@moi,
Thanks for your reply!
Welcome.
Don't forget to read up about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pirates and of course parrots!
Huh? Parrots? :/
I think the root of your problem is calculus.
As a muslim, you are meant to submit and switch your brain off. You are training your mind to think by doing calculus. Extremely unislamic?
Um. Okay. :/ I've been studying Maths for years, you know...
And I don't really think you're supposed to switch your brain off in Islam. :/ I guess we have different views of Islam or something.
These are actually examples of routines deliberately designed to stop thinking. Try reading Goffman Asylum.
They don't have that in my library, so I Wikipedia'd it. Are you referring to this?:
In 1961, Goffman published the book Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates[5][6] which was one of the first sociological examinations of the social situation of mental patients, the hospital.[7] The book includes four essays: Characteristics of Total Institutions (1957), The Moral Career of the Mental Patient (1959), The Underlife of a Public Institution: A Study of Ways of Making Out in a Mental Hospital, The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization: Some Notes on the Vicissitudes of the Tinkering Trades.[2]:vii In Asylums, Goffman is mainly engrossed with the details of having been hospitalized to a psychiatric hospital and the nature and effects of the process he defines as ‘institutionalization’.[8]:150 He describes how the institutionalisation process socialises people into the role of a good patient, someone ‘dull, harmless and inconspicuous’, which in turn reinforces notions of chronicity in severe mental illness.[9]
And on praying five times, that is a direct import from Zoroastrianism so is heathen - does not the koran say three?
It does?!
Can someone show me where?
Which do you want? To wallow in a blah god consciousness or actually learn a skill - thinking? And realising that gods and allah and devils and hell are all inventions of our minds. If you are into that stuff, try Sean of the Dead!
I don't think they're mutually exclusive, but if hell, devils, etc are an invention of our minds, I'd like to know so.
Hence, you know...this thread.
I have just been reading Robin Lane Fox The Classical World, and reading up about Tom Holland - probably will buy the book tomorrow. The Spartans took loads of animals with them to their battles to sacrifice to work out the wills of the gods.
Unrelated, but I noticed in London that people were always reading books, newspapers, their iPads/Kindles on the Tube, whereas when I go on the subway here in Canada, barely anyone is reading.
Just thought I'd mention that.
THat is basically what religion is about. Monotheism does look like a political invention to sort out issues of democracy and tyranny in tyranny's favour.
I would think monotheism would free you from tyranny, seeing as you all become equals before God except in terms of piety, hence a subject could be better than his ruler....I think we have different views on this TOO.
Haha.
Thanks very much. Have a nice day!
Topic: About Intentions