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“Messy Church” 17 Apr 2013 | 04:02 am
On the way to dropping Prahlad off at school this morning, he asks about a sign outside a local church: Dad, what’s “Messy Church”? “I think it means that it’s made up of normal people. Generally when...
Thousand Petal Lotus 25 Mar 2013 | 01:05 pm
One day Han Tse and Lao Tsu were walking upon the road when they met with an adherent of the Thousand Petal Lotus school. That student of the Thousand Petal Lotus School said to them: “What the Blosso...
The Subjunctive in English 13 Mar 2013 | 01:29 am
Last night, along with ‘Chappy’ (the school chaplain) I judged the trivia contest at Prahlad’s school camp. I corrected one of the questions on the question sheet given to me as a judge as a marking g...
Physics and Metaphysics: Speciation and Meta-Evolution 10 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
This week’s talk is a Srimad Bhagavatam class given at the temple, rather than the Sunday Feast lecture. I’m rocking some Shaivite kirtan tonight with Dave Stringer for Maha Shiva Ratri on the Gold Co...
Physics and Metaphysics: Morality and Mysticism 10 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
Looks like I forgot to post last week’s talk here. This week’s talk was about Morality and Mysticism – two different aspects of religion.
A commentary on Vedanta-sutra 2.1.33 28 Feb 2013 | 06:42 am
lokavat tu lila kaivalyam But the world is simply his lila - Vedanta-sutra 2.1.33 Commentary by Denys Turner: I’m not sure in what way I’d want to get the word “purpose” in here. I know there are ques...
Another modern commentary on Vedanta-sutra 1.1 27 Feb 2013 | 07:36 pm
This one by Tom Campbell, taken from around the 10 minute mark in the video at the end. The answer to how do you derive both quantum mechanics and relativity is not something that can be done from the...
A nice commentary on Vedanta-sutra 1.1 27 Feb 2013 | 04:28 pm
Here’s a beautiful contemporary formulation of the opening argument of the Vedanta-sutra, containing within it a number of the classical (read eternal) arguments. Denys Turner: “The classical theologi...
The Eternality of Religion 27 Feb 2013 | 03:46 pm
Of late I’ve been considering Krishna Consciousness from the perspective of a purely atheistic evolutionary biology basis, inspired by the verse Bhagavad-gita 5.4. As that verse indicates, it turns ou...
Getting OWLIM to work with JBoss AS 7.1.1 26 Feb 2013 | 09:47 am
OWLIM (Owl In Memory) is a semantic repository (triple store) that runs inside a Java Application Server. I’m setting it up with JBoss AS 7.1.1 at the moment for some research work that we’re doing. F...
