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| One does not, cannot know; a polite word for athesim. coined by Thomas Huxley |
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| a sense of dread, anxiety, anguish, fear, death, and loneliness |
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| defending one's faith by credible arguments and evidence. |
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| self-governing; independant; MAN; a bi-product of fallen man |
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| monitoring one's own brain waves in order to gain control over functions that are usually unconscious |
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| we are totally a product of our enviornment which can be manipulated to determine our behavior |
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| Borrowed Optimism & Mixed World View |
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| deny God, but live as if He exists |
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| defensy (apology) of teh gospel |
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| form of birth control in ancient rome. babies not accepted by the father are dumped by the river |
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| the universe creates/develops itself. spiritual view of natural world. Teilhard de Chardin & Julian Huxley |
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| Mechanical/electrical systems designed to replace human control functions |
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| God created the world and left it to men- God is impersonal and does not interfere or intervene in the world |
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| Electrical Stimiulation of the Brain |
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| who pioneered the use of ESB to change human behaviors? |
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| literally, "good genes"; science of improving a breed through selection |
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| individual inner experience determines reality; "what i feel makes it real"; no rational/reasonable basis for choice. |
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| Conviction of existentialism: |
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| the universe is absurd, ridiculous, contrary to reason; emphasis on inner struggle and anxiety |
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| accumulated mutations in a specis genetic pool has negative effect on the species |
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| altering genes to produce new desirable and eliminate old undesirable traits |
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| the study/science of aging |
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| asexual duplication from single cells |
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| Who said Homo Mensura. and what does it mean? |
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| Protagoras. man is the measure of all things (humanism) |
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| human kindness, tenderness, compassion (particularly toward animals) |
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| any man, myself centered philosophy or practice; man can operate on his own without a higher power. |
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| optimistic, pessimistic, secular, religious |
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| care, concern for fellow human beings |
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| Humanitarian highest, central good |
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| study of/interest in man's highest, best achievements; art, literature, drama, philosophy, poetry, etc. . . |
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| literally, "in glass"; union of sex cells outside of the uterus, in a test tube |
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| cutting the frontal brain lobe to alter behavior |
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| people shop to find meaning; anxiety is relieved and temporary meaning is found by buying something |
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| to live by principles, standards and hopes for which there si no validity when one has rejected the foundation on which they are built (e.g. borrowing Christian hope while rejecting Christian truth) |
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| the natural/material world is the only reality; denies teh supernatural; atheism, agnosticism, liberal Christianity |
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| theological application of existentialism, shifted biblical words to an upper story subjectivism; the Bible is a fairy tale book full of errors, etc. . .but it can BECOME the word of God through my experiences; Jesus Christ did not actually rise from teh dead but He is risen in our hearts if we believe. |
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| denies much of the supernatural; the Bible is a fairy tale book. |
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| The Bible IS the Word of God, reliable, clear, and true revelation. |
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| Movement in the 80s and 90s and is stil influential; a self movement; all reality is one; existential and subjective verification |
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| egg develops without fertilization by sperm |
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| life is a rotten, miserable scene; everything is ugly and obscene. |
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| schaeffer said this about punk rock: |
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| they had the right analysis! if the natural world is all there is and I am ultimate, there is no place for purpose, meaning, comfort, or optimism |
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| Human mind and human reasoning is the final authority |
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| an optimistic humanism prevalent since the Renaissance. Man is basically good and progress is inevitable. |
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| Man's inhumanity to Man & the hopelessness of a Naturalistic Philosophy |
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| The hopelessness of a naturalistic philosophy |
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| the logical implication of materialism. No answers to the questions of Orgin, purpose, meaing, and destiny. Autonomous man in an autonomous universe is a frightening prospect. No answers to the human dilema |
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| man is unable to live in harmony with: |
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| fellow man. our creator. nature. ourselves. |
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| Unpleasant, difficult, perplexing situation |
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| treat mental illness by brain surgery |
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| Rebirth, esp. Greek and Roman cultures |
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| one makes one's own reality; mental illness |
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| truth and reality are determined by intuition, inner feeling, personal sense, and preferance. Denies absolutes since the determining factor in truth and reality is self |
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| Who said: " if i can't believe in God, i can't be happy" and "maybe is a very slim reed to hang your life on but its the best we have." |
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| who said: "neither joy nor love nor light nor certitude nor peace nor help from pain." |
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| writer, critic and professor. wrote Dover Beach- Tide of faith is out |
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| Unity and diversity to the glory of God |
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| sang "Nowhere Man" and "Look at all the lonely people." Drifted to eastern mysticism and drugs |
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| English painter. paints the sheer horror of existence. . . hallucinatory. . .carcasses. . .screaming Popes |
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| Who wrote "Waiting for Godot" |
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| Who wrote this? "How am I, an a-temporal being imprisioned in time and space, to escape my imprisionment, when i know that outside time and space lies nothing, and that i in the ultimate depth of my being am nothing also?" |
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| Samuel Beckett. "Waiting for Godot" |
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| Most imfluential play of the 20th Century. they do not move |
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| How much to be happy? I don't know, How much stuff is there? |
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| Madame Blueberry, Bob, Lary, and StuffMart |
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| Music by Chance 4'33" piano piece with no notes. Concerto for prepared piano. Mushrooms not left to chance. |
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| Who said : "If I can't believe in God I can't be happy." and "It is common knowledge that life is not worth living." |
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| (French/Algerian) wrote THE STRANGER. One serious philosophical?? suicide? not worth the trouble, absurd joy in the face of a futile, meaningless existence. |
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| Catholic priest and paleontologist. cosmo-genesis. evolution is the spiritual force in nature and history |
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| discovered DNA. "no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certian tests. |
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| who said: "no newborn infant should ne declared human until it has passed certain tests" |
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wrote The Brother's Karamazov
"I killed him with your help. . . if there is no God then everything is permitted." |
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| who wrote "I killed him with your help. . . if there is no God then everything is permitted." |
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| who said " the only incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible" |
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| Duke professor of literature. Post-modern. the meaning of a work is determined by the reader not the writer!! |
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| wrote Lord of the Flies (1954). questioned romanticism. "innocent" schoolboys marooned-man's inhumanity. |
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| Sartre's mentor. Maybe, perhaps there is some hope we will find meaning, something to establish that we exist, through inner anguish, but probably not; only through misery is there meaning, but probably not even then. |
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| Maybe, perhaps there is some hope we will find meaning, something to establish that we exist, through inner anguish, but probably not; only through misery is there meaning, but probably not even then. |
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| who said: "mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and willl only perish through eternal peace. i cannot see why man cannot be as cruel as nature. terror is the most effective of political instruments. |
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| BRAVE NEW WORLD-a questioning of scientific humanism. DOORS OF PERCEPTION-a rationalist mysticism based on drugs as doors to a world of dream and illusion |
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| who wrote: "obscure knowledge is All is in all- that All is actually each" |
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| biologist; evolution is a mystical final reality. cosmo-genesis. no distinctions between matter and spirit. all is evolving toward an Omega Point where love will be all an din all. a new definition of the "divine" free from all connotations of external supernatural beings |
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| Aldous and Julian's grandad. "apostle of naturalism". popularized darwinism and the new biology. coined agnosticism |
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| pop star who overdosed, disillusioned by the world and messed up by drugs |
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| Chech Jew. THE TRIAL- ambiguity, anguish, futality, and fate. life never resolves itself. METAMORPHOSIS- the cockroach |
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| The Acid (LSD) tests. links LSD with exotic experiences, feelings of Christianity, Buddism, Islam, etc. . . |
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| who said: "the aim of the gaim is to feel good; you can be anything this time around ,you can be the goddess of love, you can be, got to be God this time around, it's necessary to go out of our mind to use our head." |
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| Who wrote: "Man's existance is due ot the chance collision between miniscule particles of nucleic acid and proteins and the vast pre-biotic soup. . . We need world authority, technocrats should decide arbitrary absolutes. |
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| CHANCE AND NECESSITY -man's existence is due to the chance collision between miniscule particles of nucleic acid and proteins in the vast pre-biotic soup.. . . we need world authority, technocrats should decide arbitrary absolutes |
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| "The cry" or "The Scream"; Angst |
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| God is dead. Despised Christianity- a religion of suffering. Influenced Hitler |
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| Who said "When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives himself of the right to Christian morality. Superman! Who can attain anything great if he does not feel in himself the will to afflict great pain. A good war hallows any cause." |
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| "Always be ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you." |
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| The possum in Walt Kelly's comic strip. Warming regards humanism- "We have met the enemy and he is us!" |
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| SYNCRONICITY-tea in the Sahara "So the sisters would burn as their eyes searched for land with their cups full of sand." |
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| who said "So the sisters would burn as their eyes searched for land with their cups full of sand." |
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| Which British Philosopher siad "The reason within (our minds) and the reason without (nature) have a common origin in the deeper rationality which is the reason of the Creator. . ." |
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| Who said "We live an a cold, silent, unfeeling universe"? |
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| the worst extermination camp |
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| Who said "it is impossible to deny God and still have law and order, justice, science apart from God."? |
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| "Roll the bones" Not destiny or design but luck, chance, fate and random interaction. |
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| who said "If you turn left there is one fate, one true love, and if you turn right, there's another." |
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| WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN. the soul's foundation should be built on a firm foundation of unyielding despair. |
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| Who said about Karl Marx, "he had a cosmic optomism that only theism would justify" |
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| who said "The hard truth is: ours is a vast and awesome universe. . . humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. . . any significance derives from our own wisdom and courage. . . ther eis no compelling evidence for a cosmic parent who will care for us and save us from ourselves. . . it's up to us; we are like a newborn baby left on a doorstep with no note explaining who we are. Life on this earth is the result of 'small organic particles that trickled down from space like a fine sooty snow.'" |
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| Sadism sadistic. "whatever is is right". every action is natural and therefore nothing is unnatural. |
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| Existentialist; NAUSEA: the "sickness": "a consciousness of nothingness within himself." Man's insignificance is a reason to feel nauseous. Man is the product of chance and the individual is superfluous. LIve as if life is not absurd |
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| PARADE MAG intellectual: a clear example of a divided field of knowledge the Lower Story of nature accessed by reason, logic and evidence; the Upper Story of Metaphysics by FAITH, by what I feel. |
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| Who said "It's not hard to hold conflicting beliefs if one of them comes from the heart -like religion- and the other one comes from hte head -like science- science arises from the intellect an dreligion arises from emotion." |
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| HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE. we must be in touch with the thought-forms of today's youth |
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| Music: dissonant atonality. |
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| electronic non-sense sounds. by schoenberg |
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| Behaviorist; WALDEN II. & BEYOND FREEDOM AND DIGNITY: man is neither good nor evil, but a highly developed animal. we can make man what we want him to be, those of us who understand the science of behavior modification. |
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| DECLINE OF THE WEST. rather than progress, our civilization is headed to decline and destruction |
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| Which Russian novelist wrote this: "the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless." |
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| Outstanding 20th century historian. "WWI was the terminal age of faith" |
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| LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION. shopping is the ultimate act of self-identification with the divine principle. The means to self-actualize; the mojo of recognizable brands. Material things do satisfy!!! |
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| "Mine, all Mine" I look inside myself to find meaning |
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| OUTLINE OF HISTORY (optimistic) THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (pessimistic) & THE MIND AT THE END OF ITS TETHER (bleak; no way out, around, or through) Man destined to destruction to go the way of the ichthyosaur |
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| THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST. see ken kesey whom he describes |
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| who wrote "And Kesey seesthat they have the expertise to creat a mind-blown state such as the world has never seen, totaly would up, lit up, amplified, and controlled. . . the most effective key ever devised to open the doors of the mind; LSD" |
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| Music promoter; lead singer and guitarist of Mobster Magnet |
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| Who said "I'm constantly amazed that people listen to our records at all. . The world is a very absurd place, and the world of rock an droll is even more absurd." |
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