I watched Skyline a few nights ago. In most respect it's not a very good movie. It wanders without seeming to make a coherent point or go in any definite direction. Yet it's got an amazingly good...
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Throwing Spears at the Moon
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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Merindric Culture
Social classes from top to bottom:
Nobles and merchant-princes (hereditary)
Enchanters Guild (merit,intellect)
The Watch (merit,martial)
Merchants & crafters (heredity, with occasional...
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The Warwood Is Becoming Witchwood
Now that the lich-queen is establishing herself in the Three Towers, folk are leaving off calling the place the Warwood (which was a reference to the end of the Indric Age, kind of a long time ago...
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