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ZIZ009 Why Only an Atheist Can Believe (10.11.2006)

Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings

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The Paradox of Zen Buddhism

Huxley's solution is wrong, but this gap. We have undoubtedly authentic Zen Buddhist monks like DT Suzuki who supported Japanese militaries and wrote justification of it. But there are people so-called fundamentalists who really immediately believe. I think the lesson of it is very clear that when we who stand in a Christian tradition, when we speak about redemption, all this, is something totally different than this gnostic or pagan perspective. Precisely, this level of inner truth is a lie. It's the point of lying. Believe is for me a kind of, there is always an element of I believe which is absurd. Belining in human rights doesn't mean I look around scientifically

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