A former sailor's ramblings on anything from family, country and Church through general geek-ness.

Archive for the ‘philosophy’ Category

The Mother Thing

This is going to meander.  It’s more of a thinking-out-loud type post than really having a point. So I got married.  And suddenly, like the boy thing had hit, the motherhood-thing hit.  I wanted children. In retrospect this is vaguely puzzling.  Look, guys, I was always awkward around babies, vaguely puzzled by toddlers and often [...]

Practicality

First statement: I consider myself rather practical, function before form, comfortable jeans and a T-shirt that I bought twenty years ago type practical.  I love pretty, I consider that there has to be things to feed the soul, but I’m going to go for something effective before I start worrying about the paint job.  (Those [...]

>Political Theory

>It seems to be all the rage to model the political spectrum as two dimensional (generally left-right authoritarian-anarchist), as opposed to the older one dimensional (left-right). Well, here’s a possible model: Government nature horizontal by human nature vertical. Government is a good thing we can have too much of through government is a bad thing [...]

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