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Desipere est jus gentium [for every one is at liberty to be a fool] (A. SCHOPENHAUER)

A last trick is to become personal, insulting, rude, as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand, and that...

19 January, 2023

But Pluto did not want to lose Persephone, so winter spread over the earth

Plouton (Pluto) [Haides] fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help secretly kidnapped her. Demeter roamed the earth over in search of...

18 January, 2023

Who was the paralyzed person that Jesus healed in Bethesda?

Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda 5 After this[a] there was a Jewish feast,[b] and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now...

17 January, 2023

The plural (KIKI DIMOULA)

Love, a noun - alias substantive, indeed substantive, in the singular form, neither feminine nor masculine, etymologically defenceless. In the plural form defenceless loves. Fear, a common noun, at first in the singular...

16 January, 2023

If we knew in advance the worst that war could do to us, that knowledge would be an effective deterrent (LOU MARINOFF)

Hobbes held that if we knew in advance the worst that war could do to us, that knowledge would be an effective deterrent....

14 January, 2023

“Love must not entreat, or demand.” (HERMANN HESSE)

Once when I had stayed away for several days and returned bewildered she took me aside and said: "You must not give way...

13 January, 2023

Break With The Past. Having now been cut off from the old forms of thought, emotion and adaptation, we are led to a brand new society. (ALVIN TOFFLER)

One of the most striking statements of this theme has come from Kenneth Boulding, an eminent economist and imaginative social thinker. In justifying...

12 January, 2023

Plato. So the soul is divided into three parts

In this divided Platonic world, man is ever trying to reach some balance. For the most part he is drawn to the sensible...

11 January, 2023

Space: What’s in store for us in 2023 – Five missions to come

It’s been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the...

10 January, 2023

Alexandros (or “Pseudomantis”) and Kokkonas. The two most vicious and insolent, eager for all misdeeds (LUCIAN)

I will begin with a picture of the man himself, as lifelike (though I am not great at description) as I can make...

09 January, 2023