“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
Pondering through the Scriptures this morning, I was much struck by the passages in all four canonical Gospels concerning Judas Iscariot, the one who ultimately betrayed Jesus. The grand sweep of the greatest story ever told contains many rich details, and it is...
So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between...
Mondays are horrible enough to begin with, until you realise this is the week when you have to file your tax returns (if you live in the FUSA). And that means you have to scramble to justify your existence to the bloody IRS – an organisation evidently designed...
I am rather too exhausted after a long week to write anything particularly deep or meaningful, but I think we probably all feel that way after watching the inexplicably weird tariff wars this week. What started out as a good, if over-hyped, idea, has turned into a...
I am not a big hockey fan, simply because I do not watch sports, in general, unless it involves two men standing in a ring or octagon, beating the snot out of each other. However, given our Canuckistani friends like to say that hockey is basically MMA on ice –...
What a ghastly, horrible, nasty day this is – a feckless, disgusting, miserable, awful, soul-crushing excuse for a 24-hour span. It is also known as “Monday”, and, like shingles, or the Clintons, you think you have vanquished it, but it keeps popping...
21 [a] Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a...
The quote falsely attributed to Lord Winston Churchill goes something like, “jaw-jaw is better than war-war”. This is not quite what he actually said, which went something like, “Meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war”. This is one of those odd instances where Winnie...
This week saw the dawning of what President Trump referred to as “Liberation Day” – a day on which the USA levied heavy tariffs on the rest of the world, to re-balance its trading relationships with other countries. Upon closer examination, it does...
Gentlemen, the time is now right to make a big announcement about both the present and future state of the Didactic Mind site, and all of its associated properties. As you may have noticed over the past several months, my output has diminished considerably, due to...
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