The Crone’s Illusion

Below is a repost, salvaged from the olden days, of my thoughts on the film Agora, which I most heartily acclaim. My reaction to Agora was highly charged, and I wanted to let myself cool down long...
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Hammurabi’s Muse

Below is a (very slightly edited) repost of something I wrote on the basis of morality, salvaged from the olden days. It is reasonable to expect social animals to have social rules. It just makes...
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Travel Challenges in the Witchwood

I have been putting mental energy behind coming up with ways to make travel more fun and interactive. All the action right now takes place in a location called the Witchwood, so, you know, it's...
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Red Riding Hood

After posting the bit on Genesis, I was challenged, jokingly I'm sure, to explain Little Red Riding Hood in the same way. Challenge accepted. The redness of the girl's cloak is a later...
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Genesis, Briefly

Reposting a post that I wrote on Reddit. Standard interpretations of the first bits of Genesis are very badly done. It isn't, and never was, a story about something that happened. What it really...
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