{"id":4119,"date":"2012-04-21T21:04:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T03:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:43:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:43:35","slug":"pentagram-pizza-for-april-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"Pentagram Pizza for April 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Week-old pizza from the back of the refrigerator …<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Here’s an idea for a novel: “two down-on-their-luck entrepreneurs who stumble upon the idea of reviving for-profit idolatry.<\/a> Selling statues of household gods to the masses, and building a neo-pagan religion around it.” Um, I think that people have been doing this for some time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Circus Breivik<\/em>. Norwegian scholar of esotericism Egil Asprem analyzes the trial of Anders Behring Breivik<\/a>. (He wrote about the shootings<\/a> for the current Pomegranate<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

This trial will be about two things: psychiatry and ideology. Two drastically conflicting reports on Breivik\u2019s mental health<\/a> have already ensured this. Added to this, of course, is Breivik\u2019s own clearly stated wish to be judged as sane, and have his actions confirmed as ideologically motivated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Teaching classical philosophy to Brazilian schoolchildren:<\/a><\/p>\n

I assured the students that until the nineteenth century hardly any philosopher was an atheist. Plato\u2019s Euthyphro\u2014<\/em>with its argument about the relationship between ethics and the will of the gods\u2014gets us into a lively discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* This is called “edgy, irreverent outreach<\/a>” by some of today’s Christians<\/del> Jesus Followers. I think the pastor needs to look up “pathos” in the rhetorical dictionary,<\/a> because he is doing it wrong. But to be fair, some long-ago saints would have agreed with him.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alcohol\u00a0 “sharpens the mind<\/a>.”\u00a0 But “beer goggles” are real too.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Canada braces for more Danish aggression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week-old pizza from the back of the refrigerator … \u2022 Here’s an idea for a novel: “two down-on-their-luck entrepreneurs who stumble upon the idea of reviving for-profit idolatry. Selling statues of household gods to the masses, and building a neo-pagan religion around it.” Um, I think that people have been doing this for some time. 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