Notes from the Ninth Circle

Essays, commentary, videos, information about political events, freethought, social democracy, history, and anything else I feel like writing about. Poems too, and a few short stories.

30 July 2013

The Exodus is a myth

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Ancient Israel as a kingdom with a defined territory renowned throughout the ancient world is nothing more than a myth believed by only a m...

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22 July 2013

Egypt's Foreshadow, Once and Again

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I remember listening to Egypt’s then president Hosni Mubarak’s speech with Farzi (short for Farzaneh) on 10 February 2011 on Al Jazeera L...

15 July 2013

Martin v. Zimmerman

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aka The State of Florida v. Trayvon Martin In U.S. common law in most jurisdictions, a citizen may make an arrest provided he or she se...

08 July 2013

A Poem by Tecumseh

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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, a...

26 June 2013

Edward Snowden, Alleged Espionage, and Certified Acts of War

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To paraphrase the opening lines of a hugely popular TV show on USA Network, “My name is Chuck Hamilton and I used to be a spy.” Like the...

22 June 2013

St. Colmcille (Columba), Irish dynasties, and Insular (Celtic) Christianity

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St. Colmcille of Iona, Columba to the English and non-Gaelic-speaking Scots, was for centuries the most revered of all the many, many s...

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Chuck Hamilton: I am a Terran, a citizen of Earth. The whole world is my home and all its people my brother, sisters, and cousins regardless of organic or synthetic origin. Like our distant cousins on other planets across space and throughout time, we are all children of the Universe. None of us asked to be born, and none of us will get out of here alive.

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