One of the things I have been tracking is the prevalence of the digits 1 and 8 around certain events. The origin of this was in conspiracy certaintist Miles W. Mathis claiming that they occurred overly frequently in fake events, as sort of an inside joke.
He linked them to the "aces and eights" hand held by Wild Bill Hickok when he died, and to the eighth and tenth letters of the Hebrew alphabet, used to spell the word Chai, meaning life.
So in his view, aces and eights carry a dual meaning of Death and Life.
The following post (from the blog where I first heard of Mathis in the comments) was on 8/19/18, and references a performance from late 2017 that was released as an album on 8/1/18.
A post on August 18 would have fit the pattern better, but sometimes a signal needs time to propagate....
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
