I'm not sure I can believe in salvation, but if I could, I'm pretty sure it would be about me. What can the behaviour of others possibly have to do with my salvation? If I have no time to attend to my #salvation because I must attend to the naughtiness of others, how am I to achieve salvation? Plus, I would be making everyone cranky, including myself. It sounds rather like the opposite project. What if it is, and this is how it is to be recognised?

#religion

In the past two weeks, I've had my zen back, only minutes at a time, but enough to remind me what it actually is: it is a mode of awareness that belongs only in a heaven, and so much so, that it is unbothered by being here instead.

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2025/03/11/involuntary-buddhist/

#MentalWealth

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/trump-vance-aliens-ufo

There are only three possibilities:
1. We have not been visited by space aliens
2. We have been visited, but have been deemed too stupid and dangerous for contact.
3. Aliens, upon seeing how stupid and dangerous the US government is, have initiated secret contact.

None of these possibilities elicits enthusiasm. The last one — the one hoped for — is chilling.

#UFO #idiocracy

I have long been fascinated by Albert Speer — his story says more about us than it does about him.

"Speer had served as minister of armaments in wartime Nazi Germany, and was found guilty of crimes against humanity; yet when he died, he was in London to promote his new book on the BBC."

"Speer understood that “celebrity operates very much beyond good and evil”, and tinkered with facts in order to maximise his fame – a forewarning of the #post-truth era."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/09/you-are-the-fuhrers-unrequited-love-by-jean-noel-orengo-review-hitler-speer-and-beyond

"US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’ "

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/29/ai-written-books-novel-shy-girl-publishers

How is this not good news? Currently, publishers select manuscripts that sound like existing successful books—a dubious service. Soon pulp fiction shall be written on demand for free by AI. Publishers shall be forced to deal with authors with new ideas—their real job.

#publishing #AI #books

I dreamt I was on a tour bus. We stopped in a village under Nazi occupation.
It was a theme park like WestWorld, but with Nazis. The tourists were very excited.

"What sharp uniforms!"

"Oh, look! An arrest with a real beating!"

"Please take a photo of me and this young thug."

Our group was getting smaller, one by one. The tour bus was gone. Finally, I realised that these were real Nazis and the victims were from the last tour.

I awoke.

#democrats

Every #Massachusetts student knows the cry, "The British are coming!" as the warning 250 years ago that British troops were moving on Lexington and Concord.

The very idea that "the British" did not refer to the colonists themselves was already the revolution.

Now, Massachusetts students must fear the coming of the Americans.

#ICE #DHS #FBI #fascism #unplugtrump