Stuff by Dylan Callens.
I’m going to post the entire manuscript to my new work, The Julian Calendar — one part at a time. It’s only a second draft, so mistakes will be made. But it’s going to be fun! The Ides of March March 15, 44 BCE Gaius Julius Caesar stood in front of the squabbling senators. They…
I’ve been planning out my next project, The Julian Calendar. I have a pretty good idea of how the story looks, over all. I know where the characters have to go and what they need to do. I even thought that I knew how the main character would behave. He is Julius Caesar, after all. …
I’ve decided to conduct a little writing experiment. I’m going to write something in episodes. Think of it as a TV series in book format. I’ll admit, the point is of doing this is to support book sales of Operation Cosmic Teapot. The series can be used for a landing pad (an idea discussed in…
What is Consciousness? About five years ago, in the conventional way of thinking, I listened to an interview on CBC Radio about how time may not exist. In fact, there are some fundamental problems with time.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Death The story often told is this: Nietzsche was causing a ruckus in the streets of Turin as he made his way to the Piazza Carlo Alberto. Upon arriving, he found a man whipping a horse. Nietzsche ran to the horse and threw his arms around it, to protect the animal. At that…
I wonder what Caesar and the Dalai Lama would talk about… 44 BCE. The Ides of March. I, Julius Caesar, strolled by the Theater of Pompey. Minding my own business, I set myself towards the Senate. It was to be a good day, with gladiatorial games later that night, to celebrate my rise to life-long…
Dylan Callens came up with the core idea for Operation Cosmic Teapot while in university. Back then, he was writing a terrible, terrible book with no discernible plot and characters that were flatter than stick figures on a piece of paper. From that travesty; however, the image of God being unable to perform his duties…
That old rascal, Bertrand Russell illustrates that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims. More specifically, proof of God’s existence relies on the person making the claim. Of course, Operation Cosmic Teapot assumes that several gods exist, so, you know…. what-everrrrr. Russell’s original argument goes like this: If I…