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New Site

We are still “The Wizard’s Inkwell,” but we’ve had an upgrade. This is no longer my personal blog about fantasy world building and fantasy fiction. Instead, as of 5/16/2025, I’m here to sell my writing skills to anyone in need of content or other kinds of writing. I write blog posts, emails, newsletters, general ads (Facebook, etc…), YouTube scripts, landing pages, and other website copy. And…

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Morality and Piety

I actually wrote this piece a week before Christmas, but never got around to posting it until now. I wrote a different piece that I was going to post this week, but I changed my mind before uploading it to my website. The piece was all about my theory that the universe is Satan. However, I decided that, since today is December 17th, Advent is three weeks in, and we have eight days left until…

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12/9/2024 - ANNOUNCEMENT

Hi, all! Just making an announcement. I am closing this site down … sort of. To be more accurate, I am rebranding and reinventing it as a serious business endeavor to market my writing skills throughout Plattsburgh, NY; Burlington, VT; and the surrounding areas, as well as the Internet as a whole. I mean, I’m marketing my writing skills. I don’t have to be local to write. I can do just fine…

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Merry Christmas

This post is about a week late because I kept pushing it back. The problem is that I had two previous ideas for the post, both of which wound up leading me into some pretty dark territory. ‘Tis the Season After writing each of those posts, I decided neither of the two topics were appropriate for this time of year. I mean, we’re three weeks into Advent and Christmas is only five days away. So, I…

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Rights vs. Capacities

I’ve discussed abortion in a couple of different posts. This post is related to abortion, but has a broader scope of application. A Pro-Choice Argument I Ran Across Anyway, I noted on my Facebook feed a month or so ago, a post by a Facebook friend I don’t know particularly well, but who is clearly pro-choice. She made a post saying something along the lines of “Well, God is pro-choice because…

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12/9/2024 - ANNOUNCEMENT

Hi, all! Just making an announcement. I am closing this site down … sort of. To be more accurate, I am rebranding and reinventing it as a serious business endeavor to market my writing skills throughout Plattsburgh, NY; Burlington, VT; and the surrounding areas, as well as the Internet as a whole. I mean, I’m marketing my writing skills. I don’t have to be local to write. I can do just fine…

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Yoga Revisited

This is going to be a brief post about yoga, again. I just want to say, or, rather, own up to the fact that I think I may be being slightly hypocritical. For the past several weeks, I’ve been suffering from a pain in my knee that jumps around a little bit – from my knee, to my foot, up my shin, to my hip, etc… I think it’s sciatica or something similar that radiates pain down the leg. Walking a…

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Turning Into the Storm

Taking stock of my options and moving forward.

On this odd journey as the antichrist, I’ve had to make a number of decisions along the way. The latest, though, is probably one of the most important. As the title suggests, I am going to “turn into the storm.” That is, I am not running away from this. I am going to fight (against Satan – NOT against Christ as my appellation might suggest). I know he, Satan, is, according to me, literally the…

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A Close Call

I know – the last post was all about chi and my interpretation of it as “subdued Satanic hellfire,” and I said I was going to move on, but I had a close call the other day. A Dog and His Stomach I own a dog. The most adorable dog in the world. The trouble is, he’s got something of a sensitive stomach and tends to throw up a lot. In fact, he threw up the other morning. And, I spent a good…

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Subdued Satanic Hellfire

This is kind of a continuation of my previous blog post. In that post, I put forth the notion that chi (a.k.a. prana) was actually a form of “subdued Satanic hellfire.” I want to explore that notion a little bit more here. How I Got to the Notion that Chi was Hellfire The whole thing stems from my views of Satan. I am convinced that Satan is literally the universe (yes, literally, not…

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Chi and Hellfire

I wrote about this once before. I don’t make a secret of the fact that I have been diagnosed with a mental illness. And it’s a mental illness that revolves around certain religious issues. Ironically enough, some of my mental illness thoughts dovetail with some (although, certainly not all) teachings of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, Yoga, Chi, and the Holy Spirit As I understand it,…

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The Truth vs. the Arbiter of Truth

The concept of truth is far more intricate and complicated than it may seem at first blush. In fact, I don’t think I can address it sufficiently in a single paragraph or even a single blog post. In fact, I wrote (shameless plug) a whole quasi-Platonic dialogue on the concept of truth (A Thinker’s Guide to Truth – the image that shows on this post), but even that does not exhaust the subject in…

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Moral Knowledge and Moral Ignorance

Once upon a time, I was a philosophy major with an interest in morality. I took a bunch of classes on ethics. Studied a bit of this and that: the stoics, Epicureanism, Aristotle, Plato, and a few others. I was a big fan of analytical philosophy. I was convinced everything was reducible to logical analysis. I was sure of it. And, I had an obsession with morality in that light. I wanted to solve…

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Secret Homonyms in the Bible

I had an insight regarding the Bible some time ago. It occurred to me, while reading, that certain phrases have multiple meanings. I came up with a cool fancy word for such a thing. I called it “resonance” and was going to write this whole post about my fancy little discovery. Of course, five minutes before sitting down to do so, it occurred that we might have a word for such a thing already. And…

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Thoughts on the State of the U.S.

This is a really short post. In light of the second recent assassination attempt on Trump, I had some brief thoughts to share on the U.S. and the state of things here. First, I want to say that neither the Right nor the Left is as horribly evil as the other side seems to think they are. And I really think we need to recognize that. I know I have friends who are liberal and friends who are…

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A Dose of Realism and the Mighty Gnome

D & D, in all its manifestations, is a great game. It blends both strategy and skill with chance and luck. In my opinion, it is the apex of the whole concept of “game.” Chess, for example, is all strategy and control. There is no luck involved. At all. I think Go is another one of all strategy, no luck – but I’m not as versed in that game as I am in chess or D & D. I guess poker is kind of a…

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UnNerfing Undead

I think I mentioned this in one of my posts on Transitioning from 2nd Edition to 5th. While I agree that the undead in 2nd Edition needed to be Nerfed in some fashion, I think 5th Edition just went too far down that road. 2nd Edition Undead In 2nd edition, both vampires and spectres drained 2 full levels with every hit. That’s incredibly nasty, all the more so because even if you used magic to…