Techno-Puritan Supplemental Writings

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These notes identify the major subjects of homepage tracts and supplementary episodes whose titles alone may not reveal their scope.

TPS 1.0: How Evolution Proves the Bible. Major topics: Genesis and evolution; Hebrew terms; creation; evolutionary history.
TPS 1.1: How Evolution Proves the Bible — episode transcript. Major topics: Genesis and evolution; Hebrew terms; creation; evolutionary history.
TPS 2.0: Christianity Was Never a Religion of "Peace" — Forgetting That Is Killing Us. Major topics: Christianity; pacifism and war; biblical violence; civilizational survival.
TPS 52.0: Does Genesis Argue NPCs Are Real? (Do Pre-Adamites Still Exist?). Major topics: Genesis; pre-Adamites; sentience and moral agency; the origins of civilization.
TPS 52.1: Does Genesis Argue NPCs Are Real? (Do Pre-Adamites Still Exist?) — episode transcript. Major topics: Genesis; pre-Adamites; sentience and moral agency; the origins of civilization.
TPS 53.0: Sins Aren’t Equal: Ranking Activities’ Sinfulness (Erotic and Otherwise). Major topics: degrees of sin; moral trade-offs; addiction; health, time, and flourishing.
TPS 53.1: Sins Aren’t Equal: Ranking Activities’ Sinfulness (Erotic and Otherwise) — episode transcript. Major topics: degrees of sin; moral trade-offs; addiction; health, time, and flourishing.
TPS 54.0: Genesis' "Random" Numbers Map Directly 10,000 Years (Unique Discovery). Major topics: Genesis 5–11; biblical chronology; Near Eastern archaeology; prehistoric civilizations.
TPS 55.0: The Technology Behind the Soul (Mysticism, Tech, & Witches). Major topics: the soul; consciousness; technology; dualism and monism; mysticism.
TPS 58.0: 1/3 Cults Become A World Religion | Crazy Stats To Save Your People. Major topics: cults; religious movements; religion formation; demographic statistics; community survival.
TPS 58.1: 1/3 Cults Become A World Religion | Crazy Stats To Save Your People — episode transcript. Major topics: cults; religious movements; religion formation; demographic statistics; community survival.
TPS 59.0: Muslim Heaven Is WAY More Psycho Than You Think. Major topics: Islamic heaven and afterlife; comparative religion; paradise; moral psychology.
TPS 60.0: Angels/Watchers/Nephilim: Are They An Extra-Dimensional Civilization? (Exploring A Bible Theory). Major topics: the boundaries of the Techno-Puritan tradition; disagreement within the tradition; heresy and shared standards of evidence; angels, Watchers, and Nephilim; Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch; extra-dimensional civilizations; materialist monism and the supernatural.
TPS 60.1: Angels/Watchers/Nephilim: Are They An Extra-Dimensional Civilization? (Exploring A Bible Theory) — episode transcript. Major topics: the boundaries of the Techno-Puritan tradition; disagreement within the tradition; heresy and shared standards of evidence; angels, Watchers, and Nephilim; Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch; extra-dimensional civilizations; materialist monism and the supernatural.
TPS 61.0: Buddhist Cult At The Nexus of The Tech Elite (It Wants to Kill Your Soul). Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a cautionary example of an inversion of Techno-Puritan values; the opposite of what Techno-Puritanism advocates; how things can go wrong; critique, not endorsement, of the worldview discussed.
TPS 62.0: The Conquistadors Did Not Go Far Enough: Human Sacrifices in 2026. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; religious syncretism and the survival of pre-conversion practice after mass conversion; Santa Muerte and Mexican folk-saint devotion; contemporary ritual killings reported in Mexico; Aztec sacrificial religion; cartel religiosity; the biblical prohibition on idolatry and why Techno-Puritanism reads it strictly; whether conversion changes deep-seated cultural behaviour; colonial religious change compared across regions.
TPS 62.1: The Conquistadors Did Not Go Far Enough: Human Sacrifices in 2026 — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; religious syncretism and the survival of pre-conversion practice after mass conversion; Santa Muerte and Mexican folk-saint devotion; contemporary ritual killings reported in Mexico; Aztec sacrificial religion; cartel religiosity; the biblical prohibition on idolatry and why Techno-Puritanism reads it strictly; whether conversion changes deep-seated cultural behaviour; colonial religious change compared across regions.
TPS 62.2: The Conquistadors Did Not Go Far Enough: Human Sacrifices in 2026 — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; religious syncretism and the survival of pre-conversion practice after mass conversion; Santa Muerte and Mexican folk-saint devotion; contemporary ritual killings reported in Mexico; Aztec sacrificial religion; cartel religiosity; the biblical prohibition on idolatry and why Techno-Puritanism reads it strictly; whether conversion changes deep-seated cultural behaviour; colonial religious change compared across regions.
TPS 63.0: Aztecs Worshiped Cosmic Horror (Make HP Lovecraft Look Like Dr. Suess). Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; sets up TPS 62 on the same subject; Aztec religion, cosmology and social structure; ritual human sacrifice at industrial scale; a review of Inga Clendinnen's "Aztecs: An Interpretation" via John Psmith; warrior culture and child-rearing; a society organized around pain and cosmic dread rather than pleasure; why neighbouring peoples allied with the Spanish; moral frameworks as a check on such extremes; history recounted and criticized, never endorsed.
TPS 63.1: Aztecs Worshiped Cosmic Horror (Make HP Lovecraft Look Like Dr. Suess) — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; sets up TPS 62 on the same subject; Aztec religion, cosmology and social structure; ritual human sacrifice at industrial scale; a review of Inga Clendinnen's "Aztecs: An Interpretation" via John Psmith; warrior culture and child-rearing; a society organized around pain and cosmic dread rather than pleasure; why neighbouring peoples allied with the Spanish; moral frameworks as a check on such extremes; history recounted and criticized, never endorsed.
TPS 64.0: Islam vs Cell Phones: Down 25% In 10 Years. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; rapid secularization in Muslim-majority countries, proportionally faster than Christianity's decline in the West; Arab Barometer survey data 2012-2019 and the early-2020s rebound; Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt; declining trust in Islamist parties; sub-replacement fertility and water scarcity in the region; smartphone access to primary sources as a driver of deconversion; contested episodes in early Islamic history.
TPS 65.0: Anti-Man BDSM Cult That Made Video Games & Invented Cosplay (Nothing Changes). Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a 1970s invented fantasy religion that broke containment into real-world communes; goddess-focused observance; anti-modern settlements in Ireland; early text-adventure game development on Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum; alternate-reality games before the term existed; role-play and discipline practices; connections to far-right material; why the movement failed to become a lasting community; what invented religions need to be sustainable.
TPS 65.1: Anti-Man BDSM Cult That Made Video Games & Invented Cosplay (Nothing Changes) — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a 1970s invented fantasy religion that broke containment into real-world communes; goddess-focused observance; anti-modern settlements in Ireland; early text-adventure game development on Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum; alternate-reality games before the term existed; role-play and discipline practices; connections to far-right material; why the movement failed to become a lasting community; what invented religions need to be sustainable.
TPS 65.2: Anti-Man BDSM Cult That Made Video Games & Invented Cosplay (Nothing Changes) — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a 1970s invented fantasy religion that broke containment into real-world communes; goddess-focused observance; anti-modern settlements in Ireland; early text-adventure game development on Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum; alternate-reality games before the term existed; role-play and discipline practices; connections to far-right material; why the movement failed to become a lasting community; what invented religions need to be sustainable.
TPS 66.0: Silliness: The Underrated Ingredient in Lasting Religions. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; new religious movements and how long they last; a census of newly founded religions and their survival rate; silliness, play and absurdity as retention mechanisms; companion material to the tract episode on new-religion survival.
TPS 66.1: Silliness: The Underrated Ingredient in Lasting Religions — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; new religious movements and how long they last; a census of newly founded religions and their survival rate; silliness, play and absurdity as retention mechanisms; companion material to the tract episode on new-religion survival.
TPS 67.0: Can One Intentionally Build a Religion?. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; deliberately engineered religions versus inherited ones; Arya Samaj and Vedic restorationism; Kardecist Spiritism; the Baha'i Faith; authority, institutional structure, ritual, education and succession as predictors of survival; supernatural stakes; why designed movements endure or collapse.
TPS 67.1: Can One Intentionally Build a Religion? — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; deliberately engineered religions versus inherited ones; Arya Samaj and Vedic restorationism; Kardecist Spiritism; the Baha'i Faith; authority, institutional structure, ritual, education and succession as predictors of survival; supernatural stakes; why designed movements endure or collapse.
TPS 68.0: An Exploration of the Mormon Afterlife: Fewer Planets, More Ghosts. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; Latter-day Saint beliefs about the afterlife beyond the "own planet" caricature; the spirit world; proxy ordinances and baptism for the dead; family sealings; missionary work after death; the three degrees of glory; exaltation and outer darkness; comparison with mainstream Christian eschatology.
TPS 68.1: An Exploration of the Mormon Afterlife: Fewer Planets, More Ghosts — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; Latter-day Saint beliefs about the afterlife beyond the "own planet" caricature; the spirit world; proxy ordinances and baptism for the dead; family sealings; missionary work after death; the three degrees of glory; exaltation and outer darkness; comparison with mainstream Christian eschatology.
TPS 69.0: Exploring The Terminal Nature of Atheistic Religions. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; secular and atheistic religions and why they keep dying with their founders; the Cult of Reason in revolutionary France; Saint-Simonism; Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity; Ethical Culture; the Monist League; Sunday Assembly; positivism in Brazil; whether ritual, institutions and wonder can be supplied without the supernatural.
TPS 69.1: Exploring The Terminal Nature of Atheistic Religions — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; secular and atheistic religions and why they keep dying with their founders; the Cult of Reason in revolutionary France; Saint-Simonism; Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity; Ethical Culture; the Monist League; Sunday Assembly; positivism in Brazil; whether ritual, institutions and wonder can be supplied without the supernatural.
TPS 70.0: Is The LDS Church After You, Your Money, or Your Ancestors?. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; LDS Church online advertising and missionary funnels; the lifetime value of a convert and tithing; FamilySearch.org, genealogy collection and posthumous baptism of ancestors; proselytizing in Europe; what a religion is buying when it buys ads.
TPS 70.1: Is The LDS Church After You, Your Money, or Your Ancestors? — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; LDS Church online advertising and missionary funnels; the lifetime value of a convert and tithing; FamilySearch.org, genealogy collection and posthumous baptism of ancestors; proselytizing in Europe; what a religion is buying when it buys ads.
TPS 70.2: Is The LDS Church After You, Your Money, or Your Ancestors? — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; LDS Church online advertising and missionary funnels; the lifetime value of a convert and tithing; FamilySearch.org, genealogy collection and posthumous baptism of ancestors; proselytizing in Europe; what a religion is buying when it buys ads.
TPS 71.0: C.S. Lewis’ “Most Embarrassing Verse” Proves the Bible’s Authenticity. Major topics: Tract 21; Mark 13:30 / Matthew 24:34, "this generation shall not pass away", the verse C.S. Lewis called the most embarrassing in the Bible, read as a fulfilled prophecy rather than a failed one; the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE; the words "neither the Son" removed from Matthew 24:36 in many manuscripts; wars, famines and persecutions of 30-70 CE in Josephus; false messiahs of the Jewish revolt; the abomination of desolation and the evacuation order; why Mark reads as genuine prediction, not written after the fact; "generation" as a roughly forty-year span; apocalyptic sky imagery as the language of a government falling; Matthew’s use of Daniel 7 and Daniel 9 and their timeline to 70 CE; testing prophets by fulfilled predictions; the authority of Mark over the later Gospels; early Christian worship at home; the Saturday Sabbath and Constantine’s Sunday rest law; companion to the /this-generation/ research page.
TPS 71.1: Further Reading. Major topics: Tract 21; Mark 13:30 / Matthew 24:34, "this generation shall not pass away", the verse C.S. Lewis called the most embarrassing in the Bible, read as a fulfilled prophecy rather than a failed one; the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE; the words "neither the Son" removed from Matthew 24:36 in many manuscripts; wars, famines and persecutions of 30-70 CE in Josephus; false messiahs of the Jewish revolt; the abomination of desolation and the evacuation order; why Mark reads as genuine prediction, not written after the fact; "generation" as a roughly forty-year span; apocalyptic sky imagery as the language of a government falling; Matthew’s use of Daniel 7 and Daniel 9 and their timeline to 70 CE; testing prophets by fulfilled predictions; the authority of Mark over the later Gospels; early Christian worship at home; the Saturday Sabbath and Constantine’s Sunday rest law; companion to the /this-generation/ research page.
TPS 71.2: C.S. Lewis’ “Most Embarrassing Verse” Proves the Bible’s Authenticity — episode transcript. Major topics: Tract 21; Mark 13:30 / Matthew 24:34, "this generation shall not pass away", the verse C.S. Lewis called the most embarrassing in the Bible, read as a fulfilled prophecy rather than a failed one; the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE; the words "neither the Son" removed from Matthew 24:36 in many manuscripts; wars, famines and persecutions of 30-70 CE in Josephus; false messiahs of the Jewish revolt; the abomination of desolation and the evacuation order; why Mark reads as genuine prediction, not written after the fact; "generation" as a roughly forty-year span; apocalyptic sky imagery as the language of a government falling; Matthew’s use of Daniel 7 and Daniel 9 and their timeline to 70 CE; testing prophets by fulfilled predictions; the authority of Mark over the later Gospels; early Christian worship at home; the Saturday Sabbath and Constantine’s Sunday rest law; companion to the /this-generation/ research page.
TPS 72.0: Witch Influencers Keep Converting: Is This How We Win Women?. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; women leaving witchcraft, tarot, astrology and the occult for Christianity; the size of the psychic and tarot industry; high-profile conversions (Alex Reads Tarot, Kat Von D, Doreen Virtue); what converts say the occult gave them and why it stopped being enough; destiny-swapping beliefs; the appeal of Orthodox Christianity to former witches; deprogramming from a New Age lifestyle; MAGA and conservative witches; whether this is a route by which women return to traditional faith.
TPS 72.1: Witch Influencers Keep Converting: Is This How We Win Women? — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; women leaving witchcraft, tarot, astrology and the occult for Christianity; the size of the psychic and tarot industry; high-profile conversions (Alex Reads Tarot, Kat Von D, Doreen Virtue); what converts say the occult gave them and why it stopped being enough; destiny-swapping beliefs; the appeal of Orthodox Christianity to former witches; deprogramming from a New Age lifestyle; MAGA and conservative witches; whether this is a route by which women return to traditional faith.
TPS 72.2: Witch Influencers Keep Converting: Is This How We Win Women? — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; women leaving witchcraft, tarot, astrology and the occult for Christianity; the size of the psychic and tarot industry; high-profile conversions (Alex Reads Tarot, Kat Von D, Doreen Virtue); what converts say the occult gave them and why it stopped being enough; destiny-swapping beliefs; the appeal of Orthodox Christianity to former witches; deprogramming from a New Age lifestyle; MAGA and conservative witches; whether this is a route by which women return to traditional faith.
TPS 73.0: The Sabbath: The Rules Versus The Point. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a household beginning to keep the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday; the letter of the Sabbath law versus its purpose, argued between Simone (letter) and Malcolm (purpose) before the public tract on the subject; the Sabbath as still binding on Christians, modified by Jesus rather than abolished; the grain-field dispute (Matthew 12:1-8), David and the bread of the presence, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice" (Hosea 6:6), circumcision on the Sabbath and healing (John 7:22-23); Colossians 2:16-23 on asceticism, angel worship and "self-made religion"; Galatians 4:1-11, relating to God's rules as an adopted son rather than as a slave to the "elemental principles"; the apostolic letter of Acts 15; why a fixed rule list is the easier path and judging each act by the rule's purpose is the harder one; what counts as work (profit-generating, creative and routine work, email, the podcast) versus what is allowed (emergencies, public safety, animal welfare, learning a new skill, personal projects outside one's weekday work, family outings); food preparation that does not take the cook away from the family; chosen entertainment versus passive scrolling; routine shopping versus other purchases; the two failures to avoid: a Sabbath that drains you and a Sabbath that becomes its own rote ritual; breaking the weekday rest routine as well as the work routine; a compilation of every Old and New Testament statement on the Sabbath (origin and rationale, the Ten Commandments, Torah prohibitions and penalties, temple and priestly activity, the prophets and Nehemiah, the Sabbath scenes in the gospels, apostolic practice in Acts, Romans 14, Galatians 4, Colossians 2, Hebrews 4); what is commanded, prohibited and explicitly permitted; translation notes on "work", "solemn rest", "burden", "cut off" and "preparation day"; the scripture compilation was machine-generated and is printed unedited; the worked analysis is the /sabbath/ page.
TPS 73.1: The Sabbath: The Rules Versus The Point — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a household beginning to keep the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday; the letter of the Sabbath law versus its purpose, argued between Simone (letter) and Malcolm (purpose) before the public tract on the subject; the Sabbath as still binding on Christians, modified by Jesus rather than abolished; the grain-field dispute (Matthew 12:1-8), David and the bread of the presence, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice" (Hosea 6:6), circumcision on the Sabbath and healing (John 7:22-23); Colossians 2:16-23 on asceticism, angel worship and "self-made religion"; Galatians 4:1-11, relating to God's rules as an adopted son rather than as a slave to the "elemental principles"; the apostolic letter of Acts 15; why a fixed rule list is the easier path and judging each act by the rule's purpose is the harder one; what counts as work (profit-generating, creative and routine work, email, the podcast) versus what is allowed (emergencies, public safety, animal welfare, learning a new skill, personal projects outside one's weekday work, family outings); food preparation that does not take the cook away from the family; chosen entertainment versus passive scrolling; routine shopping versus other purchases; the two failures to avoid: a Sabbath that drains you and a Sabbath that becomes its own rote ritual; breaking the weekday rest routine as well as the work routine; a compilation of every Old and New Testament statement on the Sabbath (origin and rationale, the Ten Commandments, Torah prohibitions and penalties, temple and priestly activity, the prophets and Nehemiah, the Sabbath scenes in the gospels, apostolic practice in Acts, Romans 14, Galatians 4, Colossians 2, Hebrews 4); what is commanded, prohibited and explicitly permitted; translation notes on "work", "solemn rest", "burden", "cut off" and "preparation day"; the scripture compilation was machine-generated and is printed unedited; the worked analysis is the /sabbath/ page.
TPS 73.2: The Sabbath: The Rules Versus The Point — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; a household beginning to keep the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday; the letter of the Sabbath law versus its purpose, argued between Simone (letter) and Malcolm (purpose) before the public tract on the subject; the Sabbath as still binding on Christians, modified by Jesus rather than abolished; the grain-field dispute (Matthew 12:1-8), David and the bread of the presence, "I desire mercy, not sacrifice" (Hosea 6:6), circumcision on the Sabbath and healing (John 7:22-23); Colossians 2:16-23 on asceticism, angel worship and "self-made religion"; Galatians 4:1-11, relating to God's rules as an adopted son rather than as a slave to the "elemental principles"; the apostolic letter of Acts 15; why a fixed rule list is the easier path and judging each act by the rule's purpose is the harder one; what counts as work (profit-generating, creative and routine work, email, the podcast) versus what is allowed (emergencies, public safety, animal welfare, learning a new skill, personal projects outside one's weekday work, family outings); food preparation that does not take the cook away from the family; chosen entertainment versus passive scrolling; routine shopping versus other purchases; the two failures to avoid: a Sabbath that drains you and a Sabbath that becomes its own rote ritual; breaking the weekday rest routine as well as the work routine; a compilation of every Old and New Testament statement on the Sabbath (origin and rationale, the Ten Commandments, Torah prohibitions and penalties, temple and priestly activity, the prophets and Nehemiah, the Sabbath scenes in the gospels, apostolic practice in Acts, Romans 14, Galatians 4, Colossians 2, Hebrews 4); what is commanded, prohibited and explicitly permitted; translation notes on "work", "solemn rest", "burden", "cut off" and "preparation day"; the scripture compilation was machine-generated and is printed unedited; the worked analysis is the /sabbath/ page.
TPS 74.0: How Jews Circumvent the Rules They Made Up (4K Years of Malicious Compliance). Major topics: Tract 22; keeping the letter of a divine rule versus keeping its intent, examined through the legal mechanisms Jewish law developed to work within biblical and rabbinic restrictions; the Sabbath travel limit of 2,000 cubits and eruv techumin (placing food to move one's Sabbath residence); the prohibition on carrying, keys worn as a belt or clothing, and doing a prohibited act in an unusual manner (shinui); the eruv wire enclosure merging household domains; the permission of one hundred rabbis (heter meah rabbanim); shemitah-year produce distribution; eruv tavshilin and festival cooking before the Sabbath; food cooked by non-Jews (bishul akum) and cooked wine (yayin mevushal); inheritance shares for daughters; halakhic prenuptial agreements; hair-covering customs; whether God's rules are a contract to be satisfied or an intention to be honoured; the dangers of excessive legalism; structuring the Sabbath as actual rest.
TPS 75.0: We Stopped Fearing Swamp Hags & Society Collapsed (A Historic Anthropology). Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 75.1: We Stopped Fearing Swamp Hags & Society Collapsed (A Historic Anthropology) — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 75.2: Swamp Hags. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 75.3: Common Characteristics of Historical Hags and Banshees. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 75.4: Karens: The Modern Mythological Hags. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 75.5: How to Save the Karens. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 75.6: We Stopped Fearing Swamp Hags & Society Collapsed (A Historic Anthropology) — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the swamp hag, witch and banshee archetypes in European, Eurasian and wider folklore (Baba Yaga, banshees, the Jewish ba'al shem); folk stories as warnings about liminal, spiteful or unmoored individuals living at the edges of a community; whether such stereotypes track real patterns; modern equivalents in protest culture, bureaucratic "Karens" and online witchcraft; the shift in Disney's witch figures from villain to mentor; the costs of placing liminal people in leadership; folklore as cultural evolution.
TPS 76.0: Christmas Was Not a Pagan Holiday: How To Shut Down Family Idiot Arguing Otherwise. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the claim that Christmas is a pagan holiday, examined against the historical record; early Christian evidence for December 25th as Jesus's birthday predating any evidence of a Sol Invictus festival on that date; the late arrival of the Christmas tree in Christian practice; Santa Claus from Saint Nicholas and the Dutch Sinterklaas; nineteenth-century German nationalist scholarship as the source of many pagan-origin myths; how to answer the argument.
TPS 77.0: How Women Tricked Men into Doing All the Work While Still Playing the Victim (Forbidden History). Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the historical division of labour between the sexes across cultures (hunter-gatherers, medieval Europe, Vikings, Sparta, ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Islamic societies, Africa, Latin America, India, China, Japan, colonial America); women as the main producers of reliable calories, farming before the plough, textiles, trade and household management; men in high-risk, high-reward roles (war, raiding, politics, innovation); the "sword and shield" model of partnership; how the plough, industrialization and wage labour changed these roles; critique of both feminist and "trad" accounts of history.
TPS 77.1: How Women Tricked Men into Doing All the Work While Still Playing the Victim (Forbidden History) — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the historical division of labour between the sexes across cultures (hunter-gatherers, medieval Europe, Vikings, Sparta, ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Islamic societies, Africa, Latin America, India, China, Japan, colonial America); women as the main producers of reliable calories, farming before the plough, textiles, trade and household management; men in high-risk, high-reward roles (war, raiding, politics, innovation); the "sword and shield" model of partnership; how the plough, industrialization and wage labour changed these roles; critique of both feminist and "trad" accounts of history.
TPS 78.0: The Bible: Marry A Tomboy (Real “Trad” = Tomboy). Major topics: Tract 23; what Scripture says to look for in a wife; the Hebrew chayil (eshet chayil, Strong's H2428), a strength-word used for armies, wealth and capability, and how later English translations softened it to "virtuous"; Proverbs 31 read line by line as a wife who produces, trades, invests, manages a household enterprise, rises early and works late; Ruth 3:11 and Proverbs 12:4; the husband's public role at the city gate; charm and beauty as fleeting against capability; New Testament passages on self-control, modesty, good works over jewellery and designer goods; head covering in 1 Corinthians; Jesus' appearance and hair; pagan influences on Christian imagery; the claim that the biblical ideal wife looks more like a capable tomboy than a modern "trad" aesthetic. Companion word study: https://technopuritan.com/eshet-chayil/.
TPS 79.0: Yet MORE Jewish Rule Compliance Innovations. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; continues Tract 22 (TPS 74) on how observant Jews comply with religious rules through legal ingenuity; coloured underwear and the laws of niddah; birth control; Sabbath kettles and elevators; sale-of-chametz style transactions; keeping a Sabbath of rest in a Techno-Puritan household.
TPS 79.1: Yet MORE Jewish Rule Compliance Innovations — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; continues Tract 22 (TPS 74) on how observant Jews comply with religious rules through legal ingenuity; coloured underwear and the laws of niddah; birth control; Sabbath kettles and elevators; sale-of-chametz style transactions; keeping a Sabbath of rest in a Techno-Puritan household.
TPS 80.0: Are Male Witches Just Scientists? (Witches Vs. Logic). Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; whether the occult has become feminised and what masculine mysticism looked like; Renaissance figures labelled wizards and how word usage shifted; esoteric paths that failed against the development of empirical science; mysticism lacks feedback loops, which is why competent men moved toward science; AI and technology now carrying the creative impulse once channelled into the occult.
TPS 80.1: Are Male Witches Just Scientists? (Witches Vs. Logic) — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; whether the occult has become feminised and what masculine mysticism looked like; Renaissance figures labelled wizards and how word usage shifted; esoteric paths that failed against the development of empirical science; mysticism lacks feedback loops, which is why competent men moved toward science; AI and technology now carrying the creative impulse once channelled into the occult.
TPS 80.2: Are Male Witches Just Scientists? (Witches Vs. Logic) — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; whether the occult has become feminised and what masculine mysticism looked like; Renaissance figures labelled wizards and how word usage shifted; esoteric paths that failed against the development of empirical science; mysticism lacks feedback loops, which is why competent men moved toward science; AI and technology now carrying the creative impulse once channelled into the occult.
TPS 81.0: The Islamic Golden Age Was Faked By Wikipedia: WTF!?. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the Jagged_85 Wikipedia editor who inserted thousands of fabricated claims about Islamic inventions; how such claims spread into books, museum sites and scholarship through circular citation; other documented Wikipedia hoaxes; how plausible falsehoods become accepted history; epistemic caution about received historical narratives.
TPS 81.1: The Islamic Golden Age Was Faked By Wikipedia: WTF!? — show notes. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the Jagged_85 Wikipedia editor who inserted thousands of fabricated claims about Islamic inventions; how such claims spread into books, museum sites and scholarship through circular citation; other documented Wikipedia hoaxes; how plausible falsehoods become accepted history; epistemic caution about received historical narratives.
TPS 81.2: The Islamic Golden Age Was Faked By Wikipedia: WTF!? — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; the Jagged_85 Wikipedia editor who inserted thousands of fabricated claims about Islamic inventions; how such claims spread into books, museum sites and scholarship through circular citation; other documented Wikipedia hoaxes; how plausible falsehoods become accepted history; epistemic caution about received historical narratives.
TPS 82.0: Muslim "Charities" Keep Supporting Terrorism: WHY?. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; Muslim charities repeatedly found diverting donations to terrorist groups, from the Bush era onward; an anime voice-actor fundraiser for a group with documented Hamas ties; refugee resettlement outcomes across countries; integration of populations from regions with entrenched support for such groups; progressive organisations overlooking the pattern.
TPS 82.1: Muslim "Charities" Keep Supporting Terrorism: WHY? — episode transcript. Major topics: supplementary episode, not a tract; Muslim charities repeatedly found diverting donations to terrorist groups, from the Bush era onward; an anime voice-actor fundraiser for a group with documented Hamas ties; refugee resettlement outcomes across countries; integration of populations from regions with entrenched support for such groups; progressive organisations overlooking the pattern.
TPS 83.0: Did Abraham F* Jews Through Human Sacrifice? (Why We Needed Two Covenants). Major topics: Tract 24; the binding of Isaac (Genesis 22) as the prototypical example of one story with several true readings fitted to the reader’s moral agency, and so of the Tesseract God whose faces are all true though some are strictly lesser than others; the low-agency reading (Abraham was right, so obey God’s rules without question), which is good advice for a person at that level; the high-agency reading (Abraham failed the test in its highest sense, God does not deal in human sacrifice, so think through the intention behind God’s instructions and seek the higher global optimum), which would be dangerous advice for someone willing to kill a child because a voice said to; the same pattern applied to Christ: low agency reads the crucifixion as God demanding an innocent sacrifice for the guilty, high agency knows God never demands or is satisfied by such a sacrifice and that each person answers for their own sins, so Christ’s sacrifice was the life he lived; why God made two covenants: God had already promised the covenant would come through Isaac, so the test decided only what kind of covenant Abraham’s people needed; Abraham passed in the worst acceptable way, out of fear rather than moral clarity, though he had bargained with God over Sodom; the result: a covenant of strict, detailed rules for a people who would obey any rule, which still produces flourishing, and a second covenant of relationship through moral agency, harder and able to reach higher; why the Techno-Puritan tradition sometimes steers people toward simpler rule-based faiths; modern parents who killed their children believing God ordered it (Deanna Laney, Lashaun Harris, Andrea Yates); Abraham’s low moral character and God’s imperfect heroes (David, Solomon); the traditional ways out and why each fails (Rashi and the midrash, the trust-fall reading, Hebrews 11:17-19, James 2:21, Romans 8:32); the angel calling twice; the oven of Akhnai; why the Jews were set up to reject a wandering miracle-worker messiah.
TPS 83.1: Did Abraham F* Jews Through Human Sacrifice? (Why We Needed Two Covenants) — episode transcript. Major topics: Tract 24; the binding of Isaac (Genesis 22) as the prototypical example of one story with several true readings fitted to the reader’s moral agency, and so of the Tesseract God whose faces are all true though some are strictly lesser than others; the low-agency reading (Abraham was right, so obey God’s rules without question), which is good advice for a person at that level; the high-agency reading (Abraham failed the test in its highest sense, God does not deal in human sacrifice, so think through the intention behind God’s instructions and seek the higher global optimum), which would be dangerous advice for someone willing to kill a child because a voice said to; the same pattern applied to Christ: low agency reads the crucifixion as God demanding an innocent sacrifice for the guilty, high agency knows God never demands or is satisfied by such a sacrifice and that each person answers for their own sins, so Christ’s sacrifice was the life he lived; why God made two covenants: God had already promised the covenant would come through Isaac, so the test decided only what kind of covenant Abraham’s people needed; Abraham passed in the worst acceptable way, out of fear rather than moral clarity, though he had bargained with God over Sodom; the result: a covenant of strict, detailed rules for a people who would obey any rule, which still produces flourishing, and a second covenant of relationship through moral agency, harder and able to reach higher; why the Techno-Puritan tradition sometimes steers people toward simpler rule-based faiths; modern parents who killed their children believing God ordered it (Deanna Laney, Lashaun Harris, Andrea Yates); Abraham’s low moral character and God’s imperfect heroes (David, Solomon); the traditional ways out and why each fails (Rashi and the midrash, the trust-fall reading, Hebrews 11:17-19, James 2:21, Romans 8:32); the angel calling twice; the oven of Akhnai; why the Jews were set up to reject a wandering miracle-worker messiah.
TPS 84.0: Halloween & The Colonization of Christian Holidays. Major topics: Tract 25; whether Halloween is pagan, argued against the Samhain-origin story; All Saints and All Souls as the source of the name, the date and the night-of-the-dead theme; trick-or-treating, guising and jack-o'-lanterns (turnip lanterns first) as customs that grew inside Christian communities, Scottish and Irish folk practice, and early-1900s commercialisation through postcards and party goods; why the ghost and occult associations came centuries later; the wider claim that Christian holidays (Christmas, Easter) are colonised pagan ones; companion research page /halloween/.
TPS 84.1: Halloween & The Colonization of Christian Holidays — episode transcript. Major topics: Tract 25; whether Halloween is pagan, argued against the Samhain-origin story; All Saints and All Souls as the source of the name, the date and the night-of-the-dead theme; trick-or-treating, guising and jack-o'-lanterns (turnip lanterns first) as customs that grew inside Christian communities, Scottish and Irish folk practice, and early-1900s commercialisation through postcards and party goods; why the ghost and occult associations came centuries later; the wider claim that Christian holidays (Christmas, Easter) are colonised pagan ones; companion research page /halloween/.
TPS 85.0: Which Books of the New Testament are The Most (and Least) Reliable?. Major topics: Tract 26 (Matthew, part 1); which books of the New Testament are most and least reliable; Mark and the Q sayings source as the most reliable, Luke and John below them, Matthew as elaboration ("CG Jesus": an exaggerated retelling stretched to win converts); how Matthew doubles characters, makes private events public and fits events to prophecy; why more Christian sects do not centre Mark and Q; gospel-parallel and synopsis tools for reading the accounts side by side; companion research page /four-tellings/.
TPS 85.1: Which Books of the New Testament are The Most (and Least) Reliable? — episode transcript. Major topics: Tract 26 (Matthew, part 1); which books of the New Testament are most and least reliable; Mark and the Q sayings source as the most reliable, Luke and John below them, Matthew as elaboration ("CG Jesus": an exaggerated retelling stretched to win converts); how Matthew doubles characters, makes private events public and fits events to prophecy; why more Christian sects do not centre Mark and Q; gospel-parallel and synopsis tools for reading the accounts side by side; companion research page /four-tellings/.
TPS 86.0: Miracles? Virgin Birth? Nah, We’re Here for Jesus’ Teachings. Major topics: Tract 27 (Matthew, part 2); biblical authority with Mark and Q prioritised and the other New Testament writings read as fallible human accounts, not equally authoritative revelation; the conflicting birth narratives of Matthew and Luke (virgin birth, Bethlehem, Herod, the census, the genealogies), the deaths of Judas and the differing resurrection accounts; accepting historical error and later embellishment as what dissolves the contradictions without undermining faith in Jesus as Messiah; Christianity's real miracle as its lasting moral and societal effect rather than supernatural events; atonement reread as Jesus's death sealing a new covenant rather than transferring individual sins onto an innocent sacrifice; the third covenant, in which technological change requires believers to exercise moral judgement rather than defer to inherited institutions; companion research page /four-tellings/.
TPS 86.1: Cool New Testament Comparison Resources. Major topics: Tract 27 (Matthew, part 2); biblical authority with Mark and Q prioritised and the other New Testament writings read as fallible human accounts, not equally authoritative revelation; the conflicting birth narratives of Matthew and Luke (virgin birth, Bethlehem, Herod, the census, the genealogies), the deaths of Judas and the differing resurrection accounts; accepting historical error and later embellishment as what dissolves the contradictions without undermining faith in Jesus as Messiah; Christianity's real miracle as its lasting moral and societal effect rather than supernatural events; atonement reread as Jesus's death sealing a new covenant rather than transferring individual sins onto an innocent sacrifice; the third covenant, in which technological change requires believers to exercise moral judgement rather than defer to inherited institutions; companion research page /four-tellings/.
TPS 86.2: Miracles? Virgin Birth? Nah, We’re Here for Jesus’ Teachings — episode transcript. Major topics: Tract 27 (Matthew, part 2); biblical authority with Mark and Q prioritised and the other New Testament writings read as fallible human accounts, not equally authoritative revelation; the conflicting birth narratives of Matthew and Luke (virgin birth, Bethlehem, Herod, the census, the genealogies), the deaths of Judas and the differing resurrection accounts; accepting historical error and later embellishment as what dissolves the contradictions without undermining faith in Jesus as Messiah; Christianity's real miracle as its lasting moral and societal effect rather than supernatural events; atonement reread as Jesus's death sealing a new covenant rather than transferring individual sins onto an innocent sacrifice; the third covenant, in which technological change requires believers to exercise moral judgement rather than defer to inherited institutions; companion research page /four-tellings/.