These are various things I've written. Most were for classes that I took as an undergrad at the University of Idaho. More recently, I've attempted to write some short stories set in a fantasy universe. The ideas expressed in the papers were mine at the time, though many of those ideas have evolved and changed over the years, so that my current thoughts on the subjects dealt with below are now quite different. Maybe some day I will express my current views here.

I may also add new writings, or at least ramblings, if I feel they would add to these pages.

History of Basque Witchcraft

These papers were written for a course in the History of Basque Witchcraft I took during the Spring of 1992, when I was living in Donostia.
• The Development and Effects of Paranoias
  About the persecution of Basque witches by the Catholic church
• From Monistic to Holistic--Hopefully
  About changes in the predominant world view

I wrote these papers for two Western Literature courses I took at the University of Idaho in 1990-1991.
• The Confession Impulse: A Synthesis of Old and New
  About Saint Augustine's Confessions
• An Ambition For Self-Destruction
  About Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
• You're Wrong Because I'm Right
  About Yukio Mishima's Patriotism
• Levels of Reality
  About Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author
• How to Attack Hypocrisy
  About Moliere's Tartuffe

These papers were for a class in Film I took at the University of Idaho.
• Anticipation is a Suspenseful Thing
  About Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
• A Cleansing of Human Kind
  About Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon
• A Prisoner of the Past
  About Charles Brackett's Sunset Boulevard

These papers, written for a two semester course in Western History, deal with different philosophical ideas we encountered during the course. Marvin Henberg was the instructor for the history of philosophy subcourse given during the main course.
• What is the Best Way to Prove God?
  About St. Thomas Aquinas' writings
• The Self-Contradiction of Christian Humanism
  About Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man and Petrarch's My Secret
• Idea Versus Physical
  About Plato's ideas
• Doubting Rene
  About Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method
• On Libertarian Utilitarianism
  About John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and On Liberty
• Preserving Autonomy Under Mass Peer Pressure
  About Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Bruno Bettelheim's The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age

I wrote these papers for a class in Roman Literature, when I was attempting to get a minor in Mythology.
• Chaos and Order, Fortune and Isis
  About Apuleius' The Golden Ass
• Emotional Science?!?
  About Lucretius' On the Nature of Things

I took a class on the interaction between Science and Culture, how Science influences popular culture. These papers were for that class.
• The Interaction of Evolution and Society
  About Darwin's theories and society
• What modern science tells us about reality and about itself
  About Science and Reality
• The Power of Information
  About how information and society interact
• The Scientific Method
  About how the scientific method changed the world

A friend of mine and I have toyed with the idea of writing a novel based upon our role playing experiences. So far, we haven't made much progress. However, these short stories are attempts to develop background material for that eventual novel.
• The Ballad of Halferd
• The City of the Gods
• The Initiation of Toki
• The Revelation
• Txikixa