Green leaves all fallen, withered and dry;Brief sunset fading, dim winter sky.Lengthening shadows, Dark closing in…Then, through the stillness, carols begin! Oh fallen world, to you is the song...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/green-shoots/
I have been greatly enjoying Angel Studios’ The Chosen, a show depicting (a heavily dramatized/fictionalized version of) the life of Christ. It has had quite an effect on me. I have tried, on t...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2022/05/07/the-friend-of-god/
What, exactly, is glory? Excellence? Appreciation? Must we all become martyrs, Olympic gymnasts, or spectators of such? The thing is: excellence is relative. Appreciation is subjective. So could ...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/glory-refracted/
Here is an analogy I don’t think I’ve ever seen made (though it must have been): the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil <=> the Matrix’s “Red Pill.” Both involve learning. ...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/on-pills-blue-and-red/
A girl I’d had a crush on died a few days ago. I don’t know how she died, exactly. Found out on Facebook. I’d made some half-hearted attempts to ask her out, but the stars never really alig...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/notes-on-femininity/
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we have a lot of experience with hierarchy. We have a lay clergy, but even to expand on that—every worthy male member is ordained a priest, o...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2020/06/14/men-and-hierarchy/
I’m still around. Been on Twitter mostly, or head down in work. But still around. Back when Kakistocracy was still around, he wrote something I thought quite insightful. Since he delet...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/be-of-good-cheer/
via Everyone Is Sick Now
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2020/03/18/everyone-is-sick-now/
Last post was kind of a doozy. The salient points: magic seems consistently connected to meaning, consciousness, names In Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, magic is (eventually) revealed to “...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2020/02/25/magic-pt-2/
The author of this blog has for a very long time wished to be a wizard. (Warning, if it’s not obvious: We’re going far afield here) Or that’s how I thought about it at first. I soon dis...
https://calculatedbravery.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/magic-pt-1/