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Uh-uh, don't I know it! I kinda compare it to being a straight alcoholic when you're 'off cigarettes'. When I wasn't smoking (the longest period was some 2 1/2 years), I always thought of myself as a smoker, anyway. I just wasn't smoking at that time. Why would anyone want to give up sex? ;) I...

Hmmm..., This is sort of the textbook description of the 'problem' that I have. I seem to have developed a deep and heartfelt aversion towards dogma and kerygma and doctrine and whatnot. Whenever I encounter rituals, ordinances, edicts, directives, indoctrinations, regulations, prescripts...

Whoa, 30 minutes ago I snuffed my (hopefully) last cigarette, and then I noticed this thread!! Coincidence? Probably, yeah. I've "quit" many times before, stayed off for a couple of years, but always decided to start again. Weirdly, it's always been a conscious decision on my behalf, it's never...

Sorry for the late reply, PNG. The G is pretty hard to come by, tell you the truth. As ya can tell from the titles, it's not the stuff you can find at your local Wal-Mart. I located 'Tokyo A*** Dynamite' after three years o' searching. Well worth the wait, tho. Catastrophically, horribly...

It's hard to name the best, but some good ones are 'Tetsuo - The Ironman' (Shinya Tsykamoto rules! Everything he does rocks!) and 'The Begotten'. Sometimes the big names manage to pull off a good one, as well. Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' is pretty good. Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' is ok...

I guess you're not the only, dear. I do have a penchant for somewhat... hmm ...obnoxious muzak, as well. I guess you're familiar w/ The Gerogerigegege? Yes, it IS spelled that way.

Unfortunately I haven't. How do his writings relate, and what title would you recommend? JC

Ohh, what a thread topic..! I hope that we can experience a backlash 'gainst the prefab bands in the near future. After all, we all remember grunge, donwe? I, for one, felt an enormous relief the second the hairfarming bands of yore were all but forgotten when the cleansing effect of the ripped...

Err... ...no. I am not trying to debate the divinity of Jesus, in the traditionally Arian sense of a subservient Jesus or a divided divinity. Nor am I discrediting the Nicean tradition, w/ the church being holy and all. I am only trying to point to the initial message of the nazarean...

Thank you for the hello, Brian. The thing I had in mind about the original Jesus is a bit difficult to articulate. The Nicene Creed, for instance, only takes into account the supernatural birth and death of Jesus, but totally disregards the life and times of the person, and further, places the...

I have as of late begun to see our understanding of 'the divine' as our spiritual endeavour manifest. In this context, it really doesn't matter if we have a theistic POV or a non-theistic one. Seemingly the all-encompassing, mystical awe is the one thing we all share. What names and shrouds we...

Peace all, O' most noble thinkers, I greet thee. Being a new member on this a-here forum, I thought I'd start off w/ a thread. That's the usual code of conduct, no? [Smiley.] The synopsis: The vast majority of information that we have on the central figure in christianity, ie Jesus, stems...