Featured Essays
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All Things Known
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When a man with obvious mental degeneration claims he doesn’t know something, you should take him at his word.
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Disaster Porn
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The fact that Biden managed to manipulate his opponent into agreeing to this debate is surprising and impressive. I have every reason to believe one of the candidates will absolutely melt down within fifteen minutes.
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A Worthy Death
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Prisons exist for retribution, not rehabilitation, as the regular violence against prisoners shows. We need to get out of the business of warehousing and traumatizing people that really just need social support.
Latest publications
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Beltane Meditation
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This is when we again take that baton of life from past generations and hand it forward to the next. This is how we touch the past and fuel the future. This is a celebration of life, of living, of moving along that part of the wheel where we celebrate the miracle of regeneration.
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Ides of March
The Ides of March has become the lead in to a host of jokes, but there’s a lesson from history here worth considering.
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Topic Selections
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History
The idea that someone has captured the truth of a period of time in a page or chapter of a book is cloyingly sweet. You want it to be true. We need it to be possible. There it is, without question or variation, and it reads the same to us every time. We pretend that…
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Ides of March
The Ides of March has become the lead in to a host of jokes, but there’s a lesson from history here worth considering.
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The Philistine and the Poet
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The story of David and Goliath plays an interesting role in the second verse of the Book of Mark, by identifying a specific localization of Yahweh, the God of War.
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Icon and Text
The mythology of the Bible is a set of stories told about what the Bible says or means, and these stories reflect elements of a creed […] Most of what is written in a creed isn’t actually in the Bible. Yet it is the creed that defines the denomination. Thus the iconic Bible represents not…
Reframing the Gospels
This project is an analysis of the Gospel text in the context of a Rome-focused history of the early church. As elements are encountered in the text, a note is created here and appended to as needed. In the Reader’s Notes are the verse-by-verse translations, discussions, and contextualization. The anticipated result is a more fluid work that would encompass at least the first three Gospels in a comparative work.
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Politics & Current Events
The world is a crazy place, and sometimes I can’t stop writing about it. From the perspective of a pagan, a technologist, a historian, or just an American, here I yeet my therapeutic rants and philosophical discourses on the state of mankind.
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Kursk
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In the last two weeks, Ukraine has captured over 1000 square kilometers of Kursk, dozens of communities, and hundreds of Russian soldiers. It hasn’t just been about destroying airfields, like they did yesterday. Focusing on drone combat has created a new sort of phalanx that defeats the new Persians.
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Parody of Religion
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In the context of Louisiana legislating the “Ten Commandments” to be posted in every classroom, those unfamiliar with how the Bible has been used probably won’t notice that this is a parody of religion and take it at face value that this is the Ancient Law.
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Entomovention
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It’s become obvious to everyone that there are many fewer insects around than there used to be, but we can’t say it’s the end of the world for insects. We actually have no idea.
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Adventures in 3D
I bought my first 3D printer in 2018, and began a hobby that has given me a great deal of joy. That first printer was janky and loud: it provided opportunities to learn everything about how 3D printers are built as I made it quiet and generally reliable through my replacing all of the essential…
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The Second Hot End
A continuation of my adventures with an Ender 5 S1 printer, and eight new projects.
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3D Morality
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Filament has the potential for becoming extraordinarily useful, and 3D printing allows us to use filament in intricate ways we’ve never been able to build before. At the same time, it can be extraordinarily wasteful and can allow us to burn through resources faster than ever before.
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The First Hot End
My 3D printer experiences, including my recently purchased Creality Ender 5 S1, and a catalog of what I’ve made with it so far.
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Paganism, Faith & Spirituality
Essays on religions, old and new, in theory and practice. Modern pagan practice through a lens of archeology and archetypes. When religion is freed from the shackles of fascism, it becomes a weapon for freedom and truth and a cloak against lies and propaganda.
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Beltane Meditation
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This is when we again take that baton of life from past generations and hand it forward to the next. This is how we touch the past and fuel the future. This is a celebration of life, of living, of moving along that part of the wheel where we celebrate the miracle of regeneration.
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Icon and Text
The mythology of the Bible is a set of stories told about what the Bible says or means, and these stories reflect elements of a creed […] Most of what is written in a creed isn’t actually in the Bible. Yet it is the creed that defines the denomination. Thus the iconic Bible represents not…