Religion
Why the Bible Is Magic
People make religion nowadays into this big awful nasty sinister thing created merely to oppress and destroy and squash the human spirit. But almost nobody talks about how it is first and foremost an expression of JOY of the BEAUTY and COMPLEXITY of the human condition.
Because goddamn Are we ever complicated and screwy I mean, I don’t know if you’ve been looking around much or at yourself but shit. This stuff’s pretty hard to figure it out. May as well find things that are beautiful and meaningful to you if you can’t find some kind of final absolute answer, right? I mean, it’s either that or unending existential dread. But even that is a reflection of a kind of beauty. The beauty of melancholy, of being forlorn and dejected and of late night panic attacks and drug binges.
Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent?
Very interesting article that makes a good case for the notion that Timothy Leary was actually working for the CIA.
While this article seems to make the assertion that if he wasn’t working directly for the CIA he at least was in part funded and supported by them.
Summer-bachelor Jack Kennedy stands on the Harry Truman balcony overlooking the rose-garden fountain, a soothing sight before him: prisms of lighted water shooting into darkness, the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue. He begins to feel a deep-seated goodness within, centered between his chest and throat. From the bedroom behind him, through white chiffon curtains in open french doors, float the chords of a Sinatra song — “All I Need is the Girl.” With strange clarity, JFK can suddenly make out every note…
Behind the curtains moves the shadow of a tall woman who is not his wife. She is deeply connected to CIA, and has just dispensed to the President of the United States a dose of LSD. In the next few hours she will be “brainwashing” him, and she will be doing so on the directions of a Harvard psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary, whose colleagues are all taking CIA money, and who has himself designed a personality test used by CIA….
Link: Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent?
The Big Religion Comparison Chart: Compare World Religions
Here is a handy little guide to all the worlds religions. But remember whichever religion you choose you become an atheist to all those other gods !
The ReligionFacts “Big Religion Chart” is an attempt to summarize all the complexities of religions and belief systems into tiny little boxes on a single, quick-reference comparison chart. Yes, this is impossible. As we always warn with our comparison charts, this is no substitute for reading about religions in greater detail, talking with religious adherents, etc. But this religion comparison chart can (hopefully) be a useful and accessible way to “get the gist” of some unfamiliar groups and compare basic beliefs and practices of the world’s religions and belief systems.
Link: The Big Religion Comparison Chart: Compare World Religions
