The Gaelic Princess

She's going bungee jumping.
No fear... but rather stoicism.
She falls, and makes a noise.
Not a scream... not a laugh.
No, like she were on a 
Merry-go-round. 
She petitions the gods
And is somewhat out of place in this world.
It is her world though, but she's a different bird.
A harbinger to new times, dangerous times...
That she's seen real danger.

Duck Eyed Junco

You were on the deck.
A grey bird, with white belly.
I talked about you 
With the neighbor as he ploughed 
The street---Winter's York County.

So spry and active
You hopped over everything,
With ruffled feathers.

Sapphire Eyes

My sapphire eyes are green
In the yellow light of the lamp.
Moved by them with fear---
For I can be simple---
I think my metamorphosis has begun.
Yet, child, settle down.
The hair falling off in the shower is only natural
And the nails and skin too...
It is only the yellow lamplight
Which turns your sapphire eyes 
The color you fear.

These Is Fighting Words

I just think the issues are more nuanced than [Gen Z is lazy]. If I'm working my tail off, and still living with mom and dad, that's not a very good incentive to get better at what I'm doing. Not to mention, you could reach grandmastery at something, like say knife smithing, and still have nothing to show for it.

Like honestly, Freemasons and chess players aren't the only grandmasters. Someone put these douchebags in their place. Like making nosism archaic, when everyone fucking uses them. And then inventing Royal We. We don't want Royalty.

Tell Webster to get real, as redefining English isn't going to make people stop using it.

On Changelings

Yeah, people change. Stress and guilt press them so hard, that their entire personalities change. Also, finding good things does the same thing. It's really about making smart decisions and confronting your own demons. As the changeling is a turn of attitude, and you must fight it within yourself, not in others.

The Modern Schopenhauer

He begins with romantic reveries
Dreamily and steamily, and sex and breasts.

Then, he scars his conscience, and sees his sin
And moodily meditates on the conspiracies of the world.

Then he finds poetry, and literature, and begins to 
Grasp at notes of knowledge, pure and undefiled.

Then he dives deep into his religion, seeing it is 100% true
And finds the evidence, and the reason for his faith.

Next, does he find love, and open up and lose his neurotic ways?
Or does he grow kind, and loving, and heartbroken at dashed hopes?

Let not his love grow cold, or his heart bitter, my LORD;
Let Youth burgeon once again. Let him see the breasts of mercy.

The Time Pyramid (The Off By One Error, Inspired by Stand-Up Maths)

Or... you can just have a symbolic decade in 3193 where you celebrate its completion, and do a program on the history of that 1200 years. As the last year can be a sort of resting year, where you celebrate history, and see the thing as a time capsule. If this can actually get completed, that'd be extremely impressive. 1200 years would bring us back to the time of Cuchulain and Arthur. If humans could achieve this feat of patience, even pushing past the existence of entire empires--there's no saying Germany will be a thing 1200 years from now--that'd be impressive and a feat for all mankind. Especially without change to the design.

On Inventions by Black Americans

Well they were inventions created by black Americans. Everything's cumulative. They weren't the first, nor were they the last to make improvements, but they made their contributions.

It's like, many of our richest ideas are built upon over many years. What's important is that the inventor/creator gets compensated for their work. As that's why there's patent and copyright.

What distinguishes a true inventor/creator from a fraud, is it's their original idea. They witnessed it, and created it through their own design. By measure of human communication and what's possible, there's going to be similar ideas and inventions. Like Fairyland has reminiscent aspects of William Blake, and The Fifth Angel's Trumpet is a lot like Heinlein's Starship Troopers, since it was based on the movie, and it kind of developed in the same vein as the book--albeit unintentionally.

Like, Star Wars, Dune and Foundation are all practically the same story. It's just different iterations, which is fine. That's how we ought to work. You can retell a story over and over again, and add in new layers of nuance and detail. Like the Song of Songs archetype is the story of every lifetime and Rom Com, but it's different every time, based on the characterizations and nuances of the plot. Same thing with the Western and Romance. What's important, is that the author--if they're original--or the inventor--if they're original--get paid for their work. As if they don't, that's when the system is failing.

True creation is mimeses, not mimicry. It draws from primary sources (nature and form), and not secondary or tertiary sources (copying and plagiarism). Or quaternary, (outright theft).

A Sermon to the Antichrist

Devil, you need God's power to be good. We know right from wrong innately. That's not what God is for. Abraham had to be shown God does not demand human sacrifice, as the Amorite Religion required it. Except once, through God's Son, which God says Jehovah Jireh. He will provide. But our conscience bears witness to that, and the Bible bears witness to our conscience.

Slavery is a kindness on those who cannot understand or know how to take care of themselves. Or it's there to reprove the wicked for their crimes. It also was the only way to keep large cities fed. We don't need it now, as we have industrial machinery.

God talks more about charity than anything else. That's why I believe.

The wars God caused man to fight brought peace, though. Sin grows too severe sometimes, where the next time, God will have to destroy it Himself, like He did in Noah's day. But in Moses' day, He delivered the people of Israel through the beach, and defeated Pharaoh, and caused the next generation to war with Canaan, as they were in deep sin, which caused deep suffering. In Christ's day, He died and raised, and persuaded the entire Roman empire, through the peace of His servants' righteousness. But now, we cannot war anymore. We have to win through persuasion. Like it were in Rome, again, and maybe by our own blood.

We don't know who burns in hell. God is Judge not I. No, I don't know who's going to hell. Or who's going to heaven. Nobody does. The nations will join themselves with Israel, so there's no way to tell. God's Word is extolled above even Himself, so those who love righteousness, I believe have grace, so long as they find Christ, and His power. There is one name, and all other roads are wicked. There is only one gate, but few shall find it. I believe righteousness compels the LORD to find you, though, and move all things to bring you to Him, and gather you, as a Hen does its flock.

But He resurrected, confirming His witness. Josephus names His brother, James, dying for the testimony that Christ raised from the dead. Not to mention, myriads of Church history--we know a lot about the apostles--they died believing too, having met and ate, and lived a very intimate and close life with Him. And they saw Him ascend. And Thomas put His hands into His wounds, being slain by red hot irons after not perishing in a furnace. So it could only be Christ. That's confirmation of His moral teachings.

The Gospels are the evidence. They're more reliable and closer to the source than Plutarch. And we have far more manuscripts to compare and understand, and make a complete documentation of the scripture. We know this through Papias who it was who wrote the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and John, and Luke we know accompanied Paul, who knew James, Peter, John and through John Mary.

Well, consider, if you weren't going to hell, the LORD would draw you to Himself. You couldn't be removed even if Satan employed Seraphim to blaspheme God's holiness through your prophetic organs. Which Satan has done, as I've witnessed through reading about the martyrs. If the LORD has chosen you, He knows your heart already, and will save you because He has instilled His righteousness within your heart, and has proved you love His law. There is no work, but a change of heart. The LORD is sovereign, and is the one Who causes change.

It's not your deeds, but your state of heart. Hell happens because you've rejected the Holy Spirit, and cannot have a share of God's righteousness, nor His peace. If you cannot have God's peace, where will you go? What will you have? God is the source of all good. So you ultimately can have no good if you choose to reject Him.

There's no work in heaven. It's a restoration of Eden, with Hephzibah as your Eve or for women the LORD as their Husband, and the Lord's Mind, Soul and Spirit so you can never have any more sin. You become like God, and have power to judge, and are made into clans and nations. It's the restoration of the mistake made by Adam and Eve, only saved through Christ, and given a resurrected form like Himself.

Jesus and Infinity

[I]nfinity is a difficult concept. Like, calculus assumes an infinite to divide and get a correct solution--which is a lot like how I understand faith to be.

Like, it's just so hard for people to understand. You can have infinites in one dimension, that are smaller than infinites in two, which are smaller than infinites in three... and so forth. I think everyone should take a basic Algebra class, to understand that stuff.

But, why we know Christ is LORD, is what He spoke. I learned for 30 years--since I was 5--and was in intensive education, first in school and then on my own. Jesus had none of that. He was from Galilee, poorer than you know. We have houses unearthed in Galilee, they'd be the size of my living room. The Psalmist says He had no bed, and was thrown out of His house. He was homeless... and kind of struggling mentally with that, too. You see He's stressed out in His ministry, but He always keeps composure. He's not Schizophrenic at all. I am... but He's not. He's fully cognizant and in a time without medications, so His condition could only get worse and not better if He were crazy. And nothing shows that He was. Not anything we've seen about Him. And He was just an extremely gifted human being. Fully salient, fully in His right mind, and performing miracles. Jesus is the Son of God, for those reasons.