Throwing Spears at the Moon

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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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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