Sunday, July 27, 2025
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Interview with Religious Studies academic states right out of the box that many UFO experiencers learn from it that a bad end of the world is coming lol
Gee, where did they get that idea?
The possible answers to that are not seriously addressed in this more-ways-than-one frustrating podcast with Ross Douthat of The New York Times.
... Douthat: When people report having a telepathic connection, you said they get information from, or they feel like they’ve gotten information from, these experiences. What kind of information do they get? What does that mean when people report this?
Pasulka: A lot of the people would report the information as something that had to do with the future. They would have ideas of basically an apocalypse, a bad scenario for the future.
The people who I talked to at this conference were pretty convinced that we were going to face some type of cataclysm. So I talked to them a little bit about how people have thought that for about 2,000 years. [Chuckles.] ...
Pasulka: It appears to be a perennial thing. So there appears to be something that interfaces with humans and has been identified in the various traditional religions.
Douthat: Identified as what?
Pasulka: Well, I’m not going to name it, because in some traditional religions it’s named in different ways. So it could be bodhisattvas, angels, demons — things like that. ...
The whole thing is here in "What if the Government Believes in U.F.O.s More Than You Do?"
If you are looking for a religion scholar to say that the UFO cult is a human creation just like every other religion, you won't find that from Diana Walsh Pasulka, a practicing Catholic who wants to argue for the legitimacy of mystery and of people's experience of that mystery, even if they work for a government which cannot be trusted on UFOs.
It is telling that a member of a hierarchical religion which is imbued with deference to authority finds the belief in UFOs among government employees somehow more compelling than that belief among private individuals:
... they have various titles. They have quote-unquote “day jobs” as, say, a mission controller at Cape Canaveral, things like that. And almost all of them called it this: They said, “my hobby job.” They would call it their hobby.
Elites also run in herds.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
I said in my ecstasy: Every man is a liar
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Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. |
KJV Psalm 116.11: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
RSV Psalm 116.11: I said in my consternation, "Men are all a vain hope."
LXX Psalm 115.2: ἐγὼ εἶπα ἐν τῇ ἐκστάσει μου πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ψεύστης
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
God bites off head of Satanist, 76
... Their 1970 self-titled debut album hit the top 10 in the U.K. and No. 23 on the U.S. charts. A year later, their second album, “Paranoid,” topped the charts in the U.K. and reached No. 12 across the pond.
Still, the critics were not kind at first. Black Sabbath was dismissed by some as “Satanic claptrap” and worse.
“I thought it was a rubber bat,” Osbourne said at the time. “I picked it up, put it in my mouth, crunched down, bit into it, being the clown that I am.”
That same year, Osbourne infuriated the state of Texas by urinating on the Alamo, a stunt that got him arrested. ...
Friday, July 18, 2025
Human flailing, divine economy
Monday, July 14, 2025
The dreams of avarice, we all have them
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Few want to consider that the impulse to genocide has deep roots in human nature, and even in Jewish religion itself
Friday, July 11, 2025
On Repentance
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Salvation for Narcissus
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
'Tis better to be lowly born . . .
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I would rather be a poor beggar's wife and be sure of heaven, than queen of all the world . . .. |
Verily, I swear, ’tis better to be lowly born
And range with humble livers in content
Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief
And wear a golden sorrow.
Monday, July 7, 2025
Hymn for a School of Biblical Studies in a Secular University
Hymn for a School of Biblical Studies in a Secular University