Sunday, May 24, 2026

Chesterton


Top 10 Prophetic Quotes From GK Chesterton
The Babylon Bee | 19 Dec. 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te1-gDhq3DU


5:39 In much of Europe, that's the huge contributor to Muslims replacing us.

["the one consoling thought is, that will only last one generation"]

8:03 In Chesterton's day, governments were sterilising people.

That's not "more fresh" ...*

12:34 Chesterton also said, Capitalism and Communism are so similar.**

Right now people in Anaheim are evacuated because a factory had the Capitalistic freedom to produce for such a large amount of customers and the Capitalistic corner cutting to not ensure proper safety for such large a factory.




* "Take out God, the government becomes the God" and they argued "when governments were more fresh"
** "Whether the share will be delivered in motorcar or balloon" and they argued "people say Capitalism won't work, but Communism will" ... Chesterton had attacked Communism, not specifically defended Capitalism




Lewis and Tolkien: G.K. Chesterton, Myth, and the Imagination
Ryan M Reeves | 2 Sept. 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnaNqj_vA4


17:43 You can* observe angels by their actions when they do Tychonian orbits or "annual aberration and parallax" ...

If a rationalist claims that this is just because Earth moves, the problem is, his only proof for Earth moving is, lack of God and angels.

God doing, as per Romans 1, the daily movement of the whole shebang.

The rationalist pretends God and angels not existing is the default and is worth denying Geocentrism, despite universal observation of it by 8 billion people.

I say, believing your eyes (especially if backed up by so many other ones) is the default and is worth God and angels getting a proof via physics. As in, the universe couldn't turn around Earth by just inertia and gravitation, nor Venus do that pentagram like figure within that (i e in relation to a zodiac that moves daily, not to earth that doesn't move).

20:34 I happen to have a formula for saying that carbon dates can square with Biblical chronology.

Clearly not the same thing, but I have it, and I have also made tables with details. Right now, some Christians like very much to link Abraham (1900's or 1800's BC in Biblical chronology, depending on dating of Exodus and a few more) to carbon dated and archaeological 1900's and 1800's. So, they put my tables in a limbo, because I link Genesis 14 to carbon dated 3500 BC. But in carbon dates, Asason Tamar / En Geddi has no population in 1900's or 1800's BC. Therefore the Biblical dates need a reduction of carbon dates. I show this is possible.**

23:59 You certainly did have a right to feel wrath against the mean boy, I hope you didn't kill him. There are people I don't know how to deal with except by killing one, but it doesn't sit with my habits.

Note, they have gone out of their way to make normal reactions self defeating.

However, as an argument, I think Dawkins would argue sth about "the selfish gene" ...***

25:46 In Catholicism, you pray twice around a meal.

Before, you ask a blessing. After, you thank for the blessing.




* In response to:

if someone comes up to you and they say well you know what I I I've just used my mind and Science and I come up with these these conclusions um how can you believe in a world with Heaven and Hell and Angels and Demons you can't say well good let's let's go to the to the science lab and I'll I'll I'll show you the angel the angel particle or the demon particle you can't actually observe these things


** My latest completed version from Flood to fall of Troy: Newer Tables: Preliminaries · Flood to Joseph in Egypt · Joseph in Egypt to Fall of Troy.

*** I think I have a somewhat better argument about speech. An Ambiguous Term, "Language Development" · Is Gradualism Really That Impossible? · Was Jean Aitchison Calling Bird-Song Doubly Articulated? AND Human Language Revisited · Elves and Adam · Back to Picq · Off the Bat

Capitalism, Specifically Industrial ... and Psychiatry


Citation:

The company's Garden Grove facility has undergone four inspections by OSHA since 2018, which resulted in 10 violations, public records show. Now, more on these violations wasn't available, but in 2019, this is one of the examples, uh the California Department of Industrial Relations uh a request in Orange County Superior Court that a judge ordered the company to pay about $3,000 in civil penalties.


EMERGENCY: White House Shooting & 40,000 Evacuated in California Chemical Emergency!
Lisa Haven | 24 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N18OVWjZw6g


I'm glad people from Anaheim are safe.

8:43 In the case of this attempt, let's face it, the man has been in psychiatry and therefore has faced some kind of torture.

I wonder if his wish to get arrested involved an attempt to clear up the story he had claimed to be Jesus.

(See also:
Garden Grove chemical crisis: Live evacuation maps, closures and updates
By Los Angeles Times staff
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/garden-grove-gas-leak-live-evacuation-maps-closures-and-updates
)

A Sentence in Tolkien (or Two, or More)


I finally understand why I love the sentences of JRR Tolkien so much
First Timers | 23 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOrgYaP2VDg


6:12 Let's take the sentence.

The wind was howling | and the thun )der still growling.


When the siege and the assault | had ceased at Troy ... this line has two beats plus two beats, but many lines in Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (which I read in Tolkien's translation) actually have two beats plus three beats, like above.

And they had a business getting themselves | and their ponies along.


Two beats and two beats, like the first line from Sir Gawaine. In his explanation to Beowulf, Tolkien noted that only full beats, stressed long syllables, or two short ones the first of which is stressed, count as beats. You don't count a syllable as a beat just because it's surrounded by two weak ones in Anglo-Saxon poetry.

Hence "and they had a" contains no beat and "business" is one beat, not a beat plus a weak syllable.

The one difference is, first "line" has an internal end rhyme instead of alliteration, and second "line" has no type of rhyme ... or it actually has a kind of allitteration, "b" in "business" allitterating with "p" in "ponies" ...

Not sure if Tolkien did this fully on purpose or if his daily contact with Old and Middle English allitterating poetry simply rubbed off.

7:01 Once again, it's Anglo-Saxon metre with some liberties.

It was a hard path and a dangerous path | and a crooked and a long.


In this, the first half line is involving "path" as a secondary beat, but in AS poetry, this would not have been repeated in the next descriptor.

Crooked is obviously just one beat, because the first syllable is short and needs a second one to fill out a beat.

If he had said instead:

It was a hard path and at risk | and crooked and long.


THAT would have been totally in the Beowulf metre. He came very close. The Roman rhetors had a knack of getting close to Hexameter but just avoiding it, sometimes by ending sentences like a first halfline of hexameter, and beginning them as a second halfline.

Oh, my version obviously lacks the allitteration.

Wait, I curtailed the second part. I think one could analyse it as two lines, but somewhat shorter halflines than Beowulf admits, at times, and no secondary beat:

It was a hard path | and a dangerous path
and a crooked way | and a lonely and a long.


Allitterating between the two beats of a second halfline is obviously not done in Beowulf.

7:11 Here we could pose five halflines:

and the silence seemed | to dislike being broken
except by the noise of water | and the wail of wind
and the crack of stone. ...


Pretty good Anglo-Saxon poetry. Again, two words allitteraring in the second half, not done in Beowulf, but it is done at times in Sir Gawaine.

7:38 Here, the mood is less Anglo-Saxon and more Sir Topaz meets ballad meter.

Far, far away in the West (4)
where things were blue and faint (3)
Bilbo knew there lay (3)
his own country of safe and comfortable things (5)
and his little Hobbit hole. (3)


8:25 Beowulf for one line, then looser.

Boulders too | at times came galloping
down the moun tain sides | let loose by mid-day sun upon the snow


The second line has a second half with four full beats, one more than the Gawaine metre allows ...

9:52 As on a daily basis he was teaching old poetry, from Old and Middle English (before and West of Chaucer), and sometimes translating poetry or writing poems of his own, this is a thing he actually couldn't help ... but which helped him a lot.

Judaism Apostasised, Catholicism Didn't


How Jesus Died: The Historical Sources Explained
Elon Gilad | 3 April 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnsHyneJuPo


Broke every law in a single night.

I'd be grateful for details.

We Christians hold that Hannas and Caiaphas founded what's now the Jewish religion by rejecting the true Messiah, so, breaking the law on top of that is not actually over the top for us.

EVERY Christian Should Learn These Church History Facts
Wretched with Todd Friel | 24 April 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQOR12k5yY


Judaism apostasised in one night.

When Hannas and Caiaphas judged God.

Catholicism supposedly apostatised very slowly ... from the 6th to the 12th C.

How do you do such a thing? Could Adam have taken 600 years to slowly bite the forbidden fruit? Could Solomon have taken (given longevity, which he hadn't any more) taken 600 years from fully being a servant of the True God to actually adhering in at least cult of worship to the false gods of his wives?

Before you bring up slow apostasies in Gentiles after Babel (which I would hold) or Israel from Jeroboam to Baal, those are doctrinal slow rotting of what was already cut off fairly quickly, by obeying Nimrod more than God and Jeroboam over Rohoboam. So, this doesn't match, as you claim the 6th C. Church was still the Christian Church, standing, though compromised.

While Gentiles who had served Nimrod started to believe all sorts of (different) idolatrous nonsense, while Jeroboam's successors were drifting towards Baal, the line from Heber to Abraham and the line from Rohoboam to Joas were still standing doctrinally sound. So, that scenario would require a parallel Church that didn't slowly apostatise, that was already separated from when sth else started to drift after being cut off.

Christianity Unique in Witnessing Actual Miracles


I'm obviously taking the OT as a prequel to Christianity, not to Orthodox Judaism.


Alex O’Connor’s Mormon Witness Argument Fails
Testify | 22 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWrCsBamBT8


11:40 So, you are saying that even granting the witness accounts in Doctrine and Covenant and in the Sira, Joseph Smith and Mohammed have not proven beyond reasonable doubt they had a message by God?

Sounds quite convincing, actually.

As opposed to, Christianity is the one religion where the own origin story has to be discounted as decades later arisen myths in order to give room to scepticism ... I can even grant very much of what Mahabharata and Ramayana says without finding Hinduism convincing, with Christianity, that's somehow not on the table, with sceptics.

Hollywood Genesis Bad, AiG Comment Not Fault Free


Hollywood Just Made a Show Depicting Genesis! Is It Worth Watching?
Answers in Genesis | 22 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TmErhLvgCc


4:08 There is a certain shtick in modernist theology, like Catholic "clergy" in communion with at least Ratzinger, Bergoglio and Prevost here in France, probably already Wojtyla, to pretend "Abraham was born in a Pagan family"

This is obviously based in part on Joshua 24:2, but they are over doing that.

And I'd say that Ussher had a finger in the play too. Abram was born when Thare was 70 c., not when he was 130, as Ussher wanted to deduce from:

Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell
[Acts Of Apostles 7:4]


Ussher took this as when his physical actual father (not grand or great-grand, just father per se) was physically dead.

If so, and if grand and dad were already idolaters, that would mean Abram was born to a culture of idolatry. A cradle pagan.

I dispute this. Stephen very probably meant when the physical father, Thare, was spiritually dead, i e the idolatry of dad started when Abram was already 75 or when the spiritual father (like Sarug, not mentioned as idolater by Joshua, or like a servant preserving the God-tradition, like Eliezer or his dad) had physically died.

So, when God spoke to Abram, both he and Sarai already knew which God, and probably Abram was as nearly educated for such a thing as Samuel.

10:30 [matriarchs, Sarah is strong and is taking the decisions]

Rip off from beginnings of Islam, as traditionally told?

Hadidja really was stronger than Mohammed (if that happened, there seem to be some doubts), and Muslims, after Mohammed, venerate the "mothers of the faithful" who, apart from his daughter Fatima were his multiple wives, except perhaps the Egyptian Christian who seems to have remained Christian.

Perhaps also a bow to the psychiatric view that Abraham was a schizophrenic, fake diagnosis, but from those believing this a madman, and in that case, obviously he would have been incompetent to handle the affairs of the tribe.

19:05 Again, some shrinks are into pretending Abraham was schizophrenic, I think the show is catering to this.

As for the physical power balance, Abraham had already tied Isaac, and there were presumably others around who could have prevented him from defending himself, if that had been the kind of deal the story was about. Not unlike some shrinks being weak people but always out of reach if a patient wants to defend himself.

22:18 "because he was old"

On this item, I would exonerate the show.

Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am
[Genesis 27:1]


The Bible doesn't say that Isaac was dim eyed simply because of old age, and lots of people do retain good eye-sight. One condition that could cause blindness or impaired eye-sight and get worse in old age is diabetes. Some other sicknesses conducive to blindness are smallpox perhaps chicken pox, and when I had that, I was put in a room with dimmed light and red wall paper so as to spare my eyesight. Its recurrence shingles can also impair eyesight.

So, this item per se is not a fault, though a change in dioptres over aging can also do it. But that change has lots to do with modern life, like lots of reading ... which I presume was less an issue back then.

23:16 On this issue, I would say, that predestination is aided by the prayers of the saints.

Jacob was elect. However, he would not have been in heaven now if he hadn't been born, and he was born because his mother prayed.

Standard argument for our prayers, but ultimately also other actions actually making a difference, not for God electing, but for how that election comes to fruition. Against Calvinism.

28:31 Narcigesis?

I think you may have a kind of problem doctrinally, in accepting, perhaps promoting, the diagnosis "narcissism" ...

Have you heard what Tovia Singer says about Jesus?

The thing isn't a person who considers himself a Christian and you consider a narcissist is Jesus, it's:

For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?
[Luke 23:31]


If Jesus struck him as a narcissist, obviously he'll find Christians narcissists as well. I'm worried when Protestant "Christians" take a Jewish view of morality and mental health.

29:01 It very much did matter what Rebecca did.

Most specially her prayer, obviously.

The Roman Catholic blessing for a first time bride who's a virgin involves a prayer that she may have the qualities of Sarah, Rebecca, Lea and Rachel.

Rebecca's quality in this context is wisdom.

Antichrist; Some Observations


What Everyone Gets Wrong about the Antichrist
Sean McDowell | 3 May 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRCpsZlOu8


Now, I'd say, it's not absolutely necessary that the individual Antichrist claims to be God.

Adore the beast could refer to giving divine attributes to the beast system, for instance medicine.

Recall the recent pandemic?




Second Temple Judaism had a unique place of worship.

Catholicism has a principal place of worship.

Peace treaty is not in any clear prophecy about the antichrist. You may think of this one:

And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.
[Daniel 9:27]


Check previous verse:

And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation
[Daniel 9:26]


It mentions Christ.

The "covenant with many" is the Eucharist, the New Covenant.




keyman 66
@keyman6689
There is always an Antichrist in every generation. Satan doesn't know when the "end times" will be. He always has someone waiting in the wings to eventually be "the" Antichrist.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@hglundahl
"Satan doesn't know when the "end times" will be."

How do you know that?

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth, and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 12:12]


He has some kind of knowledge of the times, doesn't say how much.

keyman 66
@hglundahl "...only the Father knows." Matt 24:36

Satan doesn't have any hidden knowledge. He's not omniscient. As you point out, he knows his time is short. We know that, too. We're told Jesus can come back at any moment. But it's been 2000 years. Could be 2000 more. We don't know. Satan doesn't, either.

Every generation thinks they're the last ones. We all see signs that could be biblical prophecy fulfillment. It's possible that Satan may have figured out some clues from the Bible that we haven't. He's very smart, perceptive, and cunning.

My point is he doesn't truly know any more than we do. We're told to always be ready. Satan is, too. I grant he may have deciphered some information from the Bible that we haven't yet. Still, I don't believe it's possible to come to full knowledge of exactly when. It's hidden for a reason.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@keyman6689 "We're told Jesus can come back at any moment."

Not quite, the katekhon has to be removed first.

I hold this happened in 1918.

So, day and hour, we cannot know.

I think we might be able to know the generation (if I live twenty or thirty years more, it may well be in my time, but it could be way sooner than that).

And Satan could know that too.

The thing about generation is this, people are still alive who were born before ASCII was well known and we can now calculate whether their names add up to 666 in ASCII.

@keyman6689 "Satan doesn't have any hidden knowledge. He's not omniscient." But he does on occasion talk to One Who Is. As in Job. So, he could have knowledge that's hidden from us, certainly knowledge that was hidden from earlier generations.

keyman 66
@hglundahl It's pure speculation to think that Satan knows something we don't because God told him. That's certainly possible. But not likely. The removal of the restrainer will tip him off, imo.

Are you saying the restrainer was already removed in 1918? What was that?

My belief is that the restrainer is the church, which will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air. That will send the world into chaos. This could happen at any moment, like a thief in the night. At some point, whether immediately or possibly decades later, globalism will be instituted and the Antichrist will establish himself. After 7 years of tribulation, Jesus returns to step foot on the earth and begin his 1000 year reign.

Hans-Georg Lundahl
@keyman6689 The restrainer is NOT the Church, she will NOT be raptured pre- or mid-trib.

She is not under the wrath, and likewise Israel in Goshen was not under the plagues of Egypt, but however under the threat of Pharao.

Why? Jesus said "all days, until the consummation of time" in the last verse of Matthew.

So, the restrainer which is taken out of the way is the Christian Roman Emperor, successor of Roman Emperors who were less good, but still restrainers, insofar as their evil had a certain magnanimity, which did not allow them to condone full scale the kind of evils the Antichrist will do.

On 17 July 1918, Nicolas II of Russia was killed. On 12 November 1918, Charles I of Austria (IV of Hungary) removed from the Hofburg with a kind of abdication.

Immediately, you had Lenin in Russia and Bela Kun in Hungary, clear precursors of the Antichrist.