I am always apprehensive about commenting positively on anything that stems from the mainstream, particularly when it comes to things like advertisements and commercials--even more so when the ads and commericals are Christmas-themed; however, I recently came across two Christmas-themed commercials that seem at least ...

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Poking around a used bookstore this afternoon, I felt a magnetic pull to a particular book, which, when I took it down from the shelf, turned out to be a wordless retelling of Aesop's fable of the Lion and the Mouse, in gorgeous watercolors showing a level of attention to biological detail almost ...

A recurrent theme - in everyday life and online, in mundane matters and in philosophy - the "argument" that if I (of all people) do it, then that proves it can't be bad.

Such reasoning can be, and is, used to justify (and normalize) almost anything; especially new things; especially new evil things.

For the past ...

There is no outer thing, group, institution, organisation or even religion, in our world that can protect against the dissolving qualities of the end times. That is because they are all affected by those qualities. Some more than others but all are affected. Your only recourse is to go within...

From William ...

More than ever, it seems important to distinguish Heaven from fantasies of escape - whether that escape be into "peace", sleep, unconsciousness; or into some kind of bliss state of semi-awareness; or into a paradise of hedonic gratification ("whatever turns you on").

This not-Heaven fantasy is a double-negation; ...

An excerpt from William Wildblood's forthcoming book on the end times (bold added):

Once you understand that our modern world is in a state of spiritual decay much about it becomes clearer. Our material affluence is both an inheritance from the past and the result of focus on the material plane, but it hides a ...

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As violent, disturbing, and traumatic as Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is, it contains barely a hint of any Sorathic impulse. If anything, Glanton and his murderous gang of bloodthirsty scalp hunters represent the Luciferic rather than the Sorathic.

Though vicious and brutal, no ...

Here is a short excerpt from my book about the end times.

An important point to grasp about the end times is that they are the result of a process of decomposition. In old age the body breaks down and then it breaks up and is returned to the elements whence it arose, eventually to provide material for new life. This ...

It is possible, perhaps even likely, that by descent - either or both from his Father and/or Mother - Jesus had a claim to be the King of the Jews. Yet Jesus stated clearly by his deeds, as well as his words to Pilate that "my kingdom is not of this world, that he was not willing to press his claim, nor to be involved ...

I was listening to some David Bowie last night and was struck by the album art for Ziggy Stardust.

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Right above Bowie is a sign that says "K. WEST." I naturally associated this with the singer Kanye West, who has appeared on this blog before, though of course Kanye hadn't even been born at the time ...

It is facile to perceive that none of the proffered options about the future are good; all are shades and types of purposive evil; plus they are not possible, and will be harmful to attempt.

But; if what is wanted is a global, or national, or even local utopian vision; then I can't do any better than a few comments ...

Yesterday afternoon, I bought some half-liter plastic bags. I use these bags when I clean out the cats' litter boxes, and I've been buying them regularly, the same brand of bags from the same store, for many years. When I got home and opened up the package of bags, I found that the company had changed their design. ...

In “Aurora, batless baseball, and the Cunning One,” I reported a dream about a mother who thought her infant son would grow up to be “The Cunning One. The One Mighty and Strong.” She was, I noted, “seriously invested in this idea of her son's destiny.” One sign of his destined greatness was that Prince ...

I am inclined, absolutely sincerely - not as a pose! - to "think the worst" of people; to an extent that maybe as much as anyone I know.

Yet I am not at all "cynical" - I don't judge "everybody" to be on the wrong side of the spiritual war; but I do judge that a very large majority are on the side of evil.

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if you're not internally motivated, you'll be externally demotivated

i feel intensely, and with paradoxical detachment

some things are better left unsaid, so i write them

i used to be on the fence about Chesterton, but then i took the fence down without a second thought

Masanobu Fukuoka convinced me that ...

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Carl Gustav Carus - after 1828

As I explain over on my Book of Mormon blog, the book's distinctive (over)use of the phrase "it came to pass" shows the fingerprints of Joseph Smith, not of ancient authors.

Despite its members, flawed and frail,The human species as a massCame not upon this earth to failThe test divine. It came to pass.-- Yes and No (spoken by the Joseph Smith character)

You can't really write about the Book of Mormon without talking about "it came to pass," which occurs approximately once every 200 ...

Something struck me about modern "seekers" who are dissatisfied with mainstream atheistic materialism, and want something not just better, but a real answer to the questions of life and reality.

Often this search is self-sabotaged or hijacked by assumed constraints that make it impossible ever to find an answer; and ...

A friend of mine died recently. He was relatively young and left behind a 16 year old daughter. Fortunately, he was quite well off but it got me thinking about the best legacy you could leave your children. What I came up with is very simple, but the truth is simple, isn't it?

I would leave them a few sentences and ...

Sometimes I find myself in a frame of mind in which I experience evangelical rhetoric as an outsider to Christianity - and then it strikes me, with greater and greater force each time, how extremely complicated, implausible, and indeed contradictory it all seems. It doesn't convince, and it just doesn't appeal.

The ...

Mercurial people have the hardest time getting to the earth. Since the voyage to earth, regardless of where it starts, takes approximately nine months, there is plenty of time for the mercurial man or woman to change their mind, which, by their very nature, they do quite often and quite rapidly. Now, planetary ...

1. Aurora

Yesterday, while on the road, I suddenly had the John Denver song "Rocky Mountain High" pop into my head, and I started singing to myself some of the few lines that I know: "Colorado Rocky Mountain high / I've seen it rain fire in the sky" -- at which moment a woman came into view wearing a black T-shirt ...

Oy gevalt.

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I was visiting a school (not my own) and saw on the grounds this plant with a blemish on its leaf that looks like a pale blue or gray butterfly. No sooner had I snapped a photo than I looked up and saw an orange-and-black flutter by. Not a monarch, obviously. I think it was Phalanta ...

Better if you don't ask...

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​…while willingly doing virtually everything liberalism and the modern world command you to do, and doing it all unrepentantly, of course.

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You could also add immensely benefitting from, enriching yourself through, and spiritually aligning yourself with liberalism and the modern world, but why ...

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The best of the best

Smooth peanut butter is, of course, fine; yet the point is that crunchy peanut butter is objectively better - so why does smooth peanut butter even exist?

The fact that we have all eaten smooth Pnut B when nothing else was available begs the question as to why the crunchy ...

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Illustration by Eddie Sharam

Something I have only just noticed in The Fellowship of the Ring, makes it clear why divine providence "selected" only Frodo and Sam to embark upon the quest to Mordor to destroy the One Ring

The evidence is set-out at my Notion Club Papers blog.

On my latest slow read-through of Lord of the Rings; I noticed for the first time, a very clear and striking depiction of the way that the One Ring had corrupted almost the entire Fellowship by the time they reach the Falls of Rauros and must decide whether to turn west towards Minas Tirith, or east towards Mordor. ...

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miracle and mirror have the same etymological origin. a miracle is not something that happens, but something one notices. but then again so does mirage. so look carefully.

as a mystical cynic i never let either side of my nature overpower the other. it's more like a dance, and sometimes the tune is quite atonal, ...