Your friends all got new jobs. You didn’t. Your friends all went overseas this year. You were stuck looking after a sick parent. Your friend got more likes on social media, has more friends, buys nicer clothes. Humans have a hidden poisonous tendency to envy, to want to be popular, to want to be liked …
Listen to our podcast on Spotify: Beneath the rose lies a thorn, under the darkness is light, taste fuels disgust, sorrow reaps joy, hard work brings pleasure. What is a paradox? A paradox is something upside down, inside out. It appears insane or contradictory but is true. An ability to understand how paradoxes work leads …
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: 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 …
https://www.facebook.com/Street-Theologian-103455632280226 Or Twitter: https://twitter.com/StreetTheologi Subscribe our mailing list. Email us at streettheologian@protonmail.com Authorities are there to protect us and look after us. The authorities are run by greedy and power hungry tyrants. How do we reconcile these two views? In churches today we see people with either of these two views regularly at odds with …
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 …
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“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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Source: history.com The root word for Sabbath in Hebrew means to “desist” or “cease” and was included in the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20. We even find the pattern for Sabbath observance laid out in Genesis 2:1–3 where God “rests” from His labour and makes the seventh day holy. Today there are broad and varied …
