Ethereal Insights

Depiction of Henry VIII in 1542 Frugality | Wednesday – September 23, 2026 T he degradation of the Coinage is actually a rather important but overlooked part of history, read " Gold ", and it should come as no surprise to learn that of all the things that we have to contend with here in the material domain , money has undergone the most advanced and adverse transformation , to the point where it has become a concept entirely of the imagination, that is to say below the material surface of the human order , something that now can only be said to belong to the infrahuman order . Well, spending is what most things revolve around today, and a man has to be capable of spending, at least if he is to be considered a "proper man" and all, read " Gender Roles ". Of course, frugality is still something that people talk about, because yes a man should be able, capable really, of spending, but he should also not spend beyond his station, or really beyond his means, wh...

Photograph of the Atlas globe The News Cycle | Tuesday – September 22, 2026 N ews are all around us these days, read " What is News and Media? ", and the information, the nonsense information, that these newscasts provides us are just that, nonsense, and this is why most people choose to call it the "News Cycle", because within a matter of hours, sometimes minutes, there will be new nonsense information for you to consume, and so you are primed for a continual flow of new information. Really, it would be true to say that you are overloaded with information, and information that is completely useless to you, yet the people who are doing this to you will still get paid at the end of the day, at the end of the news cycle, as if they ever provided you with useful information in the first place. This is a problem, and it is a problem that has gotten worse and worse, and is really a part of a much larger problem, read " The End of History ". Yes, it was perhaps ...

Abraham ( אַבְרָהָם ) Sees Sodom in Flames, by James Tissot Divine Law | Monday – September 21, 2026 D ivine Law is a subject that I keep returning to on this page, and thus far I have written a lot about secular law,* but I have not covered adequately divine law, mostly because this is a large subject and also not an easy subject to write about, since there is not one divine law, at least not today. Today, we are left with, for instance, the 613 laws in the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ), or why not the Decalogue ( עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת )? At any rate, there is no reason to think of one divine law, instead we are left with trying to figure out what divine law is and what divine law concerns us. It would be quite accurate to suggest that a Jew has little use in observing the Sharia ( شريعة ), and vice versa. Well no, not vice versa, because a Moslem could very well find use in at least reading the Torah and trying to understand the 613 laws, and this is due to the inherent theology of most major Is...