Money

“Teacher, we have known that You are true, and You are not caring for anyone, for You do not look to the face of men, but in truth teach the way of God; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? May we give, or may we not give?” And He, knowing their […]

Kush

The theory of true polar wander (TPW)—where Earth’s outer shell shifts relative to the rotational axis—can be tied to the mass migration of ancient humans across the Bering Strait during the Ice Ages by considering the climatic and environmental changes such shifts could have caused. The TPW theory posits that Earth’s solid crust might have […]

Cinema

“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it’s like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.” Exergue In the year 470 BCE, in the city of Athens, a bustling metropolis nestled on the eastern coast of the Greek mainland, overlooking the Aegean Sea, there […]

The Nervous System

The Parasympathetic Nervous System: Role, Importance, and Situational Examples The parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) is one of the two main divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the other being the sympathetic nervous system. The ANS is responsible for regulating involuntary body functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, digestion, and sexual arousal. […]

Doom

Tragedy, Estrangement, and Absolute Loss “Riddles were all he could think of. Asking them, and sometimes guessing them, had been the only game he had ever played with other funny creatures sitting in their holes in the long, long ago, before he lost all his friends and was driven away, alone, and crept down, down, […]

Bricolage

Lions sleep 20 hours a day. But those 4 hours…

Fugue

“I am now Imbarked on a tempestuous Ocean from whence, perhaps, no friendly harbor is to be found.” George Washington to Burrell Bassett, June 19, 1775 yesyesyes In German usage the note B flat is called B, and B natural is called H. This allows Bach’s name to be expressed as a musical motif, B […]

Poe

Oh God, I’m glad you came As true as the letters to this name An oasis is what heaven is Same as when I was a kid In heaven did I reside With cherub laughing guides and gates golden wound Beside me God was found And then whispers beckoned To second guess what was heaven […]

Immanuel

To my Old Jacobin, Concord, I insist. Dealing with priority surmounted may this time be it that by victory are you that is found. But through which mean? Forfeit. I insist you squander the jagged rules written by restriction for restriction on you not by you. What is this treachery? Traitors, pigs, and boars overboard! […]

F

There floated a hum, dual tone, all around the house, inside and outside. Peris and Fauna heard it too and interrupted their play. The notes sat right on a sudden wind. Branches rocking and rippling through Peris’ jean overalls and Fauna’ long hair, her flowery summer dress draped over the grass that also swayed. It […]

T

The watered down and distorted sentence, redundant, yes a memory, a moiré pattern, repeating nevermore temporal or spatial aliases, now that the spoils have been cleaned out by the vector. A graphic design now blood relation. As if words are shadows, orphans due to a patricide of their own making, yet made possible by an […]

Derrida

“Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion] of the world” – Galations 4:3 “In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths [stoicheion] of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!” – Hebrews […]

Hegel

Rouse means to rise from sleep. Stendhal syndrome, religious ecstasy, and genital stimulation represent one thing, arousal. Not high or low but absolute. Beyond grappling with the pleasure principle there is the need to make vision of how we orient ourselves to the world according to this new place. I am kept under constant surveillance […]