I’m doing a bunch of research about publishing industry ins and outs, and I thought I’d share this quote I found:
On of the most frequent questions I get is, “How can I prevent the evil publishing world from stealing my idea?” I’m not a lawyer, but I believe the answer is, “You can’t.” The expanded […]

A chilling article from the Guardian:
Police have been given permission to shoot dead suspected suicide bombers without any verbal warning, the Guardian has learned.
The killing of an innocent Brazilian man in a London underground station on Friday has focused attention on new guidelines to defend against terror attacks.
Operation Kratos tactics say suicide bombers who are […]

I just thought of a good test case for my tentative three part criteria of what makes a myth gnostic. As a reminder, the three things I came up with were:

The observation of limitation
The intuitive knowledge of potential beyond limitation
The experience of transcending limitation into potential

I mentioned in that original post that this is […]

A while ago we had an interesting discussion here on the “nature” of Nature. I just found a nice thought to add into that mix from Aristotle. I’m paraphrasing a little (from here), but as I understand it Aristotle said the difference between something natural and man-made (an artifact) is that natural objects have “self-movement”. […]