Gothic style is usually called “dark romanticism”. Not like romanticism which tends to convey positively human’s social, political and moral ideals, Gothic writing is full of violence and horror with the involvement of mysterious and supernatural forces to reveal the dark side of human nature, ...
Why hell is destruction, not eternal torment. Absolute Biblical proof of conditional immortality. What was taught in the Old Testament? What did Judaism teach? In-depth discussion on Conditional Immortality, Annihilationism, Traditionalism, and more! He
s many facilities. That webpage, showing people of all different body types—not one a smoking beauty—notes: “Did you know there are over 55 public saunas in Tampere region for anyone to relax in, throughout the year? Finnish sauna culture is also a part of the UNESCO Intangible ...
I’m spending this year doing a lot of thinking and writing, and one of the most challenging parts of that is figuring out when, where, and how to share what I’m working on. So I might post some things here, while I figure out what else I might do with them. As we get ready ...
evolutionary logistics. Evolution is often cited as a reason women wear makeup: It’s ornamentation that catches the eye of potential mates. It’s a perfectly fine theory until you question why it’s women, and not men, who wear makeup (for the most part), when both sexes have an ...
This interior shot of Herod's tomb is a far cry from the traditional concepts of hell familiar to most people. This tomb is literally a "hell" (Greek: hades) or hole in the ground! No demons with pitchforks, no burning, boiling caldrons of molten rock, no screams of the eternally co...
It is the norm for centers of power to be on the earth’s power points. There is a reason for this. My house was relatively close to Great Falls, Maryland. Access to the falls themselves, at least when I was young, was cut off after Hurricane Agnes went through in 1972. There was...
None. Because if I had actually listened to any of their records, whatever misgivings would have quickly disappeared. Stuart Murdoch is a peerless pop songwriter, and I’ve literally not heard a bad record from them. “If You’re Feeling Sinister” and “The Boy With The Arab Strap” are...
Grihastha (Sanskrit: gr̥hastha) literally means "being in and occupied with home, family"or "householder". It refers to the second phase of an individual's life in a four age-based stages of the Hindu ashram system. ... In Indian traditions, Grihastha stage of life is a recommenda...
And I realized suddenly and clearly that this applies to me too. I am what’s here, after fear. After doing things that literally felt as though they’d kill me. Things that probably killed a lot of me. Let me explain: I always laugh when I get called a happy warrior, for the sam...