A very merry Christmas ! Thank you Y7's pupils for your hard work !

What did Jesus look like? Check here and here !
Is God in heaven or in the Universe? Is there a God?  Is God a man? Big questions, ultimate questions !

Design Argument: God as a watch maker

William Paley, God as watch maker

Design Argument for the existence of God.

HW

Copy of worksheet of open Belief Survey here. No more excuses! (I lost my paper, my dog ate my worksheet, it was damaged in the wash machine etc ).

When answering questions always:

New Unit: Ideas about God

Impact of Religion on Jewish people : Mitzvah Day in Enfield

Homeless women and care homes to benefit from Mitzvah Day projects: Homeless women are benefitting from the ge... http://t.co/bSnDNOuFeX

— Enfield Independent (@Enfield_Indy) November 15, 2014

The Impact of Religion in Peoples' lives: The Mitzvah Day !

#MitzvahDay14 in numbers @MitzvahDay @norwooduk @CampSimchaUK @LangdonCharity @Tzedek @Laura_E_Marks @JW3London pic.twitter.com/0LGAIprlHJ
— JPR (@jprinstitute) November 13, 2014

What is truth? Read here what a great Islamic Philosopher Al Ghazali
says about truth

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali ! Learn about this festival here

Food for your thought !

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates
— Philosopy Quotes (@tphilosophyquot) October 11, 2014

Solo - How to improve your answers

The Impact of beliefs in peoples lives

Fact Files: Humanists working for a better world, learn more here.Christians like Martin Luther King, learn more here.

BHA How do we know what is true? That's Humanism !

Secondary: What do you know about RE?

What's invisible? More than you think - John Lloyd

Questions no one knows the answers to (Full Version) - Chris Anderson

Vaisakhi

Learn about the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi here

Mr Tan in Amritsar

Find Punjab and you can find Amritsar !

Remembrance - The Sikh Story - Part 1 - World War 1 and 2

Judaism!

Reading the Torah here

Siddhartha becomes Buddha

How did Gautama Buddha reach Enlightenment (Nirvana)?

BBC The Story of India (2 of 6) The Power of Ideas

@7:00 starts talking the power of ideas, the "Ethics" brought by many in that century (6 Century th Before Common Era!). For example: Confucious in China, Prophets from Old Testament in the Middle East and India, the Buddha.

Buddhism and Ashoka

Note, the clip starts from Hinduism since Siddhartha Gautama grew up a Hindu Prince! In 5:20 it starts talking about Buddhism. It's awesome!

The Elephant and the blind Men

You can watch here again the story (parable) of the Elephant and the Blind Men . This short story with a moral, what so called parable, belongs to Hinduism and Buddhism. In this site it is related to Buddhism. Please select and click there. After watching it try to explain in your own words what this story is about. If you can describe in detail you are acting on level 4 because you are describing what it is. If can explain the meaning of it is level 5 because you are evaluating it. If you can, in addition to all, explain what you learn from the story you are evaluating in high level i.e you are acting in a solid level 5! and approaching level 6!

PS: The story sometimes is called "The wise men and the Elephant" and the number of wise men also varies. As we discussed, one of the reasons is because it is a very old story. Hinduism and Buddhism have more than 2.500 years! Hinduism has almost 5.000 years!. Another question is how the story has been passed, it belongs to an oral tradition i.e. it may be more subjected of changes than written stories. It will vary a little bit through time and through cultures. Beware in some cultures animals like elephant are very important (they are considered "sacred") and that's why they come first in the title of the story and in other cultures humans are more important, that's why they come second in the title. 

PS: Prepare questions and interesting facts for next lesson about Introduction to Hinduism. I hope you en-joy it! :-)

Twilight at the Museums

Read more here thanks to University of Cambridge 

Diwali story

Read about the story here . You also can read about it here. and test yourself (if you really understood the story completing the worksheet available here

The Rigveda: reciting Hindu sacred texts