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Bill Angus

@billangus.bsky.social

Writer in early modernity, atheism, historical fiction, poems, songs (with The Mighty Ways). Sinophile. Freelance academic.

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I am every person in a film. I know all martial arts and can leap from a building onto a lower one catching the ledge with my arms and hang there for minutes with somebody hanging off my feet.

28.07.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry to hear that Prof Liz

26.07.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Establishing your personality on the unreliable reports of a single human life lived in ancient Palestine is no basis for a program of self improvement. True self improvement comes from a mandate from the self alone, not from some farcical antiquated morality…

11.07.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hang on…

29.06.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 14 Divorcing Jesus: The step of unfaith

williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-14

27.06.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 13 Irreligious, not unspiritual

Atheist sprituality - yes please ! williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-13

17.06.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For me:

Aretha
Dionne Warwick
Smokey Robinson
Ronnie Drew (Dubliners)
Jeff Lynne
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Marc Bolan
Maddy Prior

14.06.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m planning a book on the history of aikido and am interested in the relationship between Kano and Ueshiba. I wanted to write a straight history book, but almost immediately got tangled in the extreme strangeness of persons and historical moment.

12.06.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was the extract that caught me:

12.06.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That being Immortal Gestures? I’ll seek it

12.06.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, I’m not entirely sure yet. I’ve just ordered your book β€˜Beating and Nothingness’ on the strength of a quotation that I found on here which I now appear to have lost. What martial arts do you practice?

12.06.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Damon, I’m interested in your writing on philosophy and the martial arts. I’m an aikido person mainly so that’s where my thinking lands. I’m also an academic just launching into non-academic writing…

11.06.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

California Uber Alles

08.06.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 12 'So where do you get your morality from?'

β€˜So where do you get your morality from?’
open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

05.06.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump is losing patience with Russia, says Finnish leader Alexander Stubb says Russian intransigence could pave way for β€˜bone-crushing’ sanctions package

The Guardian have misspelled this headline. It should read β€˜American President links foreign policy to his emotions’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

18.05.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 11 Good riddance to all that!

open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

15.05.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 11 Good riddance to all that!

open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

15.05.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 10 The trouble with Atheism though…

williamjohnangus.substack.com/p/chapter-10...

03.05.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

…noe goinge to rochford this yeare??

15.04.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The USA elected morons to government and now acts surprised every time a moronic thing happens! Oh no! What an outrage! Dumbfcks

04.04.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prosser’s a functionary of bureaucratic edicts, whereas Musk sees himself as the firestarter in a bonfire of the same

18.03.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Elon thinks he’s Zaphod Beeblebrox but is obviously Prostetnic Vogon Jelz

18.03.2025 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Elon Musk thinks he’s Zaphod Beeblebrox but is very obviously Prostetnic Vogon Jelz

18.03.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hear a lot of Americans lamenting and bellyaching about their fascist government, but I don’t see them doing anything much about it. It’s as if America has no history of industrial action or mass protest. Organise a general strike!

18.03.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Dominik, later in 2025 you might like to watch out for Lisa Hopkins’s and my forthcoming edited collection β€˜Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare’s England’, published by Edinburgh University Press. A number of our contributing chapters deal with ports and harbours

17.03.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Person from last relationship hated having my β€œsmelly old books” in the house. New lovely person asked me to build this…just finished

09.03.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013

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Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer | Waghenaer Map of the English Coast showing Newcastle and Robin Hood's Bay | MutualArt View Waghenaer Map of the English Coast showing Newcastle and Robin Hood's Bay By Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer; Engraved map; 16 1/4 x 21 1/2 sheet; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auc...

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24.02.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good people are everywhere. The right people are vanishingly rare.

03.02.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chapter 6 Christianity’s best defences. II. Knowledge and Meaning

In which we consider Christian objections to knowledge and God as a hermit: open.substack.com/pub/williamj...

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