Marcion of Sinope (Ancient Greek Μαρκίων [2 Note 1] Σινώπης) lived circa 85–circ 160 [3]. He compiled the first New Testament Bible and was a theologian [4] in early Christianity [4, 5].
Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus, the Nazarene and Christ ("Anointed One"), who was distinct from the "vengeful" God Yahweh (the Demiurge) who had created the world [4, 5, 6] as a trap to enslave other beings.
Marcion considered himself a follower of Paul (Saul) the Apostle, whom he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus Christ.
His teaching or doctrine is now called Marcionism [4, 5, 7]. Marcion published the earliest record of a canon of New Testament books [4, 8] or what the Christian world regards as the Bible, exclusive of Jewish Old Testament Hebrew "Bible" (Tanakh), five books of which form the Torah, and Talmud (official interpretation). More
(Wasteland Weekend) Check out the official highlight reel from #WastelandWeekend. Now, it's time for 2025 -- the 15th year of the event -- which aims to be even more epic. Directed and edited by Preston Yarger. Cinematographers: Louis Pei, Christian Cuevas, Justin Ramsey, Nathan Gresham, Christian Agurto, Dane Rising, Mike Darling. Filmed entirely on location at Wasteland Weekend, Mojave, California, 2024.
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Where's Max? Let's go beyond Thunderdome!
If driving on the 405 Freeway at rush hour isn’t "Mad Max" enough for Americans, then LAist has got a party at the end of the world that might catch some eyes.
Thousands of people will descend on the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, Sept. 24th, 2025, for the annual Wasteland Weekend (wastelandweekend.com) -- a five-day bash inspired by post-apocalyptic franchises like "Mad Max" and "Fallout."
What started 15 years ago as a group of "Mad Max" fans looking to hang out has grown into an intensely immersive destination for people from around the world.
LikeBurning Man, this festival takes place on a barren landscape. But Wasteland Weekenders go all-in on creating another world.
(MorgueOfficial) In the Bible, "God" demanded bloodsacrifices, the death (murder) of innocent men, women, and children, and repeatedly unleashed plagues and floods to destroy humanity. Why would a "loving God" constantly demand sacrifice and worship? What if that weren’t God but actually the Devil? Who were the Cathars?
Holy Sophia (Goddess of "Wisdom") was the partner Jesus (Issa) as Mary Magdalene.
When WE were partners with Jesus (Issa)
Goddess Prajnaparamita (Java)
We? Wisdom (Quarterly). The Buddhist Goddess (personification) of Wisdom, Prajnaparamita, Khema Theri, the Buddhist nun and chief disciple the Buddha declared "foremost in wisdom," the wise disputant and arahant (enlightened one) Princess Yasodhara (Ven. Bhaddha Kaccana), formerly Prince Siddhartha's wife, the enlightened original Buddhist nun, the Buddha's mother Maha Pajapati Gotami (Queen Prajapati Gautami), the enlightened theris (elder nuns, namely those of ten or more years standing in the Bhikkhuni Sangha) recorded in the Theravada Buddhist text known as the Therigatha (Psalms of the Enlightened Buddhist Nuns), and the countless enlightened Buddhist nuns, devis (female light beings), and laywomen since the time of the historical Buddha.
Mysteries of Christ and Sophia | Christ Series
(Spirit Science) In this episode, let's explore the sacred and often hidden story of Christ and Sophia — the Divine Masculine and Feminine in eternal union.
Before the world was formed the Goddess of WisdomSophia danced through the cosmos. She was present before time, before the stars, before matter itself.
Once revered by early Gnostics (those dedicated to knowledge and wisdom as recorded in many Nag Hammadilibrarytexts) as the divine feminine presence of God, Sophia later became silenced by patriarchal theology.
But the ancient mystical traditions remember. Together, Christ and Sophia represent not only sacred counterparts but the cosmic blueprint of balance — body and soul, matter and spirit, masculine and feminine in full harmony.
This episode unpacks their mythic union through early Christian mysticism, Gnostic scriptures like the Pistis Sophia and Gospel of Philip, and esoteric teachings that link their incarnated forms as Jesus andMary Magdalene(the embodiment of Sophia, who was never a prostitute but was cast in that denigrated light by the Church patriarchy).
Let's journey through Sophia’s descent into chaos, her longing for the True Light, and her ultimate restoration through Christ — not as a story of sin and shame, but as a spiritual [allegorical] map for every soul seeking integration and divine reunion.
Their love is not a metaphor. It is alchemy. It is wholeness. It is the mystical marriage at the heart of creation.
(WQ) We need not worry about Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible, largely a silly book about hedonism and throwing off the shackles of Christian shame and oppression. (Sure we can ban it, burn it, and increase sales, but why bother?) What if a far worse book is the one LaVey is ostensibly opposing?
If a bad book says, "Do bad," so what? However, if the alleged "Good Book" says "Do bad," now that's something to be troubled by. That a devil should do harm, that's to be expected. That an all-loving "God" do harm -- call for murder and urge genocide, allow rape, slavery, genital mutilation, and even sanction the murder of one's own children as a punishment (when the Bible demands that bad boys and girls be stoned to death, not as an option but as a commandment that God demands) -- there's something wrong with that "God."
Fine will deter the rape or marriage will punish it
And cowards too fearful to say so shall approve of or be murderers, rapists, animal slaughterers, flesh-eaters, participants in genocide, and pat themselves on the back for being obedient, currying favor with their Lord so that he doesn't kill them after death but let them live on for eternity, worshipping Him and doing His bidding, gathering around singing His praises. Whew, is this really a religion? Abrahamic faiths (Catholicism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are real?
What if the God of the Old Testament is actually the DEVIL (a jealous, genocidal, angry murderer of human and other beings)?
(MorgueOfficial) In the Jewish-Christian Bible, the "God" depicted demands blood sacrifices, the killing of children (by stoning for disobedience), the deaths of innocent men and women, calls for genocides against the Israelites neighbors, allows rape, sometimes demands it, and unleashes plagues and floods to destroy humans.
Why would an all-loving God constantly demand blind obedience, worship, tribute, and sacrifice? What if this weren’t God but actually the Devil or a devil? This was what the Gnostic were saying from the beginning, describing a Demiurge that created this prison world, a simulation or endless samsara, which we need to escape not become brainless choir singers forever and ever.
It's our sacred Christian biblical tradition to rape and kill children. God and Church say so (BBC).
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(A24) April 2024: From writer and director Alex Garland and starring Cailee Spaeny, Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. CIVIL WAR – is in theaters in the middle of April 2024.
What the H kind of BS is this, Hollywood?
What can be said about this masterpiece? That Kirsten Dunst is not the person for the part, so the part is altered to make her fit? Protagonist and newcomer Cailee Spaeny is thrust into the turmoil of a real-life breakdown of law and order we normally take for granted. The good ol' boys with their AR-15 now run things, to the extent anyone does. There's a force at play, but who knows where it's coming from? Is it the Western Front or the powers that be? How could the government fall, how could it give up, how could the Trump character be so oblivious to what's going on? Maybe the president is an amalgam of Trump's foolish swagger and Biden's dementia and cluelessness. Maybe he is merely portraying an enfeebled white man losing his grip. This is a coming-of-age story yet not in the sexual sense. It's learning the hard lessons of life in a crash course at the School of Hard Knocks. One has to imagine MAGA types will flock to theaters. One also imagines they will be disappointed but not disappointed enough to not still want a shot at another insurrection and second chance to set up a white supremacy social system of us versus them. The them could be whomever does not fall in line with what's familiar.
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I had trouble keeping up and fell asleep.
It's very easy to take sides in this film. The only problem is it's not altogether clear what the sides are. We think we know, though it doesn't make sense that that's how the board would be drawn. But that is how it's drawn. So we, as liberal average people of the West Coast know where we stand. The people in the middle try to stand out of the way. And is the East taking a stand? It must be. Who knows how we got here that they are failing. That's why it's a love letter to viewers or at least the right kind of viewers. MAGAots are bound to be unhappy with how things are playing out, even though on the surface this is what they wanted, right? It's hard to say too much but not impossible. So we won't ruin the film with spoilers. However, without them, one might well leave scratching one's head. Where do the filmmakers stand? How did things get this good that it's the beginning of the end? The love letter may be to viewers with a big FU to Joedon Trumpen. (Or is his name Donjo Bidump? It doesn't really matter. They're the same). But who trained all of these combatants? The hicks with AR-15s are one thing. We're asking about the uniformed ones? It's nice to follow Cailee as she grows into her new career and learns so much so quickly even as nearly everything goes away. Message? It seems safe to say that if you made this movie, you would not have made it this way. There were obviously writers brought in to fix and smooth out the story, and they did a good job of that so that it must have passed the test audience complaints, except perhaps for the most obvious one. But then that's the point, isn't it, Garland?
Civil War (2024) breakdown: Ending explained and details missed
(New Rockstars) April 15, 2024: Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, Devs) moves onto a new controversial project called Civil War, which imagines a dystopian United States in a civil war against a fascist president played by Nick "Donald Biden" Offerman. Erik Voss analyzes this film scene by scene to explain some of the real-world parallels and influences on this film and the deeper meaning to be taken away from it.
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