Though Halloween and Day of the Dead are used as synonyms, their significance is different. Halloween originated from the Celts. It is based on the Celtic festival of Samhain. It is associated with the evil spirits, witches, and souls of the dead. On the other hand, Day of the Dead originates from an Aztec festival. [...]
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Are Halloween and Day of the Dead Different?
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Top Five Reasons Im an Atheist
Growing up in an environment of logic, I found it difficult to follow religion as I grew older. Although part of my family was a believer, I began drifting away as religion couldnt answer all my questions satisfactorily. In the years, Ive compiled my list of personal favorite reasons to not follow any religion. 1) [...]
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Is Hydrogen the Real God?
I remember when I was small, my mother and I used to go for a visit to our neighborhood temple every day. I used to enjoy the time alone with my mother and being an inquisitive kid, used to bombard her with a lot of questions. My mother used to answer them patiently telling me [...]
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Understanding the Difference Between Knowledge and Belief
There is a whole lot of information available on the Internet. Hence it is not uncommon for us to go and Google something that intrigues us. I am guessing you did the same before you landed on this page. Now, based on the kind of experiences and associations we have with the whole concept of [...]
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Psycho-Spiritual Development: The Fifth Stage
Life Lessons: The Call to Experience and Meaning In the work of healing, personal growth and empowerment, we start by practicing awareness – seeing things as they are, witnessing, becoming conscious of identity, open, curious, suspending judgment. Awareness leads to acceptance – releasing us from judgment, permeating the ground of identity, flowing out of awareness [...]
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What Shall I Think About Today? Cognitive Surplus, Spend It Wisely
As a society gets more and more efficient, it’s citizens have more time to relax, enjoy recreation, and also to think. Not everyone enjoys thinking, sometimes they like to vegetate and just watch the TV, or listen to music. That’s fine too, and each individual in a free society is allowed to spend their extra [...]
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Platonic-Fullerene Chemistry and the August 2011 Riots in Britain
A young Malaysian student nursing a broken jaw, inflicted upon him during the August 2011 riots across Britain, expressed sorrow for those who robbed him during their pretext of coming to his aid. His compassion toward their actions made headlines around the world. The Prime Minister of Britain made it clear that he had no [...]
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Why You Should Not Submit to Authority
As Americans we believe in freedom and liberty. It’s hard for people in other cultures to understand this because they’ve never experienced true freedom. And there is a famous quote that goes something like this; “if you believe you are free you are and if you are not fee then you aren’t.” There is a [...]
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The Price We Pay
The dictionary defines guilt as “a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, or wrong, whether real or imagined.” Real or imagined, that sounds about right. Might even be more accurate, at least helpful, if they added a footnote, “Warning: Duration of guilt known to last several years. Atonement not guaranteed.” Now that’s [...]
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Materialist Philosophy Does Not Contradict Itself
Recently a philosophical acquaintance argued that materialists blatantly contradict themselves when they take a materialist view of reality and yet affirm that free, independent action is possible. The argument which he presented relied on three premises: 1) Materialism affirms that reality in nothing but matter-in-motion. 2) Materialism implies affirmation of determinism, the metaphysical idea that [...]