Religion is often accused of causing most of the wars in history.  This is hardly fair.  People are quite capable of picking fights without any divine inspiration, even if religion is a handy justification to cover your true motives.  And religious leaders sometimes take a role in solving problems, which evens up the balance sheet

I have just come across a great documentary on Youtube that explains stoicism clearly and succinctly.  There is a lot more that could be said on the subject, but this covers all the essentials in only seven minutes.  If you just want to know what stoicism is, you’ll know when you have finished watching it. 

Unlike previous emperors, Julian did not spend much time in the Hippodrome Julian managed to get a lot done in his short life.  It’s a shame he didn’t write a book on time management, I’d love to know how he was so productive, but he did write a lot.  Its a shame that more of his

In the late summer of 360 Julian marched across the Rhine near modern day Basel and out of the empire with a mere 3,000 hand picked volunteers.  He penetrated the Black Forest just north of the Alps.  Travelling light and crossing mountains and morasses by obscure and rarely used routes he was soon out of contact with the