Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Old Ships | Tuesday – October 13, 2026 I like old ships a lot and a sad thing about today is of course that ships in general are less common, and in particular older steam shippers (S/S) are even less common. I am writing about this, because this is one observation about the world that one can make and that one could assert to be quite right. Right not in the righteous sense , but rith in the valid sense. Yes and of course, I have traveled the light seas on older ships, and I suppose that there is something within me that is longing for the days of having to cross large oceans in order to reach new worlds, but that time is now gone, and I have also come to accept this, read " The Age of Exploration ". But none of this so-called "acceptance" has anything to do with reality, and I should state that I actually do not accept this world, but I am forced to live in it, but because I am forced to live in it, does not mean that I have to acce...

Tower of Babel ( מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל ) By Lucas van Valckenborch The Promised Land | Monday – October 12, 2026 T he Tower of Babel ( מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל ) should perhaps be considered again , especially when we consider the great utopia . Yes, whenever we are forced to contend with certain ideological narratives , we should always ask ourselves: why and how? Why would such a society , such an organization, be considered better than how the world is manifest already, and how would this ever be put into practice? Yes, these questions matter and it seems that most ideologues rarely ask them, and indeed it does not even seem that most ideologues are motivated by a real belief anyways: would be be mistaken in assuming that most ideologues are motivated by some kind of internal conflict, read " Frugality ", and if so would it not be unlikely that ideologues are even motivated by a kind of anti motivation? Well, let us perhaps return to this a little bit later. The fact that there is so muc...

Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 16 | Sunday – October 11, 2026 T he question of creating a family and the rearing of children are topics that I have covered elsewhere , but of course this chapter of Genesis ( בְּרֵאשִׁית ) will perhaps strike people with modern sensibilities as strange, but I am ensuring you now that there is really nothing strange about this at all, as we shall see below. Which brings me to the need of at least attempting to shed your preconceptions and notions about righteousness , at any rate for the while that you are reading and studying the Bible, because all of these painful conflicts that will inevitable arise during your reading will only serve to distract you and confuse you even more. Yes, you may not understand the sensitive context of these action, but without context , a sense of context, you are only left with an urgent dissonance that cannot be resolved, and this is perhaps the greatest gap that exists between the past an...