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What I'm involved in these days...
Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: Philosophy / Religions
On Tags and Ontologies
Quote from Clay Shirky on the suckiness of ontologies, and how tags-labels are better for classifying ideas.
Continue readingScience des religions n’est pas théologie…
Je fais des études en histoire et sciences des religions. La plupart des gens à qui je le dis s’imaginent tout d’abord que j’étudie la théologie. Ce n’est pas la même chose. Quelques réflexions tirées du dernier cours d’epistémologie en … Continue reading
Jewish but not Zionist
What people don’t understand is that you can be Jewish without being Zionist. You can be Jewish without approving of the politics of Israel. And that is the position most of us find ourselves in. She said this a few … Continue reading
Non-Religious Buddhism (Batchelor, closing words)
How to create an authentic community, which provides a sound basis for the emergence of a culture while optimizing individual freedom, may be the single most important question facing those practicing the dharma today.One of the strengths of religious Buddhism … Continue reading
Meditation and Death (Batchelor)
I’m still reading Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor; more quoting for your enlightenment (hopefully): It might be that all I can trust in the end is my integrity to keep asking such questions as: Since death alone is certain … Continue reading
Agnosticism
Posted in Books, Understanding life and the world
Tagged Books, Citations, My Web of Belief, Philosophy / Religions
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Scientology
The CoS (Church of Scientology) is obviously pretty fearful of the work done by Operation Clambake, as it has seemingly asked Google to stop indexing this site. See the article on Wired, and the email that xenu.org received from Google. … Continue reading
Paroles de Maeterlinck II
Notre soif de justice vient uniquement de l’idée anthropomorphe que nous nous faisons de Dieu. * Le libre arbitre et la préscience divine sont ou universelle sont inconciliables. * Chercher Dieu, c’est se chercher sur les hauteurs. * Maurice Maeterlinck, … Continue reading
Idées
Depuis un moment déjà , je prends conscience que la cause de nombre de mes troubles “existentiels” – comme on dit – est mon refus de me prononcer quant à ce que j’ai appelé récemment le Fond du Monde. Etonnamment, cela … Continue reading
Digital Crumble
Scientologie
A suivre: suite à la censure par google d’une partie des pages de xenu.net, le célèbre site voué à la lutte contre l’Eglise de Scientologie, une discussion sur la Scientologie, à laquelle je participe activement (la discussion, pas la Scientologie!) … Continue reading →