bible
Scapegoat
"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on." - Noam Chomsky
"In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are [...]
Whale
"The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale." - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed [...]
The Gospel of Judas isn’t what it used to be
This isn’t the future I expected. I thought by now I’d either have robot maids and a personal jetpack, or else civilization would have collapsed and I’d be a post-technological strong man living in a marble palace somewhere, ruling over my own private harem, roman emperor-style. Oh well!
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The millenium came and went and here’s [...]
Rev Max Interview by Tim Boucher
Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!
The orange ball
OK, I said I was going to write a post about my friend Kevin so here goes.
Kevin was a graphic designer I met at my first web development job. He was about 5 years younger than me and very technically talented. He was from Minnesota so he constantly said shit like “God Bless It!” and [...]
The Super-Ego and the Demiurge
I read a great book years ago by a guy named Karl Menninger called “Man Against Himself - the Psychology of Self-Destruction” (or something like that). Basically it was psychological study of the suicidal impulse.
One of the most fascinating and worthwhile insights in this book came in the chapter on alchoholism and addiction. Basically, Menninger’s [...]
Hidden History of the Flood
Almost every culture on Earth has some sort of flood myth - and the same haunting feeling accompanies them all, the same nagging suspicion that something so traumatic as to be almost unbearable might actually have happened.
Intense trauma can sometimes hide itself from awareness by short-circuiting the memory; this may be why so many [...]
Those Nasty Nephilim
The idea that an omnipotent creator god could callously seek to exterminate an entire species for the sins of a few shocks and outrages the conscience, but the Biblical “flood” had nothing to do with human sin; instead, fallen angels had been skinny-dipping in the human gene-pool:
“To theologians and philosophers, it is a fact, [...]
Naughty Norea
It was not Noah who was the hero of the flood story, but Eve’s daughter Norea - a fiery, rebellious young woman who sabotaged Noah’s ark, rejected Yaldabaoth’s lecherous advances and finally escaped on the wings of an angel.
Yaldabaoth, the story goes, was so disturbed when he realized that mankind had begun to “multiply [...]
