Ethereal Insights

Moses ( מֹשֶׁה ) destroying the tablets containing the Decalogue ( עשרת הדברות ) by James Tissot Idols | Friday – July 24, 2026 I dols and Individualism... How current indeed! Yes, today it seems that people have completely forgotten about the ills of idolatry, a subject that I have covered elsewhere . But it is rather interesting that individualism, a fairly recent concept, has swept the world away in all its glory and fantasies about the greatness of the individual, the one individual, the genius , the painter, perhaps the artist... Why should we (moderns) not pay attention to the idol? I mean, after all most of us do not know how to read properly, let alone how to write or compose, read " Notes on Reading ", but most of us still manage to garner all sorts of opinions about all sorts of things that we really do not know anything about because we are not qualified to know anything about that stuff, yet we feel freer than ever before to express those opinions, and beyond just...

John ( יוֹחָנָן ) ascending with the Lamb of God ( Ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ) to the New Jerusalem ( καινὴ Ἰερουσαλήμ ) Mechanical Procedures | Thursday – July 23, 2026 S ometimes modern people, ideologues of supposedly different persuasions , make the argument that there is a qualitative and meaningful difference between  democracy and the so-called "tyranny of the majority", and they often go on to argue that within the confines of a democratic society there are certain "checks and balances" that will ensure the proper exercise of the "rule of law", read " The Law Of The Land ", and that in this way the humans rights  of each citizen will be ensured and protected, even guaranteed . The "tyranny of the majority" on the other hand is, they claim , something entirely different: really the rule of mobs and savage fanatics, the lowest and most primitive ( infra-human ) elements in any society , which the vast majority of people tend towards I must...

Yahweh in (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush Why I Don't Smoke | Wednesday – July 22, 2026 I may come across as a hypocrite, which I am , whenever I write these blog posts , especially when I write about smoking, a subject I still keep returning to apparently , but there are many reasons why I choose not to smoke, but before I get into those, allow me to just again admit that I am a hypocrite, but so are you and everyone else on Earth; I can almost assure you that there has not been a single man walking this Earth that at some point did not contradict himself and his beliefs . So yes, to the extent that I do not smoke I am a hypocrite and I will stand for it without attempting to lie and manipulate, regardless of my reasons for choosing not to smoke, because the reasons, while they may matter, are actually not important when we consider someone a hypocrite, and yes again I am that someone, a hypocrite in this case. Also, I am still a hypocrite, while I have advocated the benefic...