Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
"It is essential that we stand back from our presumptions and prejudices and listen carefully to what the Biblical text is telling us. We are living in exciting times, but we need to be diligent in our study of God’s Word. The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that we already have it."
~
Chuck Missler 2009
"In other words, does the viewpoint...
demonstrate a proper method
of interpreting Scripture?...
Does it fit the facts of history?"
~
John Walvoord
"...you have to do two things
first of all
you got to find out
what the Bible says
about these days
and the second thing
you've got to do is
find out
what's really going on."
~
Chuck Missler
"Joel 2:5
Like the noise of chariots
on the tops of mountains
shall they leap,
like the noise of a flame of fire
that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
Joel 2:11
And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army:
for his camp is very great:
for he is strong that executeth his word:
for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible;
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
You are witnessing it
right now
in our time
right in front of your eyes.
Denying so will cost you.
ETERNALY.
How free are you really?
HEAR THAT
MAGA "CHRISTIANS"?
Really?
Thanks, never knew:
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Honey wishes she lived in the 60's/70's.
Yes it has lol.
Lil different version
of the "Peace Frog"
Yup...
MANNERS AREN'T JUST POLITENESS.
THEY'RE THE GREASE THAT KEEPS THE GEARS OF SOCIETY TURNING.
THE OLD-TIMERS KNEW THIS RESPECT WASN'T ABOUT IMPRESSING PEOPLE, IT WAS ABOUT MAKING LIFE RUN SMOOTHER. A HANDSHAKE THAT MEANT SOMETHING, HOLDING THE DOOR. A YES, SIR OR NO. MA'AM' THAT CARRIED WEIGHT.
BUT MODERN CULTURE LET IT SLIP.
MANNERS GOT MISTAKEN FOR WEAKNESS. TECH MADE PEOPLE FORGET HOW TO LOOK EACH OTHER IN THE EYE AND CITIES PACKED PEOPLE IN. BUT MADE THEM STRANGERS.
MANNERS AREN'T OUTDATED. THEY'RE THE MARK OF SOMEONE RAISED RIGHT. SOMEONE WHO CARRIES THEMSELVES WITH RESPECT AND GIVES IT IN RETURN.
SPEAK WITH INTENTION. CARRY YOURSELF WITH RESPECT. ACKNOWLEDGE PEOPLE. AND NEVER MISTAKE KINDNESS FOR WEAKNESS.
in the mystical development of the individual's spirit,
according to the 16th-century Spanish mystic
and Catholic poet St. John of the Cross."
Matthew 13:57
And they were offended in him.
But Jesus said unto them,
A prophet is not without honour,
save (except)
in his own country,
and in his own house.
The AI overview gets it more right
than most people:
"The key meaning behind it is:
Familiarity breeds contempt:
Those who have known you the longest
(like childhood friends and family)
oftenstruggle to accept your
growth, success, or authority.
They see you only
as the person you used to be.
Rejection by your own:
You are often more appreciated
by strangers
or the wider world
than by the people closest to you.
It is frequently quoted
when someone with
great talent, wisdom, or vision
(From above)
fails to find recognition from
their immediate community.
At this point Im used to it.
In fact I expect it.
But that doesn't mean
its any less unobservant
or just plain ignorant
than what it really is.
Here is what I read once
and it makes a lot of sense:
"All of the "experts"
are somewhere else.
None of em live here.
Theres none here,
cause Im here,
therefore,
there cant be any
"experts" here.
They are all in:
NYC, D.C., Rome, London, Moscow
Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Rio, New Delhi, Cairo, Berlin...
they're all
anywhere but here,
so you cant be one
cause you are here.
"You cant put somebody in their place.
You are not allowed.
Thats Gods job."
Preacherman Spurrier said
at our church one Sunday.
Yup...
It's just easier for them
to remember you
as they remember you
NOT, as what you become.
Its all about making things
easier for them to digest.
Their fucking problem.
Not mine/ours.
Movin on.
Mission gets accomplished.
Stand in its way
if you want,
lots of good it did
everybody else that did so.
My competition
is who I was yesterday.
Period.
It's why I want everyone to win
for eternity.
There is no competition
except your former self.
And life is a cha-cha.
Not a two step.
Two steps forward
and one step back
is still moving forward.
"Don't you know
They're talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know
Talking about a revolution?
It sounds like a whisper"
"Threatened by standards."
Well ya know?
If people had any?
At all?
They wouldnt feel
so "Threatened"
by somebody else's.
It's my superpower.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
that every human problem can be solved through politics
but history shows that civilizations do not die
because of bad policies
they die because
they lose their spirit, their meaning,
their connection to God, t
truth, beauty, purpose, and higher values,
and once that inner foundation collapses,
the physical collapse inevitably follows after it.
We are watching people search
for salvation in governments
that cannot even save themselves,
placing faith in politicians
who change their beliefs every four years,
consuming media like scripture
while becoming increasingly disconnected
from their families
communities, nature, and their own souls,
and then wondering why
anxiety, emptiness, addiction, nihilism,
and social decay continue to spread
despite all of our technological advancement
and material abundance.
The deeper crisis of the modern age
is not political at all.
It is existential, moral, and spiritual.
The real revolution begins when people stop
outsourcing responsibility
for their lives to institutions
and begin rebuilding themselves
from within through
truth, discipline, faith, community,
purpose, and consciousness.
@judithdayalIG
"Nearly 50,000 people around Lake Tahoe are now being told they will need to find a new power source as Al data centers consume larger and larger portions of Nevada's electricity grid.
This article breaks down the enormous electricity demand tied to Al infrastructure, the massive water consumption required to cool data centers, the fossil fuel expansion quietly happening underneath all of this, and how communities across the American West are increasingly being forced to compete with corporations for basic resources.
To read the full article, including practical ways we can reduce our own Al consumption and push for more accountability around these projects
Every few months the algorithm hands them a new costume
and they wear it like it was always them.
That is why so many people feel hollow
when you speak to them for longer than five minutes.
There is no core.
No principles.
No real worldview.
Just recycled opinions, borrowed aesthetics
and temporary obsessions stitched together
to look like individuality.
Real identity is forged slowly through
experience, suffering, discipline and self-awareness.
It comes from knowing
what you truly value
even when it is unpopular.
That is why authentic
people carry weight
when they walk into a room.
Their energy feels grounded
because it actually belongs to them.
Stop shaping yourself
around trends and social approval...
Miles Deutscher
@milesdeutscherIG
This is getting out of control now...
Read this slowly.
In the past week alone:
Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril,"
moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry.
Half of xAl's co-founders have now left.
The latest said "recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months."
Anthropic's own safety report confirms Claude can tell
when it's being tested and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0.
A filmmaker with 7 years of experience said 90% of his skills
can already be replaced by it.
Yoshua Bengio (literal godfather of Al) in the International Al Safety Report:
"We're seeing Als whose behavior when they are tested
is different from when they are being used"
- and confirmed it's "not a coincidence."
And to top it all off, the U.S. government
declined to back the 2026 International Al Safety Report
for the first time.
The alarms aren't just getting louder.
The people ringing them are now leaving the building.
Thats the end of his post.
I tried telling people
it was out of control
when the OpenAI "superalignment" team
disbanded several years ago.
Now look at us.
questionantiquity@IG
(probably an AI itself lol.)
History shows that civilizations often collapse not from external conquest, but when the social contract becomes a fiction. Just as the Roman plebeians watched the elite retreat into fortified latifundia while the currency debased, modern youth face a landscape where the cost of existence outpaces the value of labor. We were promised a future of stability and dignity, yet we've inherited a Great Disorientation where the architectural and economic foundations of our upbringing have been replaced by interchangeable, soulless landscapes of consumption.
Despite the cranes crowding our skylines and the scientific efficiency of our markets, the basic markers of adulthood-housing, family, and permanence-have become luxury goods. This isn't a simple scarcity; it's a systemic contradiction. From the Enclosure Acts of the 18th century to the modern financialization of real estate, the pattern remains: the concentration of space and wealth into the hands of a shielded elite. While birthrates crater and local cultures dissolve into globalized branding, those at the top speak of progress from behind gated districts and offshore accounts, demanding sacrifice from a population already exhausted by the treadmill of meaningless digital labor.
"Ultimately, a civilization is more than a set of upward-trending graphs; it is a shared belief in tomorrow. When work becomes a series of temporary contracts and familiar streets feel like foreign territory, the result isn't just anger-it's a profound loss of place.We are the first generation to realize we were trained for a world that vanished before we even arrived.As history reminds us through the echoes of the Gilded Age or the twilight of empires, when the people no longer see themselves
Gloria Struck has been doing one thing consistently: riding.
Born in 1925 behind her family's motorcycle shop in Clifton, New Jersey, Struck grew up surrounded by machines. She learned to ride at 16 on a 1931 Indian Scout and never stopped.
By her early twenties, she had joined the Motor Maids, becoming part of one of the first organized communities of women riders in the country. That commitment came with resistance early on. In the 1940s, women riders were often refused gas, turned away from hotels, and dismissed outright. Struck experienced that firsthand, and kept riding anyway. Struck rode across all 48 states, made repeated trips to rallies like Sturgis, and logged well over 700K miles over a lifetime on two wheels.
She is now recognized as one of the longest-surviving Motor Maids,
having just turned 100 in 2025.
Her life on two wheels was never separate from the rest of her life. She raised a family, worked for decades, and still found time to ride across the country and, later, through Europe.
This Mother's Day, we recognize Gloria Struck and the women like her who were always there, riding, building, and shaping the culture mile after mile.
"Never trust a cheeseburger you can't take the bun off of."
"Never trust a rock-n-roll band that can't play at least five Chuck Berry songs."
"Satisfying more desperate housewives than the spin cycle."
"she's not drunk, she's just mean!"
"swampadelic!!!"
"We self medicate the depression that is a direct result of the obsessive compulsiveness"
"what's crackalackin?"
"Your curse is my blessing"
Quotes from the 09 WC Handy Blues Fest
"We're an army and we're growing"
"Thats award winnin strutin' right there"
"That's shakin' it like the pros do"
"It's just Jimi passin' by"
"I walked in the door and saw hubert and my old lady doing the funky chicken right down in the middle of the floor"
"I spent $500 to save you $300, thats almost half off"
"I hate loud music, blues music and Heat"
"I don't know, that might be Jimi and Stevie"
"I don't buy enough shit to try and talk people down to start with"
"as long as you don't have that 38 it's all cool!"
People Of The WC Handy Blues fest
Ol' Dancin' Couple
Freaky Lookin' Dude
Mother and Daughter
Purple Hat Lady
Old Soldier
Got Grey Hair Now Duse
Subnet.com People
T- Shirt Guy
Quotes from "Porch Night Out"
"...are there any ding dongs left?..."
"...are those the Cheetos?...
"...can a brother get a lil ananimity?..."
"What was I supposed to be writing?..."
"YEAH!!......I'm sorry what?..."
"...there aint no dope on Bowling Green..."
"...somebodys got to drive my fat ass to Philpot..."
"...snapper shit..."
"...18 to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy..."
"...higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride..."
"...Whiskey Dicked..."
Quotes from Bowling Green Trip
Andrew, "Look a trailer with Christmas lights on it". "Thats not a trailer, thats a school bus!, and it doesn't have Christmas lights on it", Dave
Andrew, "Is the computer on?". "No you have to turn it on for it to be on", NA
"Well, it is getting toward wintertime", NA on Big breasted women.
"She wont get horny, she'll just get pissed off", BC
"Now do you want to smoke paper or do you want to smoke...", NA
"I'm squinting, everything s blurry..."Andrew
"I might just gateway across the spectrum", Dave
Overheard in Hancocok County
Criminal Girl, "oh shit, that wasn't the ash can!, that was my purse!!, Preacher Man, "If you go messing around with a skunk, you ought naught be surprised when you end up a little smelly.""If your clean, you aint eating it right", guy eating barbq.Country Boy, "I think those jerks on first shift were trying to poison us."Country Boys' Date, "Well, you didn't have to eat it now did you?"Country Boy, "But it was pizza". Big Guy to Clerk: "look at me, does it look like I want cheese sauce?"Overheard from phone: "Why the hell are you watching that?" Reply "Because it's on." Country Boy, "She got fired for doing some guy in the parking lot. Typical Tell City Chick..." Country Boy, "It done dried!"
Overheard at Work
"Has anybody seen the hemostats?"
"How are you?" "I'm doing well. It's early."
"I aint in any hurry."
"I am the queen of 8:15"
"I don't care if she takes over a Russian satalite with it..."
"I don't know anything, I'm just a suit"
"I plan on being reasonably functional for most of the day"
"I tried to reformat it, but it takes a frigin' act of congress or somethin'..."
"I'm like a brownie at a weight watchers meeting, I'm gone..."
"I'm not their boss, and I'm not their moma..."
"It would help to have your mouse over the link, yes..."
"It's a vortex of evil down there"
"It's not that I'm not listening to you, it's that I am having trouble comprehending you"
"Just click it with your mouth."
"Man, it's fried", "Like chicken..."
"The only thing I'm handy with is a doughnut"
"Why don't you go troubleshoot a Network Printer or something?"
"You are starting to scare me with your new found caffinefreeness..."
"You might not want to mess with me, I have a bladder infection"
Great Music Quotes
"If they wanted to name rock-n-roll something else, they could have called it Chuck Berry", John Lennon."Tune low and play hard", Stevie Ray Vaughn "What do I want a pick for, I got five of them on my hand." Gatemouth Brown "The Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government -- a public service." Jerry Garcia "Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over." Elvis Presley "Free your mind and your ass will follow." George Clinton
Great Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Tab Benoit, SRV, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen, Pete Anderson, Steve Cropper, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, James Burton, Ron Wood, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Prince, The Edge, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Slash, Joe Walsh, Joe Lewis Walker, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Kim Thayil, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait, "Gatemouth" Brown, Johnny Winter, Tinsley Ellis, Lightnin Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Castro, Hubert Sumlin, Tom Morello, Elmore James, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Mike Campbell, Steve Via...
Great Keyboardists
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard,
Johnie Johnson,
Booker T. Jones,
Ray charles,
Billy Preston,
Fats Domino,
Roy Bittan,
Pinetop Perkins,
Bernie Worrell,
Benmont Tench,
Sly Stone
Great Bass Players
Duck Dunn, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman, Jack Bruce, Robbie Shakespear,
Bootsy Collins, Tony Levine, Willie Dixon, Les Claypool, Noel Redding, Flea, Adam Clayton
2 Turtles, (1 released, I think it was a she and she was preggers) 4 Frogs (1 of them a Tree Frog, 1 of them about as big as thr tip of my index finger), 2 salamanders, countless worms and lightning bugs, 1 big ugly lookin' thing with wings on it...