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Why is this being presented to the HN community?
by mortoc 8mo ago
Why is this being presented to the HN community?
- gespadas 8mo agoWhy not? It's a wonderful summary of writings. I'm so glad I found this resource on HN.
- nephihaha 8mo agoAs I said there, I've used this particular website many times. It's a great historical resource in some ways.
- nephihaha 8mo agoWhy not? I have been on this particular website quite a few times, but there have been other pages linked on here which I haven't been to so much. It's good to have a variety of interests. I am getting a broader range of websites and articles off here than mainstream media.
- SilverElfin 8mo agoAre there other such archives for other religions or cultures?
- irishcoffee 8mo agoAre you looking for a yes/no answer, or for someone else to do the legwork for you? I'll save you some time, the answer to you question is unequivocally: no. There are no other such archives for other religions or cultures. Just this one website. See how silly that sounds?
- nephihaha 8mo agoMileage may vary! The basic problem for an English speaker is that some languages are more translated than others. There are far more people translating from Greek, Hebrew and Latin works, than from Tibetan or Ge'ez (an Ethiopian language). I've heard about the Taoist canon recently, which is seemingly vast, and despite Chinese being a major language, and a substantial number of people knowing both Chinese and English... Only a fraction of the Taoist canon is available in English.
- irishcoffee 8mo agoI saw no claims the website needed to be written in English!
- SanjayMehta 8mo agoDharmapedia https://en.dharmapedia.net https://en.dharmapedia.net There's the sacred texts archive. https://sacred-texts.com/index.htm https://sacred-texts.com/index.htm
- nephihaha 8mo agoSacred Texts is excellent. I use that one too. There is a basic problem with some eastern texts, i.e. that many have not been translated into English. I was watching a video on Taoism recently, and a huge number of their scriptures are unavailable in English.
- qarl 8mo agoWhy not? They're nice stories. People like stories, even if they're entirely made up. I guess maybe it does feel a bit like gross proselytizing. Hm.
- DennisP 8mo agoThe link includes all sorts of stuff that modern Christians generally consider heretical, so I don't think it's proselytizing. Most people underestimate the diversity of beliefs in early Christianity. A lot of that was violently suppressed by Constantine, to the point that some of it was only dug up in the last century.
- qarl 8mo ago[flagged]
- kokanator 8mo agoOr perhaps those who are saying otherwise are trying to spread their own mind virus. It is interesting how derisive your comment is compared to those who are in support of interesting and diverging content. I am, however a bit confused by your comment as I have read several posts this week that had absolutely nothing to do with software/technology and most interestingly only two having to do anything with a compiler. Are you saying we should only post about compilers. I am waiting to be enlightened by your list of acceptable topics and content.
- qarl 8mo agoWell, actually, my culture doesn't program me to "bear witness", so no. I mean, you guys don't even try to hide it.
- kokanator 8mo ago@qarl but you ARE bearing witness. The beliefs you have accepted or you believe you have chosen has compelled you to bear witness here.
- misiti3780 8mo agoI, also frequent this sight to avoid religious dogma.
- BigTTYGothGF 8mo agoConsidering how often, say, lesswrong.com gets posted that may have been unwise.
- DiggyJohnson 8mo agoThat’s not a reason to visit this site. One of the current top 100 posts relates to western religion. It’s easy to avoid if uninterested. I enjoy that every now and then we have an ancient history, archeology, theology, literature, futurism or etc. post make the front page.
- trash88 8mo agoThis is not an online bible, it's an archive of the surviving material from a movement that has had unimaginable reach and impact on the world we live. You can see first hand how diverse their thelogy was prior to canon and orthodox enclosure.
- tptacek 8mo agoBecause it's interesting as hell. I'm Catholic, and clicking around in here there's practically nothing religious in it to me at all. No part of my own faith engages with Celsus Description of the Ophite Diagrams. But it sounds like something out of a Clive Barker book --- and, behold, it is like something out of a Clive Barker book: He is the Demiurge of this world, the God of Moses described in his creation narrative. Of the Seven archontic demons, the first is lion-shaped; the second is a bull; the third is amphibious and hisses horribly; the fourth is in the form of an eagle ; the fifth has the appearance of a bear, the sixth, that of a dog ; and the seventh, that of an ass named Thaphabaoth or Onoel. This is like a weird parallel of Greek mythology. But it's got a little extra charge because it ostensibly plugs into a modern religion. Super fascinating.
- bossyTeacher 8mo agoCan I ask why do you identify as "Catholic" and not as "Christian"? I have seen that a few times and it does seem like attempt from you to essentially state that you are making your own religion. How much splintering off can you do and still call yourself Christian? I am asking this in a purely curious way, btw!
- tptacek 8mo agoThat's weird to me because most Catholic people I know (Chicago is a very Catholic city) would identify themselves as "Catholic", not as "Christian". If you ask us "are you Christian", we'll say "yes", but it's not the word we use. Maybe that's totally different for evangelicals or some other mainline denomination. I wouldn't know.
- zozbot234 8mo ago"Catholic" is just a Greek word that means "general, universal", derived from "kata holou" ("in accordance with the whole"). It's the opposite of a splintering off, though there is a viable argument that they splintered off of Orthodox Christianity (due originally to the filioque controversy, and arguably with broader differences relating e.g. to the worship of graven images, and the like).