Archive for April 2010
Definition of metanarrative
Stories employed to legitimate the mechanisms of social control. Thus, for example, when parents tell their children, "We only want to help you avoid our mistakes," they are constructing a metanarrative that justifies the imposition of rules of conduct they are unwilling to follow themselves. Lyotard supposed that the deliberate subversion of prominent metanarratives is…
Read MoreScience Fiction and Gnosticism
Found : Science Fiction and Gnosticism The gnostic religion, which flourished in the first through third centuries A.D., provides an excellent paradigm for the understanding of the type of religious awareness that much SF favors. The gnostics, regarded as heretics by the faction that became orthodox Christianity, were radical transcendentalists. They believed that man is…
Read MoreCatastrophism
Found : Catastrophism The more powerful electrostatic and electromagnetic nature of the Earth in ancient times was occasioned by and itself was the cause of a number of phenomena which divide the ancient world and our world into fundamentally different kinds of realities, resulting in the present FUBAR state of virtually every branch of science…
Read MoreZombie Symbolism in the Movies
Found : Zombie Symbolism in the Movies While lunging from the shadows with outstretched, rotting limbs, zombies serve as metaphors for failed ambition and mindless conformity, the way vampires can symbolize sexual aggression and Frankenstein's monster represents science run amok. In the new thriller "28 Days Later," a man awakens from a coma to find…
Read MoreAliens as cyborgs from the future
Found : Aliens as cyborgs from the future Consider the possibility of a reality in a different "future" time-space-thought continuum on Earth, where the deformed and technologically advanced and essentially barbaric humans who managed to survive nuclear and other devastations, were genetically engineered by a conquering alien race into a cloneable "living computer", as the…
Read MoreMale and Female brains, empathy and systematization
Found : Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization According to this theory, a person (whether male or female) has a particular "brain type". There are three common brain types: for some individuals, empathising is stronger than systemising. This is called the female brain, or a brain of type E. For other individuals, systemising is…
Read MoreEve as Guide and Savior Figure in Gnostic reinterpretations of the Eden Myth
Found : Eve as Guide and Savior Figure in Gnostic reinterpretations of the Eden Myth Because of its intensive and complex layers an explication of Gnostic mythology often requires that one select a particular aspect of the system rather than attempt to address its entirety. This study, then, will focus on a selected, central theme…
Read MoreNOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
Found : NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY Chances are, you know one of the shadow economy’s participants, whether or not you number among the working poor. Your neighbor’s cleaning lady, for instance, may not get a W-2. Maybe you’ve purchased a roll of samizdat Hannah Montana stickers at a flea market, or a handmade Sponge…
Read MoreWhy I am Not a Postmodernist
Found : Why I am Not a Postmodernist Postmodernists complain that science is a cultural prejudice, and/or a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power, and/or only one "way of knowing" among many, with no special privilege. For postmodernists, science is "discourse", one system among many, maintained by a closed community as a…
Read MoreEvil Bible Home Page
For far too long priests and preachers have completely ignored the vicious criminal acts that the Bible promotes. The so called “God” of the Bible… is directly responsible for many mass-murders, rapes, pillage, plunder, slavery, child abuse and killing, not to mention the killing of unborn children. I have included references to the Biblical passages,…
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