Tag Archives: Monty Python Life of Brian

witch hunting: clerical pastime

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Dave

European witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for two centuries? How could Europe’s educated laity, those lawyers, scholars and philosophers in the age of Erasmus cave in to such monkish phantasmagoria? The confessions of the so-called witches … Continue reading →

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happy faces: necessary delusions

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Dave

Maybe it is better to go through life with an upside down smile. And maybe not always choose the sunny side of the street.  It is a critique of the multi-billion-dollar positive-thinking industry which runs the entire gamut of books,seminars, … Continue reading →

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BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Dave

It’s been a long time,  since anyone has been successfully convincing   that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →

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