The matter of exactly when the West moved into war-all-the-time mode is debatable. What is not debatable is that the West is indeed in war-all-the-time mode. Physical wars against supposed enemy states and nations represent but a fraction of what war all the time mode involves. At its core, war all the time is a ...

In my September 26 post "You'll find them in a lion's mouth," I mentioned that I had been reading The Tooth Book again and again to a child who kept requesting it. The post title is a line from the book, in which them refers to teeth, but I reinterpreted it as referring to books, and specifically to sacred texts.

My ...

Some thirteen years ago I wrote (in Thought Prison):

"Take your eye off Western Civilization for just a moment and it will be swinging from the rafters with its own belt around its neck..."

But West Civ has now become much worse than "merely" killing itself.

Going back - The West started from the later 1960s by ...

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The Imperial Castle in Eger - 1824

So, uh, yeah. That’s the sync theme du jour. Don’t blame me. William Wright started this when he had a dream about Eric Cartman saying, "Oh my God, my asshole is so hairy!" and then decided to do like three posts about it.

Today I read this in The Nephilim Looked Like Clowns by Paul Stobbs, winner of the 2024 ...

Supposing somebody was thinking about what he should believe - rather than conforming to what he perceived to be his aspirant peer group - except when it was expedient (i.e. when it breaking the rules benefit him, and he thought could get away with it).

Suppose such a person was thinking about what he should ...

I randomly ran into this this morning. It fits in with the old warp-and-woof black hole theme:

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When I tried to find the original Garfield strip this is based on, my first searches just turned up countless variants on this "fabric of reality" meme, so I guess it's fairly popular, although I'd ...

My baseline assumption tends to be that anyone who gets called a "denier" is more likely than not to be right -- because really, when have people saddled with that label ever been wrong? (Please don't mention the elephant in the room in the comments! Yes, that included.) Anyway, right or wrong, "denialism" (a.k.a. ...

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Larvakin, also known as Larva Kin and occasionally as Larvakind, is an umbrella term for someone whose religious identity is tied to the belief that earthly life is a stage before ...

I have concluded that arguing over metaphysical assumptions is fruitless, particularly when focused entirely on the futile and counterproductive task of trying to prove the unprovable.

The challenge becomes even more daunting when a set of metaphysical assumptions are approached exclusively from within the framework ...

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What can we do if we get involved with a bad person? I ask the question because this is a common experience for people who seek to become closer to God.

First of all, we have to admit that there are such things as bad people. The sentimentalised modern idea is that everyone is basically good until proved otherwise ...

Social and mass media seem to consist largely of bad advice on how to think, behave, live... And the appetite for such advice seems insatiable.

Yet we must live! And negative advice (about what Not to do) is useless unless embedded in a positive stance.

It strikes me as facile, because true, to strike down any ...

This morning, I checked William Wright’s blog and read his latest post, “The Star Anus.”

Bill tells the story of how his family got some bratwursts which his wife refused to eat because she (and she alone) could detect the flavor of some spice she didn’t like. A day or two later, she finally identified the ...

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i believe in baptism by smoke

zombie apocalypse is an appropriate description in more ways than one. etymosophical perfection, really. though i wish it wasn't.

the suicide pod is the opposite of seppuku

i'm going to make pizza with pineapple for dinner and there's nothing the italians can do about it

all ...

Perhaps the commonest form of argument about morality and values generally, is to address some problem (real or made up) on the basis of practical, common sense "realism" - with the aim of ameliorating the problem: improving, albeit not eliminating the problem.

From this perspective, there is always work to be done, ...

Yesterday, William Wright posted, "Ellen DeGeneres, the face that launched a thousand ships, Cartman's hairy a**hole, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" As you can see in the title, he takes a short-haired not-very-feminine celebrity named Ellen and links her to Helen of Troy and to the famous line from ...

I got to sleep in this morning (day off for the typhoon), which means an extra dose of dreams. Here's what I can remember:

Vignette 1: I was supervising a group of children of various ages who were "writing scriptures." This meant they were copying out Bible verses as a handwriting exercise, but the phrase we used ...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is an "ordained" painter here and at other Romantic Christian blogs; however, I was not familiar with the work of his student, Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869), whom my friend and commenter NLR recently brought to my attention. (Thanks, K!)

​I have been perusing Carus's work ever ...

Atheism is so upfront and in-your-face incoherent, and it incoherence is so fundamental (at the metaphysical level, with basic assumptions concerning reality, in contradiction) that it is surprising that atheism can be maintained for a lifetime, and even across generations.

But I understand how it works, because I ...

This has always been a haphazard area of life for me.

Sometimes it has been incredibly easy—to the point of being natural. At other times, paralysis or wandering in the fog.

Moving on is a rudimentary affair when you know the “on” to which you are moving. Take away that known “on,” and ...

Today I downloaded Paul Stobbs’s new book The Nephilim Looked Like Clowns — because, well, how can you know there’s a book with that title and not want to read it? If it had been called The Demonic History of Clowns, or even just Clowns and the Nephilim, I might have given it a miss, but something about that ...

In his September 28 post "Jupiter Bigfoot and 'I hate ham'" William Wright reports a brief dream:

In one dream, I read words on some kind of material - it wasn't paper, but I can't remember what it was. The words said "Jupiter Bigfoot" and had something like a number after it, but I can't remember what that was, ...

Yesterday, a screenshot of this little exchange was posted, and roundly ridiculed, on /pol/:

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For some reason, the idea of this guy's puppy being named Mazzy stuck with me, and I kept thinking about it. For reasons I can't really articulate, it struck me that anyone who would name his dog that must ...

an aphorism of mine yielded these two posts by Bruce Charlton and this one by Frank Berger - plus comments - all of it very interesting. i found myself adding to the party.

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one can only speculate about the mechanisms of incarnation. this fact alone also makes one speculate on why this is, why can’t we have ...

It seems generally accepted that we change by conscious will; and indeed I would regard this as the distinctive destiny of Men of this "modern" age.

Yet it is from our intuition, from primary- or heart-thinking, that we experience divine guidance - from our inner nature as children of God and from the Holy ...

In a comment on my last post, Bill points out the etymology of Soprano. It ultimately derives from the Latin super.

In 1988, 11 years before Tony Soprano made his television debut, the Pixies released “a song about a superhero named Tony,” written by Black Francis. This was on Surfer Rosa, the same album that had ...