Booklist I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
God and Gender
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_and_gender
Hinduism on God and Gender
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_views_on_God_and_gender
24/4/2007 Today is the (real) Panchen Lama's birthday. He turns eighteen. No-one knows where he and his family are. Chinese officials claim he resigned and lives somewhere in the outback and wants to be left alone with his relatives. Tibetans claim he was executed at the age of five.
Fela sent me this:
Dat boek waar ik het over had heet The ancient secret of the flower of life en is geschreven door Drunvalo Melchizedek.
Er is ook een deel 2.
Een andere waar ik aan moest denken heet Boek van Levenskunst en is geschreven door Anselm Grün.
A mock-religion: Frisbeetarianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbeetarianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_theology.
The history of theology, which is too much, so I decided to boil it all down to this list:
Metaphysics:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/LPSG/contents.htm
Indian meataphysics (?):
Total mataphysics of the west:
These go as a pair:
http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Anthology-Blackwell-Philosophy-
Anthologies/dp/063120279X/ref=pd_sim_b_3/103-4384585-
7852648?ie=UTF8&qid=1177960769&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Companion-Metaphysics-Blackwell-Companions-
Philosophy/dp/0631199993/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4384585-
7852648?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177960878&sr=1-1
This is also good:
http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Guide-Anthology-Tim-
Crane/dp/0199261970/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4384585-
7852648?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177960769&sr=1-1
Ancient Greece/Rome:
Hesiod's Theogony
Plato's Timaeus
Aristotle's Metaphysics
If ancient philosopy is also good, please read these:
Cynism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynic
Cynism and Postmodernity:
Seneca:
Diogenes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
(my favourite; he lived in a barrel and when Alexander the Great passed by, he asked if Diogenes needed anything. Diogenes answered: "Yes, could you step aside please? You block my sunlight." Great story, and most likely true!)
Antisthenes:
Epicurianism:
http://www.epicurus.net/ Has all his texts
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Epicurus-Principal-Doctrines-
Philosophy/dp/0879758104/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4384585-
7852648?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177959369&sr=1-1 best buy
Cicero: on the nature of the gods:
Lucretius: on the nature of things:
http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Things-rerum-natura/dp/080185055X/ref=sr_11_1/103-
4384585-7852648?ie=UTF8&qid=1177960369&sr=11-1
These are the most important (?) ones, but there could be an enormous amount more - ancient philosophy is cool.
Jewish Theological Tradition:
Useful link: www.jewishencyclopedia.com
Of this, I did not know the existence!
First, one to rule them all:
Women in Jewish tradition:
Not-blaming-the-Jews for fanatical Cristians:
Hillel the Elder:
Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph:
Kabbalah:
The Kabbalah book of Sex (isn't it just lovely?):
The Kabbalah book of love (another manual):
Pop Music and the urge for transcendance, has a section on kabbalah and Madonna:
Torah (nice version):
Torah (less nice, original version):
Mishnah:
Anti-semitical book written by Henry Ford (perhaps don't buy it):
Judaism's strange God (don't know if it's any good):
The complete idiot's guide to the Talmud:
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Talmud/dp/1592572022/ref=sr_1_3/103-
2001741-8073455?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178042315&sr=1-3
The Talmud is too big (21 volumes or something like that), but is translated by: Adin Rabbi Steinsaltz
Christian Tradition:
Arianism:
contra:
pro:
Choose some for these, if you like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha
The Talmud of Jmmanuel (Judas Iskariot?)
The gospel of Judas (no, really, THE Judas):
The complete works of Saint Cyprian of Cartage:
Hippolytus, the first anti-pope:
Antipopes:
The Oxford Dictionary of Popes:
The incredible book of papal facts and Vatican curiosities (need I say more?):