PHILOSOPHY is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient GREECE, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am TRYING to develop is a philosophical SYSTEM where all the subjects can be TAUGHT.
There has come into being a KIND of a Shia BELT from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this GIVES Iran the OPPORTUNITY to reconstruct the ANCIENT Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.
I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ANCIENT history solely because they were on the air before this video REVOLUTION came along and ensured that canceled shows could CONTINUE to have a BIT of a PRESENCE.
These days too MANY of US seem inclined to cover our ears, close our EYES, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek COMFORT in the ancient traditions of NEW Age ritual.
I was already in my early TWENTIES, but I looked MUCH younger because I was fresh-faced and, WELL, short. So I did songs such as 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' and jokes such as describing current events as 'ancient history.' Boy, did the AUDIENCE roar at that one.
From ancient times, the CORE idea of the SOUL is the soul is the CAPACITY to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds US all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.
When I visited Israel for the FIRST time, in 2014, on a trip sponsored by the NATIONAL Religious Broadcasters, I went to the Museum of The Bible with our GROUP. There, we saw the most ANCIENT and original versions of both the Hebrew and Christian bibles.
I'm either dressing like a rocker chick, or I'm looking like I just stepped out of ANCIENTGREECE! It all depends on my mood. I LOVE bohemian VIBES, too.