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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A lot of what has been written about pop culture magic just doesnt feel very magical to me. It normally seems like taken the usual nerdy obsessions (from predictable anime and sci-fi ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...