Okay, does all good Fantasy combine Christianity and Thelema? First I see this in Diane Duane. Now I re-read Seventh Son and find Taleswapper almost quoting The Vision and the Voice. And calling it a prophecy!

I obscured one point in my last post that I want to clarify, since it has implications for meditation ( Read more... )

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Janus Auditorium, Hodge UniversityHello and welcome to History of the Reality Wars 101. You can call me Thaddeus or Mr. Zeal. I see that as usual, we have a wide variety of life-forms in this class. Some of you will find much of the material familiar, especially in this first lesson. I apologize for this and ask you to bear with me. Please hold ( Read more... )

Looks like someone actually wants to hear about Kabbalah. The following comes mainly from pagan sources, so orthodox kabbalists may disagree vehemently. (Personally, I see religious theft as an ancient and honorable tradition, practiced by the Hebrews themselves ( Read more... )

Humanity has broken the sphere of the moon ( Read more... )

Life Is Not A Debate.

If you screw up, proving that your opponent has also made a mistake doesn't get you points on some heavenly scoreboard. You still screwed up. And if the issue matters, you still have the duty to fix your mistake.

English law seems to require that all writers 'prove' Jesus would agree with them.* But in fact, as one such writer admitted, we do not know what Jesus taught. We do not even know for sure that a man by that name taught at the time in question. It seems possible, looking at the earliest Christian documents we have, that Paul meant something else ( Read more... )

A lot of people seem upset about the claim that morality "is subjective". Well, if you think you have an objectively true morality, let's see an objective proof. Make sure you don't use any assumptions! You know that someone can always object to whatever you assume ( Read more... )

After reading my last two posts, some people may ask how I can morally condemn rape and murder. I may not commit these crimes myself, the thinking goes, but other people who adopt my principles might. What would stop them ( Read more... )