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Thursday, December 26, 2024

love, gnosis & other suicide attempts by amir sulaiman

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Wow, it has been a while since I've blogged. I'm not sure if I will try to "catch up" on talking about what has been happe...
Monday, January 17, 2022

rufus is in the bible

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So lately I've been living in a Hebrew Israelite / Kemetic / "conscious community" YouTube rabbit hole and I intend to share b...
Monday, January 03, 2022

more of the elephant parade

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haile selassie the mahdi?

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Recently I've "met" someone online who is a Muslim / Rasta / Ethiopian Orthodox Christian. (I'm not sure if that does just...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

the camel (part three)

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I don't know if it is in response to this blog or other reasons but Ryan of Remnant Rendezvous is getting more open about his Christian...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

there is something about mary (part two)

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Surah 3: The Family of 'Imran 35. Behold! a woman of 'Imran said: "O my Lord! I do dedicate unto Thee what is in my womb for Th...

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"The Blind Men and the Elephant" by Laura Winge

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Title: Blind Men and the Elephant Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)  

prayer and fasting

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I'm amazed at how close the ancient Christian traditions (and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in particular) are so similar in form to Isl...
Friday, December 24, 2021

can black peter be redeemed / reimagined?

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For a while now I've been thinking about writing a children's book where Black Peter  leads a revolution against Saint Nick and repl...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

"no thicker than this line"

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For a while now I've been really curious about Oriental Orthodoxy, and especially Ethiopian Orthodoxy. It is amazing that Christianity s...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

khalil andani on the injil

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This is a fascinating conversation between Dr. Khalil Andani and Paul Williams.  (Although they both go to great pains to say that Dr. Andan...

good friday (part two)

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Corpus Hypercubus by Salvador Dali That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- b...

"jah would never give the power to a baldhead/ run come crucify the dread."

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(this is actually an old post which ended up getting republished) I've been listening to Bob Marley's Natural Mystic in my car thes...
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Saturday, December 04, 2021

medieval jain version of parable

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Friday, December 03, 2021

lost property

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Part of the reason I've been on an elephant kick lately is that the fable is one of the better ways to make sense of religious diversity...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

"of elephants and blind men" by david meng

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  "Of elephants and blind men" by David Meng

grenada's past

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 I don't want to do a lot of public navel-gazing on here but a certain amount seems unavoidable. From 2005 - 2010 I was blogging over 20...

elephant by beauchamp

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  I saw this on the Etsy page for Gregory Beauchamp
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

quarreling over names

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A man gave four persons a silver coin. The (first) one (who was a Persian) said, "I will give this for (buying) some angûr." An ot...

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Mughal painting of the blind men and the elephant, from the 1600s AD (now in Walters Art Museum)

the blind men and the elephant by katsushika hokusai

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The Blind Men and the Elephant, by Katsushika Hokusai The illustration, which accompanies this story is a Japanese version drawn by the famo...

blind men examining an elephant

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Blind men (here, monks) examining an elephant by Japanese painter, poet and calligrapher Hanabusa Itchō (1652–1724)  

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

elephant in the dark

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"Elephant in the Dark" (trans. Coleman Barks) Some Hindus have an elephant to show. No one here has ever seen an elephant. They br...

the elephant in a dark room

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  The Elephant in a Dark Room (trans. E.H. Whinfield) Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to ...

"an elephant is soft and mushy"

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  I remember seeing this image many years ago in a book of cartoons by Sam Gross with the title, "An Elephant is Soft and Mushy". ...
Monday, November 29, 2021

salman sheikh & babism

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For a while now I've been checking out videos from Salman Sheikh . He's an interesting cat. He seems to be a Muslim and a Mason who...

"thy law has been burned, and so no one knows the things which have been done or will be done by thee"

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Another point in time when the Biblical text was incredibly vulnerable to change and modification was the Babylonian capitivity. The Temple ...
Sunday, November 28, 2021

if it was found, that means it was lost, right?

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A lot of evangelical Christians have an unrealistic and simplistic picture of the continuity  of the Bible. For instance, sometimes you see ...