Apocalyptic prophecies, as well as religion in general, easily garner an eye-roll from most everyone. What we see on the surface is an extravagant threat made to cow non-believers into fear of eternal damnation, or slaughter at the hands of forces above themselves; a desperate attempt to accrue validity to an ideology. Growing up, it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tradition’
The Neo-Neighborhood (Minus Culture)
Boston, and New England in general, has a lot to be proud of as it relates to early American history. Massachusetts housed one of the first settlements of what would become colonial America in Plymouth Plantation, and some of this country’s early, civil libertarian leaders and even Presidents came from Massachusetts. This nation was chock [...]
The war against all but the material
How might most of us experience the effects of the mind on the body?
In an average week you probably experience numerous examples of how what’s going on around you affects your subjective health. Most people instinctively know that when bad things happen, they affect your body. You can’t sleep, you feel anxious, you’ve got butterflies [...]
Whole behaviors strengthen families
I talk a lot here about the organic society and the idea of whole logic.
Modern logic, or rationalism, takes a single factor of many and lets it stand for the whole situation.
It’s derived from the populist religious/consumer tendency to assign good or a dollar value to any item in an absolute, universal context.
For example, “Turnips [...]
Europe’s far-right rotation
I passed through Stoke-on-Trent, where the BNP has won 29 council seats out of sixty, and the Labour Party is down to sixteen. A senior member of the party in the Potteries told me the party mechanisms have “collapsed”; “If you want your drains fixed you go to the BNP,” they said.
BBC
As our society gets [...]
Grow up about sexuality already
Typical sleight of hand — they project what they’re thinking, imply a negative judgment, but never say it so they can’t be criticized:
MALE science students are a university’s most likely virgins while females who study arts subjects are the most sexually active, Australian researchers say.
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It found arts students were “younger, more likely to [...]
Transcendental Christians versus symbolist Christians
Scanning around the web for death metal-related information (a favorite passtime) I found some Christian folks who seemed rather irate about death metal. Although I started life as a radical Christian hater, I now view Christianity as one means through which philosophies can be expressed. Specifically, if we express Romanticism — transcendental naturalistic idealism with [...]
Osama bin Laden: warrior against modernity
I don’t agree with him attacking the USA, but I can see how from where he’s standing we seem like the warriors OF modernity, bringing Coca-Cola, strip clubs, toxic waste pollution and mindless lifestyles to his homeland.
And Thomas got close enough to bin Laden to observe the al-Qaeda leader was polite and shy, didn’t mind [...]
Arranged marriages: not evil after all?
Seth, now 32, is happily married with a two-year-old son, and has become an advocate of the principles of arranged marriage, which she suggests her own experience reflects. This does not mean that she supports the kind of marriage in which the parties are left without choice about whom they marry. Rather she believes that [...]
Polarizing views of gun control miss the point
The gun-control activist whose provocative billboards have been turning heads along the Massachusetts Turnpike for 13 years today will unveil one of his most eye-popping messages yet – a fake neon advertisement for American gun shows where people can buy weapons, no questions asked.
“Gun shows are the equivalent of Al Qaeda terrorists walking directly onto [...]