The Original Torch

Organized Posts from My Original Blog "The Torch" (2020-2023)

My original blog “The Torch” (one of my many blogs in my corpus John Hancockium and the foundation for my Substack “The Torch”) includes several different categories that I have organized here below:

- Reflections (A Course on Political Philosophy)

- Thoughts on the Old Testament (and the Pearl of Great Price)

- My Posts and Articles

• “O Say, What is Truth?”

• “Kolobyte”

• “Tocqueville on New Prophets and the Tyranny of Public Opinion”

• “We”

• “My True Country”

• “America’s New Birth of Marriage”

• “Kanye West and the Truth about Psychiatry”

• “There’s Somethin’ Wrong with the World Today”

• “If Ye Love Me”

• “Karate, Currents, and Christian Dissidents”

• “The Torchbearer”

• “When You Believe”

• “McKay Coppins’ ‘Mormonism’: A Religion of American Progress?”

• “The Torch”

• “New Year’s Resolutions”

• “More Good Uses for Volcanoes”

• “Hornblower”

• “Scientology and Psychiatry: Two Sides of the Same Coin”

• “It Is Written”

• “Percolating in my Percolator”

• “Lost Sheep, Italy, and Film”

• “The Provo Great Books Club”

• “Rule the Day”

• “Keep On Climbing”

• “A Hard Pill to Swallow” / “BLUE PILL” / “RED PILL” / “RED PILL… CONTINUED”

• “The Greatest Love Song”

• “Stop the Pandemic of Ignorance”

• “A Momentary Imprecation against the Philosophers”

• “A Labor to Perform”

• “The Hullabaloo Library: An Open Letter to BYU and the Harold B. Lee Library”

• “Strange Things Are Afoot”

• “Bamboo and Belief”

• “The Message of the Sphinx”

• “The Churchill of the Ancient Americas”

• “Brainstorming: Writing, Reading, Recording”

• “A Many-Splendored Savior”

• “Jordan Peterson, Making Sense”

• “Dante’s Prayer”

• “The Provo Great Books Club”

• “A Compilation of Reading Lists”

- Daily Torchlight (On Current Events and the News)

• Daily Torchlight #1

• Daily Torchlight #2

• Daily Torchlight #3

• Daily Torchlight #4

• Daily Torchlight #5 – As a Whale Goes through a Net

• Daily Torchlight #6 – Hey You Guys!

• Daily Torchlight #7 – Good Global Warming

• Daily Torchlight #8 – Long Live the Republic

• Daily Torchlight #9 – The Truest Greatness

• Daily Torchlight #10 – Beware of Humility

• Daily Torchlight #11 – Disentangling Truth from “God’s” Truth and “Philosophical”

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• Daily Torchlight #12 – Little Drummer Boy

• Daily Torchlight #13 – Liberty Hangs by a Hair

• Daily Torchlight #14 – Seeking for Atlantis

• Daily Torchlight # 15 – More Mongering

• Daily Torchlight #16 – Flee to Utah

• Daily Torchlight #17 – The Next Wake Up Call

• Daily Torchlight #18 – Arrest Fauci

• Daily Torchlight #19 – Why Isn’t COVID Affecting You?

• Daily Torchlight #20 – Stand Up against Medical Tyranny

• Daily Torchlight #21 – The Great Reset

• Daily Torchlight #22 – Your Pandemic is Over

• Daily Torchlight #23 – One Vaccine to Rule them All

• Daily Torchlight #24 – Enriching the Establishment

• Daily Torchlight #25 – You Cannot Hide

• Daily Torchlight #26 – Cyborg Insects

• Daily Torchlight #27 – Mitt Has the ‘Rona

• Daily Torchlight #28 – Don’t Live in Fear

• Daily Torchlight #29 – Vaxx-Passport Protest

• Daily Torchlight #30 – The CIA Created Google

• Daily Torchlight #31 – Lockdowns Don’t Work

• Daily Torchlight #32 – Beefy Woman

• Daily Torchlight #33 – Our Non-Elites

• Daily Torchlight #34 – Blood Clots

• Daily Torchlight #35 – No More Apologies

• Daily Torchlight #36 – Terrible Commercials

• Daily Torchlight #37 – Two Years to Flatten the Curve?

• Daily Torchlight #38 – CIA Spying

• Daily Torchlight #39 – What is Putin Up To?

• Daily Torchlight #40 – Right Wing Extremist

• Daily Torchlight #41 – Germ Theory Skeptics

• Daily Torchlight #42 – Predictions?

• Daily Torchlight #43 – Putin’s Predictability

• Daily Torchlight #44 – The Hearts of Men in Your Own Land

• Daily Torchlight #45 – A Major Cyber Attack

• Daily Torchlight #46 – Just War and Ending “Systemic Racism”

• Daily Torchlight #47 – State of the Union

• Daily Torchlight #48 – World War III?

• Daily Torchlight #49 – Defend Liberty

• Daily Torchlight #50 – War and Woke Medicine

• Daily Torchlight #51 – Cox’s Veto

• Daily Torchlight #52 – Resist War-Mongering

• Daily Torchlight #53 – Bryce Mitchell Style Common Sense

• Daily Torchlight #54 – Endurance

• Daily Torchlight #55 – Be Prepared

• Daily Torchlight #56 – Another Batman?

• Daily Torchlight #57 – Learn from the Past

• Daily Torchlight #58 – Fauci Piñata

• Daily Torchlight #59 – Projected Conspiracies

• Daily Torchlight #60 – A New World Order

• Daily Torchlight #61 – The Trillion Dollar Bill

• Daily Torchlight #62 – What is a Woman?

• Daily Torchlight #63 – Sanity Shortage

• Daily Torchlight #64 – The Slap

• Daily Torchlight #65 – Florida’s Tumor

• Daily Torchlight #66 – Things We Can Change

• Daily Torchlight #67 – COVID Relief?

• Daily Torchlight #68 – How Did Cox Get Elected?

- The Chandelier (Ideas from Luminaries)

• The Chandelier

• Chandelier #1

• Chandelier #2

• Chandelier #3 – Dante, Israel, Music, Enoch, China, Augustine, and Xenophon

• Chandelier #4

• Chandelier #5 – Joseph in Egypt, Joseph Smith, Joseph Spencer, etc.

• Chandelier #6 – Aquinas, Dante, C.S. Lewis, Yenor, and Trueman

• Chandelier #7 – Dante, Strauss, and Rabbi Saperstein

• Chandelier #8 – Hibbs on Dante, Morrissey on Aquinas, and Graham Hancock on Survival

• Chandelier #9 – Dante, Yusuf, Corbitt, and Reynolds

• Chandelier #10 – Dante, Cicero, Love, and Faith

• Chandelier #11 – Dante, Mahoney, Trueman, Yenor, Anton, and McPherson

• Chandelier #12 – Dante, Isaac, and Bach

• Chandelier #13 – Dante, and Trueman

• Chandelier #14 – Dante, Lincoln, Hanson, and Schmitz

• Chandelier #15 – Nelson, Givens, Dante, Kronman, Scruton, Strauss on Churchill, Cantor, Anton, Scott, and Bird

• Chandelier #16 – Dante, Newell, Seaton, Black, and Techera

• Chandelier #17 – The First Presidency, Joseph Smith, Wilford Woodruff, C.S. Lewis, Mahoney on Scruton, Trueman, Regnerus, Techera, Peterson, and BYU

• Chandelier #18 – Reynolds, Givens, Dante, and Cantor

• Chandelier #19 – Dante, Rome, Strauss, and Forgotten Dreams

• Chandelier #20 – Dante, Peterson on Aristotle, McClay on Bloom, Nunes, and Prager

• Chandelier #21 – Dante, Dylan, and Sorrentino

• Chandelier #22 – Dante

• Chandelier #23 – Dante

• Chandelier #24 – Dante, Italian, Murray on Sowell, Trueman, Papadopoulos on Hanson, Kessler, Hayward on Evan, and Pacini

• Chandelier #25 – Dante, C.S. Lewis, and Carlson

• Chandelier #26 – Dante, Hayward, and Hedelius

• Chandelier #27 – Dante, Peterson, Voegelin, Trueman, and Seaton

• Chandelier #28 – Dante, Paul, Carrington, and Scruton

• Chandelier #29 – Dante, Tolkien, Plato, and Trueman

• Chandelier #30 – Dante, and Peterson

• Chandelier #31 – Dante, MacDonald, Anderson, Kraus, and DeFalco

• Chandelier #32 – Dante

• Chandelier #33 – Dante

• Chandelier #34 – Dante

• Chandelier #35 – Dante

• Chandelier #36 – Dante

• Chandelier #37 – Dante

• Chandelier #38 – Dante

• Chandelier #39 – Dante

- Give Thanks (Gratitude)

• Give Thanks #1

• Give Thanks #2

• Give Thanks #3

• Give Thanks #4

• Give Thanks #5

• Give Thanks #6

• Give Thanks #7

- Life Lessons Learned

• Life Lessons Learned – #1 The Gymnasium and Freestyle

• Life Lessons Learned #2 – God Moves in a Mysterious Way