robincdouglas.bsky.social
Historian of religions, paganism and esotericism.
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Yes, very much so. It's taking a traditional religion - which was always totalising in theory but not really in practice - and putting it in the framework of modern state power. What you get there is something like nacionalcatolicismo.
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Yes, I'm hoping we can blame this one on the French.
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I think I addressed that in the piece. We can see "religion" as the intersection of several overlapping things, including belief, observance and identity.
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Thank you sah.
I am a whale on the discernible anti-ontological trend. I eat it for breakfast.
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Beat me to it. I naturally assumed you were talking about the Waldensians.
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My dad copped a lot of smacks in the 60s. He got one from the rabbi at his Yeshiva on the first day of school when he was asked if he knew how to pray and he started the Our Father since that summer only Catholic camps took 4 year-olds and my grandma worked.
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Have you heard of Plethon?
If so, it's not him.
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"They are irrational because the primary urge which drives the initiate into action is love; irrational love for an aspect of the divine and for a complete and ecstatic union with this aspect of the divine."
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The campest event in London.
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Look at what the "Political" news was in London on 31 July 1914.
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Thanks for this.
I seem to remember that the kind of fantasies that later came to be known as "recovered memories" were already known to Freud, but I don't have a reference for that.
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cc @edwardw2.bsky.social
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Actually feel a bit sorry for Peterson here. No one is a more terrifying debater than a 21-year-old who studied the blade in r/atheism. The second guy has asked him why he doesn't believe in the Polynesian deity Lono.
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Yet the commenters continue to argue!
To me, this is a fascinating example of historical research being done, and tested, in real time.
It simply wouldn't have been possible before the internet.
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Anyway, the commenters on the blog are trying to work out whether it really happened.
Then Cook's son turns up.
He talks to his father and searches his old diaries. The encounter happened, on 30 October 1983.
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Yet public information showed that Jagger had been in Mexico at around the right time.
And why would Cook make up a story about a specific public figure which could easily be discredited?
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Cook later started to tell the anecdote as a faith-promoting story.
When contacted, Jagger's publicist flatly denied the account.
And wouldn't Jagger have chartered a plane, or at least have been surrounded by an entourage?
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Over a series of drinks, Jagger put forward an essentially amoral view of the world, and at one point said: "Our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex."
This sounds very much like Jagger deliberately winding up a religious official to amuse himself on a dull flight.
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Wenn das der Führer wüsste....
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Substack audio: religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/crowley-th...
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNey...
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Yes, I think they still in theory have it.
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The potter's freedom......
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The fcking expression on his face. Like it's the most natural thing in the world.
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Remember, God does not hate these people, he just feels sorry for them.
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There's a scene in The Crown where an Anglican cleric is wearing a fiddleback chasuble THE WRONG WAY ROUND.