On The Solar Anus : It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form... all things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in…

THE best documentary of all time is up, ready and available to view on Veoh video. Jonathan Miller's A Rough History of Disbelief explores the development of atheism as a singular mode of being, clarifying quite spectacularly the emergence of secular thought…

The year two-thousand and seven!? Honestly? 2006 was a good year, especially from a Huge Entity perspective. From a badly organised clump of Internet ooze evolved a mighty idea-beast, dead-set on chewing up the putrid remains of any concept it came across. In…

On God Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not Omnipotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is God both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? ~ Epicurus On…

I could do with one of these at the moment. From the Proceedings of The Athanasius Kircher Society : In 1588, the Italian Engineer Agostino Ramelli described a novel invention to facilitate the reading of multiple books at once: A beautiful and ingenious…

The God-Shaped Hole - Part II (Link to Part I ) by Daniel Rourke The Huge Entity There have been few great movements in favour of reason as influential as that of Galileo Galilei. In summoning the power of reason as man's faculty of authority Galileo offered…

I am currently reading British Philosopher John Gray's - Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions . I tend to be turned on by anything controversial, but throw religion into the mix, slide in a healthy dollop of political cynicism, whisk that into a…

On Past The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. On Memory Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the…

Here Lies the Value of Truth: What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem…

'Tis a strange place, this Limbo !--not a Place, Yet name it so ;--where Time & weary Space Fettered from flight, with night-mair sense of fleeing, Strive for their last crepuscular half-being ;-- Lank Space, and scytheless Time with branny hands Barren and…

Why is it that the United States, which has not suffered a major terrorist attack at home for more than four years, thinks it's at war, while the United Kingdom, which was hit by a major terrorist attack just a year ago, does not? The evocation of war is…

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident…

Despite its vaunted reputation as a juggernaut of American culture, McDonald's has come to function as an ecumenical refuge for travelers of all stripes. This is not because McDonald's creates an American sense of place and culture, but because it creates a…

Ever wished yourself Godlike properties? Ever wondered what it felt like to spawn universes from the slightest ounce of your being? Well now you can, with The Random Logline Generator ! Realising mythical universes is as easy as depressing your index finger.…

Just last week, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Seth Lloyd published a paper in Physical Review Letters estimating how many calculations the universe could have performed since the Big Bang — 10^120 operations on 10^90 bits of…

When Fu Hsi, a mythical leader of ancient China, had the 8 trigrams of the I-Ching revealed to him supernaturally he was unlikely to have known the significance they would play on British Ministry of Defence denials some 5,000 years later. Perhaps even you,…

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs beware! The Day of the Beast is here, a once in a thousand year event. Behold the power of the sum of the squares of the first seven prime numbers! Today is the 6 th day of the 6 th month of the 6 th year (0 6 -0 6 -200 6 )…

I have almost finished reading Cliff Pickover's demiurgic reality-guidebook ' Sex, Drugs Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence '. It's been a ride I'd recommend to anyone interested in destroying this…

Dada is back ! True, 'twas nonsense for art's sake which first cast Dadaism at the fore-front of modern art. Today in its historical absolution from ever arising again Dadaism to me reflects the transcendent nature of 20 th Century art. Merely destroying the…

Abstractions abound here on The Huge Entity . Thoughts multiply, recombine and surface anew as entities of shimmering complexity. After some of these thoughts grow shadows, luminous and independant, awaiting their own responses; dealing in their own echoes…

Seems pretty obvious to me. Am I missing anything?

Infinity defies absolute definition. Perception of the infinite, for anything other than a mind which is itself infinitely composed, is an oxymoron. And yet, in historical conceptions of the infinite, or at least the imperceptibly extended, can be found…

This self reflexive , autopoietic haiku, is defined, then ends.

Humans like to fuck. It's a fact few of us can ignore, and even fewer of us would like to change. But, as with most activities we undertake with vigor, automation, mass production and media manipulation have turned sex into the commodity of cultures. The…

"With respect to the theological view of the question. This is always painful to me. I am bewildered. I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and…

The ideal of 'the city' has stood as the most physically accessible representation of Utopia since the days of Plato's Republic ; the mental playground from which philosophers and writers have played with the subject of human: Plato (through Socrates)…

Judas is back ! And this time it's global news... All this talk of The Gospel of Judas has got me thinking about the hyperreal nature of the Bible. Unlike other holy books, such as the Qur'an , the Bible was in a state of evolutionary flux for hundreds of…

Mu Haiku is back! If infamy is a viral infection then Jesus is surely the memetic common cold, clogging up the nostrils of civilisation since year nought. This guy was such a fly in the ointment of empire that simply killing him was not enough for the Roman…

In humans, intelligence develops over time. A child learns primarily from the guidance of patient adults. Without strong social--that is, cultural--inputs, even a potential wunderkind will end up a bungling bumpkin as an adult. We now have evidence that this…

...a straight identification of religion with any and every form of happiness leaves the essential peculiarity of religious happiness out. The more commonplace happinesses which we get are 'reliefs,' occasioned by our momentary escapes from evils either…

www.huge-entity.com turns 365 days old today... Where were you when it all started? The Huge Entity rears back its shaggy maine of nonsense clod fur, cracks wide a pair of blood speckled jaws and lets the universe know its power; truly alive where once t'was…

In 1901 Gustavus Hindman Miller got to work interpreting the symbolism of ten thousand dreams . The nonsense which ensued is destined to cause you much cerebral pleasure this night. What can it all mean? Cheese : To dream of eating cheese, denotes great…

On the Exile of Mankind The people became numerous... The god was depressed by their uproar Enil heard their noise, He exclaimed to the great gods The noise of mankind has become burdensome... - from the ancient Sumerian epic Atrahasis Having come from the…

In our semantically governed, symbolic understanding of reality we often maintain that true -identity is possible, that the whirling sensations called 'you' somehow cease at the surface of your skin, all else being distinct. Of course the Buddhist conception…

Your scientific theory has been proven. A monolithic, almost incorporeal time-machine sits in your lab awaiting further attention. Trembling with the tension of 13 billion temporal years yet to travel you dial in your exact time coordinates, pack your tuna…

"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It…

Hitler's fashion-sense banished small, square mustaches into cultural obscurity.

On Duality: "...out of strangled Utopias is born a clown, a being divided between beauty and ugliness, between light and chaos, a clown who when he looks down and sidelong is Satan himself and when he looks upward sees a buttered angel, a snail with wings." -…

Body, volume, style and shine with long-lasting power. Clonycavan Styling Gel, along with mummification in Irish peat, works together with your freshly disemboweled corpse to protect hair from the disruptive power of 2000 years of rigor-mortis. Whether the…

'String Theory' posits that our universe arises from the vibrations of tiny, infinitesimal and multi-dimensional strings of energy resonating in a higher dimension of reality. A beautiful, if complicated idea resting on the very tip of the physics…

Following recent blog trends to, often humourously, predict the coming events of 2006 I thought today was as good a day as any to revisit the visions of two of science fiction's greatest future builders. Both Arthur C. Clarke's (ACC) and Philip K. Dick's…

As this year draws to a close and my first trip home in 18 months looms large ahead of me, the concept of time has been made prominent in my imagination. 2005? What does it mean? That 2005 years ago some bloke in some nonsense-scripture was allegedly born to…

The Bible has mutated more times than the proverbial Gremlin, and yet I think there is still room for improvement. Hebrew begat Greek begat Latin begat English - and now introducing the Simplified-Chinese Bible . What happens if you translate this into…

As far as conspiracy theories go, this has to be one of the most interesting I have come across: "Predictive programming works by means of the propagation of the illusion of an infallibly accurate vision of how the world is going to look in the future".…

This was too fascinating not to post... ...and too overwhelming to try and summarise: Enjoy browsing Anatomies, taken from across the ages . Catch your breath, then click for many more.... Thanks All about nothing !

Food is fashion these days. A symbol of your 'lifestyle'; a token gesture of the kind of culture and upbringing you were formed from. We adaptable humans eat everything, even substances not considered compatible with our digestive processes are shoveled into…

The Huge Entity , ever alert at the call for action, constantly offers you new ways to survive its hugeness: Post

According to Freud there have been three great scientific revolutions that completely re-drew the boundaries which border human reality: Copernican : Where our geocentric perspective of the cosmos was revolutionised by the concept of the human world, the…

On Imagination: Midsummer Night's Dream - Act v. Sc. 1. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and…

Name: Marduk Origin: Ancient Babylon Biography: Fertility God, Chief of the Mesopotamian Deities and all round bad ass entity, Marduk was an obvious choice for the first ever Huge Entity of the week. He killed the serpent-beast that originally gave birth to…

See the blackness. Feel the blackness. Be the blackness... From unraveling the fundamentals of Brownian motion to patching together new forms of reality from relativity theory, Einstein has made more physicists horny than any other person in history, and now…

On epileptically induced ecstasy: "There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony...a terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it…

This is great. Perspective-Shift-Ahoy! "In 1741, a Danish-Norwegian missionary named Hans Egede published what became a famous account of "a most dreadful monster" that appeared off the coast of Greenland. "The case is interesting," the modern scientists…

A little light reading for you today, straight from the mouth of the wonderful wikipedia . Here are some of my favourite known and allegedly sexually active Popes from the past 2000 years... Rejoice! Sexually active popes: Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) had a…

If you thought religion grappled with a multitude of concepts that border on the insane , you should take a look at The Huge Entity archives sometime. Is there some sort of higher purpose behind the pulsating nonsense this blog continually erupts? What have I…

Japan's recent announcement to send noodles where no noodles have gone before surely means the future of noodle technology is looking bright. But what of the past? Step in, The Origin of Noodles , courtesy of the BBC: "The remains of the world's oldest…

This bemused and amazed me, I hope it does you too... "This object (shown in sketch) was found in 1898 in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt and was later dated as having been created near 200 BCE. As airplanes were unknown in the days when it was found, it was thrown…

In the 17th Century early 'scientific' analysis was undertaken of the Biblical account of Noah's Ark to determine exactly how large it must have been. From this figure they calculated a precise number of animal species that could exist on the planet's surface…

"Chinese and American people see the world differently - literally. While Americans focus on the central objects of photographs, Chinese individuals pay more attention to the image as a whole, according to psychologists at the University of Michigan, in Ann…

I leave Japan for the city of Ulaanbaatar on Sunday morning, my heart set on 16 days of exploring Genghis' homeland. The Huge Entity will indeed rest my friends, but it NEVER sleeps - Its doors are always open... Here's to finding Genghis in the Gobi , see…

Heed this advice! Neurosis is not your friend...

Wait! Some porn seems to bypass the censorship I mentioned yesterday ... I introduce The Fighting Perverts , the absolute lowest of the low in Japanese Power Rangers Fetish Porn : "Fight scenes that have no choreography whatsoever. They consist of people who…

History is written by the winners. It has and probably always will be that way. Allied attrocities in World War II most definitely happened, but they are seldom mentioned amongst the lists and lists of activities we can find for the enemy (Germany, Japan…

How do we curb climate change and ecological implosion? According to the G8 nations preventative methods are not the key. Instead of analysing where and why we have messed up Earth's ecology and figuring out better ways to cut back it was decided this past…

Now that the fanfare of Live 8 has subsided those crazy G8 summit members can get right down to the business of saving the world. But maybe in amongst the expensive dinners and fancy cocktails they might reflect on what is, for all intents and purposes, the…

Do you have an avid interest in Japanese culture? Got $1,500 to spare? Then pop on over to Ebay and buy yourself the 50 Large Hand Colored Images from the Meiji period of Japan in a beautiful, Lacquered Album. The fastest industrialisation in the history of…

A series of WWII anti-Japanese US propaganda posters are doing the internet rounds. Compiled by The Pacific University's Asian Studies program there are some absolutely startling images. Give them a full peek here : The propaganda machines of today (market…

Wow, this link really needs to be seen to be believed. I knew Japan was unpopular throughout much of Asia (check out this post to get a better idea how much) but when Korean school children use their school project to aim venom at their closest neighbour,…

"An article published in the latest issue of Diplomatic History examines Bush’s post 9/11 national security strategy in a historical perspective. In doing so, author Melvyn P. Leffler finds that there is nothing new or revolutionary about the Bush…

"Recently released Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry statistics, which show 32 percent of married couples in Japan tend to be sexless, has sparked controversy over the definition of the term, rather than the figure itself... ...Of the 8,766 respondents [to a…

"When Google announced a 10-year, $200 million plan to digitize the literary world, invoking the assistance of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan University, and the New York Public Library, France's National Library president Jean-Noel Jeanneney spun around…

"The Power of Nightmares explains how Curtis believes the vision of an Islamic terror network has been distorted by politicians intent on creating a climate of fear. The film makes it clear there are fanatical individuals willing to conduct acts of terror,…

"Japan's ruling party is pursuing drastic revisions to the country's constitution, including rewording the guarantee of gender equality. Women's rights advocates say that if the revisions pass, Japan will return to "a dark period of history." The…

Did North Korea recently fire a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan? Will holding a time-traveler convention tempt real time-travelers to turn up? Did David Hasselhoff help end the cold war? Do people need help to pluck up the courage to have an orgy?…

"Experts have dated the UK's oldest rock art, at Creswell Crags in the midlands, to more than 12,800 years ago... The complex of caves at Creswell Crags has preserved evidence of human activity during the last Ice Age. " "The man in charge of the Hubble space…