Society and Reality

What happens if we become too real?
A thought experiment:
Suppose we take real and actual as in Critical Realism, where real are laws and powers, and actual is the exercise of them. Let’s also assume that the real emerges from the actual. Furthermore, I propose that emergence happens in time and is not instantaneous. I would […]

I was rereading “The courage to be” and ran across this sentence in the introduction:
The religious responded to modernity either by trying to accommodate religious belief to its standards of credibility, given birth to the theological position called ‘modernism’, or by resisting modernity altogether and appealing with emotional energy and rational argument to adamantly pre-modern […]

The ballroom was filled with fashion’s throng,
It shone with a thousand lights;
And there was a woman who passed along,
The fairest of all the sights.
A girl to her lover then softly sighed,
“There’s riches at her command.”
“But she married for wealth, not for love,” he cried!
“Though she lives in a mansion grand.”
Refrain:
“She’s only a bird in a […]

This morning there was a group of Christians of some sort praying at the local coffee house. One man was deep into the routine and the others were chiming in with emotive words such as Jesus, Lord, etc.
One man looks up and the look on his face told all: his demeanor changed suddenly from an […]