This post is a shorter chopped up version of the article Reincarnation and the Meaning of Life by John Hick. I edited the article to reduce its length and make it more accessible for readers who do not relish long reads (though I’m afraid it’s still long for a blogpost), and to emphasize more on [...]

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In a paper that has outraged many, and rightly so, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that there is no moral difference between a fetus and a newborn, neither of whom has the moral status of a person, therefore “‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn [...]

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“This is the fictionalization of love, the fact that the confidences that couples exchange are provided for them, structurally, because it is structurally necessary that these confidences by exchanged. Modern love would be unthinkable without fiction, romantic fiction in particular…. consider the modern situation. Each modern couple has to devise for itself a history which [...]

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“Love is the ultimate indiscretion…. knowledge about love is not like knowledge about cabbages, which do not mind being known about. Love is constituted through the dual process of mutual exposure (between lovers) combined with concealment (from everybody else). To discuss love at all as a topic for research papers is in some ways to [...]

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If free will leads to inevitable suffering, was it moral on God’s part to allow us free will? Syndicated from: A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab’s Blog

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“What causes hesitation is the fact that, after all, Mr Wittgenstein manages to say a good deal about what cannot be said, thus suggesting to the sceptical reader that possibly there may be some loophole through a hierarchy of languages, or by some other exit. The whole subject of ethics, for example, is placed by [...]

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X: Objectively speaking, I’m a much more horrible person than you are. Yet I’m not plagued by self-loathing. Does the secret between sanity and insanity lies herein?  Syndicated from: A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab’s Blog

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Russell on happiness: an insightful over-view of Bertrand Russell’s views on happiness, certainly an important predecessor of positive psychology. Syndicated from: A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab’s Blog

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I: A’s boyfriend seems to be a fashionable man in matters of heart   Now a days, with regards to love, confusion is the new clarity. Syndicated from: A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab’s Blog

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“It’s hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.” I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to [...]

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Saying that Quran is not inherently a patriarchal text does not automatically imply that Quran is inherently feminist either. Of course, feminist interpretations of Islam are possible but patriarchal interpretations are not just possible, they are already existing and dominant, and one cannot see much objective reason as to why a feminist interpretation should have [...]

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A young monk, with little exposure to the company of women, finds himself aroused and seduced by a peasant girl: “What did I feel? What did I see? I remember only that the emotions of the first moment were bereft of any expression, because my tongue and my mind had not been instructed in how [...]

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Annie Oakley’s heart target Source: The New York Times Syndicated from: A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab’s Blog

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Sigmund Freud’s letter to a mother who had contacted him to treat her son’s homosexuality. Syndicated from: A Myth in Creation: Awais Aftab’s Blog

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