Wednesday, March 31, 2021

temporary full march, 2021 backup archive (not source material - to be permanently deleted when pdf uploads)

saturday, january 1, 2022

sunday, 
january 2, 2022

monday, january 3, 2022

tuesday, january 4, 2022

wednesday, january 5, 2022

thursday, january 6, 2022

friday, january 7, 2022

saturday, january 8, 2022

sundayjanuary 9, 2022

monday, january 10, 2022

tuesday, january 11, 2022

wednesday, january 12, 2022

thursday, january 13, 2022

friday, january 14, 2022

saturday, january 15, 2022

sundayjanuary 16, 2022

monday, january 17, 2022

tuesday, january 18, 2022

wednesday, january 19, 2022

thursday, january 20, 2022

friday, january 21, 2022

saturday, january 22, 2022

sundayjanuary 23, 2022

monday, january 24, 2022

tuesday, january 25, 2022

wednesday, january 26, 2022

thursday, january 27, 2022

friday, january 28, 2022

saturday, january 29, 2022

sunday, january 30 2022

monday, january 31, 2022
this flashpoint guy is really all about the battles, though, and you can hear his whole tone of voice change when he gets to the point about the muslim armies taking on the persians.

i'm reminded of this clip by robert newman:

this kind of speculation is just that - i'm not arguing there's any proof for this, i'm just agreeing with the people that have proposed it, as a possible naturalistic explanation for religion.

i don't know what a proof would look like.

humans and horses are, in fact, fundamentally, more or less the same thing - same spinal cords, same organs, etc. you'd run into circulation problems very fast, but you wouldn't know that until you've done the experiment.
no. stop and think about it. i'm right.

if you're some alien species c. 600 ce and you look down at the biome on this planet, you're just going to see humans and horses as two different animal species that inhabit the planet. you might notice a sort of symbiotic relationship, but you've ultimately got two animals in front of you, and you may be curious as to how they're related.

you wouldn't even know they're both mammals, a priori.

you'd have to cut us both open to figure us out. and, why wouldn't you try to splice us together, to see if it works?
the only thing that's really interesting to me about this is the question of how it relates to my ufo cult theory. i want to reiterate a point i've made previously: while the existence of various megaliths out there may be easier to explain by the existence of a more advanced species, that's not really the point i'm making. what i'm more interested in is the question of how these stories about cosmic contact may relate to the possibilities of actual contact in the historical period, and what were primitive peoples trying to grapple with or understand it.

the story about muhammad ascending to heaven in jerusalem is one of those stories. if we agree that we can write the idea of a literal telling of history off a priori (that is, we don't need any evidence to discount the idea, and we should begin with the obvious fact that, no, muhammad didn't ascend into heaven and talk to god, or at least not outside of a hallucinogenic trip, because that's completely absurd), we're left with two possibilities:

1) they made it up (either via some syncretic mechanism, or out of whole cloth) to justify some other thing, like the arab conquests. this is a kind of null hypothesis, and i will retreat to it most of the time. so, you had these arab warlords that conquered this greco-christian swath of land (along with this perso-zoroastrian swath of land) and needed some way to organize it. therefore, islam - sort of like how constantine pushed christianity down from the top to unify the empire. but, this is essentially a conspiracy theory...
2) mohammad was abducted by aliens and his primitive mind called those aliens god. maybe they even gave him a mission to end the roman-persian wars. this allows you to retreat from the conspiracy theory and actually hold to a naturalistic explanation.....even if you still need the syncretism for the winged horse, cryptozoology and dna splicing aside. i mean, it's possible to take a head from a human and a body from a horse and put them together (even an ancient doctor could do that), and maybe you don't know better if you're a trafalmadorian, right? you'd have to decapitate us to understand how we work - that's as an empirical question for hypothetical aliens as it was for us thousands of years ago.

now, what is option 2?

is it an appeal to the paranormal? an invocation of the supernatural?

i don't think it is. at all. and, in the end, we might find out it's right - that mohummad didn't make the whole thing up, so much as he was overwhelmed by an alien species.


and, why was he chosen?

i dunno.

maybe they liked his hair.
so, i fell asleep again.

today needs to be an end of the month day, meaning it needs to be about cleaning & shopping. and i'll get back to work tomorrow or the next day.

the payhip uploads are constantly on hold for a few days - hopefully not too long.

today's post, however, is inri015:

===

it took eighteen years and multiple attempts at a construction, but this record is finally permanently completed as an instrumental electronic work and i am finally proud to refer to it as my first record. 

while most of these songs have defined concepts underlying them, i have ejected these concepts from the final recording and left them in a series of singles. i would prefer that this album be understood solely as the instrumental recording of electronic music that i am presenting it as. 

written and demoed in multiple stages from 1994-1998. initially constructed in this form in june, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reconstructed and resequenced jan 6-10, 2016 from parts that were rebuilt over 2013-2016. re-released on jan 10, 2016. audio permanently closed on aug 10, 2016. finalized as lp001 on oct 10, 2016. first liner note release added on feb 6, 2020 and expanded on feb 8, 2020 to include the deleted masters from 1998 and 2013 in 192 kbps mp3 only. this is my first official record; as always, please use headphones. 

this recording is a part of the following collections: 
1) inriℵ1: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-box-set 
2) inriℵ3: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-dvd-disc-volume-2 
3) inriℵ4: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/mp3-dvd-disc-volume-1 
4) inriℵ6: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1 
5) inriℵ10: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/lps-only-volume-1 
6)) inriℵ17: jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-bd-disc-volume-1 

it is also a part of the following bundles: 
1) jasonparent.bandcamp.com/merch/bundle-of-the-official-records-10-cds-1-download 
2) jasonparent.bandcamp.com/merch/full-physical-lp-collection-26-cds-1-cassette-2-flac-dvds 
3) jasonparent.bandcamp.com/merch/bundle-of-inri-and-inriched-2-cds

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1996-1998, 2013-2020). as of feb 6, 2020, the release includes a 125 page booklet in doc, pdf & html, with an html5 audio & video frontend, that includes journal entries from the remastering process over sept-dec, 2013, as well as the video for inertia, from dec, 2013. as of feb 8, 2020 it also includes the deleted masters from 1998 and 2013 in 192 kbps mp3 only. 

released june 20, 1998 

j - guitars, effects, bass, synthesizers, drum programming, orchestral & other sequencing, sampling, vocal relics, cool edit synthesis, windows 95 sound recorder, found sounds, strategies, soundraider, hammerhead, sound design, metronome, digital wave editing, production 

the rendered electronic orchestra includes piano, organ, electric guitar, orchestra hit, pizzicato strings, synth pads, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, electric bass, sitar, tubular bells, tinkle bells, synthesizer effects and flute.


arians would refer to arius, the progenitor of the christian "heresy" that taught that jesus was a human being, something that was popular amongst germans and scythians (the goths were mostly arians, after being converted....i guess they could only accept this christian thing to a point, and couldn't swallow the line on immortality) and condemned by multiple church councils. arius was probably greek in origin, and any similarities to the ethnonym of arya - which existed, historically, in the eastern parts of the iranic speaking regions, most prominently in modern day afghanistan, and as we see today primarily through the nation state of iran, and which hitler rather ignorantly used as the name of his imagined nordic race - is strictly coincidental.

he was essentially calling the christians heretics.

but, i think that exchange is seen as mythical by non-muslim historians.