Louise, Hmmm ... And where in this statement, do you think I am being a blockhead ... :-) Religion is something that humans invent for themselves. It's a...
Over the weekend I dug out a couple of exquisite little hardcover books of Haiku that I bought in Greenwich Village in '67. They seem so existential. Just the...
Hello Nicole, You HAVE been busy! I've been on this literature/history path myself. It was exciting, demanding, complicated and required lots of "faith" ...
Ed, It seems Eschenbach and Burana were almost contemporaries. I see Wolfram's influence in "Baudolino". Eco used some of the same "names", but they say all of...
Hello Eduard. Things are going well: although the hamster cages are still in need of cleaning, I've managed to get through three loads of laundry, put them...
Hello Eduard. I met a brown horse I hadn't met before - I was so agitated, it was watching me coming from distance; and when I just started pouring stuff out,...
Hello everybody: I was wondering if anybody out there has read Colin Wilson's The Outsider since that is the next piece of literature I will be reading. I've...
Amanda, The stupid rules and bureaucratic fat just keep gumming up the works. We are forced to get busier and busier doing less important things. Remember the...
Excuse my interposition at an unaccustomed hour. Being too restless even to retire to bed, I've been lounging and prowling in the kitchen. This isn't...
From Simon Critchley's "Very Little...Almost Nothing": "We cannot speak of that which we would like to speak...and yet we cannot not speak, blissful though...
Eduard, I really can`t afford two Hummers, hell, I can`t afford one. Yet I recently got word an old football teammate is full of cancer. He was a nazi in his...
<<Creating our own successor does not necessarily mean that we are doing this and also diminishing our value as intellectual beings.>> What you seem to be...
I have come to the conclusion that I should give up on the effort to create a Nooism religion, as the other side of Nooism philosophy. The difficulty is that,...
Matt, he has no following, there is no cult. It is only Eduard, not acting as a straw man but as a straw religion. He is the archbishop of NOOism, creates the...
Is anyone keeping up with the pictures from Mars?? Its absolutely fascinating to think that we can look at rocks that close. Its like actually being there....
I read poetry differently than I read simple prose. I read complicated analytical materal differently than I do either of the above mentioned. I read simple...
Eduard, When I first joined the list you asked me to say what I thought, not what some published fellow had said. Damned good advice! I have a good acedemic...
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sds, Yep. It's a knit cap. Especially worn by Afro-Americans and sailors. Its great for keeping your head warm. Also, if you pull it down over your eyes,...
Amanda, This list has always had an edge to it. If I say something I plan to defend it in advance. It is a good system that fosters precision over faith and...
<<The name Satan, whether it's historically or philosophically sound, will always evoke anger, fear or outright laughter among observers of your "religion";.>> ...
Members in the NYC area are cordially invited to the release party for Paul Rebhan's new book, BUBBLES OF PERCEPTION. Here are the details: Wednesday,...
Jo, When visiting Jamaca I was informed by a local he too was a dentist. His favored treatment modality was to heat a nail to red hot in a fire and then jam...
I thought the list might be curious as to which books are selling through the Web site. I don't know if the list "says" anything, but it is interesting to see...
Jo, Perhaps I should wait on replacing this old computer until they build the next generation with this new material. I just ordered a new Dell and can hardly...
Jo, We will prevail. Just as snake handlers and holy rollers are objects of ridicule now, power mongering faith based and moralising authoritarians will some...
