TO SIGN UP OR DONATE: www.unwatch.org. WATCH THE ‘PREQUEL’ www.unwatch.org UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer exposes the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council, the body that created the Goldstone Report. The Council president, Amb. Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, rejects the speech as “inadmissible” — and bans it from ever being delivered again. See media coverage at www.unwatch.org “A diplomatic moment to remember…” (New York Sun, March 30, 2007); “YouTube’s Top Rated, Most Discussed, Most Linked, Most Viewed Video of the Week…” (March 2007); “Bloggers cheer. . . a stunning rebuke of the UN Human Rights Council” (Slate.com); “Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba ruled the remarks inadmissible. . . in the depths of the UN, this was of course logical: Mr. Neuer’s commentary had been accurate…” (The Wall Street Journal). About the speaker: www.unwatch.org
TO SIGN UP OR DONATE: www.unwatch.org. WATCH THE ‘PREQUEL’ www.unwatch.org UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer exposes the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights Council, the body that created the Goldstone Report. The Council president, Amb. Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, rejects the speech as “inadmissible” — and bans it from ever being delivered again. See [...]
What does human nature tell us about the life of political engagement and the contemplative life of philosophical investigation in Aristotle’s politics?
What does human nature tell us about the life of political engagement and the contemplative life of philosophical investigation in Aristotle’s politics?
Wentworth Miller plays a mulatto that tells his black mother he is going to disown his family and pass as jewish (white). This clip was taken from the movie called The Human Stain.
Wentworth Miller plays a mulatto that tells his black mother he is going to disown his family and pass as jewish (white). This clip was taken from the movie called The Human Stain.
Martin Heidegger: Design for Living The monumental treatise Being and Time was published in 1927—the same year as Mein Kampf. This program dispassionately scrutinizes the life and philosophy of Martin Heidegger, describing his rise to intellectual prominence while laying bare the motives for his involvement with the Nazi party. Interviews with his son, Hermann Heidegger; [...]
Martin Heidegger: Design for Living The monumental treatise Being and Time was published in 1927—the same year as Mein Kampf. This program dispassionately scrutinizes the life and philosophy of Martin Heidegger, describing his rise to intellectual prominence while laying bare the motives for his involvement with the Nazi party. Interviews with his son, Hermann Heidegger; George Steiner, author of an influential critique of his philosophy; Heidegger biographer Hugo Ott; and former pupil Hans-Georg Gadamer provide fresh insights, while reconstructions of key moments in Heideggers life flesh out the story of a man whose apologists and antagonists are still acrimoniously divided
Play Make us Human Yet we got it from animals
Play Make us Human
Yet we got it from animals
No breakthroughs in US, China human rights talks The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002.
No breakthroughs in US, China human rights talks
The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002.
Sam Harris @ TEDtalks (Part 1/3): How science can determine human values. Can science answer moral questions? — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should [...]
Sam Harris @ TEDtalks (Part 1/3): How science can determine human values. Can science answer moral questions? — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life. • www.ted.com — Sam Harris has been identified as one of the “Four Horsemen of Atheism” — company he shares with Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. An outspoken proponent of skepticism and science, his two books — “The End of Faith” and its follow-up “Letter to a Christian Nation” — have become best-sellers. In “The End of Faith”, Harris showed “a harrowing glimpse of mankinds willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities.” After receiving thousands of angry letters in response, he wrote “Letter to a Christian Nation”, which centered on religious controversies in the United States stem cell research, intelligent design, and links between religion and violence. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. • www.ted.com • www.samharris.org • www …
ISBN13: 9780060671020 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionHuston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World’s Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once again treasured and [...]
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Huston Smith, the author of the classic bestseller The World’s Religions, delivers a passionate, timely message: The human spirit is being suffocated by the dominant materialistic worldview of our times. Smith champions a society in which religion is once again treasured and authentically practiced as the vital source of human wisdom.Amazon.com Review
Why Religion Matters is a passionate, accessible, ambitious manifesto written by one of the very few peo… More >>
Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief
Islam, Judaism and Christianity, on human rights and democracy? By: H.A. Yahya, Professor of Sociology This state is not unique for Muslim faith, religion through history was (and still is) a force to stabilize cultures, as a force for hostility toward others. European wars were incited by religion. That’s in theory, the west perceptions of [...]
Islam, Judaism and Christianity, on human rights and democracy?
By: H.A. Yahya, Professor of Sociology
This state is not unique for Muslim faith, religion through history was (and still is) a force to stabilize cultures, as a force for hostility toward others. European wars were incited by religion. That’s in theory, the west perceptions of Islam is that Islam induce suicide bombing culture, which is not true. The issue of martyrdom is different from suicide bombers, and Muslims have a difficulty to distinguish between the two in recent years to satisfy the new world order and its leading force, the USA, especially after September 11. where human rights and democracy were put in the back seat.
Need hierarchy motivates people change according to their perceived needs. Lower-order needs (such as food and shelter and of course democracy) are more important motivators and must be mostly filled before needs for peer acceptance and self-actualization become powerful motivators.
I believe that not making cultural adjustment is usually a mistake. However, the culture allows foreigners more latitude than it does to its own citizens. In such cases, less adjustment is necessary. As for western values, little adjustment is necessary but difficult to apply. What may help in this case, is a core state plays the representative of western power to incite cultural changes, such a state is expected to be Muslim country with western thought.
Associations and organizations should have goals, and processes to make itself for the benefits of Muslims, as the Jewish associations. The Jews are far ahead on any other religion, in taking care of Jews anywhere on Earth. No other religion followers resemble them in management and leadership. And I believe, they should be commended for their successful efforts.
The idea of intellectuals and secularists is very dangerous one to the theologians in every religion. In the Jewish faith, in the Christian faith, and in the Islamic faith. They all share intolerance, lack of Judgment and ignorance of ideas might unite between them. Politics is riding almost all followers of the three mentioned religions. Their followers anywhere are drugged by the teachings of their clergy men, as they are the only followers of God who will open his paradise for them and denies other religions from Heaven, but to expel them in Hell.
In Christian faith, Jesus Image in one church, is different from other churches. Catholic beliefs are different from those of Protestant beliefs. And both are misused by the Old Testament, or the New one.
In the Jewish faith, however, it took a very different direction, Jews have understood early the power of mind, through Espinoza, Marx, and Durkheim, to control circumstances of the modern world through Psychology, Medicine, Audio-visual Media, Press, and attorneys at law, in addition to business finance and banking were the means to control people. These fields were observed, as controlled in the United States by Jews. Psychology departments and tests writings, have changed the negative image of Jews in America after the 1940s and the Holocaust. Politically they supported those who may support Jewish goals, such as creating and supporting the State of Israel. They were very successful in that field. Most Americans follow blindly this direction and support Israel financially and materially through arms weaponry and advanced technology.
Both Christian and Jewish faiths were united early as Judeo-Christian faith to stand opposing the religion of Islam. Muslims are not less in their position from other religions. All religions share conflict with the other. And none is proved true in their allegations. But as I see it, there should be a conciliation or normalization by reciprocal recognition between religions to reduce the tension among their followers worldwide. Exchanged misconceptions about each other may close the gap between religions in terms of human rights and Democracy. If we forget the false assumption about Muslim terrorists perception. (644 words)
