You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac... ). > The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.” > The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-colo…
You have two colors. You say, “I know, I’ll make a color that covers everyone’s use case with regular expressions.” Now you have three problems.
Be careful with this. I am an atheist, and by no means am I adamantly defending Hinduism. But the translated Hindu scriptures are mostly over a hundred years old. Most such translations carry heavy biases. Quite a lot of of the time, the translation says what the translator wants it to say. If you have a personal affinity for some of the translators at sacred-texts.com, or if you want a historical perspective of tran…
I agree from a anthropologic perspective, but its fun how bad translations often are the means for the evolution of a mythology, as well as the genesis of mythologies, and new mythos thrives on these. Often the worse the better, as it more quickly diverges from the original, and the complete lunacy the incomplete, shitty translator/fan fic writer creates requires explanations. For this reason I dont think bad translations should be removed, or perhaps even noted as such, as it inhibits this process. At the end of the day its someone's work of fan fiction on an out of copyright work, and while I might prefer the canon malfoy-potter, I'm not going to challenge the right of adherents of sensible alternatives like granger-devere, or even senseless and repugnant alternatives, to enjoy such work, they might be wrong, but its not like anyone should take this stuff seriously enough to be unkind. Not that copyright should limit peoples ability to create fan fiction anyways, but for in copyright works its seems reasonable to expect a non-canon header somewhere, though Id probably limit it to say a few decades. Aside from Disney, few question that the original work which inspired the stuff on sacred texts should be out of copyright.
All translations are biased by the translator; there is no such thing as a translation that "transparently" conveys the meaning of the original. Even moreso when you are dealing with writings from an ancient culture, where much of the cultural context is likely missing. For example, Genesis 1:1 is often translated as "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..." but that itself reflects a particular tr…
You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac... ). > The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.” > The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-colo…
> All translations are biased by the translator; there is no such thing as a translation that "transparently" conveys the meaning of the original All software has bugs, but not all software is equally buggy. The same goes for translations and bias, humans and honesty, etc. This is a (common) misinunderstanding of post-modernism. The idea isn't that you should take off your critical thinking cap and dismiss everything…
Postmodernism goes further than that: > Postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective; that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false; that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (objective knowledge); that it is possible for human beings to know some things with certainty[0] So in essence, postmodernism teaches that critical thinking is all about te…
I feel like there's Straw Postmodernism where you can make anything true by wishing really hard, and Tautological Postmodernism, where the human senses are limited in resolution and your mind is limited in memory and cognition, and somewhere between them is a postmodernism that a sane person would bother arguing in favor of. I haven't seen it, of course, but I conjecture it's out there in the libraries somewhere.
You're committing the fallacy of gray ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLJv2CoRCgeC2mPgj/the-fallac... ). > The Sophisticate: “The world isn’t black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It’s all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else.” > The Zetet: “Knowing only gray, you conclude that all grays are the same shade. You mock the simplicity of the two-color view, yet you replace it with a one-colo…
You have two colors. You say, “I know, I’ll make a color that covers everyone’s use case with regular expressions.” Now you have three problems.
You have two competing colors. You design a new, unified color that covers the use cases of both. Now you have three competing colors.
Postmodernism goes further than that: > Postmodernists deny that there are aspects of reality that are objective; that there are statements about reality that are objectively true or false; that it is possible to have knowledge of such statements (objective knowledge); that it is possible for human beings to know some things with certainty[0] So in essence, postmodernism teaches that critical thinking is all about te…
I feel like there's Straw Postmodernism where you can make anything true by wishing really hard, and Tautological Postmodernism, where the human senses are limited in resolution and your mind is limited in memory and cognition, and somewhere between them is a postmodernism that a sane person would bother arguing in favor of. I haven't seen it, of course, but I conjecture it's out there in the libraries somewhere.
IME, it's what is normally discussed when people genuinely want to know about it. Most of the discussion of post-modernism on the Internet is the misunderstanding upthread or anti-postmodernist rants (which ironically often are based on the same perspective as their target).
To speak to its English contents, not the translations it hosts, as most are speaking of -- 'Thelema' is a decent section, but sometimes the versions on https://hermetic.com/ are better (footnotes linked, proper unicode symbols), and https://lib.oto-usa.org/libri/ are probably the most up-to-date (i.e. the fill->kill correction to be accurate to the Stele in AL[1]). The Theosophy, Grimoires, and Wicca sections are ve…
I was hoping to see a collection of texts like the story of mel[1], but I think it's lovely that someone has collected sacred texts on the internet. I also think it would be fun to collect the texts "sacred" to the internet. [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html