The Man Behind Judgement Day
An in-depth piece from Killing the Buddha, including an interview with Harold Camping. Fascinating. I’ll leave it at that.
What would our world look like if we ceased to worry about ‘right’ and ‘wrong,’ or ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ and simply acted as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others?
Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape
Phillip Zimbardo on the powers of time: The animation
A whimsical animation illustrating the effects of culture, language, religion and other factors on our perception of and relation to time.
Source: blog.ted.com
A Cold and a Broken “Hallelujah”
A brief history of a Leonard Cohen song.
Source: killingthebuddha.com
What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
Charter For Compassion
“By recognizing that the Golden Rule is fundamental to all world religions, the Charter for Compassion can inspire people to think differently about religion. This Charter is being created in a collaborative project by people from all over the world”
