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Sex and the single artist

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / May 1, 2010 /

Found : Sex and the single artist Daniel Nettle of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Helen Keenoo of the Open University… asked 425 British people, including artists and poets, on many sexual partners they'd had (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3349) Professional artists and poets averaged 4 to 10 sexual partners,…

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Science Fiction and Gnosticism

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 29, 2010 /

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…

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Zombie Symbolism in the Movies

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 27, 2010 /

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…

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Aliens as cyborgs from the future

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 26, 2010 /

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…

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Male and Female brains, empathy and systematization

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 25, 2010 /

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…

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Eve as Guide and Savior Figure in Gnostic reinterpretations of the Eden Myth

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 24, 2010 /

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…

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NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 22, 2010 /

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…

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Why I am Not a Postmodernist

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 21, 2010 /

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…

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Altered photos play tricks on memory

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 19, 2010 /

Found : Altered photos play tricks on memory New York, Nov 22 – Doctored photos have a way of affecting your memory, according to a new study that used digitally altered images of public events. The study, initiated by the University of California at Irvine, found that doctored photos of public events can make them…

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Philip K Dick as "Vortex Victim"

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 18, 2010 /

Found : Philip K Dick as "Vortex Victim" Phil wasn’t nuts. Phil was a vortex victim.* Schizophrenia is not a psychological disorder peculiar to human beings. Schizophrenia is not a disease at all but rather a localized traveling discontinuity of the space time matrix itself. It is like a travelling whirl-wind of radical understanding that…

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