#Superstition

A friend just sent me a list of quotations this person had compiled asking me to decide whether each was uttered by Bill Barr or Ayatollah Khomeini. It was surprisingly
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Octavio Paz on Nehru:“It was in the last years of his life. Despite his visible fatigue, I was always amazed at his elegance: immaculately dressed in white with a rose
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Okay, I’m telling THE horse story, then I’m off again, having really enjoyed a pleasant visit with you. If you know the story, please don’t spoil the big reveal.Also, the
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IT ProfessionalsTo be successful in IT, it's not enough to develop your technical skills.You must develop yourself.Over the next 30 days, I'll be writing a daily essay on skills that
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1/fcking loads probablyHappy #Imbolc everyone!...OK ok so I missed the boat a bit a bit I was on another astral plane my aura was off OK?But let's have a look
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A mandrake is the root of the Mandragora family of plant founds across Mediterranean region and throughout Europe. Variations apply but most have a thick, branched roots with almost no
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Read Vinland Saga, I’m begging you. An important note as we begin discussing Vinland Saga and the brutal viking age it inhabits, at its heart this is a series about
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Wait, what? Woodward had Trump on tape that the coronavirus was airborne BACK IN FEBRUARY (seems he learned this from Xi) and sat on it, presumably to release his book
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[thread]As the voting season approaches the citizens of the West, we, al-Muminoon of the US, are presented with the dilemma of participating in the democratic system.In shaa allah, this will
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Who is the Supreme Being, the Almighty God, Sole Creator, the One?This is Amen-Ra. In the so-called "Leiden Papyrus" (18th-dynasty) it is stated that "Amen, Ra, and Ptah are one
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We need to stop imagining the Jan 6 fascists are purely "brainwashed," misguided, etc. Neither are they guided by white supremacy *only*. They are largely a vanguard of principled petty
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Spending time on our public lands is one of the best parts of my life. So here are some scenes from those treasured places—a regularly updated thread celebrating adventures both
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Welcome to Friday! I'm glad you made it, especially because our topic today is European medicinal cannibalism. This is is basically my origin story as a person who researches cannibalism
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We're living through a great divergence in which the beliefs and norms of our society's elite are more and more divorced from the beliefs and norms of ordinary people. This
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The entire story of how David offered up the children and grandchildren of Saul, to end a famine. It has all the steps. David "inquired", which means some form of
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A great thread on how the Christian missionaries distorted Hindu intellectual traditions, trained Hindus to hate them (themselves) and created a trove of literature perpetuating colonisation of Hindu minds. Responding
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