By Psyche | December 21, 2009
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But have you checked out our new Esoteric Book Club? First pick is Robert Anton Wilson's Quantum Psychology. Participate here!
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@joeldey posted a TwitPic of the Flying Spaghetti Monster holiday treats he made.
They look incredible.
No news yet on the recipe, but they look awesomely delicious.
Update: Recipe found on EvilMadScientist.com (love the site’s name). Thanks Brent Friedman!
Spotted on BoingBoing.
By Psyche | November 22, 2009
Back in August I posted about My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, a new musical I’d heard about that debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival earlier in the summer.
It had just been announced that Mirvish was going to host a production of it at the Panasonic Theatre in November, and that I simply must see it based on the name alone.
November came, and indeed I did go to see it. And I’m surprised to say it was genuinely awesome and I loved it.
MMLJWW is narrated by David Hein, the co-author along with his wife Irene Carl Sankoff, and is based on the true story of how Hein’s moms got together.
Hein’s mother Claire (played by Lisa Horner) was an atheist who came out to her son is as a lesbian after falling in love with Jane (Rosemary Doyle), a Wiccan. Claire later comes out a second time to her son, this time as a Jew. It’s funny and it’s clever, but it’s also sensitive and genuinely touching. Continue reading »
By Psyche | September 1, 2009
Two stories here. The first features an angry atheist who knowingly targets a group of theists and annoys them. The second features a group of animal-loving atheists willing to look after Christian pets post- rapture. (Seriously.)
Angry atheist
We’ll start with John Safran. He’s an Australian filmmaker fed up with Mormons knocking on his door who decided to do something about it: he flew to Utah to knock on doors in Salt Lake City and see how they liked it.
Apparently he made a thing of it, in an eight part “documentary” for Australian television in 2004 called “John Safran vs God“.
I spotted this five minute clip from episode five on Scott Michael Stenwick’s blog, Augoeides.
Titled “Door-to-Door Atheists Bother Mormons“, the first three minutes feature Safran, dressed in a black suit and seated in a red chair in front of a roaring fire, frothing and ranting about the indecency of Mormons knocking at his door early in the morning when he’d rather be resting, or really, doing anything other than being preached at.
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By Psyche | August 22, 2009
Saturday Signal typically sifts the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony, and this week’s links list focuses heavily on religion – how it changes, and its lack.
Is spirituality on a decline? Or is it only religion that’s become outmoded?
Are Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens correct? And, if so is this a good thing?
- Fawad Ali Shah reminisces about Buddhism in Pakistan for the Daily Times, noting that not a single monastery remains.
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By Psyche | August 15, 2009
Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony. And oh, the Internet’s full of cacks and phonies. We do what we can.
Without further ado, here’s what we’ve found signal worthy this week:
- Randy Boswell, on Canada.com,o reports on Charles Taylor’s negative comments in Philosophy Now on the atheist bus campaign started in Britain, which have also swept Canada this year. Taylor calls them pathetic, but I think they’re great. The religious response has been generally amusing as well. A church near my house has put up a poster in the same brightly coloured style proclaiming “There probably is a god. Now stop worrying and enjoy life.” Misguided, but hip none the less.
- In is blog RitualMagick.co.uk, David Rankine looks into Gematria of Blog and discovers that in Prime Qabalah it adds up to 80, the same number as dance, red, debauch and kala. What to make of that?
- John Crow collects editions of Liber AL vel Legis, and earlier this year he posted a detailed review of Italian and Norwegian editions in Treasure-House of Pearls. The Norwegian edition in particular looks gorgeous.
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