Category: General

From [kuro5hin.org]:
Dangerous Places: Adventure Guide to Afghanistan. Dangerous Places (DP) by Robert Young Pelton is “a guide to moving about “safely” in the most war-torn, poverty-stricken, lawless places in the world.”

The article he has on Israel is out-of-date. Saddly, living here appears to have gotten much more dangerous since then…

Most of the commentators on Kuro5hin seem to think he’s full of crap.

Excerpts from Gershom Scholem’s book The Messianic Idea in Judaism. Also on that page is an excerpt from Karen Armstrong’s A History of God, dealing with Shabbetai Zevi & Jacob Frank’s life and philosophies.

You can never have enough William Blake links:
The Urizen Books of William Blake, a site by Joseph Hogan, and
William Blake’s poems on Bibliomania

Look Ma, Sabbatians! The Donmeh of the Internet:
finally something that touches on Jacob Frank’s teachings.

The webpage for the upcoming roleplaying game GODLIKE, a superheroes RPG set in World War II, has been updated and looks very nice. They use a lot of manipulated photos to create a very gritty, authentic feel to the setting.

The system looks naff, however… they know everyone’s going to run it freeform, right? So they’re laughing at the expense of anyone who isn’t…