I believe in magic. Almost everyone does, though most don’t acknowledge it, and some deny it vehemently. But as a matter of anthropological and psychological fact, we are hard-wired to draw emotional comfort from non-rational ritual, be those rituals religious or social or personal. Ritual works; for my current purposes, the metaphysics are not relevant. And the knowledge that non-rational ritual can have concrete results is something that you can use for practical purposes, and THAT is what I think of as magic. Continue reading
Author: unclehyena (Page 19 of 39)
Not much going on other than my class, so here we have one somewhat belated movie review… Continue reading
Way behind here. Filling in the empty spaces.
“Resident Evil: The Final Chapter” is more of the same, though the sparkle seems to have warn off completely, and everyone seems tired. There is still fun to be had, here, but the signal to noise ration is getting worse with each iteration, and I am not sure that this one was worth the trouble. Continue reading