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Title: Stayin' Alive
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I "do" Columbus Day every year and I usually "do" Thanksgiving, but I skipped it this year because everybody already knows that the story about the Pilgrims and the Indians giving thanks together is total bullshit. Believe me, right then the Indians had nothing to be thankful for. Squanto, the purported protagonist, had just returned from being enslaved in Europe to fin...
The Gospel of Luke is actually the first half of a document that also includes the Acts of the Apostles. For some reason, in the standard order of the New Testament, the Gospel of John has been inserted between the volumes. Scholars think it was written around 90 CE, by which time the ministry of Paul had begun and Christian proselytizing was mainly directed at gentiles. By t...
I was temporarily blocked from my blogger account due to some bizarre technical problems. Google does not provide any customer service -- there is no way to contact them, no way to talk to a human, and the FAQs they offered did not solve my problem. I finally figured it out with the help of IT support from my university, but it took the better part of three days.
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The Gospel of Mark originally ended with verse 8. Somebody later decided that wasn't a sufficiently exciting end to the tale, and appended verses 9 through 20. Before we get to the fan fiction, we'll note the usual discrepancies with the other gospels. Here, three women came to the tomb, in John there were only two, in Matthew there was one, and in Luke there were at least fi...
Recall the Economics 101 cartoon world of only two parties on an island somewhere, exchanging corn for chickens. So let us return briefly to the lonesome world of Alice and Bob. For the transaction to truly benefit both of them, it should be obvious that they both have to know exactly what they are getting – that’s called the assumption of perfect information. If Alice’s...
