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'AI' is inherently reactionary. all it can do is collect and rearrange. nothing new can come of it. no real progress is possible with it. and that seems to be the point. to stagnate humanity once and for all.

so perhaps it's not surprising that it finds advocates among traditionalists. at the same time, many ...

Today we take a break from our regular synchronicity programming for a random bit of Bible criticism. (This was going to be a parenthetical aside in a post on my Book of Mormon blog, but it grew too big for its britches.)

After Cain's offering is rejected, but before he murders Abel, the Lord speaks to him:

And the ...

"Creative power is used for destructive purposes. Nearly all modern arts are blasphemy."

This is a quotation from Towards the Mysteries by Swami Omananda (Maud McCarthy) which is presented as a record of communications from elevated spiritual beings. Most of this sort of stuff is spiritually sub-standard and not ...

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One of the difficult lessons, particularly emphasized by Owen Barfield, is that in every way the spiritual is prior to, and encompasses, the material.

The spiritual world existed first - material and incarnation came later, and locally. Reality is spiritual - with some parts of it also material. ...

disclaimer: this is a work of nonsense, meant to be used only for entertainment and divination purposes. any resemblance with actual wisdom is purely coincidental and certainly not intended by the author. reader discretion is advised.

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it’s now the third time i do ...

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Ever since, as a young child, I saw a Scottish Curling game on TV (something like this), I have strongly disliked it - for one simple reason.

Because of the characters running along with brooms, sweeping their brushes in front of the stone.

If it was not for these sweeping guys, I would feel as ...

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Michael Green: self-deprecating comic fantasist - 1927-2018

People who are untruthful in a character-driven way, whose discourse (spoken or written, or perhaps visual) is not aimed-at correspondence with reality - seem to fall into two categories: fantasist and liar.

A fantasist is not truthful ...

My last post, "Sync bananza," included this image, originally from my 2022 post "Break on through to the other side":

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In order to make it correspond more closely to the Flammarion engraving, I used the mirror image of the Tarot card, as is obvious if you look at the Roman numeral at the top: IIIV. ...

I sometimes include a few snippets of commentary on the paintings I feature here, but I don't think I need to say much about this well-known piece by the otherwise little known painter, August Friedrich Albert Schenck (1828 - 1901).

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Yesterday's post "Turn around, bright eyes" included this photo of an empty oil pastel box:

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First, I failed to note earlier that the brand name is Potato Cat in English, 土豆貓 in Chinese. In "Same aloo gobi (actually different aloo gobi every time)," I noted that aloo (Hindi for "potato") was ...

In "There again! There she blows right ahead, boys! -- lay back!" I discuss the synchronicity of attending a particular church twice in a two-month period and being treated to sermons on the Book of Jonah both times.

Today -- nine days after the second Jonah sermon -- I found that the preschool had just ordered a new ...

Yesterday I spontaneously thought of the scene in Idiocracy where Dr. Lexus, after diagnosing Joe ("You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded"), offers his prescription:

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After searching out that clip -- I just wanted that clip, not the larger scene of which it is a part -- I thought I'd ...

The Alt Media is abuzz about some "files" that have supposedly been released by the Establishment that "prove" the Establishment actively serves the agenda of purposive demonic evil.

And that the Western-Globalist Establishment leadership class are, personally, extremely corrupt.

Let's be clear. Files, and ...

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Sara Mapelli of Oregon meditating in her "bee blouse"

I'm currently rereading Daymon Smith's Words of the Faithful. One of the main characters, Izilba, is introduced as someone who used to "drape herself naked in a cloak of honey bees." This rather extraordinary behavior of hers is mentioned just ...

Her eyes, and a single glance seduces,Are merry and bright like an octopus's.-- Unto Deep

In "Gone with the wind from the house of leaves," I recounted seeing the name Marcellus while looking for something else in Book VI of the Aeneid. In an added note, I mentioned a book I saw someone reading later that day in a ...

EDIT: i was an idiot and forgot to add a link to the author’s website.

EDIT 2: my wife read this and thought it was best to warn about spoilers (i think mild ones, but still).

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i am not really the target audience for fantasy, nor for book series. in fact, i think this is the first series i am reading, if ...

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Yesterday could be considered Candlemass (nowadays equated with the Celtic cross-quarter day of Imbolc - coming about halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox); which is a festival of burgeoning light (here, about an extra hour and a half per day, since the depths).

Symbolised ...

Another photo from yesterday, which I forgot to post:

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Yesterday's post "Same aloo gobi (actually different aloo gobi every time)" began with aloo gobi syncs, and then I tacked on a lot of other syncs (several related to the spectacles theme) that I said weren't directly related. But there's a pair ...

One of the psi studies discussed in Dean Radin's book The Science of Magic features so many people named Thomas that the author felt the need to insert a parenthetical comment:

One of the most prominent yet perplexing studies was published in 1965 in the top-tier journal Science by Thomas D. Duane and Thomas Behrendt ...

As mentioned in my last post, "Rock my Audible," the Weezer song "Aloo Gobi" has been stuck in my head recently.

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As I learned by looking it up when I first discovered this song about two months ago, aloo gobi (variously transliterated) is a vegetarian Indian dish, the name of which translates to ...

A Survival Guide to the End Times is the latest in a series of books that deal with the spiritual crisis of the present day which, it should be obvious, is the root cause of every other problem we face.

The series started with Meeting the Masters which describes certain experiences from the earlier part of my life ...

Dear oh dear; but people are so so gullible (and I include myself) when it comes to politics!

Some politician (whether national or international) merely has to present his policy or action as being in "a good cause" - and he will not lack support.

Support coming from those who persist (in the teeth of everything) ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”

The quote above comes from Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), a Marxist philosopher who was also a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party in Italy. I happened to stumble upon it today and ...

It is interesting to speculate how the incoherent and mass-apostasy-inducing Omni-God concept arose and came to dominate Christian (and some other) theologies and Priesthoods.

One God who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and created everything from nothing - i.e. the officially mandatory nature of God ...

I found myself singing the Weezer song "Aloo Gobi," so I played it on YouTube. When it was finished, the algorithm put "Grapes of Wrath" on next:

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In addition to Grapes of Wrath itself, the lyrics reference Mrs. Dalloway, Moby-Dick, 1984, Peter Pan ("take me up to Neverland"), Catch-22 ("hanging ...

The line "gone with the wind" (see my last post, "I have forgot much, Cynara!") made me think of the Cumaean Sibyl, who writes her prophecies on leaves that blow away in the wind. Remembering that I had posted about her before, I searched this blog and found only one post containing the word sybil (as I had carelessly ...

On January 26, in "The blue and scarlet books," I posted this photo of a shelf at a used bookstore:

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I was interested in only two of the books in the photo: Scarlett and Sacré Bleu. The former is a sequel to Gone with the Wind, and the title of that novel is prominently displayed on the spine, ...

From Exegesis by Philip K Dick, referring to his novel The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

This is a strange ending [to the novel].

The will (of Schopenhauer) turns back on itself

and is satisfied not to know: This is the form its cessation takes: that he is content not to know, and so

is she. Thus one ...

There seems to be a fundamental problem in life, that while passive, assimilative compliance leads (in our society and world) to disaster and damnation -- on the other hand, there is a very big problem when we consciously and conscientiously seek a specific thing.

This both in physical material terms (as when people ...