College education

 

An old gem, originally posted on Amazon in 2010. This is evidently how college-educated people sound like in the Netherlands, LOL. 

Buried alive

Bullet cluster

 

Is it finally over for dark matter and (maybe) Einstein? Sabine Hossenfelder may have found the silver bullet...

Strident atheism

 

No relation

An early Amazon customer review (perhaps from 2006), posted by yours truly at a time when I was still an atheist-materialist. It´s written in the usual strident "angry atheist" style, but it´s not *entirely* wrong, is it? :D 

Objections sustained

The case for supranaturalism

 

An old gem.

Owen Barfield has a case

Dzungariska slavinnor

 

Okej, det här var ju nästan lite intressant. En dimension av världshistorien jag helt har missat! Var tvungen att kolla upp vad i allsin dar "dzungarer" är för något. Observera förresten att Frans II Rákóczy enligt diverse skrönor var far till den mystiske greven av Saint Germain... 

General Adam Ludvig Lewenhaupt

Current mood (?)

 

Amitabha Buddha mysteriously appears to a lonely wandered in a dark forest...

The time of silence

 

An old Joshua special on the "Irvingites" or Catholic Apostolic Church (CAC), one of the strangest Christian denominations. Originally they seem to have combined "smells and bells" liturgy, charismatic gifts and apocalypticism. The CAC appointed twelve new apostles but curiously didn´t replace them when they passed away. This made it impossible to ordain new bishops and priests, the Church slowly descending into passivity as these, too, became elderly and started to die. Apparently, the CAC also stopped trying to recruit new members! Today, the CAC is very small and little is known about its activities (if any), but apparently they are still eagerly awaiting the Second Advent of Christ any moment now. 

I have no idea what the sociological or psychological explanation for the above might even be. Secret disappointment that Christ didn´t return during the lifetimes of the original apostles? There is a splinter group called the New Apostolic Church (NAC) which did appoint new apostles and continued its missionary outreach. These Neo-Irvingites now have about nine million members worldwide, and I actually blogged about them in 2018. So now I have covered the - shall we say - Paleo-Irvingites, too! 

Thank you.

Jehova har landat

 

Judge Rutherford 

Visste inte att Jehova kunde sjunga? Allvarligt talat, är inte detta *lite* överdrivet? Nyhetstorka? 

Jehovas körsång väcker ilska på Arlanda

It´s official now

 

Ukraine blew up Nord Stream 2. But we kind of knew that already. Good goin´, btw. 

Easy journey to other planets

 

So I recently commented Rudolf Steiner´s strange idea that the Buddha went to Mars, et cetera. Purely by chance (?), this popped up in my YouTube feed. "Mars vs Pure Land. Why migrating to the Pure Land is much better than Mars". Elon Musk, are you listening?

Don´t worry, I have no intention of journeying to the red planet anytime soon. However, the Buddhist nun in the clip may be wrong about one thing. She says that the living conditions on Earth are much better than on Mars.

So about that...