Author: Tim Constant

What we love is a reflection of the kind of person we are. What we hate does the same. God hates things. There are six things the LORD hates,seven that are an abomination to him:haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,a heart that devises wicked plans,feet that are quick to run … Continue reading Like A Horde Of Mongol Butterflies →

Introduction That the world in general, and America in particular, is in the throes of an identity crisis is beyond obvious. Modernity erased God as True North on the topo map of identity, and postmodernity eliminated any destination to be arrive at. This means wherever you happen to find yourself is the destination. Yay! You're … Continue reading Gender Totems →

Dreams are peculiar. While we are unconscious, our minds assemble loose narratives from lived experience that we take for granted as legitimately happening in real time. This is weird. We can see dead friends, be subjected to horrors, see the world's end, defy laws of physics, lose our teeth (a widespread and highly recurrent cultural … Continue reading On Dreams →

Introduction To The Introduction In my sophomore year I was a Zoology major for about 5 minutes. The only class I managed to take was some kind of "intro to zoos" course and in it we had to stuff a mouse - stuff as in taxidermy. There was no observable point to this exercise as … Continue reading Systema →

Introduction Somehow I escaped formal logic in high school. Perhaps it was because my graduating class boasted more pregnancies than diplomas, or maybe my head was too cloudy with hormones at the time to remember. But I am paying for it now because my son it smack dab in the middle of Ps and Qs, … Continue reading Modus Ponens →

"Charon, the Ferryman of Hell" by Gustave Dore "My son," the courteous master said to me"All those who perish in the wrath of GodHere meet together out of every landAnd ready are they to pass o'er the river,Because celestial justice spurs them on,So that their fear is turned into desire."Dante's Inferno, Canto III Dante imagines … Continue reading A Choice of Amens →

I was reading quotes from Anton Lavey’s The Satanic Bible yesterday, as one does when times are slow at work. What struck me was how, well, human it was. No goat worship or weird sex stuff with masks and torch-wielding voyeurs, just some dude telling other humans how to respond to situations in a normal, … Continue reading Makes Sense →

Two scientists walk along a yellow path in the forest and come to a divergence. "Look! In the middle of the path - three sticks arranged in the shape of an arrow. Think someone put it there to tell us which way to go?" "Yes. Too unlikely to have happened by chance" Same two scientists … Continue reading Two Scientists Diverged in A Yellow Wood… →

When an object approaches the speed of light, time slows. Once it matches light's speed, time stops altogether. Photons, packets of light, pure energy, do not experience time. Once a photon is emitted, hundreds of millions of years might elapse, but for the photon, zero time passes. Distance is also shortened as the speed of … Continue reading Eternal Light →

There is a brown leaf quivering on a naked branch outside my kitchen window that refused the Fall. In the biting wind it scratches at the sky, shivering with the malice only abandonment can bring.  Credit: Maxpixel.net It's odd when you think about an object moving with nothing touching it. Of course, I know it … Continue reading A Heap of Newton and Mixed Metaphors →