Blog archives for November, 2008

The Chinese Finger Trap as a Metaphor

google chinese finger trap metaphor
google when yoga harms

The War Between Good and Evil

“When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.

Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.”

- Tao Te Ching

“When beauty is abstracted
Then ugliness has been implied;
When good is abstracted
Then evil has been implied.

So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
Long and short abstracted from contrast,
High and low abstracted from depth,
Song and speech abstracted from melody,
After and before abstracted from sequence.”

- Tao Te Ching

Bill O’Reilly interviews Marylin Manson

Colbert Report April 25, 2006: Sam Harris

“Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable.Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its original nature. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.”—The Gospel of Phillip

Albert Pike: “. . . Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also God. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two Gods: darkness being necessary to light to serve as its foil as the pedestal is necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive. . .”The doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay ; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and evil.” A.C. De La Rive, La Femme et l’enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, p. 588; Lady Queenborough, Occult Theocracy pp. 220-221.”

These next videos are a little choppy at some points.
Politically Incorrect 1996 [2of4]

Politically Incorrect 1996 [3of4]

Politically Incorrect 1996 [4of4]

colbert bart ehrman

Dan Ariely on Sociological Relativity

Fundamentalist Christian confronts Terence Mckenna

Post on Evil

[Chpt.6] Sam Harris: A Science of Good and Evil part 1

[Chpt.6] Sam Harris: A Science of Good and Evil part 2

[Chpt.6] Sam Harris: A Science of Good and Evil part 3

[Chpt.6] Sam Harris: A Science of Good and Evil part 4

mckenna quote relativity with regard to consciousness?

The Psychology of Reincarnation

Things for me to read.

Reincarnation, Modernity and Identity

Reincarnation, sect unity, and identity among the druze

Possible metaphorical meaning?

Putting women in their place, historically speaking

Sam Harris – Religion and Women

(Note: Holy books can be positive too.)

Christopher Hitchens: Why Women Still Aren’t Funny

John Lennon – Woman is the Nigger of the World

And Races,
John Lennon – On Revolution & Native Americans

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.” – Robert Anton Wilson

Link to “When God was a Woman” book
Link to Chalice and the Blade book
Link to The Alphabet vs the Goddess

Human Animal Hybrids

NPR – Scientists Hope to Create Human-Animal Embryo

find more

http://www.npr.org/templates/search/search.php?text=chimera+dna&sort=DREDATE%3Anumberdecreasing&aggId=0&prgId=0&topicId=0&how_long_ago=0

Environmentalism

Environmentalism is the New Religion – Fora