Aleister Crowley, "the wickedest man in the world," was ages ahead of the eras of Bush and Trump when he wrote, ""Democracy dodders. Ferocious Fascism, cackling Communism, equally frauds, cavort crazily all over the globe. They are hemming us in. They are abortive births of the Child, the New Aeon of Horus. Liberty stirs once more in the womb of ( Read more... )

I have suggested elsewhere before, I'm afraid that what has happened has caused a large swath of our population to need something akin to what we have called deprogramming, when we used it to refer to someone manipulated by a religious cult. Maybe it would not be good to use that precise term here, but it seems that powerful interests have indeed ( Read more... )

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Here it is.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. Philippians 2:3

When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James 4:10So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the ( Read more... )

Transcendence: It has to do with exceeding, and with normal limits. "Transcendent" is an adjective that Camille Paglia, and possibly others, see as often a decidedly masculine trait, as opposed to the down-to-earth, chthonic feminine (I should note she is not talking biological gender here: male and female identities can have different ( Read more... )

First of all, the requisite SPOILERS SPACE before the text of my post, because echoing to Facebook produces a summary post that does not respect my LJ Cut tags ( Read more... )

Fascinating: Rather than targeting a foreign country's voting machines, you target the voters themselves. Rather than manipulating voting tallies after the votes are cast, you manipulate minds with misinformation and thus manipulate many individual decisions of whom to try to elect. Since that country's own social structures, be they industries, ( Read more... )

Ideas for Movie Scenes That Didn't Make It As Is ( Read more... )

The problem I see with Christian groups trying to build social consensus for a theocratic government, or at least for recognition of a Christian basis for our Constitutional government, is one of influence: Who is pushing the leaders of the Religious Right to push the populace to think of their faith and our government as needing to interact in ( Read more... )