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Jan 21, 2025 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow6 min read·--I sometimes listen to Paul Simon’s album when I’m making my bed and arranging my bedroom for the day ahead. I tend to dance exuberantly (if not well) as I do but, concurrently, I also reflect on the context in which that album was developed and recorded. And that invariably leads me to consider much more serious issues, and it gives me hope, even in today’s world where things seem so dark, and where evil and injustice and hypocrisy rule.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow3 min read·--I’ve been listening to the beautiful Scottish Anthem, Highland Cathedral lately. Almost compulsively so. I’m very supportive of the rights of subjugated peoples, rights to the independence purportedly guaranteed as a result of the first war to end all wars, the one we now know, after its abject failure as World War I and, to me, the Scotts are an enigma.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow4 min read·--Of all the beliefs attributed to Yešu the Nazarene, none alienated him more from mainstream Judaism and indeed, from his Roman masters than did his profound belief in equity, equality and justice, beliefs that in the economic sphere are, given the attitudes of his modern followers, especially in the United States, profoundly ironic and indeed, oxymoronic.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow15 min read·--First, an apology.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow6 min read·--Trumpets please!!!! Ladies and gentlemen, we present this sort of satirically sordid tale for your amusement and entertainment. It may or may not be based on fact, that’s a matter of perspective, and the names may or may not have been changed to protect the innocent. Or the guilty. Once again, a matter of perspective.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow3 min read·--Deity based divinity, especially the anthropomorphic variants, beg the question as to whether such divinity or divinities were the creators, or were, in fact, created by those who worship him, her, it or them. That he, she, it or they are derivative emanations made manifest and empowered by at least some of us ourselves.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow5 min read·--Dateline, November 6, 2014I did not support Mr. Trump’s aspirations to return to the house from which he was evicted four years ago, perhaps improperly so, we’re not likely to ever know. But I certainly did not support the continuation of the tyranny under which so many in the United States and abroad have been forced to live during the past four years.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow7 min read·--I recently commented on an academic colleague’s article contrasting Christian and Jewish perspectives concerning the disgraced apostle Judas Iscariot, perhaps unfairly criticizing her observations based on the Jewish Toledot Yeshu as shallow[1].
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow11 min read·--I recently participated in an online Zoom forum presented by the history department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst through its Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, a series that purports to focuses on “ big issues of clear and compelling concern, grounded in historical inquiry, context, analysis and experience”.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
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Guillermo Calvo Mahé·Follow3 min read·--Mary, Mary, quite contrary, was wondering how her garden grew when, lo and behold, of a sudden, she thought she spotted a little lamb, one that perhaps might become her own. Nearby, a certain Miss Muffat sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and weigh, while a friendly if somewhat frightening, somewhat hungry and a bit jealous arachnid (none other than the trickster deity known as Anansi), hanging by a silken thread, curiously passed her way.
