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.

01 December 2015

A Census of Sapient Beings in the Universe

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(Note: The total has been changed, drastically. Not because of mass birth, but because in the former total I had left out nine zeroes from...

28 November 2015

May the Aught be with you

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Reflecting on some of the last points in my previous essay, “A Universal Creed”, I started trying to think of a single word concept that w...

23 November 2015

A Universal Creed

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I originally called this “A Personal Creed” because it reflects my own thoughts. But it belongs not to me but to everyone, because it re...

20 November 2015

The Damned Human Race, by Mark Twain

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In 1905, barely a year into the Moro War in the Philippines (1904-1914), a brutal, horrific massacre of 900 Moros on the island of Mindanao...

The War Prayer, by Mark Twain

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Published posthumously in 1923, Twain wrote this piece in answer to the jingoistic hysteria over the Spanish-American War, the Filipino-Ame...

18 November 2015

The Levite, the concubine, and the Benjamites

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The final five chapters of the Tanakh book of Judges are almost always ignored by Christians and Jews alike because the picture of early I...

Micah the Ephraimite and the Danites

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The final five chapters of the Tanakh book of Judges are almost always ignored by Christians and Jews alike because the picture of early I...

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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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