A2A McKayla. McKayla, I squirm under this question. You and Jeremy are the two people that, when you started following me, I thought “… I should be a better person”. I’m not a better person in the past three months. But I did think I should be, for a moment. I’ve given a monthly tithe […]
… Not one aggressively secular, historically informed answer to the question? Really? OP is clearly looking for one: Some religions made it a main cause to conquer countries i.e. Islam, others’ was to unite religions i.e. Sikhism. I’m not contradicting the other answers, but there is a place for this answer too. If any of […]
Sicut alicubi dixit medicus bonus Habibus Magnus: Confiteor. [As the good doctor Habib the Great has put it elsewhere: “I Confess”] [Hey, it’s not my fault Habib chose to quote the Catholic Mass in Latin.] You know, Habib le toubib, I’ve been expecting a question like this for maybe a month or two. Since I […]
Let me preface this by saying that I am a cinematic dunce. At least, when I was a kid, Bill Collins was still presenting pre-1950 Hollywood films every Saturday night on Australian television. That was the 80s, of course. I think I got a lot more depth in my cinematic education then than the young […]
I got a fifth of the way through the Temple on holiday (his complete works), before deciding that I needed to go back and get a listing of what the good stuff was. A couple of the short poems I read were good. Not transcendentally good, but good enough that I looked forward to finding […]
I wish to register my mockery of Quora deciding that (a) a question about the use of the word fuck is automatically an Adult Question; and (b) much more importantly, that there shall be No Request From Suggestions available for any Adult Question. What would an Australian Quora term that, I wonder? Infantilising horseshit, I […]
The cumulative effect of the following: Patriarchy, and its concern to control fertility and access to fertile women as tribal commodities. The concern of archaic Judaism to associate fertility with religious identity (circumcision). The dismissal of bodily desire as more base than spiritual pursuits, to be regulated (already present in both Judaism and several strands […]
Cyril of Alexandria. Patriarch of Alexandria. Doctor of the Church. Founder of Mariology, and formulator of the concept of the Mother of God. Establisher of Miaphysitism, the distinct belief of the Oriental Orthodox Church; yet his formulation was also foundational to the Chalcedonian Christianity of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church. Even if you don’t […]
Originally Answered: What is your first memory? I remember remembering my earliest memory. I don’t remember it, but I remember remembering it. I remember remembering being photographed, and thinking how tight my pants were. The photo is with my sister, and I must have been 3 or 4. It’s at my parents’; I should get […]
Yeah, when I was an undergrad, someone did a conceptual art thingy, involving nailing books into the lawn. And students had the kind of anguish that McKayla Kennedy spoke of in her Pinterest answer. And rescued the books; I got a Ulysses out of it. The books were going to be pulped by the publishers […]