Category: ROBA
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The Anthropology and Mythology of Sleeping with 100 Men
Reportedly, an adult star named Lily Phillips slept with 100 men and, surprise, is pregnant! This was once called “temple prostitution.” A woman would sell herself (or be sold) to a temple & “serve the god” as his seed bank. Anon. men would come and pay, sometimes dress up as the god, do their thing…
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How I Wrote My First Book
After releasing my first book If These Fists Could Talk: A Stuntman’s Unflinching Take on Violence (on Amazon), I started thinking about how I made my first short film, or my first feature film. Making those things requires a team, some cash, and technical know-how. But writing a book requires one person (you), a computer,…
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A Ledger of Aggression Hypotheses
I change my mind a lot. Some people think this as a weakness. Then I wondered, What other way is there to think? I suppose I could form an opinion and defend it until I die. That would be a very dogmatic and rigid kind of thinking, or it would appear principled and “strong.” At…
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Cut Stones as Ancient Medium of Exchange
I’ve written previously about how ancient handaxes might have originally been modified stones for the purpose of exchange, not for utility. If reciprocal, object-based aggression (ROBA) is the base system of human combat, then every stone is a potential weapon, every person a potential combatant, and the entire world a potential graveyard. The original act…
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My Book ‘If These Fists Could Talk’ – Now Available on Amazon
My book If These Fists Could Talk: A Stuntman’s Unflinching Take on Violence is now available on Amazon. The eBook version is $7.99 and the paperback version is $12.99. Both are available at the following link. Please spread the word and, if you buy a copy, be sure to leave a review! https://a.co/d/9Vhz1wS
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The Shared Window Into the Infinite
I’m spending the week finishing If These Fists Could Talk, and one major update is a simplification of the ROBA Hypothesis. I had originally thought that the capacity for reciprocal, object-based aggression (ROBA) produces a sensation of apocalyptic dread, which is resolved via deferral. However, since ROBA is agnostic as to the order of events…
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Human vs. Higher Exchange
The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 calls on us to avoid hypocrisy, love our neighbors as ourselves, and do not return hate for hate or blow for blow. We’re to offer hospitality even to our enemies and avoid making a show of charity. We’re to cut out things in life that cause us…
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Synthetic Mythology
I’ve previously delved into two myths presented by the standard model of evolutionary science: the myth of the weaponized ape, and the myth of the kinless caveman. These myths are totally without any kind of anthropoligical backing, but they are assumed to be true by most “scientifically minded” people in modern society, even religious ones.…
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The ROBAlogy of Mythology
In 2025, I’m researching myth as a further test of the ROBA Hypothesis. The literature is too vast to get a holistic view of myth, let alone even a single domain of myth. Indian mythology alone can’t even be summarized into a coherent hierarchy or chain of events. There are tons of nature gods, tons…
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Angels and Aliens
Shabbat shalom. A lot of Biblical exegesis is spent on trying to understand the meaning of certain liminal figures in the Bible such as angels (lit. “messenges” in Hebrew), cherubim, nephalim (lit. “fallen”), dragons, and other such things. It seems as though most such imagery comes from the Elohist framents of the Torah, those pieces…