As everything fills-up with adverts, and funding requests, and buy-my-merch requests...

Including subscription streaming services, including YouTube (++), including videos, blogs, essays (Substack!) - and just about everything almost everywhere I turn.

It's all variations on a signal saying: I'm not interested in ...

Everybody nowadays complains about the lies, bribes, coercions and other psychological manipulations of the leadership class.

But Modern Man has made the metaphysical decision to regard reality as without purpose or meaning...

So; if there is to be any human society of any kind it can only operate at a ...

The "Free Will Paradox" music video, which I posted on October 28 in "Moving pictures on book covers and translations of Heidegger," is what gave rise to the "Blueface" sync theme. I had posted a still from the video which shows a man against a blue-green background, and it reminded Debbie of a picture on her dress, ...

Now it is evident that the party political system is a bribery and blackmail machine; it may be possible to understand the Right-Left divide more accurately.

The Left party consists of those controlled mainly by financial bribes and blackmail.

The Right Party consists of those controlled mainly by sexual bribes ...

We received a shipment of textbooks yesterday. Together with the books, the company had thrown in a special "History of Witchcraft" issue of National Geographic, on the back cover of which was this advertisement for a book called Super Simple Psychology (cf. my pet phrase "for complex psychological reasons," which ...

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Bernard Shaw was often silly, childish and reckless to the point of breaking stuff and causing injuries (especially driving a car) - here he insisted being photographed as Rodin's "Thinker" while being sculpted by that great artist (unfortunately the resultant bust was mediocre*).

For a couple of ...

there was always a tension in my inner life between the artist and the intellectual. not that they are completely unrelated, in myself or other people or in society, but i have always felt them somewhat at odds within myself.

the artist got a head start simply because there were artists in my family and everyone ...

Natural selection is a real thing, albeit that it did not (could not) lead to the "origin of species" and the diversity of (what we call) Life on earth.

What Natural Selection certainly can do, and does, is adaptation - or "selective breeding".

But, natural selection has no foresight - and this leads to all sorts ...

Over at Black Dog Star, in his first post in nearly a year, the inimitable Richard Arrowsmith takes a synchromystical look at "3i/ATLAS through the lens of Jennifer Lopez." Not an approach you're likely to see anywhere else.

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Notes added (November 13): Arrowsmith has his own sync-stream, quite distinct from my ...

Genuine political Nationalism was the first "ideology", it came after the collapse of religion as the primary organizing principle of societies - and it was a basis for national coherence and motivation...

But this phase was always brief (a few decades at most), and nationalism has been feeble everywhere for many ...

Last night, between 11:00 and 11:30 p.m., I downloaded an electronic copy of Gary Lachman's 2018 book Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump. I enjoyed the only other Gary Lachman book I've read so far, and I thought it would be interesting to see an occult-savvy political normie's take on 4chan meme ...

This sentence -- created for the purpose of practicing certain subtleties of English pronunciation, its meaning being quite beside the point -- is in one of the textbooks I use, and as things worked out, November 11 was the day I had my students repeating it again and again.

Five days previous, on November 6, James ...

Long-time readers will know I've published many posts documenting reading errors caused by the influence of adjacent lines of text. I just experienced another today. Turning a "page" on my electronic copy of David McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, I became aware of the phrase ground sloth on the page even ...

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...But don't ask me about my metaphysical assumptions(The above being the argumentative strategy of all churches)

The generations-long, inexorable corruption, apostasy and (remember 2020) self-destructive failure of Christian churches has nothing to do with me!* but is there for all capable of ...

When I got home last night, my wife asked me a lot of questions about the Ku Klux Klan. She had just watched a movie, A Time to Kill (1996), in which the Klan played a role in the plot, an she wanted to know more about them. I provided a brief history. I'd never seen the movie and knew nothing about it, but when she ...

On November 8, I posted "A 'strolling' Clash concert," about a dream in which I saw that band live but "didn't think they looked like the Clash" in part because they "were very old."

The Clash formed in May 1976, about 50 years ago. Were Joe Strummer alive today, he would be 73 years old.

Today I checked The Babylon ...

the story of a sensitive young man and his muse.

a short novel for the incurably romantic and the persistently wistful.

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ebook (free)

paperback (cheap)

goodreads

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It starts with an establishing shot of a boulevard. Trams, buses, traffic, all the way down we see green and church, and river, ...

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Yesterday I went to see Tron: Ares at the cinema, and found it exciting and enjoyable: a solid three star (out of five) movie of the "worth watching" category.

I had not seen the male lead Jared Leto before, or at least I don't recall seeing him; and I found him a very good actor with definite ...

Several times on this blog I've noted the difficulty of deciding whether a given striking correspondence should be classified as synchronicity or precognition. To take a fairly recent example, in my July 13 post "Silver in the ears," I describe how I was trying to come up with a good historical example of cruelty and ...

While on the road this morning, I was thinking about my system of using three dice to consult the Minor Arcana and wondering if there were any way of modifying it so as to incorporate the Major Arcana as well. As I was thinking about this, a motorcyclist pulled in front of me wearing this jacket (photo from the ...

On some level every man feels himself to be a king and every woman a queen. Potentially so, at any rate. Is this just egotism or psychological compensation for felt inadequacy or is there something real behind it?

We are created in God's image. That means we are individual. An individual is a unique and complete ...

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Ed Dutton and James Watson

I hear that James D Watson has died, aged 97. He is somebody that had a significant impact on my life as a scientist, including the way I did science - from my mid-teens onwards.

I wrote about him several times (and he is positively cited in my book about real ...

I dreamt that a former colleague from some 20 years ago, an Englishman named John, had invited me to go to a Clash concert at a big shopping mall. This was a "strolling concert," meaning that the band would perform each song in a different location, and the audience had to follow them around.

I met John at the mall, ...

I was on YouTube to see if the 13th Floor Elevators' version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" was any good. (It isn't.) The next thing the algorithm served up was "Speed the Collapse" by Metric, which I'd never heard.

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Both the title and the lyrics sync with the idea (see "I am that Enkidudal ...

I have found that Rudolf Steiner's insight into the consequences of unbelief (of three kinds) to be powerful and important*.

In brief: Steiner said that to deny God (be an atheist) was a sickness, to deny Jesus Christ was a calamity, and to deny the Holy Ghost caused spiritual dullness.

I would rephrase this in ...

My last post, "All my favorite people make me -- is it mað? Măthe? Madh?", is about a version of the Weezer song "All My Favorite Songs" that I heard in a hypnopompic state this morning. Even though only the chorus was included in the dream, I began the post with this image quoting lines from one of the ...

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Bonfire Night as I remember it when I was a kid (it was all black and white, in them days)

It's Bonfire Night tonight, which is the main UK firework event; so November 5th is always pretty noisy for someone who lives within a mile of the city centre.

And not just the 5th -- every year there are ...

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During this morning's hypnopompia, I heard someone singing the chorus of the Weezer song "All My Favorite Songs," except that the key words sad, mad, and bad were pronounced differently. Instead of ending in a hard /d/, they ended in /ð/, the voiced interdental fricative, one of the two "th" ...

One of the benefits I have derived from reading Miles W Mathis is an habitual sensitivity to the use of faked photographs. Mathis is a professional artist and has a trained and expert eye for such matters - but so crude are most of the photo-fakes that detecting them is mainly a matter of considering the possibility. ...

Expanded and edited from a comment I left at Bruce Charlton's Notions:

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The motivation to align with God the Creator because of his power or his totality is the expression and acceptance of a sort of ontological totalitarianism.

Christians regard this ontological totalitarianism as part and parcel of the ...

Last night I saw this in the catalog at /pol/ but didn't click for the thread.

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This afternoon, continuing with my reading of the Book of Job, I found this:

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain (Job 29:23).

The phrase "latter rain" occurs ...

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Very early this morning, fellow night owl WanderingGondola left this comment on "I am that Enkidudal boy":

Taking a break to play Wuthering Waves for a little while yesterday, I looked at my quest log and decided to complete something that'd been sitting there for months. The one I chose involved ...