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Religion is at the heart of man’s societies. ‘For a long time,’ Durkheim writes early on in his book, ‘it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin.’ Durkheim decided to examine how and why this phenomenon functioned and evolved - by looking specifically at simple societies and their religions, rather than at religions in more complex or developed societies.

The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since. It was a huge undertaking by Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), formerly an unpublished historian and philosopher who set out to radically reconsider history - the rise and fall of world civilisations and their cultures. His primary view was to reject the established Eurocentric paradigm (ancient/classical, Medieval - and, following the Renaissance - modern) and to take a totally new perspective.

Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention).

Als "Rigorismus der Liebe", als eine Überhebung, die in Unmenschlichkeit umschlage, kritisiert Theodor W. Adorno die "christlichen Reden" Sören Kierkegaards in "Werke der Liebe". Kierkegaard hat dieses Buch im Unterschied zu seinen früheren philosophischen Schriften unter eigenem Namen veröffentlicht. In einer seltenen Verbindung von einfacher Sprache und bewegendem philosophischen Denken nimmt Kierkegaard die Ideen der Feld- bzw. Bergpredigt auf und führt sie in großer Konsequenz weiter aus.

Audio Drama Meets Long Form Discussions. Hollywood and the main stream media has taken over the minds of the masses. However, many have become wise to this fact and have turned to alternative sources to seek truth to asend to greater heights of conciousness. This has left something lacking in the truth seeking movement. Trutheater Radio is stepping in the fill the void. Dramatization through audio to make us laugh, cry, uplift and inspire while discussing the deeper truths and mysteries of this realm. Join us in our assent

All societies have laws to prevent physical and verbal violence, but what about the violence we create with our thoughts? Daido Roshi states that our minds are incredibly powerful, and they create a force that shapes the reality around us. We can only bring peace and healing to ourselves and others if we first have peace in our minds. But we can't quiet the mind until we see how much time we spend talking to ourselves, and until we let go of our almost constant inner chatter.