Divine Plagiarism

I am continuously amazed and fascinated by the people God brings into my life. One of my friends, who is a nav and a prior enlisted marine (People who challenge stereotypes are awesome...) was describing to me a thought he wants to develop into a paper or a thesis in his graduate work. (He has been published in a few journals already.) Since there is a tremendous difference between not citing sources and actually taking someone else's idea, I will not attempt to fumble through his work, but he did have a fascinating archaelogical perspective on the role of religious ritual on the development of agriculture and the subsequent development of cities in Mesoamerica. I look forward to reading the article or the thesis. Im sure it will be outstanding.

There is a Talal Asad book on the role of religious ritual that I am currently (and finally) finishing. I think I'll send it his way, he can probably make more use of it. I wonder if the books I exchanged for that Asad book two years ago ever got read. The Book of Five Rings and The Art of War, theyre not just for breakfast anymore, kids. Of course, that is part of a larger and currently verboten story. It is fun to say you have read them, though. It makes you sound smart. :)