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  • China Mieville
    1) He has the best name in literature2) The Scar and Perdido Street Station were utterly compelling reads. I could not put them down or do anything else until finished. 3) I'm ...
    12 comments Most recent by DustoMarch 2012LN Media → Books
  • The Parasites
    This is a thread for the parasitic, for all those things that feed on their living hosts. So I was in that weird part of the Internet again and I accidentally ...
    15 comments Most recent by EmberLeoMarch 2012Nation → Science
  • Weird words, jarring jargon, language lectures
    This thread is for all those pedantic language discussions. Have opinions on the proper spelling of "Kether"? Trying to pronounce ancient names of Netjer? Can't tell Seidh from Sidhe? Bring it ...
    47 comments Most recent by grantMarch 2012Liminal → Magic Theory
  • Climate Change and Weather Witchery
    Who's better at predicting the future: A meteorologist, or a mage?As is probably obvious to most people, climate change is already happening (in the really real world), average temperatures around the world ...
    21 comments Most recent by IdentFebruary 2012Liminal → Magic Theory
  • John Michael Greer's work
    The Archdruid Report is a blog which is gathering up some folks interested in culture and future. He discusses themes related to peak oil, energy conservation, and strategies for economic survival and ...
    94 comments Most recent by wonderlandFebruary 2012Liminal → Magic Theory
  • Supplements and dietary tweaking
    This is a thread to talk about the various vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements we are or were taking: why, what for, what works and what doesn't. Strictly speaking, if you are ...
    83 comments Most recent by GwenFebruary 2012Nation → Science
  • Gamelan and Balinese music
    A close friend is working on this project and I feel personally invested in seeing it succeed.Pak Terip, a gamelan teacher of (I'm told; I don't have much context for comparison) incredible ...
    5 comments Most recent by grantFebruary 2012LN Media → Music
  • Outcome Unknown, Results Indeterminate, Interpretation Open
    This has come up a couple of times on Liminal Nation, so it made me think that we might need a topic for discussing it and posting clips. In a nutshell, it's a ...
    9 comments Most recent by grantJanuary 2012LN Media → Music
  • The Vinyl Pantacle
    A lot of what has been written about pop culture magic just doesn’t feel very magical to me. It normally seems like taken the usual nerdy obsessions (from predictable anime and sci-fi ...
    34 comments Most recent by grantJanuary 2012LN Media → Music
  • Merry!
    To all of you. All denominations. All political affiliations. All personalities.No matter who you are. No matter how you choose/happen to represent yourself normally...None of that matters a shite. You're all human ...
    25 comments Most recent by XKDecember 2011Liminal → Magic Theory
  • Mawaru Penguindrum
    Enough are watching this I figure it deserves a thread, and I'm particularly feeling it since I finally got around to watching it just as I found out remarkably parallel news, sans ...
    106 comments Most recent by XKDecember 2011LN Media → TV and Film
  • Metaphysics in the Permaculture curriculum
    This comes from yonder debate on the role of metaphysics in the standard permaculture curriculum. I wanted to lab this out here in this community, ‘cause I think we have the decency to ...
    6 comments Most recent by XKDecember 2011Nation → Politics
  • The Gospel of Mark - a discussion
    Mark! The earliest, shortest, and grimmest of the canonical Gospels. Attributed to Mark the Evangelist, a buddy of the disciple Peter. Probably written after 70 C.E., given certain references to the ...
    298 comments Most recent by EvanDecember 2011Liminal → Magic Theory
  • The Book of Job
    I did it so. Let this first post serve mostly as a placeholder as my head's not in the right space to do a hermeneutic deep dive at the moment. The rest ...
    52 comments Most recent by grantDecember 2011Liminal → Magic Theory
  • Breaking Bad (spoilers)
    I finally got around to watching the first season of Breaking Bad, was quickly hooked and managed to get through all four seasons in about a fortnight. I haven't been that drawn ...
    12 comments Most recent by quantumDecember 2011LN Media → TV and Film
  • Bang the Bore X: ZONE OF ALIENATION (was titled 'Nuclear Event')
    A topic that could reasonably fit into the science, politics and music categories... but as it's a predominantly musical event I've chosen music.The musical collective that I've been involved with for the ...
    43 comments Most recent by grantDecember 2011LN Media → Music
  • Airships ahoy
    Look, it's the Goodyear blimp!  This is thread for Zeppelins, dirigibles, and sundry lighter-than-air craft.  Old and new.  Ideas and theories; practicalities and applications.I'm fascinated by airships as a mode of transport ...
    7 comments Most recent by SekhmetDecember 2011Nation → Science
  • Exposed Circuits, Malfunction & Glitch, Noise
    A thread for discussing music in which noise, malfunction, glitch and error are the primary strategy, rather than a supporting element or decoration for more conventional rhythmic and melodic strategies. So circuit ...
    10 comments Most recent by SethDecember 2011LN Media → Music
  • Data Sonification, Extreme Sampling, Location Evocation
    At first glance this could seem a tricky proposition, but it needn't be... this topic is for discussing or posting clips of music that deals with creating musical representations of objects, spaces, ...
    13 comments Most recent by SethDecember 2011LN Media → Music
  • Adverts This is the thread to talk about adverts that are on the television.
    19 comments Most recent by freektempleNovember 2011LN Media → TV and Film

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