Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Cleaning | Monday – March 9, 2026 L ately, cleaning or the habit of cleaning has caused much controversy, especially on the internet, and while I attempt to not pay too much attention to the noise and the nonsense going on online, I did feel that I had to share this observation about the world, read " Observations about the world series ". I've written about routines and " dealing with time " in the past, and in that post I very briefly mentioned cleaning, and since I didn't feel compelled at that time to write more about this subject, I felt that it simply was time for me to try to explain why I believe that the entire subject of "cleaning" is quite silly.     See, most people seem to believe that cleaning is a chore that you either have to do when you "feel" like it or when you've scheduled that it's time for cleaning. Of course, this is a completely nonsensical way of understanding cleaning, or ra...

Saint Jerome reading a pseudo-Mongol script ( Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος ) Notes on Marriage Equality | Sunday – March 8, 2026 M arriage is a subject that I have covered in the past because the magnitude of the topic on the entirety of the social organization is simply too important to ignore, read more about marriage here and here , and sure there are many other such topics that are important from a social point of view, but I still find that marriage is at the core of the question of civilization, and truly I can assert with a great deal of confidence that without marriage there can be no civilization; at the core of all civilizations is the sacred unity between husband and wife. And yes, it is certainly the case that the consecration of marriage between husband and wife is under severe attack in the West, especially as this pertains to the concept of "Marriage Equality", that is to say the extension of marriage, in a legal sense, to members outside this sacred unity be...

Yahweh in  (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush Clarifying Notes on the United States | Saturday – March 7, 2026 T he United States or perhaps America? Well, I suppose the "official" name is The United States of America. Whatever the name, I hope that I've made it clear that I'm referring to the U.S.A. or maybe I should use the U.S.? I don't know actually, so I've decided to go by America, even though, as I briefly explained in my notes on the ongoing war in Iran , simply calling the U.S.A., America is somewhat problematic, not the least due to the fact that America is situated on the North American continent, which is part of the Americas, refereeing to both North and South America, but I do believe that this somewhat clumsy introduction has made this point clear, so that I don't need to dwell on this any further or at another time; again, I will refer to The United States of America as simply America. Besides everything about the name, I really don't...