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Trump's Lawlessness by Personalizing the State in Him Rev. Douglas Olds January 27, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] The new administration, in this minister’s view, is pushing the envelope on governance by Diktat—dictatorship-- at the federal level as constitutional checks and balances are being vitiated, moving federal operations and policy warrant into the person of the executive order. Trump has now fired inspectors general, those whose purpose is to ensure executive department agendas are done legally in statutory compliance—i.e. in accordance with the legislature’s authority to set ...

    Blinded by the Flight:  Wars and Rumors of War  [A Thimble Sermon] Douglas B. Olds, June 22, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Matthew 24:6-13  And you will hear of  wars and rumors of wars;  see that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7  For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom , and there will be famines  [ a nd pestilences] and earthquakes in various places: 8 all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs. 9 “Then they will hand you over to be torture...

Paradox as Gift to Open the Prophetic Heart Douglas Blake Olds  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Paradox involves holding several truth claims in tension. Is it heresy that relieves the tension, or orthodoxy? This essay redefines paradox as a liminal and mobile crux--a tabernacle of accountable discernment rather than a crucible of destabilizing, mystical suspension. A summons not a puzzle. A manger rather than an emptied trough. In doing so, it advances a conative, deontological model of prophetic witness—charting a Biblically transformed epistemic-ethical trajectory rooted in Hebrews 5:13-14:...

  The Restoration of Reason from the Eyes of a Neighbor: A Shema -Christological Metaphysic of Conative Healing Douglas Blake Olds Being  an annotated, sermonic prolegomenon to millenarian iconoclasm preceding judgment-- a theological prolepsis, the intervention into modern philosophy of mind, evolutionary theory, AI discourse, metaphysical epistemology in the age of  Daniel 2:43, and in the footnotes, the necessary and overdue rehabilitation of Johann Gottfried Herder . This essays proposes a  peripat(h)etic, perichoretic  grammar for theological and pedagogical reconstruction after ideological collapse—anchored not in institutions, formal aesthetics, or instrumental binary logic, but in re- covenanted conation as intent. This essay emerges at the intersection of post-secular crisis (AI, collapsing rationalism, technocratic reduction) and theological covenanted renewal (Shema-conation, poietic Bildung, Pentecostal immanence, earth trustee ethics)....

  AI’s Necromantic Narcissism: Hallucinated Hegemonics and Its Condemning Collapse of Covenant Perception Douglas Blake Olds Arena eos qui in ea cacant reflectit   (cf. James 1:8). Generative AI is  necromantic architecture of narcissistic simulation , condemned eschatologically and incompatible with covenantal perception.  AI as both fraud and sin , its makers as blasphemers , and the system as eschatologically condemned. Not simply a critique of AI—this essay is a hammer in the   biblical mode of idol exposure--not just of cultural danger but of divine prosecution and prophecy of impending system collapse and designer doom.  It    declares metaphysical war against dark triad systems that collapse covenantal perception of reality by  disorientation, derealization, loss of proximal sense and disrupted embodied memory .  It argues that generative AI commercializes necromantic sorceries (as modern witchcraft of Endor [1 Samuel 27-31]) to e...