This afternoon I received this message out of the blue from one of the preschool teachers saying, "William, do you have the storybook 'Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes'?"

We've never discussed that book before, and there's no reason at all for her to think I might have it, aside from the fact that I own a ...

the following came about as part of a comment to (and then a bit of back and forth with) Bruce. it’s an attempt to put some of the ideas together into a more coherent whole in order to save it, instead of it being scattered in email replies (this is an important theme for the discussion, incidentally). ...

Because of the development of human consciousness, there is necessarily a generational effect in terms of the nature and possibilities when it comes to ideology - and also to spirituality.

Biological generations used to be 25 years, but are now more like 30 years; since reproduction became increasingly delayed - and ...

On June 20, I posted "The Tree of Life and the flesh and blood of Jesus," which deals with the possible meaning of eating Jesus' flesh and drinking his blood. The next day, June 21, I posted the "earthen dwelling" meme in "Ethically modified schematic reconstruction of a meme"; and then, on June 23, in "Plus ça ...

Last night, I listened to a Captain Mormon video called "Why the birdemic broke so many Mormons."

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He quotes the infamous 2021 press release, focusing on a specific phrase it used. (I commented on the same thing in my January 2021 post "File under 'Shocked but not surprised'.") Captain Mormon ...

Yesterday, a manager at an auto parts manufacturing company asked me about the meaning of the English term science fiction. After I'd explained, he asked if Back to the Future was considered science fiction. I don't think he was even born yet when that movie was released.

Less than an hour later, in one of my adult ...

I often hear that we are free because God created us from nothing as actual beings. Since we are created, actual beings, we must act. Our actuality dictates it.

Yet before we act, we must choose between good and evil (the Free Will Doctrine).

I also frequently hear that the only way a perfect omnigod could create ...

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On June 10, I posted "A white hart and a portal to a parallel world," which included this image of a modern variant on the Hermit card of the Tarot:

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A hermit is a solitary, and so most decks show the hermit walking alone, the main "canonical" exception being Oswald Wirth's design, in which the ...

I knew about the trafficking rings, the incarcerations, the men in white coats and their experiments, from the very few that were able to escape them. But they never did so unharmed. The ones who did return were mere shells of their former selves, and were only let out after their lust for life was gone, their spirits ...

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Britain Burning Now! - spontaneous fires break-out across the nation

The CO2 "Global Warmist" Climate agenda may be a dubious, indeed nonsensical exploded scam for the majority of the UK population; but for the managerial-intellectual class it is a profound spiritual issue - sometimes The most ...

For Bruce: That's a common French expression. It means, "The more it's ethically modified, the more of a meme it is."

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other instalments: Duets / Dói Dói Proibido.

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this debut by multinational ensemble Tora Tora Big Band was released twenty years ago in portugal. there is very little information on it, or the band. what i know, and remember from back then, is that the ensemble was put together by an italian bass player ...

Before I became a Christian - and on the basis mainly of my academic work in biology - I was convinced that there was a long-term Direction to reality, at least to "reality" on earth since its presumed formation; and that the direction was towards increased "complexity". This led to a strong focus on complex systems ...

See my last post for context.

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And this one, from /pol/, takes "schematic reconstruction" to limit but somehow still works:

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Update: I've decided I like this version better than the one in my last ...

It has long been recognized in some circles that, in a deep sense, nearly all serious- and real-Christians nowadays are converts.

They have to be, because mainstream Christianity is so feeble, so shallow, so materialistic.

What follows therefore references only real-serious Christian churches - not the "liberal" ...

The UK is currently going through one of its periodic political crises when the powers that be decide to swap one of their indentured servants for another in the hope that the public's dissatisfaction with its controllers will be ameliorated and everyone can start looking forward to a bright new future when ...

Who says the Left can't meme? This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. It's been making the rounds on 4chan, but it would be a shame if those of my readers who don't frequent that wretched hive of scum and villainy missed out on it. It's from a paper by Sarah Rodriguez-Louette, "Memeing Scientific Racism: ...

Other errands having taken me to that part of Taichung, I stopped by a used bookstore. I didn't buy anything, but three books caught my synchromystic eye. First, this edition of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius:

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This book actually came up back in September 2022, in "I'm being shadowed by a red ...

One June 16, my exploration of the zanier corners of Mormon YouTube led me to an obscure channel with the strange name We Zombi Rod of Iron, which looked pretty out there. The homepage highlights a 12-video series called "The Stone Woman," so I figured that was the most logical place to start.

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As sung by The Yetties

(And by me)

Way down on our farm we are right up to date, For mechanisation's the byword of late For every task, we've a gadget to match, But our new muck-spreader's the best of the batch Fling it here, Fling it there,

If you're standing by then you'll all get your share ...

In my post "The white blood of Jesus" (June 18) on my other blog, I explored the idea that the flesh and blood of Jesus is, at least at a symbolic level, identical with the fruit of the Tree of Life. I posted it there and not here because much of the reasoning was drawn from synchronicity and from Wendy Berg's book ...

I took this photo on June 15, seeing it as a continuation of the Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring theme. See "Girls with pearls, six-legged spider, Star of Chaos" (May 18) and "Vermeer and meerkats" (May 19).

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Today I clicked for a random /x/ thread and got this one from 2020:

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Today's post "October 3 and 4, and white crows" led me back to "Finding Boster the Nose" (May 2025) because one of the Boster characters has a white crow as a pet. That post includes this map:

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Johnny Apple Changer, the character who finds this map, laments the fact that it is made with ASCII ...

I find it highly entertaining that a certain advocacy movement currently brands itself as Pride, with no modifier. They're so proud they don't want to say what it is they're proud of. The pride that dare not speak its name. Quite the paradox.

It is well known that reading about synchronicities induces them. It is also well known that I already experience more than my share of them. Nevertheless, here I am reading Stories from the Messengers, Mike Clelland's second book about owls, UFOs, and sync.

Some of the stories Clelland relates come from an elderly ...