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Friday, November 20
Trash talk
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 20 Nov 2009 08:59 PM EST
Counting the number of critical columns and blog entries on Huffington Post yesterday and today about Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue... more »
Saturday, November 7
Minitrue
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 07 Nov 2009 09:00 PM EST
The historian Anthony Beevor has a new book out, called simply, D-Day. The book, going by reviews, is a ... more »
Sunday, November 1
Why do people join cults?
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 01 Nov 2009 04:08 PM EST
Satisfyingly, there have been a number of online reviews now of Love Sex Fear Death. While most are at ... more »
Sunday, October 18
A lesser Beast
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 18 Oct 2009 08:38 PM EDT
Sometimes, you can buy or download a book with a high anticipation that’s only matched by the comedown produced in ... more »
Friday, October 16
They was us
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:59 AM EDT
Yesterday’s post about promoting Love Sex Fear Death observed that, "Had The Process and its successor groups, The Foundation Faith ... more »
Thursday, October 15
Shameless promotion time
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Thu 15 Oct 2009 08:52 PM EDT
Promoting the book Love Sex Fear Death is obviously a labour of love for its publisher Feral House. http://feralhouse.com/titles/new_releases/love_sex_fear_death_the_inside_story_of_the_process_church_of_the_final_judgment.php. ... more »
Wednesday, October 14
The sky of unknowing
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 14 Oct 2009 01:57 PM EDT
Having spent part of today – wasted, my employer might say – on looking at reviews of the work of ... more »
Tuesday, October 6
Boats, currents, ritual
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 06 Oct 2009 10:12 PM EDT
You can’t go back, they always tell me. But then there’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, with his oh-so-quoted line about “boats ... more »
Tuesday, September 29
Out there
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 29 Sep 2009 09:01 PM EDT
The end of democracy has been in vogue recently. I don’t mean in Islamist circles, where the blasphemy of replacing ... more »
Wednesday, September 16
Waiting on Netanyahu
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 16 Sep 2009 08:29 PM EDT
For now, Iran is off the radar. Ayatollah Khamenei seems to have made whatever deals he needs to secure his ... more »
Danish furore
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 16 Sep 2009 12:40 PM EDT
Denmark is not a country I have visited. It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it peninsula of a country as you fly into northern ... more »
Friday, August 28
Closed circles
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 28 Aug 2009 10:22 PM EDT
The headlines this week about the kidnapping and confinement of Jaycee Lee Dugard have underlined created huge amounts of comment. ... more »
Wednesday, August 26
Amir Taheri on Iran
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 26 Aug 2009 08:53 PM EDT
The situation in Iran remains both tense and fluid, and discerning which faction(s) are on top is difficult. The Islamic ... more »
Saturday, August 22
Love Sex Fear Death
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 22 Aug 2009 09:56 PM EDT
My reviewing the book Love Sex Fear Death at http://www.feralhouse.com is inappropriate, since (a) the primary author, Timothy Wyllie, is ... more »
Monday, August 10
Endless denunciation
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 10 Aug 2009 10:02 PM EDT
There’s not much that can be said about Charles Manson that isn’t repetition of the thousand-and-one previous denunciations. Even writing ... more »
Saturday, August 8
Fortunate son
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 08 Aug 2009 04:00 PM EDT
Julian Borger’s article on the second son of Ayatollah Khamenei in The Guardian a month ago drew little interest at ... more »
Sunday, August 2
Great unwisdom
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 02 Aug 2009 10:18 PM EDT
“The need (or craving) for transcendence may well be a great unwisdom, but without it we tend to become mere ... more »
Wednesday, July 29
Inescapable faces
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 29 Jul 2009 02:34 PM EDT
The case of Taraneh Mousavi (whose picture I posted today) is an intriguing if grisly one. Unlike Neda Agha-Soltan, whose ... more »
Tuesday, July 28
A god of high places
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 28 Jul 2009 09:18 PM EDT
Previous posts here have quoted Harold Bloom’s marvellous 2005 book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. Bloom, insisting he ... more »
Monday, July 27
And on the other, other hand
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 27 Jul 2009 02:26 PM EDT
Commenting on what has happened in Iran since my last post on the topic isn’t easy. The whole governmental system ... more »
Tuesday, July 14
An ancient divide
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 14 Jul 2009 09:26 PM EDT
Re-reading Vali Nasr’s 2006 book The Shia Revival, I’m struck by how the Saudis were able to fence in ... more » Sunday, July 12
Watching from far away
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 12 Jul 2009 09:29 PM EDT
Salam, Every time I email you now, I am concerned that someone will read what I write, and will make ... more » Monday, June 29
The main man
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 29 Jun 2009 09:55 PM EDT
Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani smiles a lot, but then the richest man in Iran – and, it’s often said, the country’s ... more »
Saturday, June 27
Loneliness in Iran
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 27 Jun 2009 04:37 PM EDT
One factor about the Iranian situation that is hard for us to grasp is the isolation from the outer world ... more »
Saturday, June 20
Ebrahim Yazdi's view
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 20 Jun 2009 08:16 PM EDT
There is a good analysis of the situation in the higher levels of the administration in Iran at www.asharq-e.com. ... more »
Friday, June 19
The unwanted revolution
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 19 Jun 2009 09:53 AM EDT
Our entire appreciation of what has happened in Iran in the past week is skewed, and we don’t know by ... more » Tuesday, June 16
Our reforms will be better than your reforms
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 16 Jun 2009 07:16 PM EDT
Today I read that believing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad genuinely won re-election in Iran places me among right-wingers. I’ve never been here ... more »
Monday, June 15
Monday evening quarterbacking
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 15 Jun 2009 08:15 PM EDT
The riots in Tehran and other Iranian cities are continuing as I write, but I seriously doubt if they will ... more »
Saturday, June 13
The potato-based swindle?
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 13 Jun 2009 05:40 PM EDT
Hossein thinks it was just a ludicrous swindle. Mind you, Hossein (who cuts my hair once a month) is an ... more »
History is so, like, yesterday... and today
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 13 Jun 2009 11:41 AM EDT
History is back. Remember history? Sure you do.
Two things started it. One was all the talk about 2008 being ... more » Tuesday, June 9
Waiting for Mousavi
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 09 Jun 2009 10:04 PM EDT
This Friday, Iran selects a new president and thus a new government. Western news media are gearing up for this, ... more »
Sunday, June 7
Stellar conditions
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 07 Jun 2009 01:35 PM EDT
The previous post referred to astrology, which is one of my most reluctant interests. I have scorned it most of ... more »
The enlightenment grind
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 07 Jun 2009 10:46 AM EDT
So-called spiritual practices are a mouse-click or two away from us today, and any fair-sized city offers a selection of ... more »
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