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| one does not, cannot know |
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| individual inner experience determines reality; "what i feel makes it real"; no rational/reasonable basis for choice |
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| God created the world and left it to men- God is impersonal and does not interfere or intervene in the world |
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| the natural/material world is the only reality; denies the supernatural |
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| deny God but live as if He exists |
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| theological application of existentialism |
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| movement in the 80s and 90s that is still influential; a "self" movement; all reality is one; existential and subjective verification |
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| the Bible IS God's word, reliable, clear and true revelation |
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| human mind and reasoning is the final authority |
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| an optomistic humanism. man is basically good and his progress is inevitable |
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| truth and (metaphysical) reality determined by intuition, inner feeling, personal sense, and preference |
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| we are totally a product of our enviornment which can be manipulated to determine our behavior |
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| a form of birth control in aincent Rome; babies not accepted by the father are dumped in the river |
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| monitoring one's own brain waves in order to gain control over functions that are usually unconscious |
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| the universe creates/develops itself |
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| electrical stimulation of the brain |
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| Mechanical/electrical systems designed to replace human control functions |
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| Literally "good genes"; the science of improving a breed through selection |
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| altering genes to produce new desirable traits and eliminate old undesirable traits |
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| accumulated mutations in a species genetic pool has negative effect on the species |
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| asexual duplication from single cells |
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| cutting the frontal brain lobe to alter behavior |
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| literally "in glass"; union of sex cells in a test-tube |
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| egg develops without fertilization by sperm |
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| treat mental illness by brain surgery |
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| a mental illness. one makes one's own reality |
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| a sense of dread, anxiety, anguish, fear, death and loneliness |
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| defending one's faith by credible arguments and evidence |
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| unpleasant, difficult, perplexing situation |
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| people shop to find meaning |
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| Protagoras said that "man is the measure of all things" |
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| rebirth, especially in Greek and Roman culture |
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| self-governing. independant |
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| human kindness, tenderness, compassion (particularly toward animals) |
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| humanitarian is the highest or central good |
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| any man centered philosophy or practice |
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| care or concern for fellow human beings |
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| life is a rotten miserable scene; everything is ugly and obscene |
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| study of/interest in man's highest and best achievements |
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| wrote Waiting for Godot- the most influential play of the 20th century "They do not move" |
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| French/Algerian writer. wrote The Stranger |
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| "How am I, an a-temporal. . . to escape my imprisionment, when I know that outside time and space lies nothing, and that I in the ultimate depth of my being am nothing also." |
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| wrote The Brother's Karamazov |
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| wrote The Trial and also wrote Metamorphosis |
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| "It's common knowledge that life is not worth living." |
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| "Neither joy nor love nor light nor certitude nor peace nor help from pain." |
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| Duke professor of literature. Post-modern. The meaning of a work is determined by the reader not the writer |
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| "mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles an will only perish through eternal peace. i cannot see why man cannot be as cruel as nature. terror is the most effective of political instruments." |
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| "obscure knowledge that All is in all- that All is actually each." |
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| questioned Romanticism. "innocent" schoolboys marooned- man's inhumanity |
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| "I killed him with your help. . . If there is no God, then everything is permitted." |
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| wrote Brave New World and Doors of Perception |
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| "Man's existence is due to the chance collision between miniscule particles of nucleic acid and proteins in the vast pre-biotic soup. . . We need world authority, technocrats should decide arbitrary absolutes" |
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| wrote How Should We Then Live |
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| "Man's insignificance is a reason to feel nauseous; man is the product of chance and the individual is superfluous; live as if life is not absurd." |
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| wrote Chance and Necessity |
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| Said of Karl Marx; "He had a cosmic optimism that only theism would justify." |
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| "We live in a cold, silent, unfeeling universe." |
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| wrote Decline of the West |
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| "We must be in touch with the thought forms of toda's youth" |
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| "Man is neither good nor evil, but a highly developed animal. We can make man what we want him to be, those of us who understand the science of behavior modification." |
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| "Rather than progress, our civilization is headed to decline and destruction." |
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| wrote Lead us Into Temptation |
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| "the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless." |
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| said Material things do satisfy! |
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| wrote Outline of History; The Shape of Things to Come & Mind at the End of its Tether |
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| "man is destined to destruction, to go the way of the ichthyosaur" |
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| "and Kelsey sees that they have the expertise to create a mind-blown state such as the world has never seen. . . the most effective key ever devised to open the doors in the mind: LSD" |
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| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test |
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| wrote Walden II and Beyond Freedom and Dignity |
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| the soul's foundation should be: "a firm foundation of unyielding despair." |
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| wrote Why I am Not a Christian |
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| unity and diversity to the glory of God |
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| "Nowhere man" and "look at all the lonely people" |
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| Music by chance (4'33", concerto for "preapred" piano) |
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| pop star who overdosed, disillusioned by the world |
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| Music Concrete (electronic non-sense sounds) |
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| Not destiny or design, but luck, chance, fate, random interaction; if you turn left there is one fate, one "true love," and if you turn right, there is another |
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| Syncronicity. Tea in the Sahara |
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| music promoter, lead singer and guitarist of Mobster Magnet |
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| drifted to Eastern mysticism and drugs |
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| "I'm constantly amazed that people listen to our records at all. . . the world is a very absurd place, and the world of rock and roll is even more absurd." |
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| "So the sisters would burn as their eyes searched the land with their cups full of sand." |
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| mushrooms were not left to chance |
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| Catholic priest and paleontologist |
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| "no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests." |
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| "the only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible" |
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| popularized Darwinism and the New Biology; coined the term agnosticism |
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| evolution is a mystical final reality |
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| cosmo-genesis; evolution is the spiritual force in nature and history |
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| no distinctions between matter and spirit; all is evolving towards an Omega Point where love will be all and in all |
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| a new definition of the "divine" free from all connotations of external supernatural beings |
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| Aldous and Julian's granddad |
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| "How much stuff to be happy?" "I don't know, how much stuff is there?" |
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| paints the sheer horror of existence (hallucinatory, carcasses, screaming Popes) |
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| warning against humanism: "we have met the enemy and he is us" |
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| life is the result of "small organic particles that trickled down from space like a fine sooty snow." |
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| sadism, sadistic: "whatever is, is right" |
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| "when one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives himself of the right ot Christian morality." |
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| despised Christianity: a religion of suffering. Influenced Hitler |
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| "WWI was the terminal age of faith." |
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| links LSD with exotic experiences, feelings of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, etc. . . |
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| "always be ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you." |
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| the possum in Walt Kelly's comic strip |
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| "the aim of the game is to feel good; you can be anything this time around. . ." |
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| painted "the cry" or "the scream" |
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| "It's hard to hold conflicting beliefs if one of them comes from th eheart- like religion- and the other one comes from the head- like science. |
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| outstanding 20th century historian |
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| every action is "natural" and therefore nothing is unnatural |
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| it's up to us; we are like a newborn baby left on a doorstep with no note explaining who we are. |
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| "the reason within our minds and the reason without(nature) have a common origin in the deeper rationality which is the reason of the Creator. . ." |
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| "It is impossible to deny God and still have law and order, justice, scienc. . . apart from God." |
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| who can attain anything great if he does not feel in himself the will to afflict great pain? a good war hallows any cause. |
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| the hard truth is: ours is a vast and awesome universe. . . humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. . . any significance derives from our own wisdom and courage. |
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| Bob, Lary, and the StuffMart |
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| maybe there is meaning through inner anguish, but probably not. Only through misery is there meaning |
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| Philippians 1:7,16 "defense of the gospel" |
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| deny God but live as if He exists |
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| borrowed optimism and mixed worldview |
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| teilhard de chardin & julian huxley - spiritual view of natural world |
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| "His foothold on reality is based on the conviction that since God is dead, there is no foothold." |
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| The neighborhood bar and alchoholic fellowship; "sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and are always glad you came." |
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| soaps, titillation, gossip, violence, listlessness, Video Game Cubes |
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| intelligent enough to understand. dumb enough to think its important. |
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| the _______ often follows (rather than challenges) cultural trends |
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| "children should be considered not fully human until they are socialized." |
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| "i think we will have a new super species of human being. it is in our power. . . to cause our species to develop along any lines we deem desirable." California Institute of Technology |
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| "the time may come when there will have to be a national policy to eliminate all genetically unfit babies before they are born." Director of the National Academy of Science |
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| "even in ancient myths, men were men and gods were gods. . . , man could not rise above his nature. . . but soon we shall have the power to consciously alter our. . . very nature." California Institute of Technology |
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| "people with training in the arts still feel that in spite of the alterations made in their lives by technology, modern science has little to do with what concerns them most deeply. as far as today's science is concerned, this is partly true, but tomorrow's science is going to knock their culture right out from under them." |
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| wrote the new age movement: no effort, no truth, no solutiions |
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| wrote shadows of forgotten anestors; the search for who we are |
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| carl sagan and ann druyan |
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