robincdouglas.bsky.social
Historian of religions, paganism and esotericism.
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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.
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Typical Modernist who thinks everything is about "love". I bet he concelebrated too, and said "for all".
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Ah well, we have psychiatrists for that now. An interesting combination of the Viennese Catholic and Jewish experience.
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"Now this baptism scene is an absolute horror."
"Yes, I agree, I think the director is trying to...."
"Father is vested in a stole, Novus Ordo style, and Michael does not even drop a polite hint that he has forgotten his chasuble."
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"A Trad Watches The Godfather" would be a great Youtube video.
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Should Cardinal Lamberto have absolved Michael Corleone?
He explicitly acknowledged that Michael had no purpose of amendment.
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Ok Cornelius.
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Oh well played, sir.
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Perhaps in the mould of Timothy Radcliffe, the only Master General of the Dominicans who said that the eucharist is a bit like gay sex when you think about it.
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Ha ha, I've probably said that I once wanted to be a Dominican friar.
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Ah, but the granddad is a nice old guy who is strong in his own faith and arguably shows signs of being contrite. Lehmkuhl thought that the grandson should try leading him in an act of contrition.