1) I must say I feel more informed now about Pascal, having in college only read his arguments in favor of God because of the odds of their being gehenna (hell).
2) idk if Mendel knows jigga is a slur for ADOS/FBA. J-HOVA is more obvious blasphemy of YHWH but he also once sold t-shirts of the Satanic commandement "do what thou wilt" with the illumanti imagery on our federal reserve note, and in empire state of mind says "jesus can't save you, life starts when the church ends" (I have cultivated Sunday School teachers with this reference alone).
3) Lucifer - the morning star - is functional like many terms in scripture. In Genesis, Satan is a snake. In Numbers and John, Jesus is a snake on a stick. In Peter, Satan is a lion. In John's Revelation, Jesus is a lion. In different contexts Satan is lucifer and Jesus is Lucifer. Haughtiness in man is ugly, on God it is beautiful, right, and just.
4) Castratos are eunuchs selected for singing, and Michael Jackson may have been the last one. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Christian deacons and debtera are not eunuchs but are similarly selected as at a young age for their singing skill. There is a well known eunuch scholar alive and well in Ethiopia, and in the 20th century one of the fiercest aristocrats who fought the Italians in 1895 and again in the 1930s was an eunuch.
5) I love the anti pan arabism spirit that led Mendel to a Coptic festival! I am in full communion with them and the Syriac and Armenians. The quick reference to St. Katherine's monastery in Mt. Sinai was also amazing. I have coauthored a full transcription of and partial translation of a Ge'ez manuscript from there back in 2021.
Enjoyed this, hope you guys keep going. Now I need to read Pascal! I don't know about Coover or Robbe-Grillet, but postmodern Pynchon proposed "anarcho-sadism" as the antidote to fascism in Gravity's Rainbow, the universal redistribution of sadism so that it doesn't remain the sole and deranging property of a political elite taking it out on the populace. In other words, yes, it's about Nazis, one way or the other. (You probably already know this, Noah, but his earlier V. is a somewhat parodic rendition of the quest for Graves's goddess.)
1) I must say I feel more informed now about Pascal, having in college only read his arguments in favor of God because of the odds of their being gehenna (hell).
2) idk if Mendel knows jigga is a slur for ADOS/FBA. J-HOVA is more obvious blasphemy of YHWH but he also once sold t-shirts of the Satanic commandement "do what thou wilt" with the illumanti imagery on our federal reserve note, and in empire state of mind says "jesus can't save you, life starts when the church ends" (I have cultivated Sunday School teachers with this reference alone).
3) Lucifer - the morning star - is functional like many terms in scripture. In Genesis, Satan is a snake. In Numbers and John, Jesus is a snake on a stick. In Peter, Satan is a lion. In John's Revelation, Jesus is a lion. In different contexts Satan is lucifer and Jesus is Lucifer. Haughtiness in man is ugly, on God it is beautiful, right, and just.
https://drmsh.com/the-naked-bible/morning-star/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaoSLwmPARk&list=WL&t=247s
4) Castratos are eunuchs selected for singing, and Michael Jackson may have been the last one. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Christian deacons and debtera are not eunuchs but are similarly selected as at a young age for their singing skill. There is a well known eunuch scholar alive and well in Ethiopia, and in the 20th century one of the fiercest aristocrats who fought the Italians in 1895 and again in the 1930s was an eunuch.
5) I love the anti pan arabism spirit that led Mendel to a Coptic festival! I am in full communion with them and the Syriac and Armenians. The quick reference to St. Katherine's monastery in Mt. Sinai was also amazing. I have coauthored a full transcription of and partial translation of a Ge'ez manuscript from there back in 2021.
Enjoyed this, hope you guys keep going. Now I need to read Pascal! I don't know about Coover or Robbe-Grillet, but postmodern Pynchon proposed "anarcho-sadism" as the antidote to fascism in Gravity's Rainbow, the universal redistribution of sadism so that it doesn't remain the sole and deranging property of a political elite taking it out on the populace. In other words, yes, it's about Nazis, one way or the other. (You probably already know this, Noah, but his earlier V. is a somewhat parodic rendition of the quest for Graves's goddess.)
In an episode that discusses Lucifer, the military regime of New York, and Eric Adams there is no mention of Adams recently joining the Freemasons (https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/secret-revealed-mayor-adams-police-commissioner-named-freemasons/). There is so much more to talk about and I hope you guys keep it up.
Interesting. Will research and try to work that into a future episode