Ethereal Insights

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...

Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 13 | Sunday – September 20, 2026 D ue to some ongoing issues that have inadvertently affected my mental faculties, I am currently sluggish and generally feble. Because of this, I am likely to underperform while writing this post, which is just as well, as I am going to cover a short chapter in this post. Although, just because a chapter is short, this alone does not mean that the chapter is of less use or importance. This is of course going to be the 13th post in this series and the 13th chapter of Genesis ( בְּרֵאשִׁית ) in the Old Testament, the Tanakh ( תָּנָ״ךְ ), and more specifically the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ). Again, I am somewhat groggy today so bear with me.     As usual, I should make some initial statements about this series and about my rules in this series, but I have decided that if you wish to know more about all that, you may just read any other post in this series. Here I will provide two links to two of...