Tag: Empathy

• My Religious Paradigm (5) The problem of suffering

  In re-thinking my current religious paradigm, I’ve suggested that there’s some evidence of intelligence and design in the existence and form of the universe, and that this means that the notion of a god is not an entirely unreasonable proposition. Whereas Darwin’s Theory of Evolution facilitates the setting aside of such a notion, it doesn’t […]

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  14th Jan 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Design, Empathy, Evolution, God, Holocaust, Hope, Life, Suffering

• Robert Burns and that Mouse

  This is not an analysis of the poem, but a sharing of some thoughts to which it has given rise. It begins with Burns catching sight of a mouse, whose nest has just been dug up by his ploughshare. Being a poet, he not only ‘sees’ the mouse, but ‘feels’ what it feels. He travels […]

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  24th Jan 2021

  Literature, Philosophy, Poetry

  Buddhist, Burns, Empathy, Here-and-Now, Mouse