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trusting chance and randomness is trusting in more wills than just your own. flipping a coin is often better than careful consideration. throw those lots. Matthias was a good choice for last apostle, Barsabbas had better things to do.
bears repeating, badgers repeatedly, bugs repetition
walk the walk, not just talk the talk. but it's also necessary to talk the walk. to adapt our beliefs to what is actionable. and lots of things about religion, society, and all the rest that we inherited are not actionable in our age, except hypocritically, and thus meaninglessly.
if you've ever considered metaphysical questions, even very rudimentary ones, you cannot ever have faith as a medieval peasant. unless you suffer severe brain damage. in fact, you can't even have faith as a medieval scholar, for outside his scholarship, outside the page and in daily life, in the flesh, the faith of the scholar was exactly the same as the peasant. and this faith is no longer possible, not in the West.
Noah got drunk with the first wine. imagine how good that stuff must have been. it provides one explanation for Ham's sin, and the consequent curse. he mocked his father for not knowing how to deal with something new. and this is also the sin of the enlightenment. and the curse is also the same, its opposite.
now, after all this time and unfortunately, not much was learned. the churches keep getting drunk and should know better at this point but don't.
the seeds i've planted, forgotten about and then found sprouting among weeds are a symbol of everything i have done
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Lucifer is a person. Satan is a title. Lucifer, as person, changed sides. the incarnation was a change in strategy. some beings didn't like it, changed sides for evil. others did the opposite. i believe Lucifer is one of the latter. this does not mean the past is erased, or even sanctified. certainly not all of it, or even the majority of it. and the process of integrating the good aspects without the bad ones is still very far from successful. i do in fact believe there are irredeemable beings, and that Lucifer is not one of them.
love it when the wife calls me husband. when she calls me by my name i'm just myself. when she calls me husband i'm an incarnate archetype. i'm all husbands that ever husbanded.
of course God is incomprehensible. my wife is too. and so am i. and so are you. probably.
Lord, what is the meaning of life
Whose life
universality is a shorter way of saying lowest common denominator
i'm just a guy. but that should scare you
Jacob was chosen because he did not agree, nor did he argue. he wrestled, and then bested. the Lord respects that.
it's an error to call our enemies materialists. i've been saying this for a long time but nobody seems to listen or get it, or if they do, how important it is. spirituality as such is of no concern to the enemies of God. the higher and more abstract it is the better, and they are not only ok with it, but they endorse it. it's the flesh and blood they are after. to destroy it and corrupt it. because that's where the soul is won or lost. let's just say no one is persecuted for christian mysticism or vedanta or zen or any other variant of oneness spirituality. it's applying metaphysical principles and revelation to reality, to action, to what is actually happening and what people actually do, that causes trouble.
now most people call them materialists. but we do not use any other word that way. it's a break of pattern, and stunts intelligence.
this is not to say there were no true materialists once. but for at least a hundred years it's the anti materialists who are leading things. hence the vast destruction and defilement and perversion of every aspect of the material world. to claim these people revere matter, or consider it the only reality, is absurd because the cosmic enmity is so obvious.
the only thing required to make sense of both past and present is to accept at a metaphysical level that things change.
the bible is all about change. conventional christian theology is all about stasis. funny.
movies are exoteric, novels are esoteric
if you get a message saying, I'm coming for you, don't panic. it might be a woman. or God.
i always fail to plan and thus never plan for failure
you pour your heart into something and when someone connects with it sincerely, the feeling is otherworldly. which is why i don't believe any artist who says they don't care about being read, or heard, or whatever. it's a bit like saying, i like declaring my love for someone, but don't care if they reply.
every true work of art is a work of heart. a love letter to an unknown lover.
a god who does not laugh or cry, who doesn't lose itself every once in a while. who can love such cold machinery, who can worship such unfeeling perfection. only nerds
to start a movement, you have to move
some kind of polyrhythmic dance. that would be my choice. the going somewhere stuff i dispense with.
all intelligence is artificial, it's just that those words have lost their proper meaning. the loss is so old too. much older than people think. before the roman empire old.
hypnagothic means pouring sleep.
i believe the sound shift of the letter Y was spurred by the highest gods
personally, a swing and a miss is infinitely better than a hit and a mister
it might not seem like it but there's a big difference between reforging an old link and forging a new one.
pneumurgy = smoking
if you never close your eyes you'll go blind
there is good and bad, and good and evil, under the earth, and on the earth, and in the heavens. the resurrection however is a very different kind of balance.
you can safely worship most streams and trees, but animals you have to be more discerning. humans more discerning still. and gods, we shouldn't even be talking about it. worship at your own peril.
some beetles here sleep on their backs when it's too hot. it's cute in a way.
splitting hair pins
the only truly metaphysical impossibilities are everything and nothing, everyone and no one, one and zero.
Jesus is an individual with flesh and blood, the antichrist is an electric hivemind with metal and plastic bones. water baptizes one, short circuits the other.
a leisure of love.
birth pangs of a new world, i hope
in some ways and for some people dying is like moving to a new country
what does it mean for us, how does it work in practice, give an example, how does it apply to real life ~ from a compilation of most hilarious questions to ask philosophers, theologians and cab drivers
the word gospel comes from godspell, old english for good news. the opposite was lathspell, meaning bad or loathsome news. lath is a little too close to laeth for comfort, isn't it. but it makes sense. i am indeed, and in a way, a bearer of bad or loathsome news. sometimes you need those.
Bearer of Bad News is a great title