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George Bataille, dualism, postmodernism and Gnosticism

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 5, 2010 /

Found : George Bataille, dualism, postmodernism and Gnosticism The core duality of Bataille’s thought is thus between the profane and the sacred. In a first moment, this distinction can be read along the lines of the double intentionality of self-consciousness, very much like in the case of Hegel’s unhappy consciousness. For Bataille, the human being…

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Study : Semen 'makes women happy'

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 3, 2010 /

Found : Study : Semen ‘makes women happy’ Women exposed to their partner's semen during sex may find themselves feeling happier than those who use a condom, say scientists. Scientists in the US believe the mood-altering hormones in semen absorbed through the vagina help to boost women's mood. Semen contains a range of hormones, including…

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Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 2, 2010 /

Found : Extra Dimensions Showing Hints Of Scientific Revolution The concept of extra dimensions, dismissed as nonsense even by one of its earliest proponents nearly nine decades ago, may soon help solve seemingly unrelated problems in particle physics, cosmology and gravitational physics, according to a panel of experts who spoke Feb. 15 at the American…

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Study Suggests Difference Between Female And Male Sexuality

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 31, 2010 /

Found : Study Suggests Difference Between Female And Male Sexuality (women naturally bisexual) Three decades of research on men's sexual arousal show patterns that clearly track sexual orientation — gay men overwhelmingly become sexually aroused by images of men and heterosexual men by images of women. In other words, men's sexual arousal patterns seem obvious.…

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Consciousness, Causality, Quantum Physics

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 30, 2010 /

Found : Consciousness, Causality, Quantum Physics In Bohm's model, then, the quantum world exists even when it is not being observed and measured. He rejects the positivist view that something that cannot be measured or known precisely cannot be said to exist. In other words, he does not confuse epistemology with ontology, the map with…

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Intelligent Design and The Discovery Institute's Misplaced Outrage

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 27, 2010 /

Found : Intelligent Design and The Discovery Institute’s Misplaced Outrage See, the problem here for West is not that no one is listening to the ID scholars; the problem is that we are listening to them and their own words are in direct contradiction to the tactical marketing campaign that the DI is trying so…

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Max Tegmark's Theory of Everything

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 25, 2010 /

Found : Max Tegmark’s Theory of Everything According to Tegmark, every last formal system on the tree of mathematics is endowed with physical existence. Every last formal system corresponds to an actual universe. Tegmark has extended the Copernican principle beyond our Universe to an infinite set of universes. Not only is there nothing special about…

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Review of the Magdalene Sisters

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 24, 2010 /

Found : Review of the Magdalene Sisters Speaking after the UK premiere of "The Magdalene Sisters" in Glasgow, one 65- year old woman told director Peter Mullan, "It's not nearly bad enough. You didn't show it as it really was. We were only babies. It was a lot worse. It was horrendous."… Another abuse victim…

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Scientist predicts human race will evolve into two different species

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 19, 2010 /

Found : Scientist predicts human race will evolve into two different species The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist. 100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of…

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The Virtual Multiverse Theory of Free Will

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / March 18, 2010 /

Found : The Virtual Multiverse Theory of Free Will Borges portrayed the world as consisting of pathways defining series of events, in which each pathway eventually reaches a decision-point at which it forks out into more than one future pathway. Borges’ “paths” are the “branches” of the mathematical “tree structures” used to model multiverses; and…

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