St. Crispin's Day

  Ruminating on QAnon : I’ve found the question of QAnon fascinating. Q for future reference was of course a poster on an ostensibly anonymous image board (really, two image boards) who posted under the moniker Q with a unique alphanumeric ‘trip code.’ We will assume for the sake of conversation that this is one person for a moment and we can use the pronoun ‘he.’ Anyway, he would post generally vague information with links to Wikileaks dumps, government or think tank (like RAND) white papers, and photos. The posts were structured in such a way as to create an ARG – alternate reality game. These had become popular since about 2004 or 2005 with the explosion of cellphones and increasing with the penetration of cell phones and GPS into daily life. One could encode information onto a GPS map, or GPS coordinates into text or images or what have you and lead people on a real life goose chase or Easter egg hunt. The whole purpose was to encode clues in such a way as to require a path...

  On EMJ, Logos, Ethnos, and So on : I had a past oblique treatment of EMJ which was Against Catholic Reaction . Here I’ll attack some of EMJ’s specific claims. First, his claim that there have been only two valid theological precepts in human history: that of the Greeks, whose abstract reason led them to logos and the Hebrews (or archaic Jews), who were the sole recipients of divine tutelage (the chosen people to bear His word). The obvious counter is that this flies in the face of early religious development. I went in that essay on why I don’t particularly like the term religion, but I’ll use it for convenience. Regardless, Judaism at root is basically a fusion of pre-Socratic [Hellenic] philosophers with influences from Zoroastrianism and Hebrew or Levantine or Phoenician folk worship. The Jews turned this root into literal blood worship, that is the reverence of first the Jewish folk and the Jewish folk spirit as embodied by YHWH and Elohim. The manner of worship was obv...