Listen to our podcast on Spotify: Awkward haircuts. Boring voices. Seemingly endless long wordy paragraphs. Meaningless word games. Out of touch academics. Welcome to philosophy. Or so you thought. This leads us to the question for discussion today- what is philosophy? Despite the stereotypes, the true meaning of philosophy has nothing to do with out …
Listen to our podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HRsyFEsPMueDH0EFoWziW Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Street-Theologian-103455632280226 Subscribe to our mailing list by emailing us at streettheologian@protonmail.com You exist. Don’t you? Are you an intelligent mind or a bag of meat moved around by chemical reactions? Do you have intent? Do you set goals, have a purpose, have a will? …
Listen to our podcast on Spotify: Are you living an illusion? Endlessly chasing after things you think will give you what they can’t. Endlessly chasing after things you thought would satisfy you only to find a new problem pop up that you didn’t expect. Back to square 1.. Uncertain, anxious, depressed. You think a career …
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1HRsyFEsPMueDH0EFoWziW I recently read an article by Jackson Weako (https://jweako.medium.com/5-reasons-for-my-conversion-from-christianity-to-stoicism-c77a250635ed) on Stoicism and Christianity. I personally felt as if Weako lacked an understanding of early Stoic writers and Christianity. I would encourage Weako to review the resources at Street Theologian for a more comprehensive coverage of these topics. I sincerely appreciated the time Weako …
– Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HRsyFEsPMueDH0EFoWziW It is not often I address another article on Medium but given the sheer popularity of this piece, I thought it would be worth offering some brief thoughts on it. Given the article itself was brief, I will try and keep my refutation of it brief as well. Clem …
Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HRsyFEsPMueDH0EFoWziW “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” ― Epictetus “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” — Marcus Aurelius Philosophy literally means love of wisdom and how …
Live your philosophy: A Christian perspective (with some Stoic references and contrasts) Read More »
Source: La Chronique Facile We’ve all heard it before. You are a Christian because your parents were, hence, we should not take your faith seriously. It is simply something handed down to you. Or you’re a Christian because you live in a “white” country or you’re a Christian because you are weak and need a …
Note: If you don’t consider yourself an atheist and are short on time you may want to start at the end of the article first. As someone who previously used to consider myself an atheist, I would launch on vicious attacks against Christians using appeals to logic, science, reason and morality in order to show …
“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.” — Vietnamese Proverb Not everything we write gets posted on Medium. To make sure you don’t miss out please subscribe to our newsletter or provide feedback or questions at streettheologian@protonmail.com www.streettheologian.com Visit our Medium page https://streettheologian.medium.com/ It seems to be an important part of …
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Christianity has a most bizarre story. For years I dismissed it as sheer folly. I had met too many “stupid” Christians who seemed to be so sure of what they believed but when questioned had no idea why and often knew very little of what the Bible taught. Yet when I look into the history, …
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