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1. When one publishing system clashes with another
Commenter Redacted has a site “EKO” here’s one page, here’s another. As a site manager over a longish period myself, I have to say the navigation is fraught at substacks interfacing with WP through Apple … very difficult copying text and pasting.
I also have issues with substack over navigation with things like About, the first place I go. When I cannot find anything about the redactor, nor about what EKO means, it’s frustrating, esp. when covering the territory we do here. However, there were some vital reads in there too, e.g. comments thread here:
Go to the comments threads on EKO posts, one being Steven Paul:
“In coming to the end of an old, wearying season and anticipating the joys of a new one approaching, I’ve been reminded the last few days of how messy things were for Him.
- Constant haranguing from religious shills.
- Withering streams of false accusations.
- Constant waves of insincere flattery.
- The target of unending but futile attempts at manipulation and trickery.
- Abandonment.
- Betrayal.
- Physical torture and open mockery.
- Death.”
I did finally get into the About page:
Now, if substack are giving me such a hard time accessing basic data without having to come at it in different ways, it does make the platform a real chore, esp. when speed-reading. Of course, it applies in reverse too … some of you immediately reported the issues when I set up Jstack, a compositional and access nightmare, not designed for site-nav but more for one-off daily rants.
Which is a pity, as Redacted and some commenters write some very telling things worth noting.
The question of jazz and its roots, for example … that’s a bit each way … I had to ditch two versions of one of the songs late yesterday because they were iffy, before finding a third. On the other hand, the 1924 to 1931 period was far more freeform, with many solos in one song, rather than a blended loss of individuality which dominated the later 30s and 40s, lukewarm like the Laodecian church.
And that’s particularly an issue in 2025, when “choice”, the cornerstone of John 3:16, is being snuffed out by a priestly caste, step by step. By design. I was particularly interested in the point about tying Jesus to a timeline, in order to erase Him.
Also, to set near impossible parameters, in order to render something unprovable, something requiring faith, which the detractor wishes to see discarded, as part of the plan.
Particularly as confirmation swiftly follows the “buying of the ticket”, which is why so many were and still are willing to pay the ultimate penalty. Why? Might it be because it happens to be true? So the other side provides cults such as Manson and Jim Jones, where the devotees are totally obedient, but with dark, desolate outcomes. The outcomes, the fruits, are a major factor in all this. …/NUFF FOR NOW.