Midnight Dagger

 Church, State, and Market A library examination In all of human history, there have been certain power organizations that have helped restrain or control society. Three very important ones are the State, the Church, and the Private sector. Interestingly, the separation of these three things only occurred a long time later. The concept of a transcendent God meant that Spiritual authority could not be vested in a ruler, except if it came directly from God. The separation of the private sector came later. The progression is fascinating. Let us examine it: 1.       Combined sectors. Originally, each king was a “god-king,” and they controlled their city’s economies, spiritual life, and pretty much everything else. They were the sons of the gods, and all things belonged to them. 2.       God’s system for Israel instituted private property. It also made the Priests and the Kings separate, and often restraining to each other. 3....

 George Whitefield By Owly Good morning, everyone. Yesterday, I read an essay in the library, written by Daleron's most famous sage, when he was still in his youth. Here it is: "George Whitefield was born on December 16, 1714, in the town of Gloucester, to hard working innkeeper parents who kept the Bell inn. Whitefield once stated that he was “addicted to lying, filthy talking, and foolish jesting.” Whitfield was good at acting and giving speeches, a talent that would be useful later. George had very low moral standards, to the point that he often stole money from his mother. When he was fifteen years old, he stopped school and helped with the inn. Whitfield’s mother wanted him to attend oxford university, but they could not afford to go, until they learned that he could go as a servant. Whitfield accepted, and while he was at oxford, he joined a club called the holy club which imposed the strictest possible discipline in an effort to earn salvation. While he was at oxford, J...

 Athanasius By Owlorey the Owl, LMD Into the room came the man, known to his opponents as the black dwarf. He was accused of murder and witchcraft, and of killing a man and cutting off his hand for magical purposes. The dwarf brought with him another man who was hooded and cloaked in black. The dwarf first ascertained that everyone present knew the victim that he supposedly murdered. He then uncovered the face of the hooded man. And everyone saw that he was indeed the man who was supposedly murdered by the black dwarf. Someone in the crowd said, “he didn’t kill him, he just cut his hand off.” The black dwarf uncovered the man’s right hand… It was there. The crowd shouted; “it is his other hand!” The black dwarf uncovered the man’s other hand. It was still there. The Dwarf asked. “What do you think he is, a monster with three hands?” Everyone laughed (González). Athanasius, the “black dwarf” to whom I just referred, was one of the greatest heroes of faith in the fourth century A....

 Man: The Mystery of Existence By Owly, Owlore, and Owlorey. We, the Three Librarians, have read and contemplated the thought-provoking work, The Man Delusion, which was published in this very news agency. Though its arguments are creative, we believe that it is fundamentally flawed in its reasoning. Here follows a thorough refutation of Rodolpus's claims. His first paragraph makes the claim that there is no evidence for humans. This we know to be false. These "great annoying two-legged creatures" have done many things that are very, very complex. After all, we consider nests, burrows, and books to be things of complexity. The argument we can make is as follows: we make nests and burrows. Those "annoying two-legged creatures" make skyscrapers. Who is smarter? Rodolphus continues to say that "If man exists, then we would have to obey what he says." This may be correct, but it does not negate the existence of man. Rodolphus goes on to make a very legitim...

  The Man Delusion By Roldophus the Hound. June 24, 2024. Man, the hypothetical figure of allegories and popular legend, is an absurdly contradictory figure. Many well-meaning dogs claim that he has benevolent intentions, or even that he exists as a person. If one looks at the evidence, though, one sees that there is no evidence that man could exist. Why should he exist? After all, if he really did exist, one would have to obey what he says. Of course, when one tries to prove that man does not exist, and that those great annoying two-legged things are just natural phenomena, one runs into several difficulties. The first is plainly obvious: where did all these things normally attributed to man come from? Skyscrapers, airplanes, and worse have been used as evidence for an intelligence behind all of this. Of course, this is superstition. Why would a good man create leashes, bedtimes, and worse of all, baths? This argument is unanswerable by the so-called man believers. As suc...