…IS A GO. Watch this. It’s a brief overview of the leading alternate human history theory, going from Atlantis to the Greeks to Jesus to the Illuminati. Basically anything you hear on Coast to Coast AM. It’s standard fare in that regard. There’s actual logical progression of events, not a mishmash of crazy, and the … SYNTHETIC CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS GRID…
Old old old news, but a few weeks ago I came across the uncensored version of P.O.D.’s “I Am” track from their Testify album. Given the explicit (heh) Christian content of the song it certainly makes the swear more noticeable. Honestly, it’s from the point of view of not-Sonny, so it’s not out of context … Sonny from P.O.D. Dropped F-Bombs in Song, No One Is Hurt Yet
Experience the horror of this very crudely paraphrased argument I had with someone on the IMDB message boards. I searched my darndest to find the original but it’s been lost in the black hole of Internet history, possibly for the sake of its participants’ sanity. When you are raised in a philosophical climate—the techno-Enlightened West—that … Having Your Head in the Scientific Sand
Zach Braff doesn’t always tweet about penises: RT @UberFacts There are almost 5,000 gods being worshipped by humanity." But don't worry… only yours is right. — Zach Braff (@zachbraff) October 7, 2012 I get it. The implication with this statistic is that all religious belief systems can’t all be right, but that declaring them all … Zach Braff Is Kind of a Knucklehead
Hemingway’s mom, Grace Hall Hemingway, was a little off: Ernest had four sisters but always wanted a brother, vocally expressing his discontent at the births of his two sibling sisters. In his very early childhood his mother, as was not totally uncommon, dressed Ernest in frilly girls clothes and paraded him and his elder sister, … Ernest Hemingway: Crossdresser
A pastor I follow online posted a quick rebuttal of a boilerplate criticism of theistic belief. In his blog is mainly concerned with theistic belief qua theistic belief, not as interpreted via Western modes of reasoning, though this post shows his strong grip on formal logic. To wit: Smart-aleck atheist wannabe asks, “Do you believe … What God Can Do and Can’t Do
Concerning your methods of courting the muses. INTERVIEWER I’m curious to know how material from the “real world” comes to be incorporated into the rather enclosed spaces of books such as High-Rise, Crash, or Concrete Island? BALLARD Well, before starting Crash, for example, in 1969, I staged an exhibition of crashed cars at the New … J.G. Ballard, We Gotta Have A Little Talk
There’s no reason for me to post this other than I thought that this was one of the better modern movie endings I’ve seen. I didn’t see this in theaters but I imagine this scene was quite the spectacle, especially in IMAX theaters. The score certainly helps. It’s obvious that Branagh, et al, proposes the … Thor (2011) Credits Sequence
An wonderfully-written excerpt from Ballard’s Super-Cannes. Content warning: We were married within three months. I was still on my crutches, but Jane wore an extravagantly ruched silk dress that seemed to inflate during the ceremony, filling the register office like the trumpet of a vast amaryllis. She smoked pot at the reception held at the … “We were married within three months.”
Some decent thoughts here, with requisite spoiler warnings if you haven’t seen the entire film. The film is, however, must-see for science-fiction or technology/futurist enthusiasts, as long as you’ve already gotten past the “animation is for kids” reservation that you may have. If you haven’t yet, please do get past that assumption before watching it … Video: Ghost in the Shell vs. The Matrix Analysis
From Chapter 3 of Lost Horizon: He was also interested in the mountain beyond the valley; it was a sensational peak, by any standards, and he was surprised that some traveler had not made much of it in the kind of book that a journey in Tibet invariably elicits. He climbed it in mind as … Monasticism and Trigonometry
The first interview I did for Noisecreep was with David from For Today. We were in the room were the touring bands kept all of their gear went they weren’t playing their sets—basically the closest thing to backstage there can be at a venue with a capacity of only a few hundred people. In the … It’s Okay, I Didn’t Want To Interview Your Band Anyway
An overlooked film from 1987, about an alternate history space program. It comes off, to me, as a precursor to Contact but without the latter’s stupid heavy-handedness of the conflict thesis binary. Science and religious elements play hard in the story but their treatment is far from Hollywood’s childishness. Like Magentic Rose, the mechanical designs … Free Movie Time: Wings of Honneamise
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook might know I took up a project to summarize all 66 books of the Bible, roughly one book per day. I recently finished all the books and I thought it would be best to publish them all in one grand blog post. A tweet-dump motherlode … Bible Book Summaries: The Criterion Collection
Below is a comment I posted on a blog post written by a Facebook friend of mine, Jason (from Becoming the Archetype—a reference point for those of you who are familiar). The post was a response to a video titled “My Question For Theists,” which I haven’t watched yet—my comments were general and more in … Religion and Science Blah Blah Blah
He says we’re just too stupid for aliens to bother. Too stupid, except for probably him, his fans, his publishing agent, the colleagues still in his good favors, etc. The idea gets some traction because he’s being half-humorous and it plays well with the scientism crowd as a safe criticism. It’s not aimed in a … Neil Degrasse Tyson Trolls the Human Race
The nicely-done Your Logical Fallacy Is commits an unfortunate logical fallacy: Here are some reasons you might want to order one of these pretty great posters: … 2. To put up in your kids’ bedroom so that they get all clever and whatnot, and are able to tell the difference between real news and faux … Website About Logical Fallacies Pretty Much Commits Logical Fallacy
From Chapter 10 of Gulliver’s Travels: No man could more verify the truth of these two maxims, “That nature is very easily satisfied;” and, “That necessity is the mother of invention.” I enjoyed perfect health of body, and tranquility of mind; I did not feel the treachery or inconstancy of a friend, nor the injuries … Gulliver on the Good Life
I doubt the collapse of nations occur as they do in movies. Things would more likely end gradually, with a quiet, undramatic whimper (sorry, doomsday preppers, and people who think The Purge is realistic). This holds true if the collapse occurs via the government’s own hand—enterprise-wide, self-inflicted failures and arrogant largesse—as opposed to armed revolution. … Not Your Parents’ Government Collapse
After raiding the newfound Language Log’s archive for a few minutes, I found this post, on the increasing usage of the “We are all x now” snowclone. Quoting from a Jeffrey Kluger article in Time: “This increasingly common trope has an easy, fill-in-the-blank quality to it that allows us to affect a bit of purloined … We Are All Something Agreeable Now