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alobar November 13 2009, 23:21:10 UTC
Well, I sure ain't gonna be beholden to some masochistic god who wants me to swear fealty to him!

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aethyrflux November 19 2009, 12:37:13 UTC
...even one who takes only slightly under 700 years to publicly admit wrongdoing (and then only thanks to an expose by an investigative historian!)?

fwiw, a rough translation of the chinon parchment is available online, and here's a graphic of the original document @ the vatican secret archives.

although we now have easy access to documents such as this, they amount to little more than smoke & mirrors masking the ultimate truth... only a fool would enforce an authority that eats its own!

when will people tire of resurrecting the dead god and celebrate the divine within their own human lives?

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alobar November 19 2009, 12:42:59 UTC
> when will people tire of resurrecting the dead god

When they figure out the answer to the question,
"In times of difficulty and danger in whom do you place your trust?"

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aethyrflux November 19 2009, 21:55:22 UTC
I must admit that for much of my life, my first impulses would be to answer possibly, "only myself," maybe "my lovers," or perhaps even, "our community."

But to quote Pope Pete's PRINCIPIA CHAOTICA, "The first stage of seeing through the game can be a shocking enlightenment that leads either to a weary cynicism or Buddhism. The second stage of actually applying the insight to oneself can destroy the illusion of the soul and create a magician."

So today, the first answer that came to my mind was, "Ordo Ab Chao!"

Rather than sinking into a depression, as I have often been inclined towards during the Fall & Winter... lately, I have been returning to a rather profound fascination with the evolution of information structures throughout the Cosmos... what better time to challenge myself with a leap across the abyssMy general perspective on things comes from a basis of information theory ( ... )

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