-
Recent Posts
Twitter Updates
- Story sans negatives: His satiable curiosity was attracted by the fantile games of expressably energetic children ow.ly/kH0qd 2 weeks ago
- To call a person an unspeakable cad is negative; consider rather the story of the Speakable Cad: ow.ly/kH0qd 2 weeks ago
- Can’t we do away with negatives entirely? I think we can. [Correct link this time!] ow.ly/kH0qd 2 weeks ago
- Can’t we do away with negatives entirely? I think we can. ow.ly/kGZ3I 2 weeks ago
- Any politician foolish enough to so much as hint at a need for repentance certainly was asking for the drubbing he would get.... 1 month ago
Hugh Nibley [off the record]
Category Archives: Philosophy
Forty Easters Ago
It’s hard to remember Hugh Nibley getting angry in a discussion about religion. Usually he took attacks in stride and found them stimulating rather than making him lose his tempter. I had certainly never seen anything provoke such an immediate and negative response from him. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Culture, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged Cosic, Easter, Hopi, Hopi people, Hugh Nibley, Kresimir Cosic
6 Comments
A Strange World in which East and West, Past and Present Intermingle
The Egyptians are so different from every other ancient people that one hardly knows what to make of them. They are the only people we know of who deliberately planned to convey in formation to other ages than their own. Continue reading
What is Worth Knowing in Comparison with Arabic?
I have taken up Persian. In three weeks I am able to read the stuff with greater ease than I could Arabic after 13 years! The irony of it – if we had been spending all that time on ANYthing but Arabic we could all be experts. But what can you suggest that is worth knowing in comparison with Arabic? Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy
Tagged Ancient language, Arab, Arab people, Arabic, Arabic language, Linguistics, Odysseus, Omar Kader, Pearl of Great Price
Leave a comment
Hugh Nibley, World’s Worst Politician
Only in the light of the acrimony of our recent ultra-polarized politics have I come to understand the lesson of the time I discovered my father was the world’s worst politician. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged democrat, Hugh Nibley, iBook, Joseph Smith, LDS Democrat, LDS politics, Mormon Democrat, mormon politics, Politics, republican, Richard Nixon, World War II
Leave a comment
Video: Christina Nibley Mincek Speaks at Hugh Nibley’s Funeral
Christina Nibley Mincek speaking at Hugh Nibley’s funeral. Hugh Nibley died eight years ago today, February 24, 2005. Continue reading
Posted in Family, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged Bridal Veil Falls, Christina Mincek, Death, environmentalism, Hugh Nibley, Hugh Nibley Funeral, Kelly Richardson, mormonism, Nature, Provo Canyon, Utah, Wilhelm Kempff, Zion Canyon
1 Comment
Nibley Goes Multimedia – Beyond Politics Available on the iBookstore
Hugh Nibley & Associates, a company owned by the family of the late Hugh Nibley, has released a multimedia eBook edition of his classic essay Beyond Politics with multimedia supplemental materials. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Bob Bennett, E-book, Hugh Nibley, iBook, IPad, LDS politics, mormon politics, mormonism, Politics, Sen. Robert Bennett, Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Senator Bennett
2 Comments
The Savage Himalayan Look of our Mountains in Winter
Never since I moved to Utah have I had the bored and restless feeling, that haunting urge to get away, which never let me alone in California. Continue reading
Eastern Tycoons Blowing their Heads Off Right and Left
The way the he-man cult of the hunter has blossomed forth since the II phase of the War bodes ill for the future of the great republic. Continue reading
Posted in Education & Academia, Nature, Philosophy
Tagged hunting, religious debate, Utah
Leave a comment
From a Muddy Foxhole of the “Bridge Too Far”
In the times of total confusion which lie ahead let us not forget how clearly our own behavior has foreshadowed the horrible commotion of the earth and the elements. I speak in the prophetic vein, because the signs of an impending readjustment in the face of the whole earth are fairly clear. Continue reading
Bob Bennett Video on Nibley and Politics: Part 2
The [Mormon] Church does not say, “Well let’s purge Harry Reid.” They say, “Let’s call him up and ask him for something else we need.” And he delivers. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Bennett, Bob Bennett, Book of Mormon, democrat, Harry Reid, Hugh Nibley, Latter-day Saints, LDS Church, LDS politics, Mormon, Mormon Democrat, mormon politics, Mormon Republican, Mormon voters, mormonism, Politics, republican, Sen. Bennett, Sen. Bob Bennett, Sen. Robert Bennett, Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Senator Bennett, Senator Reid, Senator Robert Bennett, Senator Robert F. Bennett
2 Comments
