General posts that are not about any topic in particular.
The reality is that I’m just here to ruminate on issues. I’d like to debate, but this is an unrealistic expectation: So, instead, I am here just to spend time thinking deeply about issues, mulling them over. There is good reason for this. Consider the short essay here:
The Manosphere suffers from idealism. It thinks that “if only people just…” that all the problems with dating and marriage would just disappear. In “Is F. Roger Devlin Back?” we examined this concept indirectly: “If only top-tier men would just stop taking all the good women.” “If only women would …
I last wrote about F. Roger Devlin in “Hypergamy and the Early Manosphere.” I didn’t find his pseudonymous Magnum Opus to be particularly amazing, to put it mildly. Well, Devlin (or someone claiming to be the person claiming to be Devlin) is back…. on Substack. So I thought I’d delve …
This is the fifth in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. We’re going to conclude this series by responding to the objections raised in Dominic Bnonn Tennant’s S1E9 podcast. There is no transcript and manual transcriptions are time consuming and error-prone—their New Zealand accent is sometimes hard …
This is the fourth in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. Now that we’ve examined a few of the verses in depth in Part 3, let’s go over 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in a linear fashion. But let’s keep in mind that the passage is structured in …
This is the third in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. There are so many ways to discuss 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, it is hard to know where to begin. Paul wrote it in a chiastic structure… A. v. 2–3 B. v. 4–7 C. v. 8a D. …
This is the second in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. In Part 1, we discussed John Chrysostom’s and Tertullian’s views on veiling. Now, let’s briefly discuss other patristic writers who also mentioned veiling, or closely related topics. We’ll consider why Tennant didn’t cite them. The …
This is the first in a five-part series on head coverings. See the index here. I’m an Anabaptist, by both practice and ethnicity. Head coverings are (or, at least, were) an established part of Anabaptist tradition. Quite a few of my former classmates and church members wore head coverings. Today, …
I need a change of pace, so I’m taking some time off to write about stupid stuff. Literally. One of the dumbest ideas ever invented was carbon removal. Let’s show how stupid carbon removal is. It takes energy to remove carbon through technological means. Since all expenditures of energy involve …