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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Kalev’s Anti-Blog: When Women Go Mad or are Possessed
They had many names: Maenad (Mad Woman); Thyiad (Rushing Woman); Phoibad (Inspired Woman); Lyssad (Raging Woman). These women were the followers of the god Dionysos in his many forms. Periodically, woman en masse would go to the hills and howl, … Continue reading
Posted in Dionysos, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged Alexander the Great, Ares, Athens, Bacchae, Bessi, Christianity, Euripides, Evoe, Freud, Herodotus, Hobbes, Islam, Jews, Lyssad, Macedonia, Maenad, mourning, Muslims, Olympias, orgies, Phillip, Phoibad, Plutarch, Robert Graves, Satrae, Semele, snakes, Thrace, Thyiad, White Goddess, Xerxes, Zeus
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The War Against Eros
By Kalev Pehme I dedicate this piece of Tawnya Gunn, Will Kolodzie, and Laurie Berry The early Christians knew the obvious: An erotic man is a man who wants to be a god, not worship the god. So instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged capitalism, Christianity, eros, erotic, Hayak, Heidegger, Hobbes, joyless quest for joy, justice, Leo Strauss, Marx, modernity, philia, Plato, Rousseau, Socrates, will to power
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Some Problems of Illusion or the Fake
By Kalev Pehme The three pillars of life are nature, convention, and illusion (magic). The three are interdependent and cannot be separated from each other. However, in modernity, there is a very ambiguous attitude toward illusion. There has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Poetry
Tagged Clifford Irving, computer power, Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake, Fake, Fox Fascist, Howard Hughes, illusion, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles, surrealism, technology, television news
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The American Military is a Teaching Machine
George W’s failure in Iraq and Afghanistan was owing to the fact that he doesn’t know anything about education, not being educated himself. While he took a very Wilsonian approach to spreading democracy, he didn’t understand that the American military … Continue reading
Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The Real Case Against Evolution
By Kalev Pehme This piece is dedicated to my friend Bill Oates, who asked me to write something on evolution Evolution is so accepted to be true that it cannot be questioned without social backlash. Well, there is an exception … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmology, Philosophy
Tagged biology, Cartesian duality, Darwin, Descartes, DNA, evolution, evolutionists, first life, intelligent design, life, machine, mechanics, modern science, religion
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