- Well, I´m not quite dead yet, dudes, you tell that Nietzsche house philosopher of yours (fun house)!
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
God´s undertaker
I linked to this once before (in 2022), but here we go again. Is the reason why Christianity is receding that the Christian god might actually be...dead?
The death of God: A speculation
The Tao of Pooh
I could swear this was a Taoist criticizing Christianity, but a quick glance at this man´s YouTube channel indicates that he is really a Christian. If so, he is eminently objective here. I mean, he almost made me convert to The Way!
The Taoist god who out-Buddha´d the Buddha
Three interesting videos on Chinese folk religion and its complex interaction with Buddhism and Taoism (here spelled Daoism).
The closest thing to a high god in Han folk religion, the Jade Emperor, has been appropriated by both Buddhists and Taoists. In Taoism, the Jade Emperor occupies the second rung in the celestial hierarchy, below the three Taoist high gods. In Buddhism, he is identified with Indra, the king of the devas, who is said to be a Buddhist. Perhaps in retaliation, some Jade Emperor-ists (to coin a phrase) argue that their heavenly sovereign is actually a buddha and the teacher of all bodhisattvas! Indeed, he seems to have out-Buddha´d the Buddha himself...
The second video is about Mazu, supposedly a real person (a shamaness from southern China) who became deified after her death. Today, the character of Mazu is used in PRC influence operations directed against Taiwan (where the goddess is very popular)!
The third video is about the ghost festival with the "hell money"...
I admit that Chinese popular religion isn´t really my cup of green tea, but here you go.
Still Wednesday
- Geezus, I have to tell Matangi that she has to stop her damn pets from breeding so profusely!
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DKA
A disturbing but serious video about David Wilcock´s suicide. I actually watched his last pod cast (it´s still up on YouTube). I never heard about diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) until now, but it´s apparently a potentially lethal condition caused by a lack of insulin in the body. Wilcock described most of the symptoms exactly in his podcast and even said that a doctor would probably diagnose him with diabetes. He left out one salient symptom, however...
DKA can trigger psychosis.
Which seems to have happened the next day, when Wilcock called the police, said he had diabetes (!) and strongly implies that he would shoot himself. Which he subsequently did, in front of the police sent out to investigate the situation. It seems that DKA can develop very fast and become life-threatening within 24 hours. Which may explain why Wilcock could still make a podcast on the evening of April 19 and then kill himself around lunch time on April 20.
While the diagnosis DKA is (of course) speculation at this point, it certainly does fit the format. Since Wilcock was a conspiracy theorist, UFO believer and New Age prophet, his untimely death started a seemingly never-ending avalanche of speculations about foul play. Was he abducted by MIBs, killed by the Cabal, or placed in witness protection? His fans just can´t accept that his death was a very human tragedy, rather than some kind of QAnon-type martyrdom related to the Passion of Donald Trump (et cetera).
Maybe that´s the real tragedy.
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