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I uploaded a free e-book preview of a book of short stories that I'll be publishing later in the year. There are five stories, mostly in the horror genre, although one is more of a fantasy, and there are arguably fantasy elements in all five. I've been working on these stories for a while and...

Anyone else come across this yet? I find it refreshing: RNS Feature: "For `Possibilians,’ afterlife is one big possibility" “It’s not being an agnostic, which I find to be a weak term,” explained Eagleman, 38, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “Agnosticism is not knowing...

"We had time for everything..." I almost posted this in the politics forum, but I think it can easily go here as well, especially given the long spans of time that Means talks about, and the references he makes to the Mayan and Aztec calendars. "Patriarchy is a fear-based system. Totally...

This is a book that I picked up a half-year ago and knew that I wanted to read, although I also knew that I didn't want to read it, because I knew it would make me feel mad and blue, and so for a long time I just let it sit on a shelf with a bunch of other books that I am planning on reading...

Check it out: the politics forum thread count is 666 as I am posting this. Please leave comments and conspiracy theories in this thread. :D

What with the previously expressed interest in demons by various folks on this site, I thought some of us may want to take this simple test to find out our risk level for demonic oppression/possession. Do you have a demon? Find out from 21 questions Luckily, I am low risk. I scored a 20. Can...

I picked this up at the video store the other day based solely on the write-up on the back, something along the lines of: "Think Trainspotting played for laughs." This movie did not disappoint! It has everything: drug addiction, desperation, hallucinations, death, the accidental raising of the...

demon definition | Dictionary.com Interestingly enough, the word demon has some roots in the Greek "daimon" or "daemon." In dictionaries, the word is also associated with "genius," which is associated with "jinn," "djinn," and "genie." I have it from c0de in another thread on these forums...

Comic relief. :) :D I'm Not One Of Those 'Love Thy Neighbor' Christians | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

I thought some people here might be interested in this article. It might even generate some discussion about prehistoric religious tendencies. Who knows? :) Gobekli Tepe: The World?s First Temple? | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in...

This video is truly frightening to me. And I'm not just talking about the Guns-N-Roses intro. This Jim kid just totally goes apesh-- hilarious flipside KeeeRaaYzEEE lala land of colorful sprockets stoned. I got the drug heebeejeebies just watching him, with his mom or friend or whoever just...

You may have already seen this. If so, you may want to see it again. If you haven't seen it, may I recommend it? :) YouTube - Music and Life - Alan Watts

From the politics board: Guilt, collective or individual, when carried to excess, is unhealthy. With this I agree. I think that guilt can be a functional emotion, though. If someone feels guilty, that should be an indication that perhaps something is wrong. Within the Buddhist tradition...

YouTube - Religulous Trailer - www.LennonAldort.com I went to see this one Saturday night. Bill Maher is funny. The movie did make me laugh a lot, and I agree with Maher to a point. I think his agenda with this movie is a bit too dogmatic, though, especially seeing as how the film comes out of...

No Smoke Without Fire: Elephant In The Room I just spent a portion of the morning watching this documentary about 9/11. It covers the "truth movement" to further investigate 9/11 as well as the declining health of first responders. Very sad, very unsettling.

What a sweeping, erudite, insightful consideration of the advance of western civilization and its infection of and outright assault on traditional, nature-rooted cultures from the Middle-East to the New World. This book is nothing less monumental than an account of the relentless desertification...

Glendenning, a psychologist, connects the pervasive maladies--she rightly calls them traumas--of Western Civilization with the ecological movement by framing civilization as we have come to know it as a pathological system tensely pitted against the ease of the natural world. Joining personal...

It is indeed a sad day. Much less funny today than it was yesterday, when Carlin was still alive. Dammit. George Carlin Dies at 71 « Virtualmystic

I am not an angry girl But it seems like I've got everyone fooled Every time I say something they find hard to hear They chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear And imagine you're a girl Just trying to finally come clean Knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty And smiling...

Thought I'd try to get another one of these fun things going. The original is here, if you want to take a look. Let's have a glance at the directions again, shall we? I would add this time a meek request that people keep their posts to a sentence or two at a time. It helps make things...