Interesting how similar these two words are!
Demurrage is a cost associated with owning or holding currency over a given period of time. It is sometimes referred to as a carrying cost of money. For commodity money such as gold, demurrage is in practice nothing more than the cost of storing and securing the gold.
And:
The Demiurge, [...]
Category Archives: Mythology
Demiurge Demurrage Devil Dis Pater
October 17, 2007 – 3:01 pm
Polyphemus
September 3, 2007 – 1:34 pm
“Indeed, here is where the knowledge of the poet is not heard, for the community has broken down into the individual sphere of forgetfulness. In any obsession, duty to one’s community is lost in favor of the prize. Odysseus will soon find what his lotos is.
Soon after escaping the Lotos Eaters, Odysseus and his crew [...]
Saving The Gnostic Body
August 16, 2007 – 10:04 pm
A Practical Guide to Gnostic Masturbation
Jesus said, “Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy.”
The importance of the body in Gnostic cosmology is cloudy to say the best. Philosophically, it seems like they often describe an existence in [...]
Woman, she reaches into the fire
July 2, 2007 – 3:15 pm
I look a lot smaller now. Now that I have shaved my beard and buzzed my head. Losing those fifty pounds in a couple months certainly adds to (or subtracts from?) the effect as well. It has been, I guess, something like 9 months since I have really seen myself. When I look in the [...]
