tag > Religion
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On putting a price on nature
For followers of the cult of techno-capitalism, abstraction is a holy duty, everything has a price and the total commodification of nature is a natural law. These are non-negotiable commandments, even for the progressive cultists.
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Real Power is Soft
"People who are capable of seeing only the gross external aspect of things can perceive India as a nation of conquered people. They seem to be incapable of perceiving that in the philosophical & spiritual realm India conquers the world." – Swami Vivekananda
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Steve Jobs lets his followers catch a glimpse of the first iPhone (Italy, 1449) - StableDiffusion
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Marduk - a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
Image: Nineteenth-century engraving by Gustave Doré, showing the scene from "Bel and the Dragon" in which Daniel reveals the deception of the Babylonian priests of Bel, a syncretized form of Marduk.
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Tiger Emperor Temple (虎帝庙), on Hutou Mountain Park, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
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Nekyia - a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy.
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Consumerism is globally the dominate form of religion and spiritually in the early 21st century.
Modern consumerism comes packaged in many forms, often disguised as "scientific technological progress". It promises its devoted disciples instant salvation through the constant accumulation of more more more more more more more more more more more more more more. In the words of George Carlin: "We buy shit we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like."
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Longevity of Ideas: Being, Nothing, Becoming - Input, Controller, Output - Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo
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Lady Quan Yin, Chohan of the Pearlescent Ray - Goddess of Compassion, the Bodhisattva of Mercy
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Photo from the Second Vatican Council (1965) where "Nostra aetate" was passed
"Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th." - Lance Morrow
