Archive for October, 2006

Pick up artists? Or something more…

Posted by soulscode on 29 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

Picking up women really is about more than picking up women… at least for these men:
The men each begin with a brief introduction, describing their current plight with women. Some are funny and gregarious, others withdrawn and demure, and they vary in levels of traditional attractiveness and professional success. But each shares a general sense [...]

Andrew Cohen and WIE: a tire fire (the New Age edition)

Posted by soulscode on 29 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

We’re not in the business of using other people’s pain as a source of entertainment. So let’s reel this out and look at it as a mirror for what happens when any one of us falls into a rabbit hole of unconsciousness.
Here is a gallery of intelligent people who took the road less travelled, so [...]

Atheism: now fortified with fanaticism

Posted by soulscode on 29 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

You didn’t think the techno-hipsters at Wired were above resorting to religion to sell magazines, did you? Kudos to writer Gary Wolf for digging up a first class group of crankypants: militant atheists! These guys combine the flexibility of Soviet bureaucrats with the fun factor of a bowl of bran flakes.

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Jesus Camp and the Excited States of America

Posted by soulscode on 27 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

 
Here’s the new documentary, Jesus Camp:
And here are the divisions being drawn, according to an account in The L.A. Times:

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Barack Obama: ‘My Spiritual Journey’

Posted by soulscode on 26 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

That’s the headline for the excerpt from Obama’s new memoir, which is featured in this week’s cover of Time magazine. An accompanying news story by Joe Klein, the journalist who wrote Primary Colors, compares the junior senator from Illinois to an earlier political messiah, Bobby Kennedy. Obama was raised by a single mother but not [...]

Today is Christmas in India

Posted by soulscode on 23 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

 

Actually, it translates to the Festival of Light. These are the high holy days of Hinduism.

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Is the new Bond channeling Rumi?

Posted by Soul's Code on 19 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

A poem by the Sufi mystic, Rumi, shows up in a love scene in Casino Royale
We’re not about to add the new James Bond movie opening Nov.17, Casino Royale, to our Top 10 Spiritual Cinema list on Soul’s Code but if you’ve seen the trailer, it suggests Bond has been reincarnated with a deeper dimension.
This [...]

Pat Robertson: still funny

Posted by soulscode on 18 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

Still chuckling over the Pat Robertson’s leg-press press flap.

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You say you’re with an addict?

Posted by soulscode on 16 Oct 2006 | Tagged as:

After hearing my friend K talk about her marriage this week, I had this thought that psychological pain is a master of disguises.
And another thought: Isn’t the path of pain like water damage in a house or apartment? Water can seep into the building from wherever, lurk in the joists and studs for a while [...]