Dammit, library, where are all the interesting books? Nothing by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, and very little about him; most of the few Christopher Knight and Alan Butler books in the system have vanished; the one subject I want to read of Dr. Wilhelm Reich’s (orgone research) they don’t have… frankly, I’m surprised they have all three Cosmic Trigger ( Read more... )

My favorite author, currently, is Robert Anton Wilson. I have been (in my free time) reading everything of his I can find. His writing has given me so many insights, and I highly recommend all of his writings.

However, I don't believe everything he says any more than I do anyone else (which I'm sure he'd be thrilled to hear). There are1 a couple ( Read more... )

"It has often been said by scholars that devils are "fallen" gods, or deities men no longer worship. But then, are not gods simply devils men choose to worship? Could it be that Yahweh and Allah are simply more "politically correct" devils than Astaroth and Beelzebub? The followers of every religion have been condemned ( Read more... )

I have "Beyond Good and Evil" from the library now. So I shall soon be seeing what Nietzsche is all about.

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I'm planning on reading "Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche. Nietzsche is controversial even among those who would agree with him, because his sister and a friend of hers added anti-semitic crap to his writings against his will. But he absolutely hated bigots, especially anti-semites. In fact, he seems to have admired the Jews quite a lot for being ( Read more... )

I just started - and finished - Marilyn Manson's autobiography, "The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell", all in one day. It's almost 300 pages long, and I read it all in one day. I almost never do that with nonfiction, but it read so much like some work of experimental fiction that was a bit hard to believe, but all the time I was like "this was his real ( Read more... )