Anything I'm interested in would have to be cool, because according to Google, I am " the coolest chick on the planet ." Google also has me as " the greatest person on Earth ." Now, that really doesn't prove anything except for my SEO skills and my sense of humor - and those ARE my interests.
Google also has my book The Christ Conspiracy listed as " the most sold book ever ." Now, I had nothing to do with that little SEO gem, and, unfortunately, it is not true. :(
I'd like to meet:
That should be "whom I'd like to meet." But that's MySpace. Just kidding.
I'd like to meet anyone who likes to see the world as a giant amusement park - environmentally sound, of course.
Having said that, look at all these cool peeps =
Music:
Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" - great singing, great lyrics, great music.
Movies:
LOST HORIZON
One of the greatest stories ever told - and a really cool movie. I first saw this movie when I was about 12 years old - it had a huge impact on my thinking. Check it out!
Television:
"CSI: Miami" - criminy, I LOVE David Caruso. Is he the sexiest man on TV, or what?
Homicidal sniper: "Don't you want to know why?"
Horatio Caine: "You just killed four innocent people. You're evil. You enjoy death. I hope you enjoy your own."
Running a close second is Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer of "24." Swoon!
Books:
My own, of course. Just kidding. The Bible - I just love to read the Bible! Not. But I have, too many times. With so many people fallaciously believing it's the "Good Book," I just had to stick my nose into it - and found that it needed a thorough debunking. PU! A rotting corpse under the bed. Anyway, too bad that rotten rag has usurped the word "biblio," ruining it for all other books.
Enough of books I hate. One of my favorite books of all time is Ken Carey's The Third Millenium .
LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION"Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," writes Sam Harris. "Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency."In response to his award-winning bestseller The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Check out this audiobook clip!
CLASSICAL RELIGIONS AND MYTHS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN The early myths of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Asia Minor, Canaan, Greece, and Rome have greatly and continuously influenced all of Western culture and civilization. Myths rely on imagination and intuition; they express fervently held convictions about the ultimate nature of things, exploring the mysteries of life and death, passion and suffering. Today, theological interest is resurging in goddess worship, and other early nature-based religions are receiving a renewed attention. This presentation also discusses how the literature and culture of these religions have influenced Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Check out this audiobook clip!
RIVER OUT OF EDEN In this audio book based on his number one bestselling book, Dawkins presents a closely argued and intellectually exhilarating case for his radical Darwinian view of life on Earth and the place of human beings on it. Those who know his earlier works will find much additional material to savour here; those who have not yet discovered Dawkins’ passion for science will find this an ideal introduction to his work. Check out this audiobook clip!
BRAINWAVE SYMPHONY
Brainwave Symphony combines carefully selected music from the baroque, classical, romantic, impressionistic, and twentieth-century eras with breakthrough audio technology to give you the best of classical wisdom and modern science....
We all experience many states of consciousness, from ordinary waking and sleeping states to extraordinary states in which we are more at peace, particularly aware, or unusually creative. Each state has a unique pattern of brainwaves that can be mapped and measured. Brainwave Symphony uses of inaudible pulses of sound, based on these brain maps, to trigger your brain to produce the state you want to experience. Check out this audiobook clip!
DAVID HUME
David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience. Although he lived in the age of reason, Hume had profound doubts about our ability to know anything in the world with certainty. This skepticism colored his view of science and gave rise to his devastating attack on proofs of the existence of God. Hume believed that values are neither objective nor universal, but nevertheless was optimistic about human nature and our ability to achieve decency in our actions. Check out this audiobook clip!
TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD
For five years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. She traveled extensively -- to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Ashqelon, and Pensacola -- and discovered that the Islamic jihadi in the mountains of Pakistan and the Christian fundamentalist bomber in Oklahoma have much in common.
Based on her vast research, Stern lucidly explains how terrorist organizations are formed by opportunistic leaders who -- using religion as both motivation and justification -- recruit the disenfranchised. She depicts how moral fervor is transformed into sophisticated organizations that strive for money, power, or attention and suggests how terrorism might most effectively be countered. Check out this audiobook clip!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Near the end of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche boldly announced that God is dead. There are no absolute truths, he said; the only reality is this world of life and death, conflict and change, creation and destruction. For centuries, religious ideas had given meaning to life in the western world; but with their collapse, humanity faced a grave crisis of nihilism and despair.
Nietzsche proposed to replace restrictive traditional morals with the idea of humans as creative beings whose energy, strength and intelligence enable them to give purpose and meaning to their lives. He rejected democratic ideals, believing that they ignore human differences and that conflict and creative competition are essential to life's development. His own creative work has exercised a powerful influence on the development of literature since his day. Check out this audiobook clip!
THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
Also sprach Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881 -1885; the first three Parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his 'campaign against morality', in which Nietzsche explored the ethical consequences of the 'death of God'. Heavily critical not only of Christian values but also of their modern replacements, Thus spoke Zarathustra argues for a new value-system based around the prophecy of the Ubermensch, or Superman. For the first time, Nietzsche gives his philosophy a narrative frame: the founder of the ancient religion of Persia, Zarathustra, takes the central role. Rejected by society at large, Zarathustra gains a devoted band of followers to whom he delivers 'discourses' on a huge range of subjects. Haunted by visions and driven by his own 'will to power', Zarathustra eventually leaves these friends to return to his lonely mountain home, where he makes his most important discovery: that of the 'eternal return'. Check out this audiobook clip!
Heroes:
My Lord and Savior Hercules
My Lady and Savioress Isis
Harry Potter
LANDOVER BAPTIST CHURCH
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WELCOME TO JESUSLAND!
Welcome to JesusLand! (Formerly the United States of America): Shocking Tales of Depravity, Sex, and Sin Uncovered by God's Favorite Church, Landover Baptist! Check it out!
Confucius, Lao Tzu, and the Chinese Philosophical Tradition
Confucius (551-479 BCE) taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid twentieth century. Confucianism does not teach a central doctrine that a God or gods should be worshipped, but it does embrace a system of ritual and emphasizes humanistic virtues and values. Daoism is both a philosophy and a religion, seeking a life and a mind in harmony with nature....
The Religion, Scriptures, and Spirituality series describes the beliefs, religious practices, and the spiritual and moral commitments of the world's great religious traditions. It also describes a religion's way of understanding scripture, identifies its outstanding thinkers, and discusses its attitude and relationship to society. Check out this audiobook clip!
THE PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA
India has perhaps the oldest living philosophical tradition in the world. Though both Buddhism and Jainism began in India, its primary influence is the Vedic tradition. The Vedas are the fundamental Hindu scriptures and the basis of the six systems of Indian philosophy. Hindu philosophy affirms an ultimate or universal reality, but it is also individualistic, embracing many alternatives or paths to one reality. Also characteristic is the belief in reincarnation, and in karma, the law of moral causation. Check out this audiobook clip!
ADVICE ON DYING
"Everyone dies, but no one is dead, " goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dying takes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, which are the very same stages we experience in life when we go to sleep, faint, or reach orgasm (Shakespeare's 'little death").
The stages are described so vividly that we can imagine the process of traveling deeper into the mind, on the ultimate journey of transformation. In this way, His Holiness shows us how to prepare for that time and, in doing so, how to enrich our time on earth, die without fear or upset, and influence the stage between this life and the next so that we may gain the best possible incarnation. As always, the ultimate goal is to advance along the path to enlightenment. Advice on Dying is an essential tool for attaining that eternal bliss. Check out this audiobook clip!
African and African-American Religion
The religious ideas and practices of African peoples have much in common with each other, and with related religions in the Caribbean and the Americas. African Islam and African Christianity have developed separately since their earliest time in Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Sudan. Check out this audiobook clip!
GATEWAYS TO NOW
A Life-Changing New Audiobook From The Author Of The New York Times Bestseller, The Power Of Now.
In this original audiobook, bestselling author Eckhart Tolle continues to teach us how to let go of the past and future to live in the now. Tolle urges to shed our mind-based sense of self, enter the portals of the eternal present, and live vividly in the present moment. Check out this audiobook clip!
Native Religions of the Americas
North, Central, and South American Indians have a rich religious heritage, though much has been lost since these peoples were conquered by Europeans. Characteristic features of Native American religion included the master of the animals, a protective spirit of a species or of all animals. Shamans, ecstatic medicine men, used supernatural powers to cure the ill. Totemism was a mysterious religious bond between the human clan and their animal guardians. There was a high god as well as many atmospheric gods, such as gods of thunder and wind. The Earth Mother was understood to work silently, influencing all. Check out this audiobook clip!
THE HISTORIES BY HERODOTUS
Herodotus, the father of historical writing, wrote these accounts of the fifth-century-B.C. wars between the Greeks and Persians with a continuous awareness of the mythic and the wonderful while laying bare the intricate human entanglements at their core.
Herodotus was born in 484 or 485 B.C. at Halicarnassus, a Greek colony on the coast of Asia Minor, now Turkey. When the colonies were freed from the Persian yoke, he left his native town and travelled extensively. On his travels, he collected historical, geographical, ethnological, mythological, and archaeological material for his history, which was designed to record not only the wars but the causes of the wars between Greece and the barbarians. Cicero called him "the father of history." Check out this audiobook clip!
WHO WAS JESUS?
"The book your pastor or priest doesn't want you to read!" Check it out!
Webpages of Interest
Origins of Christianity
Is The Bible True?
Quotes on Islam
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