Did you know that ‘caput’ means head in Latin? Anyway, I want to take the opportunity here to describe why I’m so utterly revolted by capital punishment. There had been in me a disgust of capital punishment for a long time and I’ve only recently discovered why, after many hours of labourious and deep mental [...]
Sometime in the late eleventh century pope Gregory VII wrote 27 “dictates”, they’re known as Dictatus Papae (Dictates of the Pope). These were statements in which he outlined the position and powers of the papacy. If you know anything about the history of that that time you’ll know it was volatile when it came to [...]
Well I’ve been shown another example of how the modern population takes things for granted. You know things like pen ink and paper. Listen to this. Apparently in the days of old (about 1000 years ago) ink and paper, well not paper exactly that didn’t come about until a little later out of China, but [...]
Just pretend that someone has asked you for a tool that would help them succeed at something. Imagine that they need this tool because they decided that the tool they made was not sufficient for the job. But you know that in giving them the tool you will be put in direct competition with them. [...]
I’m currently taking a history of Christianity course. Its very revealing. I must fess up and say that I had no real idea of how the early church functioned or came about. When studied though, some very bizarre facts come to light. I don’t want to spoil the fun for anyone but just have a [...]