Tim the Enchanter

03/15/2026

03/14/2026

in Jungian psychology, we carry within ourselves all the many archetypes we see expressed through the vast body of human thought and culture.

One of those archetypes is the father, from whom justice flows (with the shadow of the toxically masculine tyrant).

another is the mother, from whom mercy flows (and whose shadow is the feminine rage of kali)

another archetype, though, is that of the eternal child, and it's shadow is the complete avoidance of responsibility.

In the age of the last men, the true men (and women) of society will turn their backs on it. They'll stop participating, and they'll leave only the children.

These are the two candidates for judge in Wood County, WI.

03/14/2026

dying with a$750,000 estate in NYC is not rich, it's like dying with a $100,000 estate in the Midwest....

it's barely even middle class at NYC's cost of living.... that's a 1 bedroom apartment there....

and Mamdami wants to seize 50% of Middle Class New Yorkers' assets when they die.... Just friggin take it....

that's theft.

03/14/2026

The town of Beit Shemesh is a residential suburb west of Jerusalem that serves as a major American expat community.

It's not a west bank settlement, it's a town entirely within the 1967 borders.

The US and Israel have had mistakes, yes, and the girls school disaster highlighted both the dangers of bad intelligence and the arrogance and incompetence of our leadership....

however...

we have not targeted civilians intentionally...

Iran's heaviest bombardments so far haven't been against Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or the many, many military targets across israel (although they have been targeted)...

But rather this little suburb full of civilian American Jews.

Beit Shemesh (Hebrew: בית שמש, lit. 'House of the Sun') is a city located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District. A center of Haredi Judaism and Modern Orthodoxy, Beit Shemesh has a population of 167,318 as of 2023.[2]

03/13/2026

In the last week, a Jewish man was beaten on the street in San Jose for speaking Hebrew, a truck laden with explosives was driven into Jewish day-school in Detroit, in New York whole neighborhoods are no-go zones for Jews, less than a year ago a rabbi in NYC was beaten on the sidewalk in front of a synagogue.

So, I wanted to see how bad it was.

Yesterday's experiment was simple. Walk around a blue college town wearing a kippah and see if people harass me. By "walk around" I mean just that, casually walk around, eyes down, hands in pockets. Quiet Thursday afternoon, minding my business.

So I dressed conservatively (nice blue and white shirt, black coat and matching black satin kippah), determined that should anyone ask, my "cover story" was I just I was driving down 39 on business wanted a picture of the old synagogue so I made a quick stop.

At first I thought it was going to be a total white pill. It was windy, I didn't tape my kippah on, and contrary to popular belief, Hashem does not hold it on your head for you! So yes, there were comical moments and I caught laughter out of the corner of my eye.

Then, the weirdness started. Guy turned around on a bike and came for me. Uh oh. Just wanted to ask about conversion. Had to confess it's just a social experiment and I'm just a gentile with Jewish friends who went to temple and handful of times in my 20s. Then another guy yelled across the square at me "I'm from the tribe of Judah!!" Weird "downtown" type, ya know.

Then another guy approached me and asked for a blessing and I was like "um. I'm not a rabbi" (thinking please God let this light change so I can get to my car!)

Then some other guy approached and wanted to be a good Samaritan and I quickly defused the situation "only thing harassing me is the wind!, haha" but definitely scurrying a bit as my presence was starting to, well, cause a scene! And then as I was basically j-walking across Water Street to get away I hear someone from behind me saying "the Lord works in mysterious ways."Experiment was cut "very" short. Never even made it to campus (where you'd expect the anti-semitic harassment to be real).

Conclusions:
1) I can't properly do the experiment because an older, conservatively dressed man with a big white beard doesn't just "look Jewish," you look like a rabbi. And the weirdos hanging around the square were all very curious as to who I was and what I was doing there.
2) The "harassment" was largely innocent, yes, but that kind of just insane level of visibility. No one wants to stand out like that! Like, if there are people with ill intentions, you're so damn visible that everyone in a 6 block radius "sees" you.

As a child I was always taught that refusing to leave your comfort zone was a sign of cowardice. So, I left my comfort zone. And as predicted, it was not comfortable.But it definitely helped me see the world through the eyes of my Jewish friends. I was stopped 4 times inside of 15 minutes.
OTOH as I admitted, the big bushy white beard probably screwed my experiment up.

2 or 3 times in my life I considered converting to Judaism. It's an extremely common path for ex-Southern evangelicals with broken families. The reason I didn't in college was I found the local reform synagogue to be, well, spiritually empty. I could "go through the motions" at any big mainline protestant church in town, don't need to convert for that.
The reason I didn't at later points was, well, idk. Religious conversion is a huge commitment. Southern evangelicals view changing churches (Baptist, Methodist, Church of Christ) as almost like changing clothes, but when you start talking about conversion to a big, full blown religion, with calendars and holy days and thousand year old traditions (Judaism, Catholicism), that's a big commitment to make.

And also a bit of an inferiority complex. I was a failed teacher, a truck driver. Honestly I felt like I'd just be looked down upon. (And that might actually be true in some secular reform synagogues filled with upper-class professionals, but that's not where the real culture is, anyway. Chabad has the culture, and they don't "just go through the motions.")

And the more I think about it, the more I wonder that, if my dharma were to be Jewish, why would the lord have put me in a situation where the reform synagogue only has services on my work week, the conservative synagogue doesn't answer emails, and the Chabad house is 3 and a half hours away?
Instead I'm in a town with 4 catholic churches. And Catholicism does have a rich philosophical tradition.

And in case you can't tell, this isn't just a diary-post, it's also a confession of a deep desire for a spiritual connection and deep regret that I turned my back in the spiritual side of the human condition for 20 years.

03/12/2026

We can't get out of the war

There's no point in being anti-war at this point because you can't unring a bell.

We killed that man's mother, father, and brother, and every single person between him and the throne, just to make sure that extremist bastard took the reigns filled with Hell's rage.

Trump and Netanyahu intentionally made it impossible to deescalate and detangle.

And there's war games from the cold war detailing exactly how to pull it off.

We have to Win or lose, we cannot get out of the war.

Fire Hegseth's tattooed up crusader-LARPing ass and put a damn professional in there and finish the job.

And get your damn intelligence right, and when you do, idk, don't fu**in' bomb a school full of kids......

when this thing is over, assuming we do win, we need to find their families and make restitution.... Justice is blind.

But first we need to win the damn war.

07/03/2024

Sociopathy and psychology probably both stem largely from long term abuse by a narcissist - usually a parent.

If the narcisssist primary controls through physical pain, then the result is going to be sociopathy. when a kid gets beat repeatedly, the kid is going to downregulate their pain response as a result, and develop an attitude of "this is the worst society can do? F**k it, I can do what i want." Society also has a lot of sympathy for children who were victims of physical abuse.

If the narcissist uses your emotions to control you - primarily shame, fear, and isolation, then you will often view yourself as inferior, flawed, even subhuman. This prevents development of a stable self image, as since your mind has been controlled by those outside your body for your entire childhood, you have no concept of nexus of control within yourself. Essentially, BPD is PTSD.

This is also why so many people with BPD self injure. I mean, think about it, if you were told on a daily basis from say 5 to age 15 how lucky you were no to get beat, because "in my day, if I were ever as smart-mouthed and disrespectful as you, they'd've beat the s**t outta me," you pretty much internalize the idea "I should be beat."

And converting emotional pain to physical pain does make it easier to bare. It's just a fact, I'd rather be happy with a broken pinky toe than dealing with the intense fear, self-hatred, anxiety, racing heartbeat, etc, that is basically identical to a PTSD reaction any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

(Note, not claiming have been diagnosed with PTSD or BPD, just stating my own observations. Self harm is also sometimes seen in ADHD, and that is a diagnosis I do possess... though I think there's more to self-harm in neurodiverse people, and it shouldn't just be considered a normal symptom of Autism or ADHD)

06/19/2024

A lot of people forget, Dawkins got cancelled *hard* in the 2010s by the wokeys for stating that race is a spectrum, but s*x is pretty damn binary, or something like that. Two sins there, of course, 1) acknowledging the existence of race, and 2) well, ya know. It's so good to see some of the victims of cancel culture finally being brought back into the public sphere.

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