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Not Pumpkin Pie!

Beth and I are back from California for the second time in a month, and from this year’s OzCon International, the first full one since 2019. I think the Friday programming might have been shorter than in previous years, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Futurama, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atticus gannaway, beetlejuice, changelings, cinar, david hulan, dina schiff massachi, dorothy gale, dumbo, earthworm jim, elephants, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, fairies, faith, filmation, freddy fogarty, glinda, hungry tiger, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, ken mclellan, lollipop guild, marsupilami, mombi, munchkins, nate barlow, neil cuadra, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, peter hanff, phineas and ferb, professor wogglebug, puns, return to oz, rugrats, ruth cuadra, ryan bunch, sam milazzo, sarah crotzer, sawhorse, school days in the land of oz, spirituality, te craft, ted eshbaugh, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the oz kids, the tik-tok man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the tin woods, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the west, zoe o'haillin-berne |

Nonsense That Makes Sense

This Tor article presented the idea of mapping fantasy lands along two axes, nonsense vs. logic and virtue vs. wickedness. Obviously there’s a lot of opinion involved here, but the first thing I thought was kind of weird was Neverland … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged absurdism, alice in wonderland, his dark materials, imagination, james barrie, kingdom of wisdom, logic, metaphor, neverland, nonsense, norton juster, peter pan, philip pullman, puns, spirituality, The Phantom Tollbooth |

Eliminate the Negative

I wish I could put a “post no bills” sticker on my windshield, because it’s annoying when people put advertising flyers on there. Still, one that I got recently gave me the idea for this post, but I’m not sure … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Star Trek, Star Wars | Tagged black holes, chaos, diane duane, energy, entropy, negative energy, negative mass, new age, order, physics, positive energy, qi, satan, sith, spirituality, the force, time travel, wormholes, young wizards series |

A Whole New Kabbalah Game

After coming across the news that Rabbi Philip Berg, the guy who taught Kabbalah to Madonna and other celebrities, died yesterday, I thought I’d take a look at what Kabbalah actually is. I had been under the impression that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Judaism, Magic, Religion, Video Games | Tagged demons, kabbalah, madonna, new age, numerology, rabbi philip berg, sefirot, sephiroth, spirituality, torah, yoga |

God in the Flesh

Are gods physical beings? It appears that, in general, earlier cultures considered them to be such, but religion has developed away from that idea toward that of their being pure spirit. Of course, gods can TAKE physical form if they … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Judaism, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged aether, aristotle, classical elements, danae, exodus, genesis, graven images, idols, monotheism, moses, odin, physical form, plato, polytheism, semele, spirit, spirituality, zeus |

Don’t Mess Around, Don’t Complicate, Don’t Interrupt My Spirituality

One religious argument I hear from time to time is that people have God-shaped holes in their lives, and if they don’t follow a religion (usually the one that whatever person is making the argument believes), they’ll try to fill … Continue reading →