skepticaltheurgist

Heeding Father Jacobus

skepticaltheurgist — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:29:00 -0400

“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious ...

Shirin Ebadi and the Baha'is

skepticaltheurgist — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:38:00 -0400

The Nobel prizewinner Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer from Iran who challenged the Islamic Republic on its own turf, is in ...

Thoughts I liked

skepticaltheurgist — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:28:00 -0400

Here's a selection of quotes I've picked up over the past few months that I thought were worth saving and ...

Paris for Prez

skepticaltheurgist — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:59:00 -0400

Sometimes, in times of desperate earnestness, it takes something silly to save the world. Or at least, to save America. ...

Article of faith

skepticaltheurgist — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:32:00 -0400

Over the past couple of days, I’ve read interviews or book reviews concerning two Jewish writers: Holland’s Leon De Winter ...

Arriving at Toronto

skepticaltheurgist — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:21:00 -0400

I am halfway through Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City. While Turkey has never particularly fascinated me, and I’ve ...

Omar and Dan the Poor Taxpayer

skepticaltheurgist — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:49:00 -0400

There are very few news sites today without a comments section. Recently, I’ve started to find this depressing. My preferred ...

Doubtful investment

skepticaltheurgist — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:43:00 -0400

Anonymous, that prolific begetter of worlds (or at least, of online comments), suggested in a comment: “Skepth - talk to ...

A doorway to Tehran?

skepticaltheurgist — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:06:00 -0400

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, ...

Long-sell, this day, our daily bread

skepticaltheurgist — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:13:00 -0400

The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel had an item today on the commodities business. In part, it read:

“In keeping with ...

The Process and Jung

skepticaltheurgist — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:18:00 -0400

The first book by or about Carl Jung that I ever read was the illustrated Man and his Symbols. ...

Strauss, Freud and chocolate

skepticaltheurgist — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:10:00 -0400

Vienna is a city I’ve visited three times, most recently last week. I always try to like it, and I ...

Faith, atheism, phone bills

skepticaltheurgist — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:14:00 -0400

Every week, it seems I come across reviews of more books on the atheism vs. faith debate. I stress the ...

Zen-mind, brain chemicals and love

skepticaltheurgist — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:10:00 -0400

Ken Wilber is one of the more intimidating sages of our time. I’ve tried to get into his books and ...

Rough Beast

skepticaltheurgist — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:08:00 -0400

One of Yeats’ best known poems is The Second Coming. Online, it is one of the most commented upon, ...

Men of magic

skepticaltheurgist — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:46:00 -0400

There is currently a major exhibit on the life and work of William Butler Yeats at the National Library of ...

Darling, you're mine

skepticaltheurgist — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:02:00 -0400

My weekend newspaper had an article on marriage customs in Chechnya, where a traditional way of getting married is for ...

Repeat as necessary

skepticaltheurgist — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:00:00 -0400

I stated a couple of days ago that I was agnostic on the topic of reincarnation. That is, over the ...

Reasonably unreasonable

skepticaltheurgist — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:25:00 -0400

Since my last post generated more comments than anything else I've posted this year, I felt moved to re-examine it. ...

Reason and Thelema

skepticaltheurgist — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:56:00 -0400

Thelema is still a minority among minorities as sects, faiths and movements go. But because of its core concept - ...

Change is stability

skepticaltheurgist — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:28:00 -0400

Identity is a remarkably insubstantial thing. We spend enormous amounts of time bolstering whatever identities we feel we have (and ...

Waiting for the January springtime

skepticaltheurgist — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:04:00 -0400

With nine months still to go before the passing of the torch in Washington, we're all reading increasing numbers of ...

Language and lies

skepticaltheurgist — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:18:00 -0400

George Orwell began writing 1984 a year or so after C.S. Lewis published the third part of his SF trilogy, ...

Earth Hour - II

skepticaltheurgist — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:39:00 -0400

Okay, I blew it. I turned everything off bar two clocks, and went out for a walk. A lot of ...

Geert's let-down

skepticaltheurgist — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:35:00 -0400

Geert, I'm disappointed. I just wasted 15 minutes watching your film, Fitna, and ... Well, what is it you ...

Earth Hour

skepticaltheurgist — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:01:00 -0400

Next Saturday, we have Earth Hour. For 60 minutes, the city of Toronto, along with other places, will extinguish many ...

Happy New Year

skepticaltheurgist — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:50:00 -0400

Last evening, I happened to be at a dinner at an Ontario university. I ended up sitting with a group ...

A full-time job

skepticaltheurgist — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:31:00 -0400

Writing in a Toronto Life profile of the activist and author Naomi Klein last October, Philip Preville observed, “...democracy, once ...

Crowley in Mexico - III

skepticaltheurgist — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:17:00 -0400

As noted previously, the Crowley of 1900-1901 still fit the notion of “callow youth,” even if he had already formed ...

Crowley in Mexico - II

skepticaltheurgist — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:33:00 -0400

One day, Crowley tells us on the last page of Chapter 24 of his Confessions, the unnamed Indian girl who ...