Karen Armstrong Analysis

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ENG 141 Week 3 Assignment By Edith Tyler Ivy Bridge College of Tiffin University “The concept or reality of God doesn’t have to fit in for this to make sense, yet it is clear that if there is a God, in whatever way you believe this entity to exist, that he too spawned from the Nothingness, as the very first, thus most powerful consciousness that ever was or ever will be. Most Eastern Religions see things this way. Or you could see that God is this very Nothingness that we speak of: Vast & Unknowable” (Anagurl, 2012). All energy starts as consciousness, a self-awareness that nearly every religious explanation & every scientific theory believes had to have stemmed from nothing. Nothing, like everything else has a nature.…show more content…
“Logos” describes a kind of truth that strives for objectivitythrought the use of critical reason, while “mythos” describes a truth whose purpose is to overcome our subjective sense of separateness from the world and other living beings. Though past societies understood the distinction betwwn the two, Armstrong contends that in our time both skeptics and religious people treat mythos as a set of objective claims. After reading “Homo Religiosus,” the concept of keeping mythos separate from logos is impossible to…show more content…
Thurman emphasis on the experience of selflessness and the famous Greek dictum “Know thyself.” Judging from Thurman’s account elements of Buddhism is most common with elements of science. Buddhism is closer to science than to a religion or a philosophy, yet Thurman shares the social and political implications. The point (purpose) of life for each individual depends on his/her beliefs and values. The choices people make are usually dependent on the psychological conditioning they are exposed to, from the moment of fontal conception, to the point of completion of their social/cultural programming. This social/cultural programming is similar to the programming of a computer's processor with data that is considered to be factual. The computer then compares all incoming data against its programmed intelligence, in order to generate a conclusion. Similarly the human intellect processes incoming data based on the morals/values they have been conditioned with. Some of these morals/values are inherited from genetic sources and the others are learnt from the environment to which the absorptive mind is exposed. (contributions,
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