Prelude: The Montanist Mapping
A little while ago, I wrote about the Montanists . Just to recap briefly, they believed that, just as the Father manifestation of God had entered history via the Judaic religion (JHVH–and, in my read, Moses), and God the Son had manifested through Jesus, God as Holy Spirit now had entered [...]
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You see calls from your mother and your brother that you can’t quite get good reception for—and if you could, you can’t quite get the will behind you to answer them, for what they might say, the calls—what obligations or bad news they might invoke.
You’ve planned to leave the city for over a month—the pull [...]
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A cat named Orpheo: lay in the Dutch window, absorbing the rays of the sun.
A dog named Boo: sits, giant and high yellow, breathing like a man.
A man named R.: shaves the growth of his face, growing innocent.
A snake on a wall makes an S, pointing downward toward the right corner, surrounded by red.
A silver [...]
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On Feb. 23rd, a movie starring Jim Carrey, the #23 will find release in movie theatres nationwide. When I first saw the trailer for it on Tim Boucher’s site, I mechanically reacted with a feeling of disgust. Robert Anton Wilson, sage agnostic and gonzo philosopher dies, and the 23 meme he first helped [...]
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Our culture seems to be entranced by a particulary debased form of bhakti, based on coercive, psychic human sacrifice. I talked about it in regards to Anna Nicole Smith, set up as a representative of a god/dess, a temple idol to be worshipped by the masses and then sacrificed when [...]
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Here’s a great piece written by MLK while he studied for his doctorate. By now, a lot of the information presented in his paper should be well-known (whether they are or not, you tell me).
Here’s an excerpt from one paragraph dealing with Jesus and Adonis:
Another popular religion which influenced the thought of early Christians [...]
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That Kind of Reading
I’m a big book reader. You can call me a text-junkie. I yearn for the information in books and my mind is ever seeking out new ones. But there’s reading and there’s reading. The latter is an experience that makes the body buzz the way a [...]
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In mainline Christian theology (mirroring much older trinities like those of Egypt, Sumeria & India), the trinity is the locus of the mystery of creation and existence, the locus of the mystical: Godhead in three personalities. God the Father, God the Sun/Son and God the Holy Spirit (God the Mother having been abstracted into [...]
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So, I’m coming very late, as far as the “blogging”-world goes, to commenting (and there have been some powerful comments) on the death of Anna Nicole Smith , her lifeless cheek even now being readied for a scraping as various parties fight over the DNA of her daughter and the fate of her fortunes:
Circuit Judge [...]
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Posted in everyday forteana on February 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Recently, a commenter over at Jeff Wells’ site who goes by the name irridescent cuttlefish (one of his sites can be found here), shared a pretty amazing avian story that triggered my own bird-related memory.
Here’s IC’s story:
So then, my weird experience happened late this morning. I was sitting with my kindergartener, reading, doing some painting, [...]
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