Author Archives: RJ Stuart

The Prayer of Jabez experience.

Badly needing a new job, in addition to hitting the want ads, I decided to fire up my Prayer of Jabez DVD. Early on they suggested writing a ‘Prayer of Jabez’ journal. I can write, so I thought I would … Continue reading

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Fairy folk as scientific outliers

Outliers are strange data points. If you take a survey of how tall everyone is in your office, and you get a report that someone is twelve feet tall. That’s an outlier. Probably it’s a bad data, someone wrote down … Continue reading

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Are there morality lessons in the Iliad?

Last night I was challenged with the question “Are there morality lessons in the Iliad?” The short answer is yes. The book is actually so thick with morality lessons, it’s hard to discern them all. This book can be a … Continue reading

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Fred Weasley…not so fast

I assume everyone who cares has seen or read Harry Potter 7.2 by now so it’s safe to comment. Not everyone was happy with the death of Fred Weasley. For those of you who are unhappy, I’d just like to … Continue reading

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The Bible and Usury

I was asked to comment on usuary, and as my explination is a bit long winded this is as good a place as any. Here goes. Generally speaking, if you do a bit of research the stranger rules that were … Continue reading

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Welcome Spammers

I hesitate to say anything bad about spammers as so far they are my biggest fans. Nevertheless too much of a good thing can be tiresome, so I’ve implimented some new security features. Appologies to those few humans who have … Continue reading

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Ancient enemies

I’m forever reading in fantasy books about some Ancient enemie returning from thousands of years ago and everyone is surprised and disapointed that no one is ready for them. Really? Thousands of years? You are suprised? What do we have … Continue reading

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Should we make up our own Gods?

In modern fantasy novels it’s very common for the author to make up their own deities. It is a tradition better honored in the breach than the observance. I don’t say it’s never appropriate, if you are writing about Ancient … Continue reading

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Ultimate Goblins

I watched a couple of episodes of the Ultimate Warrior recently. A good example of how ‘experts’ can get it wrong. They did an amazing job analyzing the factors they looked at. Unfortunately they ignored obvious vital information that made … Continue reading

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Poll #2 Swordfish or Martin T4M?

I have an idea for a story with a 1930 ish Carrier. The Carrier is a small one, about 9.000 Tons about 30 aircraft. So that would be 12 Boeing F4B’s, 8 Curtiss F8/02C’s and 8…hmm. Well the logical US … Continue reading

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