Lovely short piece by Anne Yoshiko Reed.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/7888/_muslim_gospel__revealing_the__christian_truth__excites_the_da_vinci_code_set/

Ever wonder what it's like to be the guy in the helmet who beats up protestors? I do. Here is a little peek into their lives.http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/six-turkish-

http://roarmag.org/2013/06/the-day-the-people-of-turkey-rose-up-in-pictures/

Even Strabo visited! I wonder if they played this song for the pilgrims as the sacrificial bulls suffocated under the putrid, noxious fumes of HELL ( Read more... )

I can't possibly put this one better than the article itself: "These girls have proven that Islam, sexual objectification, passion,
belief, tabloidization, manipulation, anti-Darwin and Versace can come together."http://www.dazeddigital.

( First impressions )

maybe 200 km north of where I was a little over four years ago.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/16/us-turkey-pkk-attack-idUSBRE88F03O20120916

wonderful article, this one

http://lacunamag.org/2011/07/elvis-bego-the-strange-beauty-of-an-old-bosnian-song/

and a wonderful song:

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Now this is great great stuff.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Classic-Movies-in-Miniature-Style/4455311

My favorites are "Pulp Fiction" and "The Shining."

Her book on negative theology in the Neoplatonic tradition (The Unknown God) is one of the first monographs I read on the subject, and helped me fall in love with Neoplatonic mysticism. I was 19 years old. She has spent the last 35-odd years working in Uganda, developing a Western university in the "Dark Continent" and asking herself how to apply ( Read more... )