Happy to see these efforts on more narrowly curated archives.
are there others? (besides Project Gutenberg)
Here is one for piano https://www.thepianofiles.com/
And the famous is islmp for sheet music
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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#52Related: https://archive.org/details/the-context-of-scripture
(Egyptian, Hittite, West Semitic, Akkadian, and Sumerian texts)
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#53I was thinking this would be a fun way to get access to more monster stories. I'm bored of the usual ones. I started digging into the Shinto text, the Kojiki. This is my favorite story so far: https://archive.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj153.htm As far as I can tell, it looks like a young prince was mad his uncle didn't get mad that the uncle's brother was killed. So the prince killed the uncle in a fit of rage. Then, a…
What is the metaphor of your eyes popping out when buried to your shins?
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#54I was thinking this would be a fun way to get access to more monster stories. I'm bored of the usual ones. I started digging into the Shinto text, the Kojiki. This is my favorite story so far: https://archive.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj153.htm As far as I can tell, it looks like a young prince was mad his uncle didn't get mad that the uncle's brother was killed. So the prince killed the uncle in a fit of rage. Then, a…
What is the metaphor of your eyes popping out when buried to your shins?
Technically, after reading it again, I see it was his loins. I'm not sure, is this a riddle?
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#55You can't download an entire work, you can only view HTML pages of chapters. You can indeed read the texts online but the site seems designed to prevent downloading an entire text, try Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive first if you want a local copy. "Q: Why all the short files? I want to download the entire book in one file! A: Sorry. The short files are for technical reasons which greatly reduce the cost of…
It would be great if someone could make a torrent of all of these in one go.
Or you could buy it, that's what the site's for IIRC.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Basic assumption is that most/all are based on dated observations of seasons, planets, stars, etc -- things that were once mysteries in the mechanical universe. I think this is pretty much propaganda from anti-religious people. I have read all of the major religious texts over the last two years and If you look at most religions and their scriptures they deal very little with the physical world in general and are mo…
Do we take the Big Bang seriously? As far as I can tell it’s just a vague description of what a “rolling back” of the clock until we don’t know how to go further might look like, under a whole ton of assumptions that are almost never stated. It’s interesting to consider in basically the exact same way the 7 day creation story is, and it’s quite likely that neither one is all that true - or all that false. Indeed they…
Y…yes? We do take the Big Bang seriously because there are observable effects of it.
“As far as you can tell” is doing a massive amount of incurious lifting. Is phrenology making a comeback next?
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If you look at religion, folklore, mythology, as metaphors, then you really can’t exclude anything as a religion, that includes science, which is also a metaphor. All language is a metaphor. Science as you practice it today, to me, is also a religion. I don’t mean that to denigrate science in anyway. We need metaphors to make the infinite more manageable. And by metaphor I mean a thing regarded as representative or s…
You’re definitely correct about the religion part. That people want their religion to have “modern physics” shows just how religious science has become in the last century. Religion is supposed to be about guidance for people and how to live a good life as a part of the whole. Dealing with ethical codes, coping with the human condition of stress and suffering, familial and social bonds etc. Science on the other hand,…
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do we take the Big Bang seriously? As far as I can tell it’s just a vague description of what a “rolling back” of the clock until we don’t know how to go further might look like, under a whole ton of assumptions that are almost never stated. It’s interesting to consider in basically the exact same way the 7 day creation story is, and it’s quite likely that neither one is all that true - or all that false. Indeed they…
Y…yes? We do take the Big Bang seriously because there are observable effects of it. “As far as you can tell” is doing a massive amount of incurious lifting. Is phrenology making a comeback next?
That’s tautological. We observe the effects, and assume they must propagate backwards under rules we think we know, then say that the theory must be true because we observe the current state is the forward propagation under those same assumed rules. It’s unfalsifiable and accordingly uninteresting.
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#59I was thinking this would be a fun way to get access to more monster stories. I'm bored of the usual ones. I started digging into the Shinto text, the Kojiki. This is my favorite story so far: https://archive.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj153.htm As far as I can tell, it looks like a young prince was mad his uncle didn't get mad that the uncle's brother was killed. So the prince killed the uncle in a fit of rage. Then, a…
Is the young prince portrayed as basically the villain or as the protagonist (he sounds like the monster)? I could see this story as a warning about getting angry on the part of others if he’s portrayed in a negative light (he did more damage to his family by being angry “for” them). Or I could see it as a story basically about upholding some social standard, if he’s portrayed in a positive light (if the story thinks the uncles deserve it).
Of course the latter reading is incompatible with modern morals, but then the past is a weird place.
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> I have read all of the major religious texts over the last two years you're doing better than a lot of monks did over their entire life time. call me a skeptic, but even if I was able to accomplish such a herculean feat over 2 years time I doubt I would have the time to grasp much of any of the content that I blazed through -- but of course we're different people -- allow me to express my awe.
I’m extremely proud of your skepticism at something I really haven’t put much effort into. To clarify I haven’t read every religious text, but I have now read the Old/New Testament, The Baghavad Gita, The Tao te Ching, The Quaran and currently working my way through the Buddhist Sutras (looking to start on Sikhism next). That is the main text of all major religions and I only read 20-30 pages a day (with some overlap…
Buddhism is derivated from Christian heresy called Manicheism.
Created and spread in Asia from Pakistan by third generation after apostle, called Mani.
There isn’t any evidence of any existing trace of Buddhism before 4th century AC, most Buddhism art are based on grec, and Syrian Christian artists who followed St Thomas the apostle into the east.
Mani predated those early Christian with his fake teaching which founded Buddhism.
Time to learn history.
In short: Buddhism is just a Christian heresy (manicheism)