Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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It’s hard to build a solid foundation culling almost exclusively from other people’s work, then attempting to redefine it as something more than it was ever intended for, transforming the joy of nostalgia into a fantasy epic. I’ll start by being honest: I always thought Stranger Things was at least a little overrated. As a… Continue reading Stranger Things and the limits of the nostalgia mashup
How did an illiterate peasant that never sat on a horse in her entire life, much less have military training of any kind, march to war at seventeen years old, change the entire fate of France, and then defy the learned authorities of the Church for six months before being executed at nineteen? In many… Continue reading The impossibility of Joan of Arc, the one story that could transform even Mark Twain into a believer
Benjamin Franklin famously or infamously said that the country was a Republic, if you can keep it. To liken great things to small, this is a blog if I can keep it up, but isn’t that true of everything in life? When I started this blog in November 2020, it wasn’t clear to me how… Continue reading Celebrating 1,000 posts with a few near incoherent thoughts on the past, present, and future
If only we could sleep as easily as we can die. I could end my life in an instant, but for reasons that defy explanation, simply putting the mind to rest for a few hours can prove impossible. If only we could sleep as easily as we can die. I could, if I chose, end… Continue reading Sleep, death, and the limits of Mark Twain and William Shakespeare
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 