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The Mythopoeic Society - The Horn of Rohan

https://www.mythsoc.org/horn-of-rohan.htm

in literary works and cultural artefacts often get degraded or trivialised; sometimes they are simply problematic. In modern culture and literature, myth seems to some extent to b

Computation isn't Consciousness: The Chinese Room Experiment

https://lukesmith.neocities.org/vids/chinese_room

but depending on our cultural background this can vary. Take the roman empire for example. They had huge coloseum fights where slaves and warriors got killed by other people or an

Reasoning Skills

https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/reasoning-skills

Racial Disparities The Cultural Hypothesis For Racial Disparities Overpopulation Was The Collapse Of The World Trade Center A Controlled Demolition? Any Others? If one is able to
Reasoning skills like logic, heuristics and meta-knowledge improve knowledge acquisition. Recognizing statistics, fallacies and biases reduces knowledge errors.

Ordo Templi Orientis Phenomenon — Peter-R. Koenig

https://www.parareligion.ch/

power struggles, and cultural codifications as a dynamic interplay between theatrical mysticism and commercial opportunism. Rather than introducing esotericism as a topic in itsel
Peter-R. Koenig: fieldwork-based study of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) — history, schisms, rituals, documents, Theodor Reuss & Aleister Crowley, and related orders.

Tyrannical atheism

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013251.html

activist mode aimed at cultural and political power. Materialist atheism now demands consent to or at least silent acquiescence to its metaphysical propositions about the nature o
In the discussion thread following my article on Jerry Coyne's chapter on human evolution, a commenter raised the question, what...

The basically leftist character of modern conservatism

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/000605.html

soon as that reform or cultural innovation takes place, the conservatives accept it as a given, dismiss as an “extremist” anyone who persists in attacking it (that is, anyone who
On most of the fundamental issues relating to the survival of our culture, conservatives accept the works—and the underlying principles—of the left.

1831 Evangelical Inquirer "Mormonism" article

http://www.solomonspalding.com/docs/1831i05a.htm

was an early American cultural anthropologist and paleo-historian who grew up near Solomon Spalding's old home in Ashtabula Co., Ohio and who became intensely interested in all of

Acceleration Watch (Understanding Accelerating Change)

https://www.accelerationwatch.com/

In: Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context , NASA Press, 2009. (V7.0 Apr 2010). A 48-page overview of three increasingly specific and powerful ways of understa

cabbage sorter

https://cabbagesorter.neocities.org/anime_manga_reviews_05

in the 60's and the cultural and mindset changes that followed with it. Drugs never really took off in the same way as they did elsewhere. His inspiration lies in foreign artists
anime and manga reviews

John Stuart Mill and Liberal Imperialism

http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s051802.html

as well. One was cultural. Backward, barbarous peoples could not just be left lying around to govern or misgovern themselves. Take the Irish, for example (one of his cases, not mi

Antinatalism as conceived as conceived by ChatGPT

https://www.antinatalism.com/chatgpt/

reflecting diverse cultural and philosophical contexts. However, it's important to note that these ideas have typically remained on the margins and have not been widely adopted by

What Conservatives Can Learn From Ayn Rand | The Brussels Journal

https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/5098

new challenge of multiculturalism and the loss of self-confidence of the west in the face of increasingly aggressive non-western societies, sheds new light on the problem of the c


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