This is almost as ridiculous as it is evil:
In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by [...]
Category Archives: ontological terrorism
Expanding the reach of the regulatorium
August 23, 2007 – 2:47 pm
Our demoralization is complete
June 11, 2007 – 9:46 am
Via Pajamas Media:
Former KGB agent and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov explains how the KGB worked from within American universities to demoralize our society in a generation.
Poking around a bit turns up part 2:
These interviews are from 1984. I guess the MSM (or, as it was known back then, the M) wasn’t interested in this [...]
Our brains are just faking it, apparently
January 9, 2007 – 11:59 pm
It seems we have only the vaguest sense of the world around us. Check this out, and look at other videos from the Visual Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois.
(via the afterword of Peter Watts Blindsight, an enjoyable and interesting hard-SF book & free download)
Proceed with caution, cognitive hazard ahead
October 15, 2006 – 2:41 pm
I joked with NZC the other day about susceptibility to existential attacks, and today I see that the lifeboat foundation anticipates they might become more common:
My own weakness is also included (note archenemy blog category “lotus eating”):
(via)