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Even Silly Wizard could not look stylish when posed in the family front room with seventies decor

Continuing today's musical theme with a very different thing: here are the ex-Silly Wizard brothers Phil (accordion) and Johnny (fiddle) playing various reels - reels being a fast folk dance in 4/4 ...

The first part of Nephi's high mountain vision deals with the conception, birth, baptism, ministry, end execution of Jesus Christ -- the resurrection is, strangely, omitted -- and presents no real problems. It is consistent with the stories we have in the New Testament. After Christ's execution on the cross, though, ...

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isn’t it sweet that substack allows us to create meaning, or is it only “meaning”..

the magic of analogue

attitudes about death

entropy

these three posts by Bruce are all great and provoked a lot of thinking. the first one might seem unrelated, but is not completely so in my ...

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King of the Road, written and performed by Roger Miller, 1965

Trailer for sale or rent Rooms to let, 50 cents No phone, no pool, no pets. I ain't got no cigarettes Ah, but two hours of pushing broom Buys a eight by 12 four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means King of the road

Third boxcar, ...

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I dreamt that I was with my wife and some of our friends. I was playing a music video from the Sugarcubes album More More More! (which does not exist in the waking world), and we were singing along with what lyrics we knew. Instead of Einar Örn, Björk's co-vocalist was a woman, whom I did not ...

The attempt to live on Earth as though you were already in Heaven inevitably leads to disaster, and communities that try to do this always collapse. No exceptions. They may have good intentions but they are naive and lack wisdom.

The world of man is innately corrupt. It is a fallen world marked by sin, ignorance, ...

Why is entropy inevitable, unavoidable in this mortal incarnate life?

The answer is because, in this transitional phase between a purely-spirit pre-mortal life, and resurrected eternal incarnated life in Heaven; our bodies are made from the substance of other Beings.

Because ultimately there are only Beings. ...

The mainstream and official modern view about death is that it is the complete annihilation of the person, after which nothing of that person remains.

That is one prevalent error about death - it is the error of materialistic atheism.

The other prevalent error is spiritual.

It acknowledges that biological death ...

In "Public urination, and unlawful possession of a cured vehicle" (December 2025) I proposed that a "cured vehicle" might be something like this:

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Today I saw on Synlogos a review of some recent film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which (naturally) made me think of that Heathcliff comic where ...

i think we can discount what Jesus said at least in a few occasions, especially when he was clearly being provocative, trying to shake people out of complacency. this is the case in many instances. for example the often debated marriage answer. it’s obvious to me from the context and the inferred tone that ...

My post "A feast for the god of war" made me think of the fact that in childhood I was the president of two "societies": the War Society and the Wonderful Mountain Apes Society. The latter (which was a cliff-climbing group) got me wondering whether there might be any real mountain called Wonderful Mountain, and that ...

I dreamt that I was at some sort of breakfast buffet, possibly at a college dining hall. There were very few dishes to choose from.

I commented to a woman standing near me, "They've got all kinds of things here: eggs and egg sandwiches."

"Well, we were just talking about wanting to eat more raw food," she said. I ...

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Similar to, but not the same as, my radio circa 1972

There was a magic to analogue technology, that is objectively absent from the digital. As an obvious example (that many discovered from themselves after many years of denial): an analogue-recorded vinyl LP record captures that which is recorded ...

Chinese New Year, beginning the Year of the Fire Horse, coincides with Mardi Gras this year. I'm thinking this is not a good omen.

Mardi -- ruby Tuesday, stupid bloody Tuesday -- is the day of Mars. In the Chinese system, both Fire and the Horse are associated with Mars as well. Fat Tuesday suggests the feeding fat ...

A short time ago, I commented on a quote by Mario Gramsci, a Marxist thinker and politician who died in Mussolini’s jails before the outbreak of the Second World War. Although I know little about Gramsci, he strikes me as the sort of twentieth-century figure who convinced himself that he was striving to make the ...

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a consequence of a more individual life on earth is a more individual life after the earth. if your inner life on this earth is unlike anyone else’s, then what comes after will be even more unlike. if there ever was a collective afterlife, it is no longer the case.

in the same way, you invite people into ...

I have read a great deal of modern pagan and/or neo-pagan writings; and have some acquaintance with such people. Indeed at one time, for several years and some twenty years ago-plus, that is what I might well have called myself.

This movement is, unfortunately, permeated and motivated by a resentment against ...

The terminology of totalitarian evil takes many forms; one aim of which is to enmesh our consciousness in word-spells conducive to the evil strategy of subversion, corruption, destruction and inversion.

Literally all of the Litmus Test issues - great and small - have used positively-inflected tendentious ...

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Government Bureau - George Tooker - 1956 Bureaucracy is a cold, mechanistic, systematic, dehumanizing, and impersonal force that is, by its very nature, anti-personal, meaning openly anti-spiritual in its overarching operations and motives.

Make no mistake, as a cold, grinding, soulless ...

I have often wondered why - despite three decades of the internet; "global leaders" have so many in-person, face-to-face conferences.

The answer, I believe, is that the public aspects - speeches, lectures, symposia, workshops, seminars etc. are insufficient to account for the conference phenomena - acting as an only ...

This morning I was, for complex psychological reasons, listening to a vaporwave remix of "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry.

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At the same time, I was browsing /x/, and just as I heard the line "like a bird without a cage," I clicked on a thread with this as the main image:

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It's a bird ...

. . . and all I got was this photo of Michelangelo's Pieta.

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I have not had the chance to see Michelangelo's Pieta in person, but I was happy to experience it vicariously through my wife's recent trip to Rome.

My wife also attended a General Audience at the Vatican and saw the pope at a ...

Kites -- the bird of prey, particularly in the form of Garuda -- have been in the sync stream, which put in my mind Rudyard Kipling's poem "Night Song in the Jungle":

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free -- The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we.This is the ...

Less than two weeks ago, I posted "The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand," the title being a line spoken by Doctor Octopus in one of the Spider-Man movies. Today I ran across this in a used bookstore:

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According to the summary on Wikipedia, Klara is an intelligent robot that observes the ...

My post "All the pebbles I have seen" takes its title from a song by Donovan. Bill pointed out that the singer's name means "dark" or "black." More specifically, according to Wiktionary:

From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh ...

I came across the notion that "Writing is thinking" from post-Jungian psychologist James Hillman - in the mid 1980s; and the potentially-linked idea that "Thinking is participation" from Rudolf Steiner and Owen Barfield, in the past 15 years or so.

Both are valuable insights, but partial truths: writing can be ...

These two links appeared one after the other on Synlogos -- meaning that the two posts were published very close together in time, probably separated by minutes rather than hours. (Both are dated February 12, with no more specific timestamp.)

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I read "The Epstein Inquisition" first. If the web ...

PSYOPS are regarded as top-down mass psychological/ sociological manipulations; and they are all evil by nature; because they are not motivated by love - not in harmony with divine creation.

Also, since they aim to change "other peoples" behaviour in pre-determined ways, PSYOPS are intrinsically evil in that they ...

Just as in the 2020 Birdemic - when utterly wild and deeply ignorant claims of lethal-danger emanating from serial manipulators and liars; were taken seriously, made into policies, and enforced upon the world; we are now seeing the same with "predictions" about "AI": and the endemicpandemic that is ...

In "Update: Some additional pebbles have been seen," the name Lassie came up as being symbolically related to Colleen, as both names originated as common nouns meaning "girl" used in Celtic countries. In a comment, WanderingGondola noted the further connection that the most famous Lassie is a collie, which is quite ...