philo “loving” + sophia “knowledge”
I’ve always enjoyed brain teasers, puzzles and paradoxes. What at first may seem pretty straight forward, can trick us into believing the illogical and outright insane. There are many reasons for this. Here is a series of puzzles, where…
The main reason people are afraid to admit there are differences among the races -or even admit that race is a biological reality and not a social construct- is because it conjures up sentiments of ‘superiority’ and reminds people of…
A total solar eclipse occurs when the New Moon (the absence of the moon) comes between the Sun and Earth and casts the darkest part of its shadow, the umbra, on Earth. A full solar eclipse, known as totality, is…
“Out of the corruption of women proceeds the confusion of castes; out of the confusion of castes proceeds the loss of memory, out of the loss of memory proceeds the loss of understanding, and out of this all evil.”. -Bhagavad-Gita,…
It’s true. Europeans aren’t having children anymore, at least not at replacement levels. White people, it seems, might soon be a thing of the past. Whoopi Goldberg is pretty excited, are you? “Replacement level fertility” is the total fertility rate—the average number…
The Eye of Ra is a legend that goes back millennia. Otherwise known as the Eye of Horus (or Thoth) these myths all describe a similar story that took place in ancient Egypt, or the black land Kemet, named for its rich…
The US dollar bill encodes layers upon layers of ancient knowledge and esoteric symbolism. From Quetzalcoatl of Teotihuacan, to the Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran, to the stepped pyramid of Chichen Itza, we’ll see that the U.S. Dollar and the Great Seal are much…
Comet Ping Pong sits at the bottom of an inverted pentagram, just as the White House sits at the bottom of its inverted pentagram. The two are connected, literally, by Connecticut Avenue. (video) At first it may seem as if…
More and more people are waking up to the fact that something is amiss. How can everybody always be sick? What’s up with this sh!t? Well, it’s because we do everything backwards. We eat the wrong foods and think the…