These dreams are from Tuesday night. I took extensive notes upon waking, but I wasn't able to type them up in a publishable form due to being out of commission all day yesterday with a migraine.

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I was at a large lake with several other people. It looked something like a caldera lake, with steep rocky banks, but ...

Last year, I featured and commented on two Christmas-themed commercials that I thought were rather "good," all things considered. Erste Bank (yes, a bank) was behind one of those commercials from last year.

​Interestingly enough, "Carry the Light," the Christmas commercial Erste released this year, is also ...

The poet Tony Harrison, who lived near me in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently died (1937-2025); and then we also met some of his relations by marriage. So he has been somewhat in mind lately, since there was a time in the late 1980s when I was on the left and also had a high regard for his writing. For a few years I ...

Expedience used to have two meanings—one positive and the other negative. Of the two, the technically positive meaning of being useful, appropriate, or suitable for a specific purpose was usually overshadowed by the negative connotation of being useful for some purpose or self-interest at the expense of ...

Mainstream, normal, modern Western people are atheist materialists, who believe (assume) that there is neither purpose nor meaning in the universe - and that death mean annihilation.

This strongly implies that nothing really matters.

Yet they behave much, much better than would be implied by their assumptions ...

It has been noticed (even including by me!) that a hell of torment seems to have arisen after Jesus offered the possibility of Heaven.

Apparently, before Jesus; the Jews (mostly) had a common destination of Sheol, a ghostly underworld to which all souls went after mortal death.

But this wasn't a place of hellish ...

I'm preparing to do another round of experiments with dreaming under the influence of nicotine. I was just getting ready to take a shower, apply the patch, and go to bed, but I decided to read a bit in the Shaul Behr novel first. I read this:

Howard sighed. "Okay. Caffo is basically a patch that you stick on your ...

profound only when digging my own grave

life waxes

but in the end

it’s death and taxes

long lost

hotmail account

a past life

don’t think about the past

cause the present will not last

soon the future will be here

~ scribbled on a twenty year old notebook (either 11th or 12th grade, i think) ...

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I am still reading Geoffrey Ashe's The Virgin - his dense, fascinating, and very stimulating book about the historical development and meaning of the Catholic veneration of Mary, Mother of Jesus.

(Ashe was himself a Roman Catholic, and deeply involved with Marian societies - especially the ...

. . . 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)

Oh my ...

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 ...