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The varieties of religious experience by William James. Absolutely beautiful

I read up to that part and had these very same problems. I dont remember shit now

I am not reading it to mock it btw. In fact, i require assistance as i was told not take what i read literally.

:lol: i was just telling someone about how he raped Egypt. God intentionally makes pharaoh not believe after every show of Power (with the flies and the worms and that stuff) and the innocent Egyptian bystanders get fucked in the process. All because God wants to make an example out of pharaoh...

So far I have read up to the 10 commandments... I'll take what you said into considerations. And God seemed to have raped Egyptians

So far i can see that the old testament is more straight forward and has more attention to detail than the Quran but the Language of the Quran and its art is more appealing, poetic, creative and have a stronger impact on the reader. I am reading both in Arabic and bare in mind that i am an...

what do you mean? Its my first time reading it so be specific. :luckyluke:

I am reading the bible....currently in the old testament. Quran wins by a huge margin so far.

I am back in Egypt... spent 2 weeks in canada the last one in montreal.. i loved it :) I finished the book.. it sucks camel dick

"The Other Islam" by Stephen Schwartz. Extremely biased anti sunni book and specifically anti wahhabi and pro-sufi. The writer shows childish love to Sufism that every sufi person in the world is an angel whilst every saudi citizen is a terrorist. I hated this book from reading the first 10...

wtf:shifty: I can swear that this thread was replaced with another one! am I hallucinating? :andy2:

do you know where the other thread is?

wasn't there a thread called books you've read recently? where did it go

I'll share it as soon as i am done writing it. Sorry i didnt see your post earlier

Yes I am a double major student. I study both Philosophy & Marketing.. My passion is philosophy but my family wouldnt let me do it as a major unless i support it with something that suits the Egyptian Job Market. And so, I had to take another Major in the shit called Marketing to shut them up...

I took it in a medieval philosophy class too. I studied Aquinas and Scotus with Augustine. And yes i will send you my paper as soon as I am done with it.... unless you are okay with reading a draft

I've only read the confessions.. so i don't have a judgment about the rest. I read him back during my religious days

I've read "Confessions" which is augustine telling the story of how he became a christian through philosophy. Sadly his arguments are all flawed.

Hume's influence is all over adam smith. They used to be really close friends. He actually published Hume's works that are on religion after hume died. See hume was perceived as an atheist and all his works were discredited. The intellectuals at the time barely looked into the content of his...

Nelson Goodman's fact fiction and forecast = Holy Shit