Women. Men. Religiousness. Atheism. - Γυναίκες. Άντρες. Θρησκευτικότητα. Αθεΐα.

Women are more religious than men. (1)

In the old days the society was matriarchal.

Now men oppress women.

Now atheism is on the rise…

We must give to women the place they deserve.

Once upon a time we worshiped Gaia.

Once upon a time we worshiped Holy Mary.

Once upon a time we were illogical.

Now we just live… Logically. Like men.

[written on 6/8/2014]

Γυναίκες. Άντρες. Θρησκευτικότητα. Αθεϊσμός.

Οι γυναίκες είναι πιο θρήσκες από τους άντρες. (1)

Παλιά οι κοινωνίες ήταν μητριαρχικές.

Τώρα οι άντρες καταπιέζουν τις γυναίκες.

Τώρα ο αθεϊσμός ανεβαίνει…

Πρέπει να δώσουμε στις γυναίκες τη θέση που τους αξίζει.

Κάποτε λατρεύαμε τη Γαία.

Κάποτε λατρεύαμε την Παναγία.

Κάποτε ήμασταν παράλογοι.

Τώρα απλά ζούμε… Λογικά. Σαν άντρες.

[γράφτηκε στις 6/8/2014]

Philosophy Wire: Women. Environment. Earth. Men. Ashes.

When more women make decisions, the environment wins: When more women are involved in group decisions about land management, the group conserves more - particularly when offered financial incentives to do so, according to a new study. [1] Women in sync with the cosmos. This was always the case. Women as creators. Men as destroyers. The cosmos needs both. Chaos and Order. Order and Chaos. Can you ever have life without death? Women are here to remind us of the grandeur of the cosmos. But men will always be needed to remind us that the greatness of this grandeur lies in the fact that it will end in ashes…

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Philosophy Wire: Per ardua ad astra… (Women and Men)

Gender stereotypes can hurt children - quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults believe boys to be in more pain than girls, according to a new study. [1] How deceived we are. Men are molded by fire. Only to protect the women. Not because women are weaker. But quite the opposite. Because women are that fire which molds them. We need the fire of chaos to create. And yet, we struggle every day to put that fire away. We are afraid of pain. We detest suffering. And yet a woman who suffered brought us to life. What more can you expect from a life which started in pain, than pain itself? Watch that brave knight storming in the field of battle. His brave cry. His courage. He is not a man. He is a woman. Sitting alone in a room. In grave pain. Suffering. Determined. Cold and blood. Shouts. Agony. And from all these. A baby. Crying. Storming to the enemy with his sword… Fire from fire! This will always be what life is! Per ardua ad astra, per ignem vincimus!

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Arranged marriages or Marriages out of love? A not so easy to answer question...

- Have your married out of love?
- Of course! What a silly question!

Is it silly?

While in our society and in any other "progressive" society the marriage out of love is the norm, there are still some societies (like India, S. Arabia etc.) where many marriages are arranged. The question is whether these arranged marriages are unacceptable and whether they are more successful or less successful than marriages based on love. Emotional cries of the type "We are not in the Middle Ages" do not fit into this debate. Anyone who has even the least contact with countries where arranged marriages exist, is able to certify that such marriages can be successful.  Let alone the fact that few of us can say with certainty that his grandparents or his great-grandparents were not married via an arranged marriage.

A related conversation at Quora can be seen here. There exists a reference to a survey that states that while many love marriages gradually fail, love in arranged marriages is being built and growing over time. I have no opinion on whether the research is valid, I just mention this as a food for thought. And certainly when one takes into account the growing divorce trends in love marriages, the question seems even more timely and difficult than we would like to admit.

The religious question now comes to Christianity: What will a religious person choose? If one wishes to be objective, he must recognize that Christianity would prefer marriage from true love. Christianity favors love, unconditional love and is against any attempt to rationalize the affection between two people. On the other hand, the most correct rational view is the one that wants the choice of couples after the logical analysis of all the parameters in order to find the optimal "match" - that is, the arranged marriage.

Difficult problems with difficult solutions - if there are any.
Because as in all human problems, there is no easy answer here...

Search deep inside yourself...

Who is rational about this? (arranged marriages)
Who is irrational? (marriages out of love)

Philosophy Wire: The dominance of men over women. And it’s disastrous results in philosophy…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-07-03]:

The first woman as an Oxford director. The first woman as dean of Sorbonne. The first woman as a director of IMF. We are in 2015 and we still listen of the “first women” who do things which are in no way weird for a woman to do.

Men dominate life today. But how bad is for philosophy the fact that men are the dominant sex? Too bad if you ask me.

Once upon a time there were woman priest. Women who could feel the cosmos. Now men just try to explain it.

Once upon a time there were wise women. Women who followed their intuition. Now men are trying to follow their logic.

Once upon a time humans worshiped women. Men wise enough to know they are not wise. Now men are arrogant enough to believe they are gods.

In an irrational world, we chose to rely on our arbitrary logic than on our hyperlogos (transcendental) intuition. We chose to think rather than feel. We chose to become gods rather than accept that we already are. Slowly but steadily we are becoming alienated from our true selves. And only if we give up the power we think we have will we be strong once more.

Try to see carefully.

In your wife.
In your grandmother.
In your mother.
In your girlfriend.

The world has been singing to you. But you were too busy thinking to listen…

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Philosophy Wire: Women. Men. Atheists. Religiousness...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-23]: Women are more religious than men. [1] Men oppress women. Atheists oppress religious people.  Cronus eats his children. Gaia cries...

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Philosophy Wire: Women in scienc... errr I meant cooking.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-09-02]: A woman who made the cultivation of bacteria possible. [1] No one knows her. Because she was just... cooking. How can the proud science accept that?

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Philosophy Wire: Women artists. There are none!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-11-08]: First cave artists were women and not men! [1] Wait a minute… Did we really believe that men cannibals had… artistic concerns? My God. How much male-dominated can our society be?!? (and now that I think about it, doesn't it bother you that you know no woman Renaissance artist?)

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Philosophy Wire: Women & Nobel? Nuhhh!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-11-04]: The dark side of Nobel prizes: From Lise Meitner [1] (discovered how to achieve nuclear fission) and Rosalind Franklin [2] (discovered the DNA structure - YES, she did it, not the man you know!) to Jocelyn Bell Burnell [3] (discovered pulsars first) the men's history of research is full of women... How can we think freely if we cannot even see freely?

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Philosophy Wire: Women and Science...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-11-02]: Why are there so few women in science? [1] Society prejudice has affected every field of human thinking and research could not be an exception. But science cannot progress on man thinking alone. Great questions need intuition to answer. No wonder we are at a dead end...

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Philosophy Wire: Women in the Army, easy “hard” questions…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-01-26]:

Hard philosophical questions....

In the coming years, lifting the ban on women in combat, announced Thursday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, might prove particularly challenging in the most iconic of military occupations - the infantry, among the most physically demanding and tradition-bound branches of the Marines and the Army.  [source: CNN News] But will that really pose a challenge? Modern warfare has changed so much, that no physical strength is required to kill the enemy. All you have to do is press a button. This is quite scary if you ask me: questions that were once hard to answer, are now become obsolete by the very reality in which we live in.

Easy philosophical questions...

Yes, women CAN be in the army. They CAN push buttons or press a trigger.

One more example which shows in an exceptional manner what Brecht implied: philosophers must be in constant connection with everyday reality. Either wise they are in danger of being surpassed by it.

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