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Aurobindo scholar may be asked to leave India: Are historians losing their
Freedom of Expression? Posted by IBNLive at 12:26 PM, Apr 05, 2012 in Shows
Sri Aurobindo scholar may be asked to leave India
I am certainly a supporter of the freedom of
speech. In this day and age to suppress or punish people who think or feel
differently from you, is simply preposterous. That being said there is
something more than meets the eye that is going on here. There is an inmate who
presents the "human" and perhaps even frail side of Aurobindo whose
follower he claims to be. Well, not a whole lot of common sense is needed to
see that there is something not right here.
He is not a typical follower to say the least.
Then the Ashram itself publishes his book. That is queer too and even a greater
surprise. One has to take leave of common sense to not see that there is
mischief at play here on the part of the author and that he is a pseudo
follower or perhaps not even a follower at all. For those unfortunate ones who
support the author and for whom therefore common sense has evidently been on
leave of absence there is one way to invite it back.
Consider this, especially those who occupy
important positions in an institution: Imagine for a moment someone wishes to
comment on your founder's personality including both good and his/her
"human" side. Would you enthusiastically approve the same? Now
imagine further that one of your peers or inmates wishes to do the same. Would
you encourage him or support that imbecility? If so, then certainly you or the
peer need to be condemned or punished. Both need to be sent to a mental asylum.
If there is no place for hopeless cases like yours then my practice is in NY. Dr
Ryder.
The Problem with mainstream Media from Aurovillenews by auroville news
When reading the newspaper or surfing the net
for the “latest” news one most often lands on crazy horrible gut
wrenching stories from around the world as well as stories taking place closer
to home. This over intrusive abundance of information flooding our brains every
day has an extremely negative affect. It also impacts how we as humans deal
with daily life; above all how we interact with each other.
This deluge of negative news contradicts the
advice we were given as kids, i.e.. to be honest, truthful and not hurt
anyone?? Also to be kind and loving to everyone. ? - Maybe this is only
stories parents tell their children so that they believe that the world is a
good place. With all these Grotesque stories that are all over the media one
finds it hard to deal with everyday life. One tends to suspect people’s motives
more, one tends to loose trust in the human spirit. One starts to see only the
decay and depression that is gripping society. Where is that universal love and
tolerance? That love for all living things? What has happened in the last
20 years is a total new uncharted road of information that people are so happy
to lap up.
I work with this particular Control Tower at
LaGuardia NY this article is a must read for anyone who would like to know how
the air traffic control systems works in America in its semi-dysfunctional
state...r: … Every flight has people watching over it, guardian-angel style,
every step of the way… Nearly 30,000 commercial flights thus zoom across America
a sign of second-rate philosophy from Object-Oriented Philosophy by doctorzamalek
(Graham Harman)
I’m just saying, it seems a bit absurd to use
the question of someone’s belief or disbelief in God as one of the chef pillars
of your judgment about that person’s intellectual caliber. To some extent, the
parochialism of presumed atheism among Western intellectuals
(i.e., everyone enters every conversation simply assuming that they can dump on
religion from the first minute and everyone else will automatically agree with
them) really bothers me…
Meillassoux makes an argument for
the divine inexistence, after all, and that argument hinges on: (1) the
non-existence for Meillassoux of probability at the level of the laws of nature
as a whole, and (2) the view that the sudden appearance of God and justice
would be no more astonishing than the previous contingent appearance of matter,
then life, then thought…
It’s intellectually very important to be able
to admire and utilize authors whose world-views are nothing like your own.
Rejecting all theists as idiots on an a priori basis is not a
promising sign of intellectual health. If that’s what you’re doing, then you
need to get out a bit more and see more of the world. There really are some
smart people out there who believe in God, and some of them might be able to
crush you in an argument from time to time. On a related topic, have you ever
noticed that the people who insist most that arguments are all that count are
generally the first to resort to argument-free, hyper-emotional dismissals
whenever the chips are down?
Harman on Garcia from Larval Subjects Harman has a terrific review of Garcia’s Forme
et object here.
What is religious freedom supposed to free? from The Immanent Frame by Webb Keane
Is there something about religion that gives freedom of
religion either a privileged or a peculiarly worrisome character different in
kind from artistic, political, or sexual freedom? And to this list, why not add
occupational, associational, or, say, economic freedoms? As the introductory
remarks to this set of posts suggest, one thing that institutions of religious
freedom commonly presuppose is a deep connection between religion (or at least
some kinds of religion) and violence, such that religion requires specific
kinds of juridical intervention or state neutrality…
Can religious freedom be understood as itself
helping constitute an ethical lifeworld without posing it either as liberation from the
moralities produced in religions or as protecting religions from secular
threats to the moralities considered peculiar to them? And can
it also be understood in such a way as to recognize those people whose ethical
sensibilities are not grounded in religion? …
Although it may be misleading to base the legal
protection or control of religion on the notion that religion taps into deep
and potentially dangerous emotional sources, it may be right to recognize
religion as one (if only one) organizing category for efforts to grapple with
the limits of instrumental rationality as a full account of what people are up
to.
The fiercest love of all from The Immanent Frame by Martin Kavka - Reading the entries posted at Frequencies,
an online project that alleges to be “a collaborative genealogy of
spirituality,” brings out the bitchy side of my temperament.
Today, it is vital that important “opinion
makers” – especially those who call themselves “market liberals” – take up the
ideological issue. Swaminathan Aiyar is just “playing politics.”
Saving
India from the Keynesians - Shanmuganathan "Shan" Nagasundaram -
Mises Daily Posted by sam99 at 4/05/2012 12:11:00 PM
Sri Aurobindo. One of the
important faculties of human consciousness which was very much neglected in
modem education and culture is the aesthetic sense ...
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