how was your Christmas.

mine was very good. Santa brought me great presents.

one was ‘s Timelessness collection. it’s a beautiful edition, clearly made with great love and care. you don’t see much of that anymore. plus, the edition is signed by my friend, which is even better. the love and care ...

If I am correct that the ruling class are divided between - on the one side - totalitarian bureaucrats with the aim of omni-surveillance and micro-control - mostly based on the motivation of power. Such people enjoy manipulating people into doing Their will...

And - on the other side - Agents of Chaos; whose agenda ...

He almost didn’t hold the door. What time was it. This was only his second week on the job and he was already behind schedule after taking way too long to find the first office building. This one was easier to find, and even the traffic wasn’t too bad, despite it being one of the oldest and most busy ...

A message for all my loyal readers:

Pinch Punch First of the Month!

(No returns.)

It's really no big deal in the scheme of things, a symptom rather than a cause - and I still (sometimes) wish people a Happy New Year* after the numbers click-over (and our 1:1 definition of New Year is plain numerological thinking, ...

Just as there are holy places, sites of pilgrimage imbued with the presence of an angel or a saint or special in some other way, so there are holy times and Christmas is among the holiest. Whether or not Jesus was actually born on December 25th is largely incidental. This is the time he is deemed to have been born. ...

In your last letter you asked me what I had been up to, and I have to confess for the first time some trepidation in answering the question. (You can probably tell by the uncertainty of my handwriting in these first few lines). In the end I decided that, you being my oldest friend, and neither a cynic nor a skeptic, ...

A significant minority of people are, and more claim to be, naturally psychic - spontaneously in touch with the occult world of spirits.

They naturally experience life (at least sometimes) as something the live immersed-in a spiritual world.

This should not be surprising, because probably nearly all children are ...

I read a reference to "Hughes, head of the Out-of-Body Foundation" and misread it as "Hughes, of the Out-of-Head Foundation."

About an hour later, I found this juxtaposition in Laeth's latest batch of aphorisms:

have it all figured out of my mind

dear death experience. near life expedience

"Out of my mind" and ...

the persistent migraine got me in a strange, humorous mood. i guess pain reminds you life is not so serious because it will end soon enough (probably sooner than that. no sooner than death). what could be funnier than pain.

everything's going to be fined

what do you steal from the man who has nothing

everything's ...

On December 20, I finished reading Paul Quarrington's novel Whale Music and started reading Laeth's novel The Rot.

Near the end of Whale Music, the Brian Wilson character encounters a stray dog and buys it some food, after which it follows him around, becomes "his" dog, and is very loyal.

Later, very near the end, ...

​If it is metaphysically impossible for God to lose in this world, then Creation is not an act of freedom and love, but a necessary causal event that has essentially predetermined everything within Creation, leaving us with no possibility of co-creation, neither in this world nor in eternity.

If God ...

Some took issue with my suggestion that God could lose in this world:

That God could lose… what? Humanity’s salvation? Jesus secured that singlehandedly. Worldly power? God has a plan to regain it… Jesus again. The work of perfecting our soul? That’s the job of the Spirit of, yep, Jesus ...

I am impressed and convinced by the way that the Fourth Gospel always describes Jesus's love in terms of specific and inter-personal loving relationships.

(This is a very different definition from the more usual understanding of Christian love as ideally having such attributes as unconditional, altruistic, even ...

My prediction for 2026 is that "AI" will continue to subvert self-identified Christians (as well as everybody else); in particular that:

"AI" outputs will increasingly be cited as authority, evidence, or proof.

This has, of course, already begun; but I am predicting that "AI" outputs will become put forward as ...

Hashem won’t end our exile if the music isn’t right. That was the consensus in the village. Can’t you hear it rabbi, the G is completely flat, Then tune it properly, But I can’t, look see. He turned the peg on the fiddle just the tiniest bit, and then the G was sharp. Then back down again to ...

Because we live in a materialist and incoherent society; from the nihilistic despair of which we crave temporary alleviation - we are continually seeking enjoyable distraction, which is what people seem to mean by "cool".

So if anything is enjoyably distracting it can be termed cool, and this "coolness" is not ...

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I often got confused during my very first reading of The Lord of the Rings, because I was mixing-up Sauron with Saruman.

So how was it that Tolkien allowed his two Big Bad villains to have such similar names - as they appear on the page; and this despite Tolkien being just-about the most ...

While Tolkien's discernment as a creative writer enabled him to dodge nearly-all the potentially most embarrassing examples of character naming; there remains the rather glaring problem that the names of the two main villains Sauron and Saruman - are too similar; so similar as to be confusing - and especially to the ...

On December 22, I watched most of Chris Knowles's latest sync video, "SYNCHRO-CYCLONE 2025: Epstein and Ghislaine, from ATLAS to Atlantis." The thumbnail shows a cyclone consisting of yellowish and bluish concentric circles.

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The video was long and rambling, and most of the syncs didn't ...

Having spent the first half of my life in places where white Christmases were virtually guaranteed, I have experienced nothing but disappointment in this regard since moving to northwestern Hungary, where nine of the ten past Christmases have been green.

Nevertheless, my eleventh Christmas here provided a pleasant ...

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The Massacre of the Innocents, by Pieter Breughel the Elder; this is the subject matter of the Coventry Carol

Many people's favourite sad carol - the Coventry Carol - is here performed by the unsurpassed Maddy Prior.

The song includes perhaps the most famous example of a "Picardy Third" ...

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Britain is plagued by Christmas Song anthologies that get replayed every year in places like supermarkets - most come from pop novelty records of the 1970s or 80s.

None of the playlist novelty songs are much good - although I have a soft spot for Boney M "Mary's Boy Child" - but the one really ...

Christmas Eve is as big as "the day" is here in Hungary, so allow me to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

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Love came down at Christmas,

Love all lovely, Love Divine,

Love was born at Christmas,

Star and Angels gave the sign.

Worship we the Godhead,

Love ...

Real bottom-up nationalism was a phenomenon of the late 19th and early 20th century - it was, indeed, the first attempt by developing nations to do without religion as the basis of social cohesion (specifically, it was the first post-Christianity ideology.

Instead of a common religion, the basis for social cohesion ...

. . . a false flag or two (real or not, it doesn't matter) coupled with 24-hour media coverage would be probably be more than enough to turn the average man-of-the-street into a committed war-supporter.

Remember, no one wanted a global pandemic either, but we got one regardless.

Wonder how.

Note: A tad too much ...

In his homily during last Sunday’s Mass, our village priest explained how our good choices—fully aided by divine grace—and our evil choices both serve to fulfill God’s ultimate plan and purpose for Creation.

He then went on to stress the significance of comprehending that our choices, be they ...

Anyone who has a (more-or-less) coherent religious basis; can observe that the high level global ruling class is pursuing some kind of covert strategy - a long-term (multi-generational) hidden-agenda.

This can be seen by examining the tenacity of the major ideological schemes - which I call Litmus Tests.

In a ...

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Crossing Point by Richard Whadcock, a contemporary artist, English, I think. The painting above provides a good examples of what a typical day has looked like around here since the end of November. ​The Winter Solstice always marks the darkest time of year in the northern hemisphere; ...

He bore him up, he bore him down, He bore him into an orchard brown.

(Chorus) Lully, lullay, lully, lullay! The falcon has borne my make away.

And in that hall there standeth a bed: It was hanged with gold so red;

(Chorus)

And on that bed there lieth a knight, His woundis bledyng day and night;

(Chorus) ...

We live in what must surely be the most calculatedly untruthful society and civilization in world history - where dishonesty is expected and demanded of many people in their work - on a daily, hourly, basis.

So, given that it is so expedient to do so - why not lie, since everybody else does?

In a neatly composed ...