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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Table-of-Contents to Date + Upcoming, for Your Free-Reading...
The Revenge of Gilgameshby sagesource■ CLICK THIS LINK■Simplicity; or Sometimes the Death-Trap Does Not Workby quarkstomper■ CLICK THIS LINK■The Crazy and Ridiculous and Wonderful ‘ A Christmas Carol’...
View ArticleMythology
Most religious traditions incorporate myths,stories, and legends into their belief systems. Within any particular culture,the people often do not make a distinction between these three things, but many...
View ArticleCreation Stories
Religion, in many traditions, helps to explain the unknown, that which has not been personally experienced. One these unknowns is how everything began, how humans first came into existence: in other...
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⏹️⏹️ OFPMFP Short Fiction: Motorcycle, Apples, Cave, Tales, Trees.
Lil pulled off her helmet, unzipped her leathers, scrubbed her knuckles through her silver-flecked dark hair, and grinned at the little girl coming running to the paddock fence. “Hiya, kid.” “Hiya,...
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Street Prophets: Some storytelling
<big> Street Prophets Coffee Hour is an Open Thread. Bring your favorite cuppa, and hang with us a while. What’s on your mind today? And feel welcome to put your community links in comments....
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⏹️⏹️ Original Fiction, Poetry & Memoir For Fun & Progress: Now...
<big>Now playing!!!Dark Redemption, an urban fantasy novel by writer/artist quarkstomper, chapters running Wednesdays mid-evening on all coasts and in-lands for the foreseeable future, if there...
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⏹️⏹️OFPMFP: Dark Redemption - Index & Cast of Characters
Night falls over the City of Redemption. Beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and picturesque facade of the City of Redemption lies another city; a community of dark and ancient magic populated by...
View ArticleIn Times of Crisis, People Fail to Understand the Importance of Artists
I just read this article:www.latimes.com/…regarding the struggles in the art community during this pandemic & it has motivated me to remind folks just how important the role of artist is to...
View ArticleTrump 'Humility'& 'The Chosen One' Narrative
By Ray CunneffJune 25, 2020While our minds are regularly boggled by the level of devotion and adoration accorded Donald Trump by his hardcore supplicants, sycophants and enablers, we only rarely get a...
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Hippie Life Skills 101: Crafting a Tree of Life Wall Ornament
(The weather here has been crappy and rainy all week, so I’ve been cooped up inside.)In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, was the source of everything, stretching through all of the Nine...
View ArticleInaccuracy in Genesis: why I mean never to visit the Creation Museum
Ever since I can remember, my fascination has been with the study of the social foundations of human intellectual life: namely, in antiquity, mythology, and the classical legends. Having completed...
View ArticleAbout religious (in)tolerance in modern India…
Western news media take only a token notice of Indian politics; but it would require a great ignorance not to notice an India torn into factions by the rabble-rousing of a nationalist party (mostly...
View ArticleOur National Spirit ... at the moment!
Would it seem contrived and unbelievable to you if I suggested that the United States has its own angel? Its own demon? Would it be significant or silly to suppose that as a nation we are attended by...
View ArticleReligion 102: Some pre-Christian Irish deities
Humans first began to settle in Ireland about 10,000 years ago. These Mesolithic hunters and gatherers brought with them animistic religious beliefs and practices. With the transition to a lifestyle...
View ArticleWoke as a definition of the inevitable: the alternative is simply intolerable...
Staying Woke They are really good at it. ”Woke”, a good term, has been given a whole other meaning by those who would rebrand it in an attempt to cover up centuries of injustice are not even. Many use...
View ArticleMeet the ancestors (sort of...)
Meet the Ancestors (sort of)…So to return to the question I asked at the beginning, and never answered, who or what was the first vampire? I didn’t answer because it’s pretty hard to say. Where does...
View ArticleWatching Sens. Hawley and Collin distance themselves from Ronald Reagan is...
One can mark the steep decline our country has been on with the advent of Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America presidency. But, like everything with the GOP, the myth-making around how great a president...
View ArticleElizabeth Koch and Roman Myth
This, obviously, is an artistic rendering of Medusa. I pulled it off of Creativecommon.org, an organization that makes certain images legal to feature. Apologies. Had I my druthers, the image I...
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Occult & Psychical Sciences on DK: Night Fall (poetry, personal & a...
Halloween--properly All Hallows Eve--is,like Christmas Eve, really just prologue. The daylight weakens, here in the northern hemisphere, for seven more long weeks. More hours of night, more time for...
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PWB Peeps Open Thread: Good Hare Day
Since it is now the Year of the Rabbit, let’s have a few bun-buns as our guests tonight.Rabbits or hares? Lepus species are typically precocial, born relatively mature and mobile with hair and good...
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