Thursday, April 17, 2003

We deeply mourn the looting of antiquities from the National Museum in Baghdad.  We agree with our colleague Herr Doktor Zandler, who calls it: "one of the greatest cultural crimes in history, surpassing even the burning of the Library of Alexandria." "Gilgamesh, what you seek you will never find..." 11:50:31 PM    comment []

His Loveliness the Pope, the Reverend and Doctor Omed, will remit and wash clean the stain of venial sin from the fleece of the little lambs who follow their cyber-shepherd on a pilgrimage to the Musuem of Jurassic Technology. 11:05:53 PM    comment []

Grendel's Laundry List   Some texts helpful to an understanding of the Atheology and Theodicy of the Seventh Day Atheist Aztec Baptist Church in no particular order:   The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins   Green Eggs and Ham by Theodore Giesel   Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard   Living by Fiction also by Annie Dillard   The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell   Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris   The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake   Sex, Ecology, Spirituality:  The Spirit of Evolution by Ken Wilbur   A Brief History of Everything also by Ken Wilbur   Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards   The Spider Letter and On Insects also by Jonathan Edwards   Downloading the Onion by Eugene Zandler   The Duino Elegies by Rainer Marie Rilke   The Sonnets to Orpheus also by Rainer Marie Rilke   Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal   The Roots of Civilization:  The Cognitive Beginnings of Man’s First Art, Symbol, and Notation by Alexander Marshack   Such Men are Dangerous by Paul Kavanaugh   Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia   Solitude: A Return to Self by Anthony Storr   Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus also by Anthony Storr   Wholeness and Implicate Order by David Bohm   Science, Order, and Creativity by David Bohm and F. David Peat   Superstrings and the Search for the Theory of Everything by F. David Peat   In Search of Nikola Tesla also by F. David Peat   The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds   The Alphabet versus the Goddess by Leonard Shlain   The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard   The Poetics of Space also by Gaston Bachelard   Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe by Jacques Lafaye   The Godhead Trilogy:  Towing Jehovah; Blameless in Abbadon; The Eternal Footman by James Morrow   Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes   Touched by Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison   Manic Depressive Illness by Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison   A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka   Dirt Greed & Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament by L. William Countryman   Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels   Beyond Belief by Elaine Pagels   The Gospel of Thomas     That'll be enough to to go on.  Quiz on Sunday.  To be continued.       10:14:25 PM    comment []