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Bible Study, Part 11

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Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 11 | Sunday – September 6, 2026 S eptember is here, which means that the fall is just around the corner, and I must say that from my position in the world, the fall came early this year, which may or may not be a shame, depending of course on your perspective. I have had some personal issues this summer, read " Medical Emergency Updates ", and as a result I am having some difficulties still, read as well " Personal Disintegration ". I am a strong person and there is no reason to worry for me, but even I face major difficulties sometimes, and at the present moment I am facing a "perfect storm" in many ways, really a confluence of adverse factors outside my own control. None of this means that I will be unable to continue this "Bible Study series", but it does mean that I may have to slow down. If indeed I am forced to slow down this series, I will announce this on my "INFO page"...

The 4th Dimension

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Women at the empty tomb By Fra Angelico The 4th Dimension | Monday – August 31, 2026 H eaven is hard to fathom, and so is the 4th dimension. Now, the purpose of this post is not so much to explain or even understand the 4th dimension as it is an attempt to show why certain things remain hidden, not because they have to be hidden but because most people lack the right perspective, or really the right knowledge .     A common occurrence in our modern day is the constant attempt to reduce everything to something material, indeed to something corporeal and immediate. Now, the problem with this approach is that there are many things out there that simply do not translate well into corporeal means; these things simply exist beyond the corporeal, or it would perhaps be more accurate to describe the corporeal as something contained within something larger, as a plethora of principles that all stem from higher principles. Again, it would be as if to attempt to understand the 4th dimen...

Bible Study, Part 10

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Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 10 | Sunday – August 30, 2026 B iblical accounts tend to be contested, contested among historians, biblical scholars, and outside forces attempting to "disprove", often by negation, the Bible. Thus far, we are only in the Old Testament, the Tanakh ( תָּנָ״ךְ ), and for obvious reasons this part of the Bible tends to be closed off, walled off really, to open discourse and debate, which is why the Book of Genesis tends to be speared from the painful convulsions of being brought down to the material level, the level of the masses, the human level, although this has been attempted and is still attempted, though less successfully than the myriad of cracks that have been  eschewed  by negation on the New Testament by false witnesses. Now, some will refer to this false witness hood, this anti-witness hood, as "critical" and "prudent" thinking. Well, I will refer to this as anti-thinking from now on, beca...

Returning?

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Photograph of the Amphitheatre in Side By M. C. Dutt Returning? Tuesday – August 25, 2026 R eturning? Returning to the past, is it possible? If you are not interested in reading most of this post then I will deliver the short answer here: no, it is quite impossible to return to the past, and if you attempted to do this you would fail and become even more discouraged; in fact, I can only warn you against this stupid endeavour. Now, the longer answer will naturally be more long winded but it will also, at least hopefully, be much more satisfying. Well, I should admit that longer answers often are not more satisfying, except maye to the ego .     All jokes, not that I tend to joke much, aside, there is not point in attempting a kind of "return to the past" for multiple reasons: number one, the past is in the past for a reason, read " The End of History "; number two, it would actually be undesirable for most people to live in a bygone era or period; and number three, I...

Bible Study, Part 9

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Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 9 | Sunday – August 23, 2026 N ames and lineage are important, read " Hierarchy ", and they are certainly important in the Bible and in the story of Genesis, for they provide both an account and a connection; they help us understand our place in the world, and they bind us to this place, to each of our stations. Even if we consider ourselves completely autonomous and liberated from the story, from our story, this would still never be enough to escape, to escape the circumstance of each of our creation. It may be fancy to proclaim how each of us just "happened" to be born into our bodies and into our lives, but the fact is, read " Never Trust Your Body! ", that each of us are here only because of us; you can not be someone else, nor could you have been someone else. It is not simply a matter of chance that you ended up being the person that you are. Be it millions or billions of years, read " ...