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In his chapter “States vs Centre” he argues decentralisation helps innovation, mainly bc you’re not judged by one ruling power only and “unfortunate decisions could have been battled” - naming examples from different countries.

Any society which has faced a lot of violence tends to become patriarchal.

Travelling is an educational experience

Q: At what stage does Mythology become Faith?
A: When you stop questioning.
… Faith begins when your knowledge reaches its finish line. Knowledge helps you grow; faith helps you make sense of things you don’t understand. Or at least find some peace with it.

God is a role model, He moves among us, sometimes as Jesus Christ and the Cristian Trinity, at other times as Gautam Buddha, and other times as Lord Krishna, Lord Ram, Goddess Durga…

Pythagoras’ school of mystery: the purpose of society was to bring the human into contact with his/her divinity.

The Rig Veda encompasses this philosophy beautifully: Ekam sat vipra bahuda vadanti— Truth is one, but the wise men speak (or know) it as many.

Nachiket became free from his passions and ‘death’. He realised God, and so it shall be with anyone who knows God; for it refers to the Self.

The religious camp of believers has its own dogma. They tell you that religion is an organised effort to create an ethical society; there are studies (I must say) which can back this claim, for instance the behavioural studies conducted in the University of Austin.

On point introduction: Allama Iqbal’s (in context) - «Greek, Egyptians and Romans have all vanished from this world; But we are still here; There must be something special in us; That we have not been erased from existence; For the whole world has been against us for centuries;» and Amish wanting to present an answer to it.