Has anyone been able to explain “how” the ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids when most of the engineering skills they would have been required would…
Going Medieval
This is, and isn’t what you think it is. If all the history you learned was in high school and college, unless you specialized,…
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about “Heroes and Hero-Worship”. I’m trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read English,…
A Necessarily – Amiss Christmas Missive
Editor’s note: This was first published back on Christmas Eve of 2009. The world was a dramatically different place back then. Accordingly, it has been…
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?): The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can…
Which came first, the Good or the Bad in World Civilization? Part I
A debate might begin this way: Satan bragged to Jesus in the Wilderness that he was the master of all the world’s Kingdoms, and he would…