metaphysics did not include later souls. Heaven and hell were later inventions. He believed in at least four realms including his own idea of the realm of Forms.
8.
From History: Spirituality is exploration.
When publicly discussing spirituality, distinguish thought of the material world, what we directly experience, from the spiritual interpretations beyond it. Organize each spiritual idea into agnostic, nontheistic, and theistic.
9.
Daoism emphasizes nature, Mohism strikes a balance between nature and society, Confucianism brings harmony to society, and Legalism brings authoritarianism to society.
10.
The Buddha rejected reincarnation as the rebirth of an eternal soul and instead taught rebirth as a causal continuity driven by karma.
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