-
Recent Posts
Twitter Updates
- Story sans negatives: His satiable curiosity was attracted by the fantile games of expressably energetic children ow.ly/kH0qd 1 week ago
- To call a person an unspeakable cad is negative; consider rather the story of the Speakable Cad: ow.ly/kH0qd 1 week 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: War
Hand-in-Glove with the Persecutors of the Church
Notice where the church is always being fought…where the church has always received the most savage…resistance everywhere in the deep South. But…we are imitating the deep South here. We match Mississippi more closely than any other state in various things now: in our morality, in our politics, in our views of things, in our self-righteousness and in our intolerance. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics, War
Tagged anti-mormon, antimormon, LDS faith, LDS politics, Moral Majority, Morality, Mormon bashing, mormonism, The God Makers, Utah, Utah Politics
1 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
The Things we Feel Most Deeply Fail to Find Expression
There is no more eloquent commentary on the inadequacy and incompleteness of everything here than the fact that the things we feel most deeply fail to find expression either in words or symbols, the things we desire most eagerly we can’t even define, while the things we despise above all other things – a bondage of meaningless and repetitious chores, a guilty preoccupation with empty trifles and commonplaces – these we make to the substance of our life and action… Continue reading
Social Peace through Enforced Conformity
They settled instead for the poor shabby philosophy of St. Augustine – sit tight, don’t ask questions, do like the rest do, and you will be at least as safe as anybody else. Continue reading
Posted in Ancient writings, Letters, Philosophy, War
Tagged Battle of Holland, Bridge too Far, Half-truth, History, Holland, Nazi philosophy, philosophy
1 Comment
The Most Nauseating Farrago of the Century
So much for the fibre of the American mind – it is the fibre of grated cheese. Continue reading
Posted in Letters, War
Tagged 101st Airborne, Aeschylus, Ardennes, Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge, Panzer, World War II, WW II
Leave a comment
As it Was in the Days of Noah
Everyone is guessing about the end of the war. I don’t think it will make much difference – as it was in the days of Noah, etc. Continue reading
Posted in Letters, War
Tagged jingoism, Loch Ness, Loch Ness Monster, Nazi, Scotland
Leave a comment
Going to Perdition with Our Eyes Open
We are going into perdition with our eyes open; the separation of the tares and the wheat is to be strictly a free-will affair. Continue reading
Wars of Undisguised Conquest and Aggression
While those obscene old men [in the Senate] pricked up their ears and licked their lips the speaker described how this country would throw itself in all directions in wars of undisguised conquest and aggression. Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Philosophy, War
Tagged Hugh Nibley, Military, Military Intelligence, United States Senate, War, War of Aggression, Washington, World War II
4 Comments
