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Posted by AlanCliffe

When a death cult acquires state power, look out. People who identify as Christian can speak of something called the “Constantinian heresy,” but one could argue that the conversion of the sovereign is the marker of a religion coming into its own,...

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Jan 18Jan 18

Posted by AlanCliffe

Zardoz, from '74, on DVD. Its premise, as far as I can tell, is that if Yeshua ben Joseph and Dorothy Gale had a son he'd look like Sean Connery. It held my attention for a while, and there are some nice views, but it doesn't really work. It's ...

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Jan 13Jan 13

Posted by AlanCliffe

A Hammer and Some Nails An unmarried man in later middle age, handy enough around his own house, undertook to refurbish a cedar chest he'd bought used some years ago for a property he had since sold. Two of its feet had got broken in transit. It's ...

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Jan 3Jan 3

Posted by AlanCliffe

An Immodest Proposal When and if 45 and 45ism are finally defeated, which I doubt I will live to see, it seems to me that if there is afterward something like a Truth and Reconciliation Commission—well, make that Truth and Reconstruction; I don't ...

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Dec 3, 2024Dec 2024

Posted by AlanCliffe

I wonder how many suicides have already taken place over 11/5. Not to mention all the too-soon deaths still to come as a result of it, which I don't doubt will number in the millions or tens of millions. A friend of a Facebook friend spoke recently, ...

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