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St Paul realized that his being a brilliant orator, high-adept, and genius were ultimately irrelevant to salvation

We are much inclined to believe that people can (and should) improve themselves by prolonged and intensive effort. In short; that strong and sustained will, properly directed, leads ...

Finding the links to include in yesterday's post "Black Hole Sun and six-seven," I searched this blog for "black hole sun", and the first result was "Turning suns into black holes" (March 2024), featuring The Peyote Dance by Antonin Artaud.

Today I finished Noah Hypnotik and, as is my habit, entered into the ...

Why do I keep dreaming about shoes?

I dreamt that I got into the back of a gray Plymouth Voyager van and lay down on the floor in the cargo space. Later in the dream, I saw a 4chan post that looked like a few panels from an American-style comic book with a fairly realistic art style. It showed a dark-haired man in ...

The name "Ambrosia" appeared in the sync stream just yesterday. That same day, I left a comment for Debbie on "UH and Quaker Oats," linking to the "I ate the sandbox" Bert and Ernie sketch, and later I rewatched it myself. The animation leading up to the sketch is about the number eight, so it's no surprise that it ...

My most recent post to mention a black hole and the Black Sun was "Strange is the night where Oreos rise" (April 18). Just weeks earlier, "Chester Bennington and King Hamlet" (April 3) discussed a Saxon Cross post called "Black Hole Sun" (June 2025), about the 1994 Soundgarden song of that name. The April 18 post also ...

The Rings of Power - but especially the One Ring and the three Elven Rings, seem to describe something profound about reality.

Sauron infuses much of his native power onto the One Ring; which gives him the ability to dominate the other Rings of Power - and, more generally, dominate the will to power of other beings. ...

During my lunch break, I read a little in The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, stopping at the end of p. 258. On that page, an elderly woman introduces herself to the main characters as Ambrosia. Not the most common name in the world.

My first class of the afternoon, immediately after my lunch break, is a ...

1. Fairey Swordfish

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Obsolete years before the war began; the Swordfish ("Stringbag") nonetheless had many successes including the Taranto raid which crippled the Italian navy, and the (later-fatal) wounding of the Bismarck (illustrated above).

2. Short Sunderland

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A vast, ...

Jesus's gift to mankind was (or rather, included) to make life primarily a thing of insight, commitment, and hope - rather than being about material achievement or personal reform.

Life is about what we most value and most want; rather than that to which we can personally attain.

The Christian life* can be pursued ...

The most distinctive feature of advanced mystical experience is the dissolution of self in which the sense of "I" is subsumed in the totality of what is. To be strictly accurate, this cannot really be categorised as an experience because there is, or seems to be, no self remaining to experience anything. There is ...

At 9:44 this morning, Bill left a comment on "Soggy cereal and men on the Moon," a post which notes that "The name Quaker is closely associated with oatmeal." Exactly half an hour later, at 10:14 he left a comment on "Ugly flying starfish," saying in part:

Yesterday morning I had a dream in which you said your latest ...

I'm reading some things Leo wrote, and I think it's okay for me to quote this part that I read this morning, since Leo already posted it in "Baggu Kru":

A worm that dieth not nor fades in existence, but held in reserve for a dying man’s wish to be told where might be found openings to a cave containing lights ...

Cat Magic (1986) was the last novel Whitley Strieber published before Communion redefined him as primarily an alien abductee rather than a horror writer. It's an interesting and unique book -- which, yes, is a way to avoid calling it "good," which it isn't, really. Recent syncs keep leading back to it, though.

In ...

For many people, it seems that Christianity has always offered too much and too easily - and too equally.

So long as a person attains "salvation" then he is given eternal resurrected life, in a Heaven without evil or death...

This universal reward for all who follow Jesus Christ has often seemed to obliterate any ...

This is the plot summary on the back cover of the novel I am reading now, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik by David Arnold.

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The protagonist is characterized as a "Bowie believer." His friend, a former "DC Comics disciple," now inexplicably "rotates in the Marvel universe." Words like ...

In "Bret Michaels," posted yesterday at 3:42 p.m., I mentioned "the crown-of-thorns sea star." That was the name used for it in the article I had read the night before, but the more usual name for this animal is crown-of-thorns starfish.

Around 6 or 7 p.m., I was reading Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953) by Desmond ...

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Photographs were taken yesterday; on the estate of Wallington Hall, Cambo, Northumberland

The remains of so-called "sod-cast" boundary dykes are a landscape feature formed of stones, earth, and large trees; that I have observed in rural Northumberland -- but I have not been able to find much ...

On April 17, I posted "It turns out there are some legitimate uses for 'AI' after all," which is just an image: a poster for the James Bond movie Moonraker with the title changed to Moonquaker and Roger Moore's silver spacesuit replaced with a silver Quaker costume. The name Quaker is closely associated with oatmeal, ...

In an April 18 comment on my post "It turns out there are some legitimate uses for 'AI' after all," Debbie connected the "lunar" topic of the post with a "red Crescent" handbag she owns. She quoted a website saying that "the red crescent moon phenomenon occurs during specific celestial events, such as lunar eclipses" ...

This morning, despite being in the middle of several other books -- that Lewis Carroll biography, George Adamski, some more channeled stuff from the Daymonosphere, and of course the Book of Mormon -- I felt a distinct nudge, okay more of a kick, to take down a book I'd bought months ago for unclear reasons and which ...

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Not any more...

In most fictional accounts of the battle of Good versus evil; evil is personified as some kind of Dark Lord; or, if not that, then as a dark "party" - a specific and circumscribed group who impose evil upon the majority.

The defeat of evil then means the defeat of the Dark Lord, ...

I got a random /x/ thread en route to archive.org, and it was one of those "/ng/ - Nobody General" threads. Scrolling down a bit, I found this, captioned "Behold! Oreon!"

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It's the constellation Orion, only made up of a dark-brown Oreo cookies instead of shining stars. This obviously ties in with ...

The current burgeoning inter-national wars are not "Wars of Empire" - which is one reason why historical comparisons are mistaken and invalid.

What is extraordinary, essentially unprecedented, about the main current West-initiated-and-sustained wars: the sustained and multi-pronged attempt to annihilate and ...

Truth is usually supposed to consist in something like "facts" and "concepts" - especially in the form of true statements; expressed symbolically as language, numbers, formulae...

And these true facts and concepts are supposed to be true for everybody and every-thing, in all times and places and circumstances. ...

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Given that I've read quite a lot of UFO-related stuff, I'm surprised that it took me so long to recognize the significance of the serial number painted on the parking space right in front of my school:

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It says MJ012. MJ-12, also called Majestic 12 or Majic-12, is the name of a secret organization ...

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"Touch these stones, O Lord, with thy finger" (Ether 3:4), said the Brother of Jared, apparently taking it for granted that the Lord had in some sense such appendages. When he unexpectedly saw that finger, his reaction is somewhat surprising.

And the veil was taken from off the eyes of the brother ...

Christianity can seem soft and feeble to many men today, a sentimental palliative that answers none of the deeper questions of life. It has become something of a nursery religion that looks to make people behave nicely to each other rather than something that addresses absolutes and can overcome death and darkness. ...

I dreamt that I decided at the last minute to go on a trip to Tokyo with two friends. These corresponded to no specific people I know in waking life, but one was a fellow American expatriate, and the other was a Taiwanese man who looked like he probably had some White blood and who was very proud of his perfectly ...

Jesus's job was to fix the inadequate nature, the insufficiency, of this mortal life on earth.

This was achieved such that the purpose of resurrected eternal life in Heaven is for there to be a real and accessible state and place, where the intractable and incurable problems (that currently wreck any possibility of ...