Eden
The Eden Experiment : Aliens & Archons
October 18, 2008 · 5 Comments
In the timeless library of human myths and legends, perhaps none are more primal and disturbing than the biblical story of the Fall. Responsible for everything from the demonisation of women to the Church’s pious horror for nature, sex and the body, there is scarcely a life-hating ideology or barbaric practice it hasn’t been used to justify. For all that, this strange and unsettling story has lost none of its melancholy power over the centuries, remaining as enigmatic and haunting as a dimly remembered nightmare – and almost no closer to being understood today than... [Read the full story]
Multiverse
Mad Science of the Multiverse
December 3, 2007 · 2 Comments
“Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?” - Samuel Johnson “Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.” - Jean Cocteau The Anthropic Principle in a Nutshell The “anthropic principle” is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument – which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability. It asks the questions:... [Read the full story]
Fermi's Phantoms
Robots, Goblins and Alien Amoeba: Fermis Paradox
January 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment
“I believe there are many gods not one and always in conflict. Well, if there are gods who created and control what’s going on here, you can tell a lot about them by what is going on. I assume they are colonists. And so anything you can see here you can infer is the act or the will of one of those gods. All you have to do is look around. You’ll see what they’re like. It’s like looking in someone’s yard.” – W.S. Burroughs Dateline: 1950 A.D. The physicist Enrico Fermi is having lunch with a few colleagues when the subject of interstellar travel comes... [Read the full story]
U.I.D.
The Incredibly Strange Story of Intelligent Design
July 7, 2006 · 2 Comments
“Children in Ohio may be taught life was created by aliens under an education package designed to ditch Darwin’s Theory of evolution. The US state is considering adopting the “intelligent design” theory that life is too complex to have simply evolved – as the Darwin Theory suggests. Therefore says the package, life must have been designed by some supernatural being, maybe God, maybe aliens.” (Herald Sun, Columbus Ohio, March 2002) Intelligent Design Intelligent Design theory is a highly speculative philosophical argument, popular in recent years, which holds... [Read the full story]
Pavlov's Gods
Pavlov's Gods
May 4, 2006 · 4 Comments
The persecution of the ancient Christians by the Roman Empire ended 16 centuries ago, but its influence lingers on. Even today, many wealthy and powerful Americans Christians (who should know better) continue to see themselves as members of an oppressed minority. Consider televangelist Pat Robertson’s famous complaint that “liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians” exactly what “Nazi Germany did to the Jews”: It’s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the... [Read the full story]
Antinomianism
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
December 12, 2005 · 3 Comments
Eighteen hundred years ago, the Christian religion was in a state of chaotic upheaval. The Bible hadn’t been canonized yet, most important doctrinal issues were still up for grabs, and nobody could agree on what Jesus’ message actually was. One of the most exotic flavors in this seething cauldron of theological controversy was Gnosticism, a mystical philosophy whose adherents rejected the creator god of the Old Testament as an incompetent fraud. Instead the Gnostic Christians dedicated their lives to the search for another god, an elusive deity secretly hidden within the human... [Read the full story]
The Demiurge and Disorder
The Biblical creator god’s greatest flaw is his ignorance – he literally does not understand where he came from. The Demiurge’s limited awareness made him the target of many cruel jokes in the gnostic scriptures, not least of which were the insulting nicknames he was given: “This gloomy ruler...
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The Creation of Chaos
At the beginning of time, Sophia (the world soul) broke away from Christ (the world spirit) and gave birth to Yaldabaoth, the arrogant creator-god of the Old Testament. The exact process by which this cosmic fiasco occurred was the subject of much debate among the gnostics; in perhaps the oldest version of the story,...
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Birth of the Demiurge
As Sophia looked down into the swirling void, a monstrous creature swam forth from the darkness – an insane fallen angel called “the Demiurge”: “…a Ruler first appeared out of the waters… having a great authority within himself, but not knowing whence he came into being.” ...
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