Posts by Caleb D'Anvers
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That Holmes editorial is indeed staggeringly inane. But it's hardly alone in this morning's Herald. I mean, is there a single coherent thought Deborah Hill Cone's latest random text-dump? Did she write that in her sleep? Is it a surrealist statement about the radical non-association of ideas? Who knows?
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Foucault's Pendulum
Isn't that all plagiarised from The Da Vinci Code?
Well played, Sir.
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So you're re-reading Foucault's Pendulum as well?
Why, yes. Finally finished it on Monday. It's taken me since June.
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Perhaps by appealing to a fear that many conservatives share: that there really is a PC conspiracy.
Should we start one, just to mock them?
(And obviously, it would have to have Templars in it. You can't have a proper conspiracy without them.)
Laws is the Comte Saint Germain. That much is obvious. Sue Bradford is an instrument for measuring the Earth's telluric currents. And the anti-smacking legislation was necessary because all that good parental discipline was causing the planet to oscillate too much on its axis. With that quelled, the PC brigade can use Sue B efficiently enough to ... locate the earth's spiritual pole ... and create a doomsday device devastating enough to ... put an "h" in "Whanganui". Permanently.
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Be afraid, be very afraid
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As an aside, I was surprised - and then not surprised - to find that Joscelyn Godwin, who had translated the intricate mannerist allegory, the Hypnerotomachia , also wrote a study of fringe science/conspiracies, Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival .
Gawd. I just finished reading that last week! I don't especially recommend it. Godwin's a classic "rogue professor," and he has a certain gift, both here and in the Theosophical Enlightenment ,for making the esoteric seem really, really dull.
Actually, I'm on the look-out for a really good book on Western Esotericism at the moment ...
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I'm partial to Michael Barkun's Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America myself.
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You mean, even the one about the network of Islamic fundamentalists spanning from a cave in the Hindu Kush to Hamburg to a flight school in Florida?
'cause I thought that was a pretty far-fetched conspiracy, were it not for the actually happening part.
Man, I skim-read that and instantly assumed you were talking about a world-wide network of underground caverns leading from Agartha and Shambhala to flight schools in Florida. And then I was, like, "what? That's actually happening?"
I really have to lay off the conspiracy theory literature.
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Seeing as we're doing the crazy people ... Orly Taitz
NO WAI!
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Here's the original item, from the Manuwatu Herald (18 April 1890).