Wonderful Matters

Thinking a bit more about the thrust of this very-much-not-reality motion picture You Can See Everything , I thought I'd share a little more. I blogged on this in my last two posts . The three main things to glean from the idea of seeing everything  is that, first, you can't, no matter how much you want to, how much you think you can, and how much you employ the latest AI-looking ingenuity to find out for you all the things you really want to see. Sorry to burst your gargantuan-sized bubble of confident conceit, but you can't. You'd think this'd be a no-brainer, because the very best Epicurean-driven minds will muster a display of some humility here, but that's just them doing their standard smarmy virtue-signaling about how gol-darn magnanimous they are about it all. They'll turn right back around and bleat they are so very sure that there is really nothing beyond matter and you might as well drink up the best of life and just be happy right now  because la...

One of my guilty pleasures is Kansas City Chiefs football. I could write a lot about that, and whether it is good or bad or painful (too often!) or joyous (as it has indeed been a few times recently). A year or two ago one of the streaming services, I forget which one, had a feature about the "inside lives" of NFL quarterbacks. Three were showcased, and one of them was Patrick Mahomes, the fine Chiefs quarterback. The idea was filmmakers were allowed a bit into his personal life, and I watched some of it. Then stopped . After a while I really felt uncomfortable being shoved into someone else's private domain, even if it involved the most innocuous goings-ons about the most marvelous people on the planet. I have always loathed "reality" shows because they are absolutely not reality. The instant a camera and microphone show up, it becomes simulacra. Instantly, categorically, and permanently. Last night I went out to the movie theater to watch You Can See Everythin...

Today fine conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot dead at one of his very popular "Change My Mind" type college campus events. It was absolutely shocking news to most everyone -- so accomplished at such a young age, he got deep into the most visible platforms of the culture war discourse yet did so with graciousness and respect no matter who he spoke with or about. He did want to tell the truth about things, and yes, it may have pushed the boundaries of the Overton Window. Everyone will say something about why it happened, much of which is meaningless, really. It is just part of the theater created to keep imaginations catastrophized. Ironically tomorrow is the anniversary of one of the most major of these events, 9/11. Sadly it appeared Kirk had his carotid artery shattered by the bullet, exactly the kind of wound suffered by Martin Luther King Jr. at the hand of a sniper. Thing is, as most good World System factualists (sometimes unfairly tarred as conspiracy theoris...

It has been a good week since I published my latest home page piece , and I usually don't wait this long to put up a blog post to mention it. But work has been busy, I've been worn out, and I've even caught something so I'm just laying low for the weekend. There were half-a-dozen things I thought about putting into a blog post to augment that home page effort . But I'll put it on hold for now. I'm just blogging to blog about it, direct your attention to it if you are interested, and I'll just get to other things later. Some of my reluctance to get too deeply into it is yet again relates to my feelings that after saying the same thing a hundred times yet looking out upon the wretched stupidity that still happens pretty much everywhere, well, you know. It does get very discouraging. Sometimes being relegated to a trollee is just not fun. I know I haven't got the readership to be much of an influencer, but I always pray that those who do come across my mini...

I recently found this profound comic panel meme, and it just says volumes about how I feel in the depths of my soul. I do take some time examining the World System and its machinations, because in some ways it does make my dwelling in The Kingdom that much more meaningful. I do sometimes think about how difficult it is to observe what is truly going on with that sorrowful destruction, and to behold so many so foolishly oblivious to it. But then again, that's a lot of it. I know why. Even sadder is that so many out there think they've got it, think they do know about the World and what it does. Nah. They're just like that beloved Catholicist influencer Augustine... I just want to be doing good and wholesome things in the City of God ... Except that the "City of God" is just the good and wholesome Roman Catholic simulacra that is really about head-cracking evildoers, and every single one of us is an evildoer .  Ahh thank goodness there is the City of God law enforce...

Just a blog post to share that I did put up my home page piece for the summer, it is at the webzine. Would love for you to look at it, learn a bit of what I've learned, and above all join other followers of Christ and talk with one another about it all. And pray. The world is going to go for a crazy ride very, very soon. I'd recently posted about an interview Catherine Austin Pitts did, and I thought I'd peek at her webzine, Solari.com , to see what she's been saying. I'd known she was a bit of an authoritative iconoclast, but here I came across a piece that elaborated on the things she said in that referenced interview.  (And I borrowed a terrific image she'd posted a few times there for my post masthead here, thanks. Great graphic depiction of the plugged in  world all around. The question, though, yet again: Who exactly are all those people in the image plugged in to? What do all those organizations represented by those symbols and logos and graphic identi...

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...

The other night I was out on my evening walk with a very nice John Jarvis tune streaming in my cranium. Passing by was a vehicle driven by a young man and sure enough, as I'm sure you've encountered, his music was hammering the environs and it was nothing but inharmonious bass and droning voices that sounded like they were coming from Hell. As I've shared many times before, I hurt for young people, young adults who are merely children in big-people bodies who've been raised by children in big-people bodies who themselves have been raised by products of the 60s most susceptible to the brilliant but wholly wicked designs against them by Rome's militant operatives employing the most sophisticated means of human sacrifice to do its work as Cain's Legacy. I know, I've taught them in a formal educational setting for some 35 years now. I still do, very likely now teaching their  children. Two pieces to share with you, might be worth reading. Todd Hayen wrote about ...

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...