I guess on Saturday (June 14, 2025) there was a nationwide demonstration (by the Democrats, of course) called "No Kings Day".  

Now, there has never been a king at anytime during the history of the United States.  The closest we ever came to having one was a Democrat by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a.k.a. "FDR".   He died in office, much like a king, after serving for nearly 16 years.   

Anyway, as is often the case with Democrats, they like to protest things that have no real existence.  Since we haven't had anything like a king govern the USA since before the Revolution, protesting kingship is a rather worthless activity.  

But you know who really hates the idea of kings?  God.  He told the Jews that kings were a really, really bad idea, and they should NEVER have one...but of course, they didn't listen.   

Want proof?  Here's a conversation that God had with the prophet Samuel:

1 SAMUEL 8 - The New Living Translation

As Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons to be judges over Israel.  Joel and Abijah, his oldest sons, held court in Beersheba.  But they were not like their father, for they were greedy for money. They accepted bribes and perverted justice.

Finally, all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel.  “Look,” they told him, “you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have.”

Samuel was displeased with their request and went to the Lord for guidance.  “Do everything they say to you,” the Lord replied, “for they are rejecting me, not you. They don’t want me to be their king any longer.  Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually abandoned me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment.  Do as they ask, but solemnly warn them about the way a king will reign over them.”

Samuel Warns against a Kingdom

So Samuel passed on the Lord’s warning to the people who were asking him for a king.  “This is how a king will reign over you,” Samuel said. “The king will draft your sons and assign them to his chariots and his charioteers, making them run before his chariots.  Some will be generals and captains in his army, some will be forced to plow in his fields and harvest his crops, and some will make his weapons and chariot equipment.  The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.  He will take away the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his own officials.  He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it among his officers and attendants.  He will take your male and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle and donkeys for his own use.  He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you will be his slaves.  When that day comes, you will beg for relief from this king you are demanding, but then the Lord will not help you.”

But the people refused to listen to Samuel’s warning. “Even so, we still want a king,” they said.  “We want to be like the nations around us. Our king will judge us and lead us into battle.”

So Samuel repeated to the Lord what the people had said,  and the Lord replied, “Do as they say, and give them a king.” Then Samuel agreed and sent the people home.

- Pseudo Boethius 

FYI: The land that the Philistines of biblical history occupied, is almost exactly the same as that of today's Gaza strip.  

1 Samuel 7:5-15 New Living Translation:

Then Samuel said to all the people of Israel, “If you want to return to the Lord with all your hearts, get rid of your foreign gods and your images of Ashtoreth. Turn your hearts to the Lord and obey him alone; then he will rescue you from the Philistines.”  So the Israelites got rid of their images of Baal and Ashtoreth and worshiped only the Lord.

Then Samuel told them, “Gather all of Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”  So they gathered at Mizpah and, in a great ceremony, drew water from a well and poured it out before the Lord. They also went without food all day and confessed that they had sinned against the Lord. (It was at Mizpah that Samuel became Israel’s judge.)

When the Philistine rulers heard that Israel had gathered at Mizpah, they mobilized their army and advanced. The Israelites were badly frightened when they learned that the Philistines were approaching.  “Don’t stop pleading with the Lord our God to save us from the Philistines!” they begged Samuel.  So Samuel took a young lamb and offered it to the Lord as a whole burnt offering. He pleaded with the Lord to help Israel, and the Lord answered him.

Just as Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines arrived to attack Israel. But the Lord spoke with a mighty voice of thunder from heaven that day, and the Philistines were thrown into such confusion that the Israelites defeated them.  The men of Israel chased them from Mizpah to a place below Beth-car, slaughtering them all along the way.

Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer (which means “the stone of help”), for he said, “Up to this point the Lord has helped us!”

So the Philistines were subdued and didn’t invade Israel again for some time. And throughout Samuel’s lifetime, the Lord’s powerful hand was raised against the Philistines.  The Israelite villages near Ekron and Gath that the Philistines had captured were restored to Israel, along with the rest of the territory that the Philistines had taken. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites in those days.

ACTUAL FORTUNE COOKIE FORTUNES:

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

"Accept no other definition of you life, accept only your own"

"Hallelujah!"

"Failure is the tuition you pay for sucess"

"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job"

- Pseudo Boethius 

MUSIC / JAZZ / TOKYO GROOVE JYOSHI

Yet another example of the incredible jazz coming out of Japan!   

PB 

MUSIC / JAZZ / JULIAN LAGE

Quite simply the best jazz guitarist alive right now, aside from Pat Metheny.   

PB

Yes, the Japanese do jazz better than almost anyone on the planet.   

My all-time favorite crackers.  Excellent base for cheese.  Can be purchased at most supermarkets, or online.

Here is the link to purchase them online: https://www.marysgonecrackers.com/collections/original

Impact & Water-Resistant, Aluminum, Includes Battery, 300 Lumens, Strobe Mode

MUSIC / MUSICALS / SOUND OF MUSIC

2024-12-16 Monday

The song "Edelweiss" was written by two Jewish guys in New York City for the musical "Sound of Music."  They knew the flower was important to Austrian culture, but the song itself was an American creation, not Austrian.   Hence, it's not sung in Austria.

So it was very surprising to see two very talented Austrian girls singing a beautiful duet of Edelweiss!    They do a huge number of great American songs on their channel.   

- Pseudo Boethius 

MUSIC / JAZZ / ANDREA MOTIS

2024-12-16 Monday

Well, it's nearly winter time here in the midwestern United States, but that doesn't mean I can't listen to one of the great jazz standards of all time: "Summertime" by George Gershwin.   And the best rendition of that particular song is by Andrea Motis in collaboration with Joan Chamorro Quintet.  

Here is Andrea playing LIVE at the Jamboree Club in Barcelona, Spain back in 2013, and making this song all her own.  

Absolutely incredible! 

- Pseudo Boethius 

CARS / SUBARU / ENGINES

2024-12-16 Monday

Subaru engines are very different from those in almost any other car.  How so?  Well, watch the video and find out!

- Pseudo Boethius 

MUSIC / CHRISTMAS

2024-12-15 Sunday

It’s “Carol of the Bells” by bass singer Geoff Castellucci.  It’s a version of this song you’ve never heard before.   Why all the buzz around it?  Well, just listen for yourselves, preferably on a good stereo system with a subwoofer….

For those who prefer something more traditional, you can listen to the original UKRANIAN version of the song, which has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas!  But it’s a beautiful song none-the-less:

On a personal note, of all the versions of Carol of the Bells I've heard in my life, this one by George Winston from his well loved "December" album is the one I've listened to most often.   I remember buying this album when it came out (on vinyl!) and loving it immediately.  It's still surprisingly popular some 42 years later.  

- Pseudo Boethius 

2024-03-30 Saturday

CHRISTIANITY / SPIRITUAL WARFARE / FATHER DAN REHILL

Father Dan Reehil sits down with Mark McLean and they have a very honest, and straight forward conversation about spiritual warfare and the end-times.   

As Fr. Reehil correctly points out, the end-times does not mean the end of the world itself, but it certainly means the end of the world as we know it, and that's a good thing.  

As for the church and Christians, the coming end-times will mean intense persecution of Christians, even unto death.  The Catholic church does not believe in a "pre-tribulation rapture", rather they teach that the events in the book of Daniel and Revelation will be used to purify the church as is.   More importantly, they firmly believe that after the events of the antichrist, and his defeat, the world will be a far, far better place than it is now.   

This is a conversation that is well worth listening to.   

- Pseudo Boethius 

CHRISTIANITY / PRAYER / FAUSTINA GORHAM

Faustina shares with us a song that came to her via the Holy Spirit.   WOW!!!   

CHRISTIANITY / PROPHECY / CHRISTA ELISHA

Christa was given a very severe word from God for the American church.  Use your own discernment and see what you think of this message.  Whether or not you think she is a prophet, she is making a lot of sense in what's she's saying.  Christa posted this message on March 26, 2024.  

CHRISTIANITY / CONTEMPLATIVES / NUNS

I give to you the testimony of Mary Faustina "Tina" Gorham.  She has a very special announcement that we all need to hear: she is becoming a nun!  She enters the convent on June 27, 2024. 

So who are "The Benedictine Daughters of Devine Will", the order that Mary Faustina has decided to join???  They are an order that seems to be inspired by Catholic mystic Luisa Piccarreta, who had an AMAZING revelation about God's divine will.   The Mother Superior: Mother Garbrielle, is an incredible woman, and she explains what's involved in the teachings about The Divine Will.  Very interesting stuff!  

MUSIC / COUNTRY / SIERRA FERREL

My goodness, this girl is something else.  

Seems she has had at least one near death experience.  She goes over it very briefly.   

MUSIC / COUNTRY / SIERRA FERREL

This young lady, Sierra Ferrell, is fast becoming the most popular country singer in the world.   Listen and you will understand why.

MUSIC / JAZZ / NORAH JONES

So the greatest living female jazz singer in America walks into a record store...

CURRENT EVENTS / MURDER / ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS

This all happened on a Wednesday afternoon (March 27, 2024) in a quiet neighborhood in Rockford, Illinois: 

CHRISTIANITY / THEOLOGY / UNBELIEF

Just saw this following excerpt in a newsletter I subscribe to.  

The author talks about a simple conversation he had with a Catholic priest after the Catholic abuse crisis began to surface:  

"In my case, the anguish I felt over the abuse scandal, and the way the institutional Catholic Church reacted to it, was more than I could handle. I guess a lot of this has to do with the kind of man I am, and my own history. Whatever. The point I want to make in this particular discussion is that when Catholics see their priests, and even their Pope, behaving in certain ways, especially with the liturgy, it signals to some of them that these men don’t really believe in Catholicism. As a matter of fact, I remember in the first year of the scandal, asking a Catholic priest friend of mine how on earth the bishops could have done what they did, with all the cover-ups and the punishing of victims and families. I’ll never forget where we were walking on the street in New York when he answered: “Because they don’t believe in God.” "

I've seen scandals and abuses by church leaders, government leaders, people in private industry, and just about everywhere else during my life.  Yet it especially hurts when you see it in the church, regardless of which denomination.  Church officials preying on children, or involved in illicit affairs of all kinds.  This is not just a problem amongst Catholics, but amongst the entire Christian world: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.   

So why does this evil stuff keep happening in the church?  Because many of our "Christian" leaders really don't believe in the stuff they are selling to us.  Even as a child, I was very much aware of this hypocrisy, and wondered seriously if the whole "God" thing was just a another clever ruse like the "Santa Claus" narrative: just a story we were told to keep us in line, to keep us docile, to keep us from chopping off the heads of the idiots who were running the country.  

Well, as an adult, it's obvious to me that there are, in fact, many in leadership in Christianity as a whole, who really don't believe in God.  But they get a paycheck from their denomination for pretending there is, so they keep at it, because it's a living, after all. 

There are also some really good priests, pastors and leaders in the various denominations who know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are leaders, if not a whole bunch of leaders, in their denominations who are, in fact, corrupt.  But they can't say an honest word about it, because if they do, they will be cast out like yesterday's garbage, without a dollar to show for it.  So they keep quiet, as their livelihood depends upon it.  

Hence, since the mid 1960's to this very day, we have seen one of the greatest decline in Christianity in world history, in Western Civilization.  Church historians have compared this current epoch to the famous Arian heresy of 300 AD.   But, at least with the Arian heresy, everyone stayed in church, unless they were excommunicated!   But today's crisis in Christianity is much worse, because the church in the West is losing people quickly, not because of a single heresy, but due to a lack of faith in God that is evident everywhere in the developed world.  If there is a heresy that is at the core of this crisis, it would be modernism, which made atheism intellectually respectable for the first time in history.   

So, here we are, in the 21st century, and never in the history of Western Civilization has Christianity looked so horrid and ragged as it does right now, and things seem to be just getting worst. 

Is there any hope that things will get better?  Not really.   Our only hope, is the return of Jesus to earth, and using his Second Coming as a means of cleansing the church.  Anything short of that, and we are doomed. 

  

CHRISTIANITY / THEOLOGY / HATE

Here's a Psalm for your consideration:

Psalm 5 - (New Living Translation)

For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by the flute.

1    O Lord, hear me as I pray;
      pay attention to my groaning.

2   Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
     for I pray to no one but you.

3   Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord.
     Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.

4  O God, you take no pleasure in wickedness;
    you cannot tolerate the sins of the wicked.

5  Therefore, the proud may not stand in your presence,
    for you hate all who do evil.

6  You will destroy those who tell lies.
    The Lord detests murderers and deceivers.

7   Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house;
     I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.

8   Lead me in the right path, O Lord,
     or my enemies will conquer me.
     Make your way plain for me to follow.

9   My enemies cannot speak a truthful word.
     Their deepest desire is to destroy others.
     Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave.
     Their tongues are filled with flattery.

10  O God, declare them guilty.
      Let them be caught in their own traps.
      Drive them away because of their many sins,
      for they have rebelled against you.

11   But let all who take refuge in you rejoice;
      let them sing joyful praises forever.
      Spread your protection over them,
      that all who love your name may be filled with joy.

12  For you bless the godly, O Lord;   
      you surround them with your shield of love.

Yes, there are those who God hates, especially those who murder and tell lies.  

It's interesting to note that telling lies are equated to murder here, which is bad news for those who think they are good, because they've never murdered anyone.  Well, have you never told a lie?  Have you never deceived anyone?  While it's not explicitly stated in this Psalm, there are many other places in the Bible where words themselves are equated with murder and evil.   

In the modern day "woke" culture, you will often hear the phrase "silence is violence"!   But in the Bible, angry speech is violence.  Even Jesus, when falsely accused, kept mostly silent.  

There are, of course, many instances in the Bible where prophets, including Jesus himself, speak very forcefully about the evil happening in Jewish society.  Almost always, those prophets where treated badly, and even killed, like Jesus himself was, because people don't like it when prophets speak truthfully about the evil people are engaged in.  

You can fool people constantly, but you can never, ever fool God, as he sees what's truly in your heart.   You can kill all the prophets you like, but that won't keep God silent.  

The take-away is this: we all need to be people who speak the truth, even when it hurts.   This world is filled with lies and liars who constantly lie to us about all sorts of things.  In a world like that, the most revolutionary thing you can do is take a stand for the truth.  

- Pseudo Boethius 

CHRISTIANITY / SPIRITUAL WARFARE / FR. RIPPERGER

Father Chad Ripperger's most recent talk about spiritual warfare and demonic possession at St Patrick's Cathedral.   

- Pseudo Boethius 

CHRISTIANITY / HOMILY / JIM BLOUNT

2024-01-27 

This is one of the most fun little homilies you will ever hear!  Father Jim Blount recalls his time working as a sign apprentice in Tampa Florida, and his miraculous encounter with a poor black woman.  

This is must see TV!  

And, he talks about the infamous Georgia Guidestones.  

- Pseudo Boethius 

https://madmaxworld.tv/watch?id=6526f524a1be87a989bc1b75

Delivered at OCON 2023 in Miami, Florida on July 3, 2023.

Catholic prophets Mark Mallett and Daniel O'Connor talks about the convergence of prophecies that all point to October, 2023.  

This video aired on August 2023.   

They start with words they have been hearing about the great UFO deception.   (And they are correct to be warning about that...)

More on October 13, 2023 from a CATHOLIC perspective.  

The Catholic prophets and mystics have been warning about the month of October for some time now, and they appear to be right on the money.  

One prophet/mystic has even gone so far as to state that October 13, 2023 will be the beginning of the End Times.  

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/11/hamas-calls-for-global-day-of-jihad-on-friday-the-13th/

The Palestinian Hamas terror group known as Hamas has called on Muslims worldwide to stage a “Day of Jihad,” or holy war, on Friday, October 13th — coincidentally, a date that resonates with horror movies and the upcoming Halloween holiday.

Hamas referred to the day as “Al-Aqsa Flood” Friday, referring to the name of the operation in which it murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded roughly 3,000, and kidnapped over 100.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported Hamas as saying:

We declare next Friday, ‘The Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood,’ as a day of general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free people of the world. It is a day to rally support, offer aid, and participate actively. It is a day to expose the crimes of the occupation, isolate it, and foil all its aggressive schemes. It is a day to demonstrate our love for Palestine, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa. It is a day for sacrifice, heroism, and dedication, and to earn the honor of defending the first Qibla of Muslims, the third holiest mosque, and the ascension of the trusted Messenger.

…

We call upon the free people of the world to mobilize in solidarity with our Palestinian people and in support of their just cause and legitimate rights to freedom, independence, return, and self-determination.

Hamas also called on Palestinians within the West Bank (known to Israelis as Judea and Samaria) to rise up against Israeli soldiers, and called on Arab citizens of Israel (“Our people within the occupied territories of 1948”) to revolt against the state.

In the entertainment industry, Friday the 13th is seen as a major day to launch new releases of horror films, with graphic depictions of imaginary violence. Unfortunately, the horrors of the Hamas terror attack in Israel were all too real.