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The Ontology of God

Philosophy can be disbursed into many subdivisions of scrutiny (logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, rhetoric), but no such category reposes so much substratum for ...

posted on 2008-05-27 08:44:51
tags: aristotle, david hume, designer reality, existence, god, immanuel kant, maimonides, ontology, religion, rene descartes, saint anselm, saint thomas aquinas, soren kierkegaard, william paley


Gender Selection in Genetics

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." --- General Omar Bradley, Armistice Day ...

posted on 2008-05-13 08:14:33
tags: ethics, gender selection, genetics


Beyond Euthyphro: The Socratic Irony with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard

Euthyphro: a tale of epistemology, a tale of dialectic regard for piety and impiety, a direct and sudden tale to bring a stunning point across ...

posted on 2008-04-30 09:27:48
tags: euthypthro, socrates, socratic irony, soren kierkegaard


The Origin of Genies in Islam

The Djinn (genies) were apparently created two thousand years before humanity. Originally there were held in the same high regard as that of the angels ...

posted on 2008-04-29 08:54:49
tags: arabic folklore, djinn, genies, islam koran


The Mystical Paths: Kabbalah and Gnosticism

I was always taught that the greatest of religious thinkers (especially when dealing with Christianity) were the mystics. If you weren’t brought up on ...

posted on 2008-04-28 08:14:14
tags: christianity, gnosticism, gospel of thomas, judaism, kabbalah


Meister Eckhart, God, and the Perils of Atheism

“Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste ...

posted on 2008-04-15 08:14:46
tags: atheism, god, meister eckhart, ontology


The Truth about the Necronomicon

There is an obsession in the occult world with a text known as The Necronomicon thanks to the literary works of H.P. Lovecraft. It ...

posted on 2008-03-28 08:13:44
tags: abdul alhazred, aleister crowley, colin low, h p lovecraft, kenneth grant, mythology, necronomicon, nephilim, qlippoth, sonia greene, tunnels of set


James Carse and the Infinite Game

An ouroboros is an ancient Egyptian symbol depicting a snake eating its own tale. It can signify many things in both the ancient and the ...

posted on 2008-02-21 14:43:24
tags: infinite game, james carse, philosophy


The Death of Pope John Paul II

The king is dead, but his spirit lives on, like an excited child gleefully hording his toys away from the crowded play of others. With ...

posted on 2005-04-08 07:56:17
tags: christianity, pope john paul ii, roman catholicism


Rushkoff, Designer Reality and the Dangers of Religion

Religion is a wonderful and dangerous thing. Throughout time immeasurable religion has turned the poor into the rich, the blind into the sighted, and the ...

posted on 2004-08-30 15:22:48
tags: club zero-g, designer reality, douglas rushkoff, friedrich nietzsche, grant morrison, mythology, religion


Concepts of Karma

For the longest time - despite my spiralling consumption by the occult world, and subsequent engulfing of Eastern philosophies - I always had a problem with the ...

posted on 2004-08-10 09:17:01
tags: buddhism, hinduism, karma


Sex, Drugs, Hip-Hop and the Occult

I had lost all sense of my humanity. It slowly drifted away on a current of self-imposed ego - ego with insecurities and pain. What it ...

posted on 2004-08-03 09:59:46
tags: aleister crowley, daniel pinchbeck, drugs, ecstasy timothy leary, occult, terrence mckenna, william burroughs