The Ravings Essays
This document was most recently revised on
Saturday, September 26, 2026.
These essays examine words, choice, science, religion, history, philosophy, and more.
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| The Ravings of a Mad Man
34 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Tuesday, March 28, 1989.
We have a very strange language. We use it to say some very strange things. In this essay, I began to examine some of the peculiarities of the language and discovered a whole new category of words.
By right of discovery, I call them nononyms. |
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| More Ravings of a Mad Man
31 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Friday, October 20, 1989.
In this essay I continued the examination of language that I began in The Ravings of a Mad Man. Along the
way, I proved the obnoxious nature of Christian evangelism. |
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| The Lone Raver
16 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Friday, March 23, 1990.
Did you know that there isn't any antonym in Christian doctrine for the word sin? All Christians consider themselves to be sinners. Their vocabulary doesn't allow them any alternative. |
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| Ravin' Evermore
22 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Monday, August 12, 1991.
In this essay, I strayed from the examination of words and looked at the idea of choice. There are a lot of different ways to look at things. I made some suggestions about who built the pyramids, what causes the red shift, what amoebas might think about people, and more. |
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| More Adventures of The Lone
Raver
30 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Thursday, October 10, 1991.
Experience would be a better teacher if people would be better
students. Here's an abbreviated chronicle of some of my schooling.
Cleverly hidden among the factual data you might find the occasional
gently stated opinion. |
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| To Rave Is Madness
16 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Thursday, February 20, 1992.
The dictionaries in our language are not very good at describing humility, one of the more desirable and, sadly, less common of human
characteristics. Furthermore, we're not very good at understanding
humility. We're even less good at achieving it. We have a
very strange language, a very strange culture, and very strange minds. |
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| The Lone Raver Writes Again
18 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Friday, April 12, 2002.
Is a test tube baby a natural human being, with all the rights
of a natural human being? Or, is a test tube baby a manufactured
human being, with about the same rights as a washing machine? Read
this essay and make your own decision. |
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| Raving Over Time
18 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Tuesday, February 4, 2003.
When documents remain in use for long periods of time, changes
in the usage of the words in the documents guarantee that the meanings
of the documents will change. |
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| Born to Rave
38 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Tuesday, February 19, 2008.
What really happened at the Tower of Babel? What was the
Tree of Knowledge? Are we really alone? Why can't we be peaceful? |
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| Ravin' Against the
Wind
12 Pages Long
This essay was first completed on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
This essay is a brief account of some of my efforts and frustrations, over
the years, to oppose forced obsolescence.
I expect that this is my last Ravings Essay.
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