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Bill Hicks was a master. He actually came to Hull, but I missed the show (as usual :( ). A firned went and said that Bill did requests - people calling for the "waffle waitress" diatribe, etc. I have no idea what lame excuse I had for not going.

Re:The anti-Christmas If I remember right, the annoying thing about Wesley in the earlier episodes was simply that he was treated as a redundant character - a token kid, intended to be "cute". Once he was involved in academy training plot lines he became properly interesting, notably because...

I have met quite a few people in life who claimed to be spiritual … even somewhat enlightened – yet these people I know have the very nerve to regard themselves as superior also – and even state that those who are not as enlightened as they have no particular right of life. This is Spiritual...

Here's an interesting article which goes into great detail about the evolution of Christian texts into the current canon that we have now.

Well, what do you know - it's still happening! Talking fish in New York

Just some research notes: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gods and Myths of the Ancient World - Mary Barnett, Grange Books, ISBN 1 84013 081 4 (annoyingly, no text references) Man made from clay figures: p. 153 - reference made...

When reading the work on Roman history by Livy (Titus Livius) I made some notes... ...because it’s completely fascinating to observe how the Romans, circa 200 BC, viewed the world. The Roman view: The world exists in a form of harmony, but only when the gods are happy. Reality is fragile...

(cont...) (a geographical commentary follows, then … ) A great part of Judaea consists of scattered villages. They have also towns. Jersualem is the capital. There stood a temple of immense wealth. First came the city with its fortifications, then the royal palace, then, within the innermost...

TACITUS - The Histories (can be found online at http://www.novaroma.org/camenaeum/tacitus.htm A Roman perspective of Jeiwsh history appears in book 5: Some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was...

Potential relevant info for the exploration of apossible wider cultural context in religious belief systems of the time: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HERODOTUS - The Histories (can be found online at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/herodotus/ ) Bk 2 sections 36 and...

Something copied from another site, just in case it's of interest: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - According to Teillhard, there exists, beyond the laws of physics, another fundamental principle of organization of the universe, another dimension: the...

Before I start rooting through notes, books, and reference works, there is a general movement in believing that during the palaeolithic period at least, societies in Euro-Asia tended towards matriarchal systems - the Divine was considered female, and rulership was conveyed through the female...

One of the greatest social comedians, who knew that the best humour is rooted in truth. During this time of the second Iraq War, here's a little reminder of his words from 1991, during Gulf War I: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...

Axis of Evil Wannabees by John Cleese Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil" club, Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil", which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush...

Saddam Hussein was sitting in his office wondering whom to invade next when his telephone rang. "Hello, Mr. Hussein!", a heavily accented voice said. "This is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Sligo, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!" "Well...

Certainly there is still a great scope for more discoveries hidden in the deserts of the Middle-East. However, it's unlikely that any such texts could have a major impact on current Christian beliefs - the Nag Hammadi library itself has been of all but scholarly interest within mainstream...

On the one hand, it does look like Jesus is the essential Foundationist! Note how this is a direct form of the "Two Pillars of Wisdom"? :) However, on a different note, if we take it into a more proper cultural context, the question first to ask is, "who are the enemies of the Jews of the...

Ah - bob x posted this after - sorry, I didn't see it until this morning - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Because of the base-7 counting, the traditional number of days in the month was arba'im "fours" (that is, "four weeks" not shloshim "30". That is why a "vision quest" to go out in the desert...

May I state immediately that in no way whatsoever is this site intended, in whole or in part, to promote any form of organised belief system, doctrine, or similar - all of which are anathema to basic Foundationist principles. This is intended only as an information site, where open-minded people...

Papias and co. would certainly be worth consideration - I'm alerady preparing the Diatessaron of Tatian for inclusion in the Apocryphal Gospels. Considering the place of those mentioned in the development of NT canon, it would certainly be something I would look at. May have to link offsite for...