David P, re the word “terrific”: True now all that of course, but might it be the case that in English writing around a century and more older, that terrific didn’t necessarily mean the thing was good? I seem to recall reading the word in c…
Your Yoyo 71 > But in the US In my neck of the woods (near Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin), anecdotally, the last three months, people have been staying home to save money. Not going out as much. Disposable income lessening. I heard of two…
2 very different subjects: 1) NeanderthaI ; had DNA testing done years ago, so I test out as having 2% Neaderthal DNA ( and 1% Native American) My ancestry is 72% England, Scotland, Ireland, then 26% French. and misc North/west European. I
@81 Michael The analysis of the Grand Mutation is also less rigorous than JMG’s. The analysis is based on it being the start of an air cycle, while JMG places more importance on aspects the conjunction and other planets made at that instant…
regarding reconquista and conversions in general, a fair number of people seem to do as the Vicar of Bray in the song: In good King Charles’ golden days, when loyalty no harm meant, A zealous high churchman was I, and so I gained preferment…
Hah! I was about to say that it’s been a while since anybody accused me of being optimistic about anything, much less human nature, but I suppose I might actually be. After all, if I find myself regularly disappointed in human nature, it se…
@ Cynthia (#24) Something very much like that seems to have affected the now-popular fictional character Amelia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNyEYVb_NhQ There has been so much – and such diverse – material created so quickly and so prof…
@Chuaquin (#128): Catalan independence from Spain is very old idea. My wife’s maternal ancestry is entirely Catalan, and for very many generations (as far back as the 18th century) her ancestors and relatives in Catalonia have been passiona…
JMG, seems to me that one of the reasons we can’t construct anything anymore ( highways, buildings, planes) is that most engineers and construction experts are not good bureaucrats. In times of old, entire companies like Boeing Hewlet Packa…
BorealBear (#98) Thank you for your kind offer of a possible writeup of your upcoming journey for those of us of Heathen inclinations. If it is convenient for you yes, I’d very much enjoy reading such an account, along with any insights you…
@Mirko “Where there is no doctor” is the basic survival medicine book, official publication for people outside of civilized places so to say. It might be a start; Otherwise, depending on where you are (Yugoslavia?), you might want to try an…
I have been re-reading book 6 of the Aeneid, where Aeneas descends to the underworld to take counsel with his father. Then yesterday I started reading Ilaria Ramelli’s The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis which I linked to above. I would…