Finding Purpose – History, Philosophy, Theology and Classic Wargaming

The Purpose of Finding Purpose

By BarryOn June 21, 2023September 29, 2025

I did not know precisely what blogging here was going to be all about when I created the site as I prepared to retire.

The Nature of Our Struggle: Sacrifice, Duty, and Hope

By BarryOn March 18, 2023June 20, 2023

This page is a repository of links to things I have written on one subject. Culture is downstream from ideas and ideas have consequences,.

The Last Three Years Were a Blessing

By BarryOn March 6, 2023May 5, 2023

It is not something you will hear often but the last three years have been, for me, a blessing. I would place the beginning.

Woo-Woo, The New Millerites, Conspiracies, and Integralism

By BarryOn April 11, 2026April 12, 2026

It is fun, and productive to ask “what-if”. If asked not in a counterfactual way but rather based upon where the evidence and data.

My Prayer in 2026

By BarryOn April 7, 2026

I have not written in a very long time. Not for lack of words, oh the cycles of history and empire are indeed still.

Sand Through an Hourglass

By BarryOn September 9, 2025September 10, 2025

“Color Revolution”, “Fascism”, “Winning”, or OMGosh” My traffic still surges from time to time with searches for “color revolution”. Spikes related to that.

The Something Coming is Now Here: Final Post

By BarryOn June 3, 2025June 22, 2025

It was late October 2019 and for reasons I have partially but likely inadequately written about previously I had this feeling that “something was.

Fear Not

By BarryOn March 23, 2025March 23, 2025

Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament in the Christian Bible has perhaps several meanings. One specifically to the people it was written to, and about.

False Gaza/Fallujah Analogies

By BarryOn November 10, 2023November 10, 2023

Many pontificate on the “lessons” that are theoretically applicable from Fallujah to the situation in Gaza. Most doing the pontificating were not there of.