The Hall of Fire

I threw that out because I think of the Silmarillion events as happening in that way. The text seems to indicate a battle of the gods with vast armies of elves/lesser angels attending. Dragons and demons are defeated. Afterward there are a number of events (final treachery of Fëanor's sons) and many...

It could be both/and: Here's my educated take: Look up Doggerland. Through the long ice ages, Europe was bigger. The North Sea was a plain, there was a big island precisely where Plato says Atlantis was. Very much in the same configuration as well. (Funny how 70s Atlantis enthusiasts always wanted i...

Ah. Not to mention the last words of the Mass. Yes! But not for most of Tolkien's life -- and he didn't approve of the changes. Vatican II was all about taking the mystique out of the religion. Which is surrendering to reductionist materialism. I'm a thorogoing heathen but I appreciate TradCath and...

I'm interested in the implications of Joseph Atwill's theory about the origins of Christianity in the Flavian dynastic house and its use as a social engineering system. I'm not sure Christianity falls apart if Jesus was not a real person. The Gnostic gospels speak of a Jesus who is a sort of Tulpa. ...

I tend toward an animist perspective, as it makes sense of a range of phenomenon institutional science brusquely dismisses. Science is a tool not a meta theory.

Terence McKenna had some very interesting ideas about this topic. Evolution and science are not incompatible with disembodied, egregorial entelechies.

"Take off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie and featuring Geddy Lee must surely be included.

She was a neighbor of mine for a time in Portland. I used to stand in line at the grocer's or the post office with her.

The entire US ruling class, not to mention that of the UK has been in bed with gangsters and robber barons in Russia since the1990s. Putin is demonized because he refused to acquiesce in the agenda of the Atlantic Council (like the CFR, a direct lineal descendant of the Rhodes-Milner 'Roundtable'). ...

Not a contrarian by nature, but in terms of whose interests are served, the White Helmets are a most likely a propaganda operation perpetrated by Gulf States an abetted by British Intelligence, both of which have taken an interest in overthrowing the central government.

I Watched Zardoz again. The line "I have seen the future. And it doesn't work" really resonates.

It's a very interesting question. I took the time to read through the speech several times lately.

Most of the furore regarding intelligent design as a concept that ought to be taught is that western society is still in reaction against the deism that was popular in the Englightenment. Which became compulsory by Victorian times. This is why Egyptology, for example is so blinkered and hidebound. I...