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Iran's pre-Islamic Persian fire festival draws new interest from nation's Muslims

Also Happy Imbolc, Candlemas, Sadeh, Fire Festival, et cetera.


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Yaakov's Lament - Tatsuma's Blog closely following the Iranian situation.

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On a quick note Year One isn't as bad as most of the critics say - it's just a very mediocre movie - the jokes aren't that funny and they seem to run out of most of their material about half way though the movie ( Read more... )

LOL!, I was just showing zotquix the Online Jain Snakes and Ladders game while talking about the Tibetan game Rebirth and it's history... While not paying attention I seem to have reached Moksha in about four moves by continually hitting ladders. LOL! And I had been talking about the large number of snakes with the point of it taking a while as the point ( Read more... )

Statement from Grand Ayatollah Husayn Ali Montazeri

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Iran is not your modern open developed nation with gigabit links coming out of its ears. It does not have unlimited transit, and it is likely that all its transit it through one or two carriers. If these links are overwhelmed by armchair protesters DDOSing the website, then Internet ( Read more... )

Well I missed the inauguration (I'm sure it will be available online later) because I had a long rest after about four days of near constant work. Had several dreams (One that stuck out in my mind was a long census I was asked to fill out) also had an interesting few days but more on that stuff later ( Read more... )

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has blamed Iran for spreading the theory that Israel was behind the 11 September 2001 attacks. In an audio tape posted on the internet, Zawahiri insisted al-Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the US. He accused Iran, and its Hezbollah allies, of trying to discredit Osama Bin Laden's network. ... "Iran' ( Read more... )

Iranians outraged over '300,' calling it an insult to ancient Persia

Still, it touched a sensitive nerve. Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the United States tries to "humiliate" Iran in order to reverse historical reality and "compensate for its wrongdoings in order to provoke American soldiers and ( Read more... )

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Appearing on a live webcast, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop began the painful task Wednesday of persuading members to roll back their support for gays - at least for now - so the denomination can keep its place in the world Anglican fellowship.

Episcopal Head Seeks Gay CompromiseAlso a good article with some points to ponder ( Read more... )

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Persians and their closest neighbors, with long memories of great civilizations, were never comfortable with the crudeness of Arabian Islam, which the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss aptly called "a barracks religion ( Read more... )