Captian's Log Dear Sid, 22 Jul 2025 So, three Biblical ideas occur to me while reading your essay: Whether asked to become birds or bread, God seems to keep stones as stones. I don't think it's as…
Captian's Log From the Archives: The Hannibal Books 15 Oct 2021 With a little hel(l/p) from my insomnia, I've finally finished the Hannibal books. Now, I should probably start at the beginning, which technically wasn't the beginning, because I didn't start…
Captian's Log The Knowledge of Good and Evil; A Rant 25 Jun 2019 (Below is a rambling, ill-edited rant regarding evil. I seem to have spent myself, however, in search of some conclusion. It stands where it stands, a series of thoughts as…
Captian's Log Human Nature 14 Jan 2019 I’ve been braindead all day. I thought it would be a good idea to get up early and write. Unfortunately, whatever progress I made came at the cost of my…
Captian's Log Essay: Hope Nevermore 16 Nov 2018 Please read: Hope Nevermore Excerpt: I see the window and door as representations of the same event. The same call, the same tapping, draws the narrator to each. The consequences of…
Captian's Log The Flood 19 Oct 201819 Oct 2018 Let’s get depressed. You will die. Unavoidable. Unless you’re one in a million, you will have such little impact upon the rest of humanity that nothing you do will affect…
Captian's Log 2017: Christmas Eve 24 Dec 2017 Wishing you all a merry Christmas; hope you’ve been good this year. Ran across this video, and it reminded me of one of my earliest additions to the blog, Materialism.…
Captian's Log To: My Generation 7 Oct 20177 Oct 2017 Dear My Generation, It’s a meme now, a tired out joke, but it is the whole of materialism. In the light of comedy it is shown for hollow meaningless twaddle,…
Captian's Log Re: Puddleglum 20 Sep 2017 If, at bottom, our only motives are the gratification of our desires, what does materialism offer us? Immediately, it places certain inner wants outside the realm of possibility. Loves, like…
Captian's Log Sophomore 12 Aug 201730 Jul 2018 Everyone can enjoy good oxymorons. They are immediately funny, an obvious disconnect, and yet the beautiful thing about them is how true they can be, how descriptive of reality. This…
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