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How Snakes & Charlatans Corrupted Christianity Back To The Neopagan Self-Help Section

How Snakes & Charlatans Corrupted Christianity Back To The Neopagan Self-Help Section

Ask your dealer if New Thought Word of Faith Neopaganism is right for you Paganism [https://www.allaboutspirituality.org/paganism.htm] and Christianity have a long, fractious history [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_Paganism]. Broadly-speaking, Christians regard Pagans with a spiritual distrust; in return, Pagans tend to regard

A Descent Into The Laundry Dungeon of Political Correctness

political correctness

A Descent Into The Laundry Dungeon of Political Correctness

Broadly-speaking, most people tend to find the concept of “political correctness” plain annoying. For others, it is an undemocratic, totalitarian overreach by a cabal of coordinated left-wing nutjob academics who want to turn the world into a giant adult playpen (“fascism pretending to be manners”). For the rationally-minded, however, something

Uncaging The Slumbering British Lion

Uncaging The Slumbering British Lion

Nobody likes waking up.There’s a myth Brits complain. It’s a shallow analysis and stereotype for those who are indifferent to history. What is being witnessed is our DNA: every side dissenting about almost everything. Dissent is not a synonym for complaint. Traveling teaches you many things. But

RocketBible: The Bible As A Semantic Data API

RocketBible: The Bible As A Semantic Data API

The Bible isn’t a “book”. It’s a corpus of 66 books, divided into 2 volumes, placed into a canonical order [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon] to show the lineage of a divine plan (meta-narrative) from start to finish. The literature is often used by language researchers

Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Towards A Screenwriting Quality Gateway

Screenwriting is a lot like the guitar: easy to pick up, but incredibly hard to master. Anyone can play a campfire version, but becoming Steve Vai takes a mystical, quasi-Herculean combination of raw talent, practice, and discipline. Writing for the screen, in theory, is simple: 1 page is 1 minute,

The Need For A New Ancestry Citizenship Model

The Need For A New Ancestry Citizenship Model

To date, so far, there have been 14 publicised mass-rape scandals in the UK. The details of even story snippets revealed in the press are breathtakingly, unspeakably evil. > “I fell pregnant twice and had two abortions. Hours after my second termination, I was taken by one of my abusers

Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Russian Roulette for Writers: The Dramatic Dice

Drama is not for the shallow, or the fainthearted. A good play or movie should be like a good meal: it leaves you fulfilled. Feelgood “drama” without any chaos is like McDonalds: it temporarily gratifies, but leaves you feeling empty. Art should set your soul on fire, not anesthetize you

Oh, Canada. The baby, the bathwater, the bathtub, the plumbing, the tiling, actually, screw it, the whole bathroom.

Oh, Canada. The baby, the bathwater, the bathtub, the plumbing, the tiling, actually, screw it, the whole bathroom.

I grew up with great fondness for Canada, with extended family all over the country; from a town that housed a Canadian military ordnance base, leading to a cemetery of WWII graves where the Canadians who sacrificed their lives for the mother country are laid to rest. It’s a

Bio-Hacking Eden: Casuarina, Sargassum, and Agri-Charcoal

Bio-Hacking Eden: Casuarina, Sargassum, and Agri-Charcoal

Not all which glitters in paradise is gold. The Caribbean is that paradise on a postcard or travel brochure, but what strikes you about it over time is the sheer corruption on every level. It resembles what you imagine of Eden more in the Fall, than in its beauty. For

How we Google Streetviewed the Bahamas on a Shoestring

How we Google Streetviewed the Bahamas on a Shoestring

11 islands, 1800km, and 160,000 4k images later… Update: tl;dr you can browse the Bahamas in 360 degrees by visiting www.bahamasphere.com [http://www.bahamasphere.com] (in progress). When you’re looking at a folder of 3000 4K images which crash the official Street View app every

Meta-Narratives, Economic Game Theory, and Intoxicating Fallacy

Meta-Narratives, Economic Game Theory, and Intoxicating Fallacy

** Money, wealth, income, and resources, are different concepts, with complex, interacting factors influencing their dimensions. Fact: money, wealth, and resources are unequally distributed, and the disparity is increasing. We can all agree that the observation is undeniably correct. We have a problem. Capitalism produces an unequal outcome. The question is

Blocking Casting Call Chaos with Amazon Rekognition

Blocking Casting Call Chaos with Amazon Rekognition

Wannabe actors aren’t known for their discernment, or their professionalism. Every casting director has to go through the time-wasting rite of passage, aka The Shitshow, when they put out a casting call. Everyone wants to be famous. You’re looking for males with the age appearance of 25–30,

The Hollywood Face: the Marquardt Golden Phi Mask

The Hollywood Face: the Marquardt Golden Phi Mask

Is there a scientific formula to on-camera beauty? Are there common characteristics to the facial shapes of the stars we deify in the form of celebrity? The old saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” has its merits, but when it comes to Hollywood, we see a certain

Everything We Know About Screenwriting Is Wrong

Everything We Know About Screenwriting Is Wrong

Variety finally gets it.In academic circles, two of the most quoted scholars when discussing film are Harold Vogel, and Ian MacDonald. The former wrote “Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis”, which establishes many of the accepted statistics of the field, such as there been an estimated 500,

ScreenJSON: Screenplays That Computers Understand

ScreenJSON: Screenplays That Computers Understand

ScreenJSON is a data model and object notation/interchange syntax for screenplays. In essence, it is “screenplays for computers”. * Word processors help humans to author scripts. * PDFs help humans to publish and read scripts. * ScreenJSON helps computer systems understand and analyze scripts. For the impatient, the documentation is here: https:

Murdering the President: Fighting for the Dark Soul of Drama

Murdering the President: Fighting for the Dark Soul of Drama

Majdanek Concentration Camp in Poland. Extermination camps exist in North Korea, and other communist shitholes. China runs “re-education camps” for people who need “re-training”.Pundits and critics the world over spend years of typing theses surrounding why audiences turn off from American-style melodrama. Let me save you the time: it’

Brexit: The Echo Chamber Meets British Foreign Policy

Brexit: The Echo Chamber Meets British Foreign Policy

Forty years ago, Humphrey Appleby astutely explained [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37iHSwA1SwE] the British Foreign Office’s strategy hasn’t changed for over five hundred years. We wanted to ensure the Single Market failed, we went into the EU to ruin it, and our interests are best served

The Wonderful Characters of Proverbs

The Wonderful Characters of Proverbs

Lady Wisdom, who “calls out in the street” for men to follow herThe Bible is the finest example of the best storytelling the world has ever known. Whether it is the simplicity of parables told so uneducated peasants can understand them, to the darkened depths of David’s moral depravity

Science of the Hollywood Circus: a letter to a talented young actress

Science of the Hollywood Circus: a letter to a talented young actress

Ask any film industry veteran, and they will claim they are in any otherbusiness but film. Bruckheimer infamously claimed he was in the “transportation” business; just as the media tirelessly exhorts Hollywood is simply a marketing machine. The more cynical are far too oft to believe it is the “confectionery

Recycling Archetypes, Fairytales, and Master Plots: where all your Hollywood movies come from

Recycling Archetypes, Fairytales, and Master Plots: where all your Hollywood movies come from

It’s a cruel irony, Aaron Sorkin cannibalised his view on artistic “recycling” from T.S Eliot’s brutal reflection of creative realpolitick: > “Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.” The great scientist, Issac Newton, simply acknowledged his inspirations: “If I have seen further

Crowd Control with Blockchain Thinking

Crowd Control with Blockchain Thinking

You’d be forgiven for being totally sick of hearing about Bitcoin. From ridiculous valuations of $1000+ per virtual unit, to gross devaluations, to abstract cryptographic concepts, to money-as-speech arguments, to startup lists as long as your arm, it all seems a little too unbelievable. And it is, of course.

PLANET EARTH FIELD REPORT 145 — REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE

PLANET EARTH FIELD REPORT 145 — REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE

RECIPIENT: 2536648, MAJ. GENERAL, INT. STELLAR COUNCIL MISSION: (CODENAME) HUMVALID STAR DATE: 657.456.38374.3 LOCATION: EARTH (CLUSTER M, SECTOR 11B) SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT REGARDING POTENTIAL MEMBERSHIP OF EARTH INHABITANTS (HUMAN) TO INTERSTELLAR COUNCIL OF SENTIENT LIFE (ICSL) FIELD REPORT: 145 Dear Sir, As you know, after my recent unfortunate

If Shakespeare’s plays were Netflix loglines

If Shakespeare’s plays were Netflix loglines

Comedies All’s Well That Ends Well > A lovesick, unwanted wife fakes her own death and manipulates events to re-gain her wayward husband. As You Like It > A niece is banished from her uncle’s court and sets out on a journey with friends to a forest, where

A New Aquarian Age of Stupidity

A New Aquarian Age of Stupidity

The phrase “New Age” comes from the astrological concept of the “Age Of Aquarius”, an era beginning around the millennium and transitioning from the former “Age of Pisces”. Each “age” lasts roughly 2000 years or around the time taken for the vernal equinox to move through one of the 12

The Secret Science of Illegal Chemistry

The Secret Science of Illegal Chemistry

Underneath your feet there is a secret world where science itself is so threatening that it must be kept hidden. This is walk through the science of clandestine chemistry and exposes the hidden chemicals, techniques and knowledge used to produce the illegal drugs consumed by millions around the world that