DISQUS

Looking forward to listening to those podcasts.

If you're open to suggestions, can I suggest Kittredge Cherry, author of "Jesus in love" (a novel about the queer Jesus) and former minister in the Metropolitan Community Church.

He may not live near there, but he does have his own blog.

Or you could create one of those portal thingies in Wikipedia.

What I have done with my wiki project on pbwiki is link to relevant Wikipedia articles.

By the way, you're listed at Pagan Blogs - if you feel like linking back, that'd be great.

Interesting. Here in the UK, it's just not part of the culture for people to routinely have guns around the place. As a kid, my brother had a rifle that he used to shoot at tin cans with, but we never used it for hunting or anything. I wouldn't dream of having a gun in the house - it's probably not even legal. But then burglars and the like are more likely to have a knife than a gun.

I'm not criticising, just pointing out the cultural difference.

I like the Chinese proverb (I think it's a Chinese proverb): "Hurt rather than maim; maim rather than kill; and kill rather than destroy utterly." In other words, sometimes you have to do something bad to prevent a worse harm - like the bodhisattva that is supposed to have killed a rampaging murderer on a ship to prevent him killing more of the passengers. I try to live by "If it harms no-one, do what you will", but mindful that this is actually a paradoxical statement pointing out that you cannot exist without harming someone.

That is an absolutely marvellous demolition of homophobia. Rock on Hal!!!

That is very very sad. I love Tibet and have huge respect for the Dalai Lama, but just don't know if there's any way of saving Tibetan culture, apart from keeping up the pressure from the West - though it would help a lot if Western governments were prepared to censure the Chinese government. In a way, it's a shame there's no oil in Tibet....

It's very easy on the eye, and the colours remind me of Tibetan Buddhism.

This really works as an analogy.

Buddhism would have to be a vegetarian or vegan who loves meditating.

Reclaiming wasn't your girlfriend, she was a lesbian separatist.

An interesting journey. That's certainly inspired me to take a closer look at Tantric Buddhism. Does one need to learn Sanskrit to be an effective Buddhist? Salutations from a fellow geek. Interesting that you're doing your thesis on the Golden Dawn - you should talk to my friend Synesis, who is just about to start a PhD on the western Mystery Tradition.

Marvellous. Cthulhu has also manifested in the form of a parsnip. There's no escape from the tentacled one...