Why we struggle now: Michael Dowd at TEDxGrandRapids
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2024
- The world's faith traditions offer conflicting beliefs about our inner and outer nature, and our challenges. Fortunately, a knowledge-based view of reality is emerging, which is inspiring and uniting people across the globe. Rev. Michael Dowd sees scientific, historic, and cross-cultural evidence as modern-day scripture. He celebrates how a meaningful and fully evidential understanding of human nature is motivating people of all backgrounds and beliefs to live in integrity and to cooperate in service of a just and thriving future for all.
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This was great! An opportunity to partake of transcendent science. When humans know why they do what they do, it makes it much easier to be aware of it and to rise above it.
Beautiful talk, this is the way forward for religion.
It's a pleasure to see science, inspiration and reverence coexist. This is the path to greater understanding.
Using Michael's understanding, it is possible to build a lot of bridges between old and new, science and religion. The obstacle? Mainly ego.
Michael Purnell It's that self deception he was mentioning.
Fascinating and illuminating TED Talk.
It's interesting, too, to have a look at the folks who are so threatened by Rev Dowd's talk that they feel the need to bring the conversation down to the level of "dinosaur bones aren't real", giving us an example of the evolutionary instinct to fear rather than embrace change.
Wow! This talk has just help me change my paradigm. I've had this concept under my nose the whole time, but this was the final piece of the puzzle. I didn't fully appreciate how much evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology and neurology can facilitate acceptance, change, and compassion. I hope religious naturalism gets more media.
Outstanding in a mind-bending number of ways.
God is alive ,thanks to Micheal.
I appreciate Michael Dowd. And this goes for this Ted Talk as well.
What I needed to hear right now. Thanks a million. Well Done.
RIP Michael ❤
Take it easy, preacher.
A TEDx talk worthy of Ted.com
If there was a God, you would imagine the SAME teachings would be spread all over the world and would be ACCURATE!
All that is ,The total manifestation God Reality,Life,It wants to know itself by direct experience.We all are It,micro and macro world included.
I'm not sure what the overall takeaway point was.
Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; Michael Dowd; listened to his God is Reality TedxTalk and could not remember his name.
greatplans, I'm not arguing for his divinity, I'm arguing for his existence as a human being. I would suggest you speak to a well qualified historian, and make sure they're an atheist so you don't feel their facts are clouded by ideology, and ask them about the historical task. Also, do some reading around Logical Positivism and how it is discredited as a philosophical system (by atheists) so you can understand epistemology better, especially as it pertains to the historical task.
Also, the modern dating system was created by Dionysius Exiguus in 523 C.E. We maintain that system because the church was very powerful. Duh.
Religious naturalism FTW.
greatplans, it's best to start by asking what you refer to as evidence. There are many people we take as having existed, yet they were not written about in their life-times. Jesus was written about by Paul within fifteen years of his life, Josephus, Pliny the younger, Tacitus, the Babylonian Talmud and Lucian all wrote about him. Many of these written documents are far closer to the originals than those referring to other figures of ancient history. Unlikely they were writing about a myth.
Paul never met Jesus.
greatplans, you may disagree with many on Jesus' relation to God, whether you believe in God or not, but to speak of him as a myth is not speaking from an informed position. Try find a historian alive today who does not believe that Jesus existed as a Palestinian Jew around the turn of the first millenia. In fact, that's a point, we are in the year 2012. Why are we in the year 2012?
Jesus of Nazareth, the Palestinian Jew is not the same Jesus written about in the New Testament, which mythologized him.
So you're saying that shoddy epistemology in one instance (or many) justifies it in another? Hearsay is not evidence. That aside, the Jesus myth isn't even an original myth. See Mithra, Dionysus, Horus, Krishna. But even if Jesus actually existed (his real name would have been Joshua) that still doesn't prove his divinity. What sort of evidence would you like to offer up for that?
Mike Dowd who used to travel around the world with "I love Jesus" on his jacket and preach the need to repent is now preaching a different gospel, Repent brother before you stand before your creator Jesus and have to give account for your false teaching.. You won't be smiling then.
Its not a different gospel. Dowd still considers himself a Christian -- and Jesus, as far as I can tell, would approve of his message over the harmful interpretation of the Bible held by most fundamentalists.
We are not to read the scriptures literally (and The Fundamentals were not written until 1909). We need to develop "eyes that see" and "ears that hear" --not rely on simple literalism.
The problem with fundamentalists is their "idolatry of the written word." (one of the reverend Dowd's phrases)
That's an interesting claim, Philip, considering not a single word about Jesus was written during his supposed lifetime. None, nada, zilch. There is no record, artifact,or written account of his life from anyone who claims to have known him. Every gospel was written long after he supposedly died and the authors of those gospels are themselves are unknown. I defy you to name a single historian who has actual evidence that Jesus existed.
Most of the authors of the gospels are known. Where are you getting the evidence to the contrary?