Rituals that are for rituals sake and rituals that end up providing some physical or meaningful benefit to decision-making. Can we link this to any of the discussion in the history of God so far?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/07/22/333576845/rituals-that-work-and-why?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140722
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Book Group: A History of God by Karen Armstrong
The idea came to a group of us while hanging out at our local watering hole. Members pursued various educational backgrounds including philosophy, computer science and mathematics education. Why do I put this down one might ask?? Following several discussions each of us has felt a bit of lament over the fact that our formal education and work presses us to pigeon-hole our knowledge while each of us values generalist ideals. That is..we like to learn about, research and discuss a wide variety of topics not just the ones we have pursued in more formal ways through rusty old academia.
Our first order of business (OK more of a plan) was to read A History of God by Karen Armstrong. As we didn't find any great book club questions to use we just read the first two chapters and held a meeting to discuss. What follows are the questions, comments and general discussion topics from our first meeting.
Chapters Read: Chapters 1-2
Questions:
Comments/Insights:
General Discussion:
Plans for Next Meeting: Read Chapter 3-4
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