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Wednesday, August 6
Paris for Prez
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 06 Aug 2008 07:59 PM EDT
Sometimes, in times of desperate earnestness, it takes something silly to save the world. Or at least, to save America. ... more »
Saturday, July 26
Article of faith
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 26 Jul 2008 09:32 PM EDT
Over the past couple of days, I’ve read interviews or book reviews concerning two Jewish writers: Holland’s Leon De Winter ... more »
Friday, July 18
Arriving at Toronto
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 18 Jul 2008 09:21 PM EDT
I am halfway through Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City. While Turkey has never particularly fascinated me, and I’ve ... more »
Friday, July 11
Omar and Dan the Poor Taxpayer
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 11 Jul 2008 09:49 PM EDT
There are very few news sites today without a comments section. Recently, I’ve started to find this depressing. My preferred ... more »
Tuesday, July 8
Doubtful investment
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 08 Jul 2008 09:43 PM EDT
Anonymous, that prolific begetter of worlds (or at least, of online comments), suggested in a comment: “Skepth - talk to ... more »
Monday, June 30
A doorway to Tehran?
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 30 Jun 2008 09:06 PM EDT
I have seen almost nothing in mainstream media regarding the content of this StratFor report today: https://www.stratfor.com/campaign/war_iran_coming_7. In fact, ... more »
Monday, June 16
Long-sell, this day, our daily bread
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 16 Jun 2008 09:13 PM EDT
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel had an item today on the commodities business. In part, it read:
“In keeping with ... more » Saturday, June 14
The Process and Jung
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 14 Jun 2008 09:18 PM EDT
The first book by or about Carl Jung that I ever read was the illustrated Man and his Symbols. ... more »
Tuesday, June 10
Strauss, Freud and chocolate
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 10 Jun 2008 09:10 PM EDT
Vienna is a city I’ve visited three times, most recently last week. I always try to like it, and I ... more »
Saturday, May 31
Faith, atheism, phone bills
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 31 May 2008 11:14 AM EDT
Every week, it seems I come across reviews of more books on the atheism vs. faith debate. I stress the ... more »
Thursday, May 29
Zen-mind, brain chemicals and love
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Thu 29 May 2008 09:10 PM EDT
Ken Wilber is one of the more intimidating sages of our time. I’ve tried to get into his books and ... more »
Saturday, May 24
Rough Beast
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 24 May 2008 07:08 PM EDT
One of Yeats’ best known poems is The Second Coming. Online, it is one of the most commented upon, ... more »
Wednesday, May 21
Men of magic
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 21 May 2008 09:46 PM EDT
There is currently a major exhibit on the life and work of William Butler Yeats at the National Library of ... more »
Monday, April 28
Darling, you're mine
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 28 Apr 2008 10:02 PM EDT
My weekend newspaper had an article on marriage customs in Chechnya, where a traditional way of getting married is for ... more »
Friday, April 25
Repeat as necessary
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 25 Apr 2008 10:00 PM EDT
I stated a couple of days ago that I was agnostic on the topic of reincarnation. That is, over the ... more »
Monday, April 21
Reasonably unreasonable
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:25 PM EDT
Since my last post generated more comments than anything else I've posted this year, I felt moved to re-examine it. ... more »
Wednesday, April 16
Reason and Thelema
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 16 Apr 2008 09:56 PM EDT
Thelema is still a minority among minorities as sects, faiths and movements go. But because of its core concept - ... more »
Sunday, April 13
Change is stability
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 13 Apr 2008 08:28 AM EDT
Identity is a remarkably insubstantial thing. We spend enormous amounts of time bolstering whatever identities we feel we have (and ... more »
Saturday, April 12
Waiting for the January springtime
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 12 Apr 2008 11:04 AM EDT
With nine months still to go before the passing of the torch in Washington, we're all reading increasing numbers of ... more »
Sunday, April 6
Language and lies
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 06 Apr 2008 10:18 PM EDT
George Orwell began writing 1984 a year or so after C.S. Lewis published the third part of his SF trilogy, ... more »
Sunday, March 30
Earth Hour - II
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 30 Mar 2008 09:39 AM EDT
Okay, I blew it. I turned everything off bar two clocks, and went out for a walk. A lot of ... more »
Thursday, March 27
Geert's let-down
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Thu 27 Mar 2008 09:35 PM EDT
Geert, I'm disappointed. I just wasted 15 minutes watching your film, Fitna, and ... Well, what is it you ... more »
Sunday, March 23
Earth Hour
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 23 Mar 2008 07:01 PM EDT
Next Saturday, we have Earth Hour. For 60 minutes, the city of Toronto, along with other places, will extinguish many ... more »
Friday, March 21
Happy New Year
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 21 Mar 2008 08:50 AM EDT
Last evening, I happened to be at a dinner at an Ontario university. I ended up sitting with a group ... more »
Sunday, March 16
A full-time job
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 16 Mar 2008 10:31 AM EDT
Writing in a Toronto Life profile of the activist and author Naomi Klein last October, Philip Preville observed, “...democracy, once ... more »
Wednesday, March 12
Crowley in Mexico - III
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 12 Mar 2008 08:17 AM EDT
As noted previously, the Crowley of 1900-1901 still fit the notion of “callow youth,” even if he had already formed ... more »
Tuesday, March 11
Crowley in Mexico - II
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 11 Mar 2008 08:33 PM EDT
One day, Crowley tells us on the last page of Chapter 24 of his Confessions, the unnamed Indian girl who ... more »
Monday, March 10
Crowley in Mexico - I
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 10 Mar 2008 09:51 PM EDT
“Oh Mexico, my heart still throbs and burns whenever memory brings you to my mind!” Thus Aleister Crowley in his ... more »
Friday, March 7
Mountain of smoke and snow
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 07 Mar 2008 08:20 PM EST
We develop affection for mountains in idiosyncratic ways. I have always wanted to see an active volcano, so my first ... more »
Monday, March 3
Hermann's hermits
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 03 Mar 2008 08:40 PM EST
Right now, I'm listening to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. It's not my favourite music, but by mood ... more »
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