Wonderful Matters

The other day was an election day, when World Devotees may officially register their preference for the bully they think will make things good. I was at a polling location and I won't detail the circumstances but one of the poll volunteers at the front table discovered in that setting that I was a follower of Christ with some authoritative function (totally unrelated to the polling activity there, by the way). I didn't know her but we got to talking, and she shared quite a bit. From the heart. In my latest home page piece I'd introduced you to a very nice gentleman and shared a transcript of the conversation we had. Well, sure enough, I got to enjoy another such conversation with this very nice lady. I'm not going to transcribe it as such, just tell you about it, and about how revealing it was regarding the extraordinarily typical mentality that reigns in the hearts and minds of so many. She was in her 70s, and said she attended the very nice old Methodist church in th...

I've found I generally don't blog a whole lot in May. One, I've just got so much to do as a teacher as a school year comes to a close. Two, there is so much about which to post that I can't even start. Three, I am planning to put together something of a home page piece for the summer, some of which will cover just a bit of the insanity swarming about. But I thought I'd just share a contrast related to the overwhelming nature of Data Center construction everywhere and the "AI" God it serves. I feel like putting it all in caps because in some measure those things are now proper nouns. Recently we attended the memorial services of a fellow follower of Christ, a wonderful lady who served faithfully as a missionary in some of the worst places on the planet. Afterwards I asked one of her cohorts about the most difficult part their efforts, and she replied without a beat, "The terrorist groups." Talk about persecution. The thing I wanted to note here in...

Know what the most valuable thing in the world is right now? Well, it has in some sense been the most valuable thing ever, but things are happening now that amplify this truth. Gold? Nah, just shiny yellow rocks, and the gold hawkers are starting to be a little more exposed for ripping off their customers. Cash? Green pieces of paper rapidly being replaced by the inflation and the digital. Stocks, bonds, funds, commodities, property, your very own house --  something  asset-oriented? Who knows what anything is valued there, really, except what the Institutions say they are. Ahh, crypto! Eh, just computer numbers the value of which are so volatile they are effectively worthless. Oh, yeah: your own education, knowledge, and experience! Umm, if it is simply System-infused atheist materialist humanist dreck it is all Hell anyway. No, the most valuable thing is data . You can tell with the obsession the rich and powerful have with it. You can see how much they want to keep on keepi...

Yesterday Google's Veo 3 was introduced, and it must be cited as a red-letter day. Now everyone will be doing what Tim Challies wrote about on the very same day. There it is in a screenshot of his blog's home page. It is truly harrowing, really. "AI makes me doubt everything." He will not be the only one. We all will, all the time. Veo 3 has now, really, reached that final holy grail of AI-generated CGI video-audio-communication technology. You know what it is. Too few have been fearing it for many years now, but many of them have been sounding the alarm. I wrote a bit about it in my own webzine's home page piece back in 2008 , how a fully entrenched and mainstreamed materialist mentality would lead us to this kind of world. The lies simply don't matter anymore because it will be impossible to discern them. Well, with one very simple, very profound exception. But for now, that holy grail: To make "AI-generated" content that is indistinguishable from...

I was listening to Greg Koukl's podcast yesterday and he had a personal take on the Bob Dylan major motion picture biopic that came out a few months ago. First of all, I'd mentioned Mr. Koukl in my latest home page piece in the context of his unwillingness to call out the Roman Catholic Church for what it really is, only because his tax-exempt non-profit relies on the ecclesiocratic hegemony and all its devout followers to fund his enterprise. Otherwise, he does do pretty decent explication of Christian things. In this instance he pointed out how influential Dylan was on a whole generation, there in the 60s, but that the foolish idealism that exuded from that whole mentality is so destructive. He specifically noted the zealous insistence that young people were going to save the world, and then asked the important question. "Do you know why young people will not save the world?" At that point I instantly thought these words -- and yes, quite sadly, a very veritable Tr...

18 years ago the best explainer of World System activity against the beauty and glory and wonder of the Kingdom passed away. Tupper Saussy and his seminal work Rulers of Evil  brought together much of the history of System machinations and clearly exposited its real meaning: That God has allowed it all for the expressed purpose of highlighting the evil that it and normal human beings do so people would call on the name of the Lord. None of this is hidden or new or esoteric or unfathomable or the exclusive purview of those who are insightful enough to see what "secret societies" do. The history is there to read and understand. The current events happening today are right there for anyone to see and hear. Above all Scripture is very clear about the distinction between the World and the Kingdom. But yeah, it is my firm belief the only way anyone can  see and hear and understand -- and yeah not be  blind and deaf and dumb -- is to ask Christ to make them see. Otherwise just a...