I've been thinking about these two couplets from "With?"

Tinbad the Tailor killed some fliesWhich in the telling grew in size.

Jinbad the Jailer's job had glamour:He kept the inmates in the slammer.

As explained in "Tinbad is Sartre," I wrote the Tinbad couplet with "The Brave Little Tailor" in mind. The tailor ...

You meet someone named Philip and you don’t think again about the name. It’s more like the sound of a pavlovian bell, or maybe like a calling card, with no meaning and no existence outside its connection to the person named. You may or may not know, but even if you do it wouldn’t cross your mind, ...

So I misread a headline the other day, misreading not one but two words, with the first error facilitating the second. It actually said lair and bed.

For a split second, though, it made sense. A very suspicious person might search your clothing for hidden spycams, but they'd never think to check the hair.

Just before waking, I had a strange little dream. I saw a woman standing perfectly straight against a featureless white background. “Your attention, please,” said a disembodied male voice. “This is Stately Bev.” Bev stood there for several seconds, staring straight ahead with an expressionless face. Then she ...

In "The fourth Knave," I took the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-dub-dub," in which the men in the tub are "knaves all three," noted that Knave is another name for a Jack in a deck of cards, and proposed that the fourth Knave, the one who is not in the tub, is the "dry Jack" referred to in the "Jack dry stolen" message. Due to ...

Sex is the basis of the universe. It is the foundation to everything as the One becomes two in order to manifest and know itself more fully. Call this spirit and matter, God and Creation, subject and object, it amounts to the same thing. The two are always trying to return to oneness and it is this that provides the ...

The Happy Days character Fonzie was the subject of a recent sync. I know nothing about that show or character and couldn’t have told you which of the blokes in the “Buddy Holly” video was him.

So I looked him up. The character is an Italian-American “greaser” stereotype, and his real name is Fonzarelli. My ...

We can choose what we want to be, but we cannot choose to be it.

This is a fundamental basis of what Jesus taught and made possible.

That we cannot, in this mortal life, be what we want to be is innate common sense and confirmed by observation and life experience... Yet it is often denied. Promises of ways of ...

Every time I want to link to my post "Igxuhp zvmwqfb Jack dry stolen" by name, I have to copy and past the post title because it begins with a string of gibberish. Why, I asked myself, did I include the gibberish in the post title, when only the "Jack dry stolen" part meant anything?

Then I thought, Wait, is it ...

Buddy Holly is name-dropped in "We Didn't Start the Fire," and I heard it in lowercase, as buddy holly -- holly in bud. The Druids (and Harry Potter) used holly wood for magic wands, and the suit of Wands is portrayed as "buddy" in the Rider-Waite Tarot.

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Yesterday, I put a list of words and names, ...

As the dog days stretched to dog weeks and then to dog months, we forgot what it was like to have any other kind of weather, or any other kind of world. Outside the heat there is nothing except fantasies and illusions. The heat is eternal, it has existed since before the world was made and it will exist long after the ...

Today I was thinking about The True Song of Wandering Aengus and trying to imagine what the content of that poem might be. One of the few details I have is that both stanzas contain the phrase "viper dragon," so I was thinking about that, wondering if it might be related to "snake eyes, paradise" in the Background ...

There was a time on this earth, as everyone knows, when men and women lived for hundreds of years. And in those times, processes that in our own age take many generations to unfold, father begetting son becoming father begetting son, and so on and so forth, could instead be accomplished by one man alone, regardless of ...

one thing that is important for me regarding what i do is that no one will be able to say it is traditionalist, conservative, restorationist. i want it to be for the future, a future more hallowed than the present, and more present than the past. barfieldian futurism. yet, conservative, traditionalist. i'm also ...

In principle, anything "random" can serve as a modality of divination. Thus, the art of Wikimancy consists of posing a question, clicking for a random Wikipedia article, and interpreting that article as an answer to the question.

During the 2008 election campaign, in which Barack Obama was running for president ...

The role of IV Gospel in my understanding of Christianity is of a means to the end of understanding.

Once I had grasped that understanding, from then the validity and authority of the gospel became almost irrelevant. Much as if it were a work of explicit fiction that expressed truth, like Tolkien's Lord of the ...

Remember this lovable Bond villain?

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Until very recently, he was one of the System’s premier apparatchiks. He served as the poster boy for Birdemic, The Great Reset, and every other totalitarian-related machination the System churned out in recent decades. Some went as far as to ...

In a brief dream, I had put some numbers on a spreadsheet on my phone. My wife wanted me to check that all the numbers were correct by listening to a radio-like voice and making sure my numbers matched what it said.

The voice was faint, but as far as I could tell the numbers it was saying matched what I had written ...

I was and am amazed at the remarkable degree of re-normalization within Western societies; that followed after the successful early-2020 global totalitarian coup which was effected under the excuse of the Birdemic, and the giga-imposition of the (unnecessary, ineffective, harmful) Peck.

That the significant collapse ...

Great insights from Dr.Charlton in response to this post:

This is why it is (spiritually dangerous) nonsense to spend as much time and effort as people do to decide where is the "best" (i.e. overall least evil) place in the West to flee to.

Essentially everywhere is qualitatively the same overall, all moving in the ...

In a light trance state, I was brooding over Chubby Checker. I connected his stage name with the use of the word checked on 4chan to call attention to a post number ending in repeating digits (dubs, trips, quads, etc.), which are taken as an endorsement or validation of the post’s contents by Kek or the forces of ...

The reminiscences of my time in India in the 1980s are a sidetrack from the main theme of the blog but some of their contents do occasionally overlap with that theme and I enjoy the trip down memory lane so here is another one following chronologically on from the last.

We had arrived in India in April and it was ...

The Internet is changing so fast, I hope from time to time we all take a moment to remember what it was like at its peak -- and by "peak", I mean the 2000 version of the Official Chubby Checker Website.

Before "Alexander Graham Bell"... no telephone.Before "Thomas Edison" ... no Electric light.Before Dr. George ...

In "Missing Shelves," published today, G of the Junior Ganymede posted this bit of verse written by an unspecified member of his family:

Cultural Christianity

You can’t put books on missing shelvesYou can’t make saints of Keebler elvesYou can’t have Christ without the crossYou can’t refine and keep the ...

For the past decade or so, I have been trying (in multiple ways) to understand the implications of Owen Barfield's concept of Final Participation - as being the destiny and proper aim of our spiritual life.

Some modern people seem wholly enmeshed in mundane materialist thinking and feel detached and alienated from ...

Aside from discussing Hungarian painters, I haven't spent much time on this blog commenting on Hungarian culture, which is somewhat odd considering that I have spent a decade living here as a somewhat foreigner.

Somewhat foreigner because although I have Hungarian roots (go back far enough, they become Germanic), ...

I noticed that "The randomness is working well today" was, for the first time I think, highlighted as one of the featured posts at the bottom of the screen. That post begins with my clicking for a random /x/ thread and hitting synchronistic pay dirt, so I figured I'd try my luck again today. I got one of those ...

In a recent comment, Bill warns me about deceitful spiritual Beings and reminds me that "it took Michael to let Joseph Smith know that a Being who appeared to be an angel of light was, in fact, Satan." This is from an epistle of Joseph Smith, which refers in passing to

The voice of Michael on the banks of the ...

I dreamt that I was in a featureless marble room, in the center of which was something like an altar with a turntable-like device on top of it. I took a large bronze disc, about half-again the diameter of an LP and covered with hieroglyphic-like engravings, and placed it on the turntable. It began to vibrate, rippling ...

The stamps that spelled out the “Jack dry stolen” message are not at my own school but at a preschool I work with closely. (I teach the kids English there in the mornings, and they encourage their students to enroll in my school upon graduating. It works well for everyone.)

Since the message was spelled out, ...