enlightenment

So, December 21, 2012 was either supposed to be an apocalypse or the dawning of a new "Age of Enlightenment" or a "dimensional shift". The apocalypse never happened (unless I'm a hallucinating brain in a vat in space somewhere). How's the alternative coming along? Are we all now shiny, happy...

There is another thread that asks if someone in the JREF is "religiously enlightened". Well, that's not possible, let's speak properly, "religiously enlightened" is an incorrect concept. There is enlightenment, and there is religion. That's right, they are two different things. Religion are...

Introduction: I am reposting here an essay that I posted a couple of weeks ago, but that sank through the board with very few views and zero replies. I think that perhaps I didn't give it a good enough hook. The essay is a revision - with substantial improvements and clarifications - of one...

Hi all, I am now reading some books about Zen Buddhism and the path to the so-called " Enlightenment ". This enlightenment, which is at the center of Buddha` s teachings, should be like a glimpse of light that " enlights " our vision of reality: more pratically, this...

The Enlightenment gave us the Scientific Method, and the USA as it stands, successful because of science and the scientific method. Religious "Principles" gave us the persecution of Gallelio, the Inquisition, and the dark ages. Guess what the complete majority, the group with control, absolute...

In Germany how is The Enlightenment viewed and taught in schools? What do Germans teach and think about Marx, Hegel, Bauer, Nietzsche, etc? Is Marx seen as the pinnacle of the Enlightenment Era, as one who ended the Enlightenment, as one who ruined the Enlightenment, what? Do Germans see The...