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The nightmare was always the same. Eleven years old, storming out of the backdoor of their old country house, running at full speed past the kitchen garden and into the lemon grove, then through the abandoned park and into the road that finally leads to the factory. Flames and fumes of green and ...

I stumbled across this recording and was immediately gripped, and deeply impressed, by its musicianship.

Once begun; I could not stop watching and listening.

Indeed, this may be the single most impressive playing of Bach on piano I have heard since Glenn Gould - although the interpretation is extremely different ...

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Like many boys before the middle 1960s, I had a craze on railway trains, in particular steam trains - fuelled by the stories of anthropomorphic railways by the Rev W Awdry, and from watching the many "tank engines" working at the coal mine just opposite my Granny's house.

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One reason that we are fed a relentless diet of dystopian books, movies and TV - i.e. why this theme is so lavishly funded by The Establishment; is that consuming dystopian fiction demonstrably has zero benefit in terms of prevention (but instead facilitates actual dystopias by psychological and ...

This is the title of what looks an interesting book but I haven't read it and I'm not going to because it is an academic treatise and I am more concerned with the basic thesis than a trawl through history to make a point. The sub-title is Lucifer as the Liberator of Women in Nineteenth-Century Culture, and the book ...

Last night (the night of April 17), I visited Engrish.com, a site I used to check fairly regularly but hadn't been to in, oh, years probably. I ended up scrolling through lots and lots of photos, two of which stood out as synchronistically interesting -- one at the time, and the other in retrospect the next day.

On ...

Most of my interactions with most people amount to little more than System interactions. People everywhere relate to each other only through the System.

And this is not limited to interpersonal relationships between humans. It extends to all Creation. I struggle to remember the last time I heard someone speak about ...

This morning's post, "Gold bars and bread worship (syncs with a side of meme critique)" continued the bread sync theme -- which began with "A loaf of bread is dear" (meaning both "expensive" and "beloved") -- and focused on the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. This is defined by Oxford as "the conversion of ...

Laeth's aphorisms are absolutely excellent! I find some to be witty and profound - in a "supertruth" way.

But at present they are unorganized, and presented in a non-user-friendly fashion; so you will need to work at them.

Here, I have extracted several aphorisms on the Omni-God concept that I have often discussed ...

On April 16, I posted "Loaves of gold," a sync post which has to do with 金條, the Chinese term for a gold bar. Not just gold bars in general, mind you, but specifically in Chinese.

On April 17, Ann Barnhardt launched her spinoff site BarnhardtMemes.com, her inaugural post being "Barnhardt Meme Barrage 17 April, ...

Romantic Christianity is the explicit acknowledgment that we live in an age - indeed, the first such in history - of bespoke Christian spirituality: in other words, each Man's religion must be "made-to-measure", because all of the "off-the-peg" spiritualties are unfit for purpose.

"Explicit" is the key; because even ...

Acknowledge debt slavery and recognize that that underpins 99.8% of this-worldly thoughts and actions.

​It probably wouldn't hurt to also admit that most metaphysical assumptions -- if they can be called that -- only serve to justify such shallow, this-worldly servility.

Note to self more than anything -- I heard the first cuckoo call of the spring three days ago, April 14, which aligns with previous years, give or take a day.

Commenting on this blog will be turned off for a while.

(Not to be confused with "Leaves of gold.")

Wherever these bread syncs are going, the sync fairies seem intent on connecting all the dots.

In my April 11 post "A loaf of bread is dear," I logged a sync in which I had pasted the Chinese phrase 一條（麵包） , "a loaf (of bread)," into a document at exactly the ...

Owen Barfield coined the term Residual Unresolved Positivism (R.U.P) as a way to describe what "occurs when positivism — 'the position that there is an unbridgeable gulf between mental experience . . . and the objective world, the outside world of nature’ — 'remains in fact in a man's mind even ...

I'm not sure how it got started -- I s'pect it just grow'd -- but sometime in my early teens, the idea of a Bread Cult became current in my circle of friends. This was a fictional organization -- there was never any attempt to found it or to pretend that it actually existed -- and yet there was never any fiction ...

the average cat is wiser than the average human. the average dog is about the same.

omnigodists are like those women who are only into abusive and uncaring men. if he's not above it all and shows the least amount of humanity, they're not interested.

according to omnigodists the uncaring foot trampling the lovely ...

On April 11, I posted "A loaf of bread is dear," mentioning that "expensive" is one of the meanings of dear. Today I ran across this in the English section of a used bookstore in Taichung:

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I have been re-reading the Fourth Gospel (in the Authorized or King James version) with intensity of engagement, and the large sweep of narrative - the miracles and the teaching - that runs from the third through the sixteenth Chapters: from meeting Nicodemus at night to just before Jesus's arrest.

I am struck ...

There’s a site called Clickhole that was very funny (and occasionally prophetic) for a while many years ago, but then became stupid and lame and stayed that way for a very long time. Many such cases. Today I decided out of the blue to check it, just on the off chance that it had got its mojo back.

I clicked on an ...

Everyone recognises that we live at a time of crisis, whether that be spiritual or material. We might call it by different names and have different degrees of insight into the reality of our present predicament but any thinking person knows we are in trouble. Talk about the massive amount of government and private ...

In this weirdly inverted world, most people spend several hours per day "informing" themselves about what it going on in the world by means of the mass and social media, supplemented by face-to-face gossip... mostly about the agenda established by mass/ social media.

But people neither remember not think about ...

I dreamed that I was in some sort of public place when I heard a chorus of disembodied female voices announce, “And now you’re a Prince of the Family!” Then they all started laughing. I laughed, too, because it was such a funny idea. Nevertheless, it was true: I was a Prince of the Family and had better start ...

I'm perpetually thankful for all the politicians "on our" side doing, well, whatever they do to protect us from the evil leftists and woke-sters.

I'm particularly grateful when they come up with cutting-edge, original memes in their political communications, which we pay for through the exorbitant and unjustifiable ...

Some form of society is, of course, necessary. It doesn’t hurt that society is also something we all have in common, something we all participate into some greater or lesser degree, and something we all have opinions about regardless of personal assumptions. All this and more helps explain why nearly all ...

This morning I checked a certain website (the kind you can go to prison for reading in Australia), which was invariably described as “neo-Nazi” in the press back when the press was still allowed to mention it, which takes its name from a paleo-Nazi newspaper, and which is associated with a “gamer forum.” I ...

Something that is hard to grasp and keep-hold-of, is that one vital action we should take is to become conscious of the spiritual war - the war between Good and evil.

(Or God and evil - in which evil is defined by that which opposes God, Good, Divine Creation.)

At this stage in human development, we need to ...