Stuck

“If you had something stuck in your head, you’d let it in somehow and now you couldn’t get rid of it, what would you do?”

“And it was driving me half-mad?”

“Exactly. So what would you do?”

“I suppose I’d have to cut off my head.”

“What?! You don’t think that’s a bit extreme?”

“I don’t know. Maybe it is. It was just the first thing that came to mind.”

weathered

 

annoying

 

This is kind of an annoying picture in that I don’t like it very much, but it’s also maybe interesting enough that I can’t justify not working on it and giving it a chance to get to some proper finished state.

This is Not a White Birch

 

Pigeons a and b

 

Relationship to the World

“ On the road of our approach to God stands the world– we must pass through the understanding of it. Every man has a mission connected with the world. Everyone must know it according to the power given to him, in as much as knowledge can’t come until the gaining of virtues; everyone must develop beforehand a moral activity of relationship to the world. A mainly negative attitude to the world frustrates salvation itself. The world is imposed on everyone as a stone for sharpening his spiritual faculties,” 

St. Dumitru Staniloae (Orthodox Spirituality. St. Tikhon Seminary Press, pg. 205)

From this article Ascetic Strength

Fire

“If you had a fire going and there was a lot of rubbish thrown on it, would you prefer it was burned up quickly or slowly?”

“I don’t know. I suppose just as long as it was all burned up would be the main thing. The last thing you’d want is the fire to be gone out and the rubbish still there.”

Prayer, Gellerio featuring Divna Ljubojovic

Gellerio is an electronic musician from Mordovia, while the far better known Divna Ljubokovic is a Serbian singer and conductor of Orthodox Christian sacred music, who has an amazingly powerful and pure voice. I can’t embed the song here, so here is the link instead:

Prayer

Early on Sunday

 

Malcolm X and the White Liberals

There is of course nothing more refined and full of integrity than the progressive liberal, even if he or she is white.

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And regarding Malcolm X’s description of the liberal as a deceitful fox, think of one of this ideology’s key words, fluid, like with someone’s gender identity. Well beyond the particulars, why is this word so key? If someone is fluid, they have no fixed values or identity. A conman or a pathological liar is fluid, someone with deep psychological, or in truth spiritual, problems diagnosed as borderline personality disorder in their sense of self is fluid, someone with no morals is entirely fluid - nothing is fixed, stable, every position, every loyalty can shift. 

And I’d say it’s pretty certain that it is people with traumas like borderline personality disorder who are easy prey to things like gender identity and transgender ideology - where they are offered a supposed answer to their unstable sense of self. “We’ll help screw up your sense of reality, pretend it’s a healthy confusion and unstability, which is fuel for our agendas, and then offer the supposed fixed solution to the confusion where stability will be attained.

Deprogramming

 

I’m more posting this for the few lines said by Dave Rubin at the end here. It can take an awful lot to deprogramme cult members, and to be honest, if anyone is plugged into the mainstream media, then they are deep in a brainwashing cult. And unless they stop being plugged in, then they won’t get out of it.

Sumi-e pastoral

 

Mountains

“You’ve done a lot of mountain climbing. Have you any special or succinct thoughts on it as a whole?”

“It takes more effort going up, but it’s more dangerous coming down.”

Election Blow, Strange

“What did you think of the US election result?”

“I thought it was a terrible blow for pregnant men everywhere.”

“But they only have themselves to blame. Not enough pregnant men got out there and voted. That’s largely why the Democrat candidate tally dropped from 81 millions to about 66 millions.”

“That was some drop.”

“Yes, but it had also been some rise. The previous election to the last one the Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton had also gotten about 66 millions.”

“So their tally jumped from 66 million to 81 million, and then back down to 66 million.”

“Something like that.”

“That’s very, very, very, very strange,”

“It is very strange, yes. And so still no Democrat candidate has ever ended up getting in the 70 millions of votes.”

“Not even Obama the first time around, when the world was lovebombed endlessly with the idea he was a messiah figure?”

“No, not even then. He got a little less than 70 millions, and of course won by a landslide.”

“So Biden skipped the 70s, which figure no Democrat ever previously attained, and went straight into the 80s?”

“Yeah.”

“And it didn’t turn out to be some kind of new normal? Harris went straight back down to the usual kind of figure of 66 millions? Those fifteen millions, nearly a quarter of the normal tally just disappeared into some hole or other.”

“Yeah, that’s it. And that was in an election, the Biden one, where Trump in getting 74 million votes, smashed the previous highest tally by any candidate, which had been the 69.5 or so millions by Obama his first election, and where he of course won by a landslide. By any kind of logic, you’d have thought a total like 74 million would win by a massive margin.”

“And so why was it again the Democrats didn’t stick with Biden who got that colossal figure that came as if from an entirely different country?”

“Because it turned out that he had crazy levels of dementia, and his true state couldn’t be falsified anymore.”

“Falsified by the same people telling us he had really gotten 81 million votes, even though this figure bore no resemblance whatsoever to any other election before or now after?”

“Yeah.”

“It’s all very weird all right.”

“Yes, life can be very strange.”

greeN

 

Forecasts

“Did you hear about the weather forecaster who lost his mind?”

“No. What happened him?”

“Well, what I think or imagine happened is he got carried away by the accuracy of a string of forecasts, and he ended with some kind of god complex where he thought his forecasts were actually causing the weather to happen. It was very sad.”

gOthic

 Something with maybe a kind of Gothic feel I’m seeing if I can sort out.