The problem with humans living firstly in the twentieth century and then the twenty first century, is that we can pretty well get everything...

There is a skate clothing brand called SMP, which has never stated what the acronym stands for and has been deliberately left undefined. Dep...

There is a legend which relates to the invention of the number zero, which probably isn't true but inadvertently demonstrates something ...

It seems to me that the vast majority of people when questioned if they think that they are a "good person" will answer in the aff...

I encountered a question recently which has stuck in my craw and will not come out. It is a question so incredibly irritating that it simply...

When we think about the great heroes of the world, who do we think of? Perhaps we think of some powerful warrior who fights valiantly in bat...

I have mentioned a lot in this series of posts about one of the central planks upon which I have constructed this house. That is the idea, w...

When I were a wee lad in school, the thing that was all the rage was the idea that kids needed "self-esteem". I remember a lot of ...

There is a concept in Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales' (the Moral Letters) which is hinted at, which happens as the result of the ci...

I think that the world has a very strange conception on what it thinks strength is. The reason why I think that it has this strange idea, is...

I think that the various uses of the word Temper are interesting. Tempered Steel is perhaps the most famous of all the tempered metals and t...

In reading through Plato's "The Republic" in which he imagines the perfect future society/city state, one of the words that co...

Beings who see themselves as the centre of the universe, both literally and figuratively, have a deep propensity for selfishness. This is a ...

 Occasionally Horse receives correspondence to the editor, which petitions for things to be written. As I already write day and and night li...

It would be remiss of me of me if I was to write a series of blog posts on the elements of eudemonia and not have seven of them. Seven appea...

The word εὔφημος (Euphemos) is like a pack of Araldite in that it comes in two parts. 'Eu' generally is signifier that something is ...

It never really occurred to me as an Australian that there are some perfectly ordinary words which we use differently to the rest of the wor...