Fettisdagen infaller alltid 47 dagar före påsk. Och eftersom påsken är rörlig, betyder det att den mångomtalade semmelpremiären också är det. Och således infaller vid olika datum varje år. Något jag inte riktigt förstod förrän ganska nyligen.
2026 infaller fettisdagen den 17 februari. Alltså imorgon. Förra året var alla semlor jag prövade ren skit. Ska bli intressant att se om det blivit någon förändring på den punkten...
Please don´t tell me the Dems are seriously contemplating nominating Kamala Harris *again*?!
I have no particular horse in this race (OK, maybe a cute little pony), but if anybody over there wants my advice, I would say that the "best" Dem ticket would be Newsom-Shapiro, while the "best" GOP ticket would be Haley-Rubio. Best from a European perspective, at least. In the long run, we´ll all be dead!
But surely nobody thinks Harris can defeat Vance? Although I suppose there is a slight chance, since Vance - after all - is no Trump. But that can be remedied by the neo-GOP very explicitly making Vance the constitutional place holder for Trump (or Trump jr).
The main evidence (if that´s the word for it) against Christianity is the delay of the Parousia. The apostles expected the apocalyptic return of Jesus during their lifetimes. When this failed to happen, the second advent was postponed. First a little while, then longer and longer into the future. Early Christianity was a failed apocalyptic sect. Like many others. But you knew that already.
The second best evidence is that there was *another* failed apocalyptic sect which emerged about a century before Jesus. Yes, that would be the Essenes. The fascinating thing about them is that they interpreted what we call the Old Testament in an "esoteric" way strikingly similar to early Christianity. The OT was really about them and their sect during the end times. They believed in a "New Covenant". Their leader, the Teacher of Righteousness, was persecuted and perhaps even killed by the Wicked Priest in Jerusalem. They believed in two Messiah figures: a priestly one and a royal one. Jesus combined both in the same person. Like the Christians, the Essenes applied Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 to their leader. The Teacher was the suffering servant who would (soon) be vindicated by God.
The Essenes also rewrote the Jewish Law without abolishing it (compare the Gospel of Matthew) and believed that the Teacher had the right to reinterpret the Law due to prophetic inspiration (compare the Sermon on the Mount). There is a strong dualist tendency: the Sons of Light will fight the Sons of Darkness in the final war with evil. Again, compare early Christianity. The 144,000 in the Book of Revelation are probably intended to be celibate warriors. Like Qumranite millennarian monks? Note also that both Essenes and early Christians used the First Book of Enoch.
Of course, there were differences, too. In the NT, the Essene-like John the Baptist recognizes the supremacy of Jesus (who is described as a more complex character). Paul de-Judaizes early Christianity, although he faces opposition from James, said to be the Brother of the Lord. And while Christians rejected the Temple de facto (like the Essenes), it´s strongly suggested that they continued worshipping in it until AD 70. Essenes were for armed struggle against Rome, while Christians opposed it and instead awaited a purely supernatural intervention. The most dramatic difference is the resurrection narrative: the followers of Jesus believed that their master *had already* been vindicated by God. Further vindication would follow in the near future.
That vindication never came. But Christianity managed to transcend the Essenes anyway and became a Gentile-dominated world religion. They shed the skin of Judaism altogether. Well, almost! Christianity has been plagued by constant resurgences of apocalypticism and Judaizing. Indeed, the main inspiration for the former is the strongly Judaizing Book of Revelation. It´s as if the shadow of first century Jewish millennialism is still haunting Christianity...
And that seems to be the best evidence against it.
Overheard on the internets. A professional artisan is angry at the TV show "Ancient Aliens".
>>>Stonemason and sculptor here. I think I wrote this under a video of yours years ago, but at the risk of repeating myself:
>>>We learn how to do these things as apprentices. Anyone who cares to learn how can split large stones without power tools or create smooth surfaces and right angles. We use power tools in our everyday work because it's faster, not because it's impossible otherwise.
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| Can you spot "the space brother"? |
Obama just confirmed the existence of aliens. Or did he? I assume he was just joking, but I suppose it´s fun to think otherwise. Of course, when he was POTUS, Obama joked that *he* was an alien from the planet Krypton! There is also a weird e-book claiming that he is one of the Lightworkers, visiting Earth in a candy-colored UFO. If *that* was a joke isn´t entirely clear to me...
Obama jokes that aliens are real
Several sources (AI?) informed me that Mahashivaratri starts on Tuesday at 15:30 or something to that effect. Nah, it´s now. The night between Sunday 15 February and Monday 16 February. Note, however, that the dark moon isn´t until Tuesday February 17!
Be that as it may, here is a picture of Shiva dancing the tandava in a primordial Nordic landscape...
Humans are such interesting creatures. Smart...and yet so remarkably dumb. You may have noticed that the two main threats to our current civilization (or maybe even species) are hardly even mentioned in the media. One was prominently featured just a few years ago, but seems to have faded into the background...again. The other is hardly ever mentioned. And each problem is condemned as a "conspiracy theory" by the guys allegedly promoting awareness of the *other* problem!
The first one is the climate crisis. It´s not entirely absent from the news feeds, but it´s obvious that this little darling of the radical left and the Greens has been put on the back burner ever since the COVID pandemic and the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even the activists themselves seem tired of it, since very few Monet paintings have been attacked lately. At least until recently, they were prioritizing Gaza.
The other is the demographic crisis. You know, the Great Replacement. Although it would have happened even if the evil evilly glo-baalists hadn´t schemed to import millions of foreigners to the hallowed White nations of the North. See: South Korea and Japan. It´s virtually certain at this point that Whites and East Asians will be replaced by South Asians, Central Asians and West Africans. And then, they too will probably start to decline in terms of population.
We are moving towards a world with much fewer people and a worse climate, a world most certainly unable to sustain a modern civilization, perhaps any civilization. And yet, almost nobody is talking about it. And if you talk about one, you refuse to acknowledge the other. If you want to know how great civilizations fall, look no further than this.
Did you know that 250,000 people marched in support of Donald Trump the other day? In Germany. Yeah, really. Cheq your news feeds...
