Burroughs on the Aliens
Found : Burroughs on the Aliens
He listed the objectives and characteristics of the aliens . . .
1. They support any dogmatic religious system that tends to stupefy and degrade the worshippers. They support the Slave Gods. They want blind obedience, not intelligent assessment. They stand in the way of every increase in awareness. They only [...]
The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997
Found : The Baha’i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997
Here I wish to examine social control mechanisms in the American Baha’i community. These include mandatory prepublication censorship of everything Baha'is publish about their religion, administrative expulsion, blackballing, shunning and threats of shunning. What are the ideological bases of these control mechanisms? How is power attained [...]
Backward Causation
Found : Backward Causation
Sometimes also called retro-causation. A common feature of our world seems to be that in all cases of causation, the cause and the effect are placed in time so that the cause precedes its effect temporally. Our normal understanding of causation assumes this feature to such a degree that we intuitively have [...]
A toke a day keeps memory loss at bay
Found : A toke a day keeps memory loss at bay
Small doses of marijuana improve the function of aging brains, scientists find
Turns out a few dances with Mary Jane can do wonders for an aging brain.
Yes, a daily toke in later-middle and old age can help slow memory loss, or the onset of diseases such [...]
When It Is Good To Be Bad : Medieval Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Apologetics (PDF)
Found : When It Is Good To Be Bad : Medieval Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Apologetics (PDF)
Antinomianism comes in at least two forms: strong or weak. Weak antinomianism is permissive: one may do what is bad and nevertheless somehow remain not guilty. Strong antinomianism is normative: one is compelled to commit an offence, with the same [...]
The Reason the Universe Exists is Because it Caused Itself to Exist
Found : The Reason the Universe Exists is Because it Caused Itself to Exist
There may be another way for the universe to cause itself to begin to exist, but this way will be found dubious by many since it involves backward causation. None the less, some cosmologists, such as John Wheeler, claimed that the big [...]
Jehovah Unmasked
Found : Jehovah Unmasked
Does the Bible really teach there is only one God? Or does it teach that many gods exist? Did Almighty God really create this material world? Perhaps another, lesser god, created this material world? These are important questions, because the God of whom Jesus Christ spoke is a gentle, loving Heavenly Father. [...]
The medieval church, heresy and memes
Found : The medieval church, heresy and memes
I find it a little ironic that the conceptualization of ideas as infectious diseases dates back far beyond The Selfish Gene. In fact, one of the first notable observations of this ideology is from the medieval Catholic Church, circa 12th century. Heresy was considered to be an infection [...]
Commentary on morality and archetypes
Found : Commentary on morality and archetypes
Every archetype is a component of the psyche of every human being and it's the enemy shadow archetype we have to integrate first (that's the only way we can avoid projecting it). We always see the archetypes projected more readily in others than in ourselves … anger, for instance, [...]
God Wants You Dead
Found : God Wants You Dead
God is a collective memetic organism. Such organisms influence large numbers of people to behave as a group. Copies in the minds of individual human beings work together the way a multi-celled animal's component cells do, producing unified behavior. Countries, corporations, philosophies, and other "Higher Powers" that cause people to [...]
