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 ...

As I have often said; I believe there is a totalitarian evil among the Establishment that seeks a society of omni-surveillance and micro-control of the masses of the world - preferably under some version of a world system (but en route by national systems or their coalitions).

This can be regarded as a partial evil ...

Many Christians (and the official doctrine of many churches) assert that resurrection does not come soon after death on an individual basis; but is delayed - perhaps waiting until some version of a judgment day, when resurrection happens "communally", for everyone all at once - albeit individuals are "judged" ...

In "Deacons and thimbles," I mentioned the letters R and V falling down from a wall in my school (RV being, in a long-ago dream of mine, a synonym for deacon). I didn't mention, because I didn't realize its potential significance until later, that the word from which they had fallen was Harvard. (As mentioned in "Cary ...

I mentioned in my post "Ruby Blue, Dooby Blue, and Dloo," that I had scrolled through all the poems in the Commentarius Coccineus to see if the one with Dloo was in there. It wasn't, but I did run across this, which I wrote in 1995:

Way down beneath the VaticanMy lips released a howl.What was the source of my ...

This afternoon, I was researching and thinking about a verse in the Book of Mormon that quotes Isaiah but adds to his "out of the waters of Judah" (Isa. 48:1, usually understood to mean "descended from Judah," with no reference to literal waters) the gloss "or out of the waters of baptism" (1 Ne. 20:1). The phrase ...

In writing the post I just published, "Ruby Blue, Dooby Blue, and Dloo," I scrolled through a large collection of "poetry" written by children. One that I noticed in passing was this:

Every House has a PestTo keep it in ShapeThe window looks to the westWhere sits a Shriveled GrapeIt was a unwelcome guestOf the ...

Yesterday I posted "Fruit bats and the Primitive Man," with a relatively obscure Scottish folk-pop band called Ruby Blue playing a key role in the syncs.

That night, I happened to see on /pol/ a story about someone called Ruby Rose, who is apparently some kind of teevee person from Australia. The story itself is ...

And one Middle-Eastern one.

It is often said that the Book was written "for our day," but one rarely feels it viscerally, and as often as not those who say that are thinking of "our day" in the very broad sense of everything from the 19th century on. Here, though, is a prophecy that singles out this precise moment in ...

We live in a world that is, in all its official operations, utterly materialist, spirit-less, God-less.

However, such is our innate need for what we call "religion" - it is therefore possible for the rulers and their minions to manipulate the masses, by hinting at Mysteries.

These hints of hidden mysterious depths ...

In my August 2024 posts "Thoughts on the Astronaut Nephi theory" and "Tight like unto a saucer?" I looked and Bill and Leo's theory that Lehi and Jared traversed not ordinary seas but the "great waters" of outer space. I was mostly critical of the idea, but in my current read-through of the Book (yes, the Book of ...

Last night I had the urge to listen to the old folk song "Lovely Joan" as sung (first stanza only) by Miranda Sex Garden.

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It's from their 1992 album Iris, the cover art of which is a closeup of a human iris -- and also, I notice now, some "leaves of gold" imagery. There is no white of the eye, ...

I should have come to expect it by now, but I can still be surprised sometimes at how very bad Fake Intelligence software is at answering straightforward "no-brainer" questions that ought to be well within the reach of a mindless computer program. For example, I recently posted in "The unfathomable stupidity of Fake ...

In the hiking dream recorded in "Was I not Gil Vas?", one of the videos I looked at on my phone (not mentioned in that post) was of some tortoises with perfectly spherical shells, such that they could retract their extremities and roll like balls. I at first thought of them as turtles but then corrected myself; ...