Ethereal Insights

Taenghwa ( 탱화 ) Painting, Joseon ( 조선 ) Should Anorexia Become Normalized? Friday – April 17, 2026 A norexia is an issue that I have raised in the past; you may read about that in my post: " Anorexia and the Body ".      I have decided to cover this issue yet – again  because there are a lot of fat people in the world, and in the spirit of egalitarianism it appears that certain pressure groups and adjacent activists, often feminists , believe that it is quite evil to promote, from a profane perspective may I add , health and lifestyle factors that tend to promote health, such as not binge-eating. Is it really the case that binge-eating is the new normal? No, at least not yet but there are actually real people that want to promote this, and they even claim that their lifestyle, as if everything is about preferences , is healthy and that skinny people are the ones that are unhealthy. To me, this is simply outrageous and really a sign of our times, read " Disintegrat...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Shortwave Radio | Thursday – April 16, 2026 S hortwave radio is on my mind – again. Not that I have mentioned my radio interest very much on this page, although I have alluded to this in some posts , but that is all besides my point: I find radio communications of all kinds important for one reason – freedom . Now, I am not someone that tends to talk or write a lot of about freedom, although I have done this in the past as well , but I do find it important to evade government control and coercion as much as possible, and one of the most effective ways of doing this is through the medium of the airways. Now, it is also true, I should make clear, that shortwaves in particular are not the only "radio medium", and there is surely a physical science behind this, something that I may return to later. But because of physics, in the material sense , shortwaves in particular tends to travel very far distances, depending on conditions , and this means th...

Sikh depiction of: Bhai Bala ( ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ ) and Bhai Mardana ( ਭਾਈ ਮਰਦਾਨਾ ) Other People | Wednesday – April 15, 2026 P eople are numerous these days. Really, people are all around these days, and this proximity to many people is not natural nor is it really something that is traditional or typical of human life under the Sun. Of course, this human density development is something that is strictly linked to modern civilizations . I guess the problem then becomes this: what will people think? First of all, historically and for most of history, recorded or not, it was the case that most people knew each other and really only very few people actually ever met a stranger. Sure, it may have been the case that most people throughout their lives at some points met strangers, but these where certainty exceptions. So yes, it would be quite natural for people to wonder and even worry about the opinions of other people, really an issue of free inquiry. So do people actually think anything in parti...