Books read, June 2022
A bit belated on account of me being on vacation; a bit short on account of June being the month of Revise All the Books.
A bit belated on account of me being on vacation; a bit short on account of June being the month of Revise All the Books.
Be honest: how much do you rely on your phone to do math for you these days? We’ve long had assistive devices to help us perform mathematical operations, and this week the New Worlds Patreon takes a look at some pre-electronic ones. Comment over there!
I kind of love it when the New Worlds Patreon swings around to a particularly off-the-wall topic. My patrons have voted for “math and measurements” as the general theme for this month, so we’re starting off with counting systems — decimal, vigesimal, octal, and more! Comment over there.
Get more voters registered; get more voters mobilized. Because many states strip voting rights from felons, and the more basic rights SCOTUS criminalizes, the more of us they remove from the voting rolls.
We need numbers on our side.
The last New Worlds Patreon essay for this month is a little oversized, as it covers both the remission of sin and the ultimate salvation of the human soul. Comment over there!
The New Worlds Patreon gets even more theological with questions like “why does evil exist?” and “what is sin?” Comment over there!
Quite a lot of reading. There will be less for June, because 1) book revisions and 2) I am playing video games more for relaxation, rather than reading (for reasons, see Point 1).
It’s not quite R.E.M. karaoke time at the New Worlds Patreon, but it’s close. This week, we’re talking about the literal end times! Comment over there.
Six years into the New Worlds Patreon, we’re finally taking a look at where everything begins! Comment over there.
The New Worlds Patreon will have to come back to the topic of slavery later, because there’s still more to say. But the last post for this month looks at a rather central question: just what were all of those enslaved people made to do? Comment over there.