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Wednesday, 11 September 2024

Two kinds of Christian belief in the nature of God's provision of the requisites for salvation

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Because God is the Creator and loves us each as His children; therefore, either: 1. Even if all trace of Christianity had been utterly forg...

Instant nostalgia, and Camberwick Green

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As a young kid the only children's television was very old re-runs on lunchtime BBC - entitled "Watch with Mother" - which was...
Tuesday, 10 September 2024

How did Jesus accomplish the Second Creation (Resurrection and Heaven)?

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Jesus Christ's work came naturally to him - he was not acting upon instructions.  When he awoke to his divine creativity, Jesus knew wha...
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Monday, 9 September 2024

We all were born with an innate "archetype" of the real nature of God the Creator

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Because God is the Creator, and our loving parents, God has ensured that we innately have everything we need in terms of understanding God a...
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Sunday, 8 September 2024

The AI ("Artificial Intelligence") agenda: Evil works mainly by doing things to people's *minds* - not their bodies

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An AI-generated image of "nice AI versus evil AI" -  naturally, necessarily, both AI images are clearly (and seductively ) evil I ...
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Saturday, 7 September 2024

"They" can rationally subvert all concepts: except individual Beings - the "AI"/ transhumanist agenda is about the illegitimate subversion of Beings

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It has become a standard trope of the last couple of centuries plus; for radicals and The Establishment (i.e. the affiliates of evil, as we ...
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Thursday, 5 September 2024

Samuel West is "The Voice of Tolkien"...

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Samuel West is "The Voice of Tolkien", according to my review of the audiobook version of The Letters of JRR Tolkien, over at the ...

Francis Berger on True Freedom, and its centrality to Christianity

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Francis Berger has, for some time, been writing on that vital but neglected (and discredited) subject of freedom; in particular how this is ...
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How long before "Trad" Christians realize that they have picked the wrong religion?

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I have observed that among traditionalist or Trad Christians online, there seems to be a constant apostasy, a leaving of the faith - whether...
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Wednesday, 4 September 2024

High-, Intermediate-, and Low-level Evil in this world

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Low-level evil is the ordinary, everyday, evil exemplified by politicians, managers, journalists, doctors, professors, lawyers etc in the mo...
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The futility of missionary work: The main thing in avoiding damnation is Not conversion to Christianity, but that people Want the right things

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As of 2024 (in The West); I am finding that whether or not a person self-identifies as A Christian (or a Christian of any particular church ...
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Tuesday, 3 September 2024

Recommending Michael Gambon as Simenon's Maigret, 1992-3, Granada TV (And a comment on how a bad man could create a good fictional character.)

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I've recently watched the two series of adaptations from Georges Simenon's Maigret stories; released in 1992-3 by the British ITV co...
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Monday, 2 September 2024

The strategy of evil - and how (in principle) it can be "defeated"

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Evil is strategic, it has long-term plans - and these are long-term because behind evil are demons, they spirit beings, who are not mortal, ...
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Evil is a preference: a choice - and so is Good (contra- or pro-creation)

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Many Christians have for many centuries wanted to be able to argue that evil was an insane unjustifiable irrationality. That it made no sens...
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Sunday, 1 September 2024

Do Not reject the enemy's ideology wholesale: Seek the truth behind totalitarian-Leftist distortions

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A trap devised by the powers of purposive evil is for Christians (and others) to reject the core agenda of evil, the Litmus Tests , outright...
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Saturday, 31 August 2024

Historical parallels are Not a reliable guide to action, because the present is fundamentally un-like the past

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I've done it myself often enough; but nonetheless I am dismayed by the many people who currently seek guidance for present action and st...
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I can't even hate-watch Amazon Rings of Power, second season

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I perversely enjoyed watching the epochal incompetence that was Amazon's Rings of Power, Season One - mostly because it was constantly ...
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Thursday, 29 August 2024

Christianity - crushed and tormented by centuries of theology

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There are certain (often commonly used) Christian terms that I always have found deeply confusing, un-understandable. One is "redemptio...
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Wednesday, 28 August 2024

War in this Planet of the Apes

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A great performance by Andy Serkis (plus CGI) as Caesar I've only watched it once, but the recentish movie War for the Planet of the Ape...
Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Resentment at creation (more on "thrownness")

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At a very deep level, it seems that people (and indeed beings of all kinds) react differently to awareness of " thrownness " - rea...
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Monday, 26 August 2024

Be careful what you (and me!) complain of!

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The major and over-riding complaint is (or should be) that the leadership class of the Western world and multi-national organizations are ev...
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