. . . one of those svelte Slavic hotties who pose enticingly in bikinis and lingerie in places like Dubai, then everything would be perfect.

Seriously.

After all, everyone knows that landing a narcissistic, self-absorbed Slavic bombshell who posts photoshopped, half-nude images of herself taken in exotic locations ...

I clicked for a random /x/ thread and got this one, from June 30, 2021. The original post just says "What would you do if they're real?" with this image:

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I immediately clicked for another random /x/ thread and got this one, from August 12, 2020. Despite having been posted nearly a year before the ...

Naive, sentimental, careless, self-hating, jaded, nihilistic, decadent, downright stupid, all these and more are words that can be used to describe the current state of the West which has signed its death warrant with its embrace of mass immigration. Certain sections of the populace are realising this and refusing to ...

My last post, "Cucurbits for Miriam," and the dream that occasioned it had to do with members of the gourd family -- the pumpkin, the squash, the wax gourd, and the watermelon -- and with the sister of Moses.

This evening I ate a pomegranate for only the second time in my life, the first having been some 30 years ...

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we first came to this middle of nowhere in october 2023, and decided to stay because we fell in love with the place. part of this infatuation concerned a mountain where these large birds nested and flew around all the time, which we could see every day during our stay. we thought at first they were ...

It was in 2007 that I began to take an academic interest in the gross and worsening sub-fertility of native people in the entire developed world, and I did some research into what seemed like a possible exception (Mormons) from 2009. I have also written about the genetically catastrophic problem of human reproduction ...

I dreamt that I was getting foodstuffs down from high cupboards for a very short woman whom I understood to be Miriam, the sister of Moses. The cupboards were so high up that even I had to stand on a chair to reach them. Miriam addressed me as Angelo Gustav, a hybrid Italian-German name which I took to be an expansion ...

Many cite Scrooge’s transformation and redemption through charity, selflessness, and love, particularly as it pertains to helping the poor and downtrodden, as the most Christian element in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

The reasoning behind this interpretation hinges largely upon Jacob Marley’s ...

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A very nice version of the Sussex Carol follows an excellent syncopated instrumental version of Christmas Day in the Morning; from a folk band called Magpie Lane; after a narrow ginnel off the High Street in Oxford, where they live. More of their music can be found here.

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In parts of Europe such as Germany and France; today is "celebrated" as St Nicholas Day in which children who do not conform to adult standards of cleanliness and tidiness (e.g. failing to polish ...

Last night I listened to a video in which a pseudonymous ex-Mormon podcaster relates some seemingly demonic encounters he experienced in 1978 and 1979. Due to his sometimes linking to older apologetic articles he wrote under his real name, I know and must mention for sync purposes that this podcaster's first name is a ...

Nearly everybody nowadays (except young children, and maybe some residual tribal people) believes that the universe was originally unalive, and most of it is still unalive.

And this is a shared assumption among mainstream modern materialists, and all of the major Western religions.

The assumption that there was a ...

A couple of preliminary notes and disclaimers. First, I helped Walter with the cover. Second, we were writing to each other and talking about it (and other things) as he revised it for publication. Still, my contributions were minimal, and mostly I offered encouragement. The other thing is that this book ended up ...

Last night I had a dream about time travel, a first for me. Time-travel stories are notoriously confusing and paradoxical, and logical coherence isn't exactly the dreaming mind's strong suit. Put the two together, and you can readily imagine what a hot mess it makes.

I can't even begin to summarize the plot, which ...

We need to be sufficiently sure of our bottom-line convictions that they will serve strongly to fuel our personal motivation - so that we have the clarity and courage to aim at good; and to discern and navigate through life.

But we modern people, in this modern world, find it very hard to believe in - anything!

At ...

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I remember the answer to this question from personal experience, from remembering my earlier self.

Modern people are indifferent to eternal life because it is pictured as "more of the same - but forever"...

As nothing more than a continuation of this-life, as it actually is experienced by modern people...

Which ...

It cannot be denied that every serious religion has produced its share of saintly men and women, and also that bad things have been done in the name of every religion. In both cases some more than others but still the point stands. Does this mean that every religion is equally valid and that they all come from God ...

I've nearly finished Gary Lachman's book Dark Star Rising. Today I spontaneously noticed that star is an anagram of rats. "Dark Rats," specifically as an anagram of something else, made me think of my 2021 post "Mr. Icthus-oress, the Dark Mice, and why I do this," which featured "Dark Mice" as an anagram/spoonerism of ...

hypnagothic #four is making parody great again. naturally, this meant stories about hitler, hell, demons, damnation and the apocalypse. oh well.

check it out at hypnagothic.art

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stories in this issue:

A Day with Adolf Hitler (Marcus Sacks)

Lightning as Divine Punishment (Sean Gois)

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Peoples' understanding of the world around them is substantially a matter of their explanatory models - to the point that experience and observations are essentially ignored.

For example, there is a model for how "democracy" works; then there is what actually happens. And people continue, decade after decade, to ...

When I turn on the desktop computer in my office, the monitor doesn't come on. I've discovered that what I have to do is, after turning on the computer, unplug the monitor and plug it back in in a different outlet.

Suppose the monitor is plugged into Outlet A when I turn on the computer; I have to unplug it and put ...

This morning, I was asked to read two stories to the preschoolers. The first was Alan's Big Scary Teeth by the mononymous Jarvis. This page caught my eye:

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I brought up crocodilians in the December 2 addition to the post "Dinosaur of the month, dinosaur of the year." This had to do with Suchus (the ...

Current attitudes to "AI" are an example of the way that hierarchical power elicits compliance, by psychological methods and the hope of personal benefit.

This is seen in organizations, when management talk about "owning" change.

The desired change (i.e. currently, the implementation of "AI" technologies) is ...

In my last post, "Gary Lachman spreads dangerous misinformation about Pepe the Frog!", I defend Pepe against Lachman's libelous charge that "in his first appearance he is urinating in public." Then, in an added note to "Dinosaur of the month, dinosaur of the year," I discussed a Facebook comment thread which rhymes ...

My lack of blogging over the past couple of weeks has more to do with enjoying the silence inherent in a little break than it does with any perceived lack of inspiration.

In any case, I shall return to these pages within the next day or two.

Experience > Knowledge

Reality > Truth

Thinking > Feeling

The above are notations or summaries of what may be chosen as ways of understanding the human condition, including mortal life; on the basis of metaphysical decisions. The intent is that the first term is distinct from and superior to the second - ...

I'm reading Gary Lachman's 2018 book Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump. Having read Bruce Charlton's negative review, I was prepared for it to be politically biased and to have a lopsided and distorted view of Trump's base. So far, it's living up (or rather down) to those expectations. Trump is ...

I recently reviewed Andy Thomas's book about the "paranormal" experiences reported by ordinary people.

It is a common response to such reports to demand a plausible "scientific" explanation - but I would assert that several paranormal phenomena do not require any explanation, because they are natural and spontaneous ...