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Christianity is Not Ecological

Posted on 21/06/2022 by oligomath

the Christian worldview is deeply anti-ecological which nobody really wants to draw out at length except a few gaians, and which is only seriously considered either by liberals (who… you know, are liberal about it) or crazy intelligent design / … Continue reading →

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On Being Asked The Origins of Biblical Homophobia and Whether It Has Its Origins in Sympathetic Fertility Magic

Posted on 14/06/2022 by oligomath

the self-image of israel in the pentateuch is of a pure and godfearing people, and maintaining racial/ritual purity is how Moses makes all his stuff stick if he can’t provide a story of someone being smited. there is remarkably little … Continue reading →

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An Old Disease

Posted on 10/06/2022 by oligomath

lots of people believe in God and they don’t all begome gadolig. especially when someone converts to roman catholicism. and the kind of roman catholicism is a very specific kind, because not even all converts become integralist lunatics these ultra … Continue reading →

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Parallel between Jhana and Sleep Paralysis

Posted on 03/05/2022 by oligomath

the solution is like getting into jhana. you learn to quickly orient yourself into sleep paralysis space and recognise that because you are in a jhanoid state “quite secluded from sensuality” that there are some positive feedback loops you can … Continue reading →

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The Trve Foundation of the Age of Aquarius

Posted on 25/04/2022 by oligomath

just as the dawning-of-the-age-of-Pisces mithras cult people were just resurrecting a 2000 year old myth of the death of the Age of Taurus and rediscovering that The Whole Heavens Are Turned By One Being, the new aeon of Crowley was … Continue reading →

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Round About When I Started to Wonder About This St Paul Guy

Posted on 31/03/2022 by oligomath

i would simply be a decent human being and spread my religion using appealingly universal sounding language (“inescapably true”), crude psychological appeals (“i don’t like you as a person”), emotional blackmail (your current religion is “inherently xenophobic”), haughty commands (“you … Continue reading →

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Heart Awareness

Posted on 06/03/2022 by oligomath

considering your heart is maybe the most throbbing part of your anatomy i find it remarkable how well the normal physiology of man is set up to allow you to forget it exists until something is wrong, such that if … Continue reading →

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The Reason the Law Exists

Posted on 13/02/2022 by oligomath

when it comes to the halacha, if i wish to reduce the Law to a single purpose (silly idea to do, but i can have a little monocausophilia as a treat) i find the racism hypothesis more convincing than the … Continue reading →

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someone deaccessioned a book in a village library in america somewhere

Posted on 03/02/2022 by oligomath

>History WILL judge the school boards who are trying to ban Maus, though. Yes teens can get it outside of school but the decision that kids shouldn’t access Maus in school isn’t a neutral decision. The decision is motivated by … Continue reading →

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Crossanity: On Believing in the Saints But Not Jesus

Posted on 09/01/2022 by oligomath

the reason the saints were thrown out by the reformers is because both the gospel-as-written and north European political aspirations are about unmediated power relations, made fair by virtue of this unmediated quality — by the gospel everyone is to … Continue reading →

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