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  2. frankster I am not trying to change anything.... Just trying to let you understand.... First as in Order of Use....then its Wisdom First as in Importance.....Then its Courage Well, at this point we have what Barack Obama calls a FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT. There is no misunderstanding....we simply don't agree with eachother on this point, lol. So there is no need to constantly restate our positions or go in circles over it. Exactly....to qualify is to limit Yes. Limit the description...not the subject. In both cases or examples above....they are unable to do - hence not free to do If a person never had the ability to do something, there "freedom" to do so wasn't limited or restricted. Their ABILITY is...but their FREEDOM isn't. Freedom and Ability are two different concepts. They are similar...but not the same. That Sex reassignment and Hormonal therapy so far can only change the Phenotype...... Some would consider phenotype the ONLY marker of sex. Who's to say it must go deeper into a genetic level? Who's to say it should STOP at the genetic level; because some would say that sex is also Spiritual and that some Souls are male or female. You said both... Can you provide the quotes along with the context surrounding them? Then let me ask you are you saying that.... Freedom is limited? In theory, no. Freedom is unlimited? In theory, yes. Freedom can be limited? I'm not sure how to answer this question. Once freedom is limited, it's no longer freedom. Make no sense....to me I'm not surprised, lol. You talking about things you know nothing about....but think you know based on white mans propaganda I'm born and raised in the United States...but you say I don't know what I'm talking about? You're suggesting I need "white man's propaganda" to help me to understand what I can actually see for myself??? Yep says the white man sipping lemonade on his porch about the Blackman slaving in the sun from sun up to sun down......As he reaps the fruits of the blackmans labor You're talking about a scene being played out 200 years ago. I'm talking about what's happening today in 2026 around the nation. Many of these White dudes are busy as hell working! ...and trying to keep Black men locked OUT of the workforce. It's not so much that White men work harder, but at this point....collectively...they are more INDUSTRIOUS in their activities.
  3. The inability to do this doesn't take away from their manhood, in my opinion. The Black men who were enslaved for the most part weren't able to protect their women or keep them from being violated and abused by the slave masters. But they were still men. It's less about masculinity and manhood and more a matter of technological advancement as well as defense strategy.
  4. ProfD Not believing in superior intelligence keeps me from being p*ssed off that racism white supremacy has been allowed to flourish & thrive. If a superior intelligence exists, I believe it should be producing balance & fairness throughout humanity i.e. justice as the late NF Jr put it. Believing that there is an Intelligence out there much more powerful than White folks helps ME sleep better at night. If I actually thought that this White man was the only or highest power out there.....I would have taken myself out YEARS ago, lol. I would have smoked some of that crack he put out, ate a pizza, maybe have a threesome or foursome with a bunch of freaks, and then executed my exit plan from this world....when I was much younger, lol. Why even bother playing in a rigged game you are destined to lose in anyway??? Troy Why would a a species sufficiently superior superior to us care enough about what we’re doing to get involved? What if those Superior Beings were the Ones Who made us or were given Guardianship over us? Then it would be Their DUTY to care about us. In nature, even wild animals care for and protect their offspring by instinct.
  5. frankster I'm not just talking about misinformation and disinformation, but HIDDEN information or CONCEALED information. There may be 20,000 pages worth of real information on a given subject but you aren't able to access it through Google or Bing. You Google it and ofcourse you'll get a billion links.....to redundant bullshit. Many of the links you get are to the same pages over and over and over again. You have to punch in a series of secretive words and symbols or specific links directly into your browser to pull them up. @Troy probably could verify this but I wouldn't be surprised if they had SPECIAL computers not available to the public that could access parts of the internet that regular computers like Dell or Mac and others couldn't. You're trying to Google the cure or best treatment for a disease and Google is only giving you 10-15% of the information that's really out there. A bunch of White men in glasses and lab coats have access to the other 85%. I think what we're being ALLOWED to access in the public is only the tip of the iceberg of real information that is circulating out there among the knowledgable few.
  6. First question is how they can consider themselves men if they're unable to protect their women &/or keep them from sleeping with white men.😎
  7. I am not trying to change anything.... Just trying to let you understand.... First as in Order of Use....then its Wisdom First as in Importance.....Then its Courage True.... But you would not have stone building without grass huts.....Grass huts then using your example is the Science of Construction - laying the foundation for all constructions that fallow. Same explanation above applies here as well....except for the motor - the are both cycles Exactly....to qualify is to limit In both cases or examples above....they are unable to do - hence not free to do That Sex reassignment and Hormonal therapy so far can only change the Phenotype...... Genetically they remain whatever sex they were born.....or a Chimera You said both... Then let me ask you are you saying that.... Freedom is limited? Freedom is unlimited? Freedom can be limited? Make no sense....to me We been here before.... You talking about things you know nothing about....but think you know based on white mans propaganda Yep says the white man sipping lemonade on his porch about the Blackman slaving in the sun from sun up to sun down......As he reaps the fruits of the blackmans labor you are so silly.....
  8. @Pioneer1 when you are walking around your neighborhood and you see rats scurrying about do you take time to look at them and say hey that little guy needs help let me see what I can do but do you just step over with a man go about your business? Why would a a species sufficiently superior superior to us care enough about what we’re doing to get involved?
  9. No problem. We mayne.😁 That's exactly why I sleep better at night. 😁 Not believing in superior intelligence keeps me from being p*ssed off that racism white supremacy has been allowed to flourish & thrive. If a superior intelligence exists, I believe it should be producing balance & fairness throughout humanity i.e. justice as the late NF Jr put it.😎
  10. Sadly a lot of info out there is said or presented in such manner so as to mislead.. Here is 2 simple cheat or secret code I used to decipher mis/dis information from truth....When it comes to Africa. The one who shouts about Promoting Protecting or Restoring Democracy ....is lying Any black man the West is supporting - is an evil sellout and aught not to be trusted or any thing said about him or her by western media believed. There is more but that's a primer I blame Net Neutrality..... Often times the info you seek is there....it's just not on the first page that pops up Or you have to refine and tailor your search more Yep My and a fellow who claimed to be a computer expert....was just discussing the Deep Web and the Dark web... Tried telling him that the Dark Web was created by the US Military....He said no way - not with all the criminal activity going on on it
  11. frankster I said First in Order is Wisdom....regardless they all work in tandem - so you must Think before you Act For some individuals thinking about certain issues is a difficulty in which case they need Courage....and to act in accordance with the Dictates of Wisdom one oftentimes needs Courage You said COURAGE was first and you said it repeatedly...lol. Don't try to change it up now.....lol. Well look it up... Who was the single greatest influence on Rome. GRASS HUTS were an influence on man eventually building brick and stone houses. That doesn't mean grass huts were better or superior....lol. Bicycles influenced the eventual making of the motorcycle. Doesn't mean bicycles were better or superior. To qualify....is to Limit To qualify is to limit the DESCRIPTION of the subject. It doesn't limit the subject, it limits or narrows down the DESCRIPTION of the subject. In other words.... I'm communicating with a poster on AALBC. If I were to QUALIFY that statement I'm actually exchanging posts with frankster on AALBC. That didn't limit YOU in any way or restrict you or prevent you from going from one room in your home to the next. It simply limited or restricted the DESCRIPTION of who I was talking about. Exactly if you do not Know(Knowledge) how to Do(ability) a thing...then you are Unable(Not Free) to do until you learn how to do - hence Limited. Unable doesn't necessarily mean not free. Sometimes a person's ability is restricted by an outside force. Sometimes a person never HAD the ability in the past, to begin with. It takes more than Surgical Reassignment....to make a Biological Female Currently No Drugs Can Change DNA and or Chromosomes.... Perhaps it depends on the society you're living in. Maybe to YOU the difference between male and female is at a biological genetic microbial level...lol. But according to the State of California....it's simply a matter of plumbing and hormones. If you have testicles MINUS a vagina and ovaries, and an abundance of testosterone.....then you are considered a male, regardless as to how you got there, lol. Now you all over the place... check what you been typing.... frankster....when did I EVER say that we were free generally speaking??? To Qualified is to Limited Yes. Limit the DESCRIPTION...not the subject. Again....you are crossing back and forth I'm sure it would appear that way if you have a one track mind and can only see one activity at a time. To a person who knows nothing about driving a stick shift....it may APPEAR that the person constantly changing gears is shifting positions and going back and forth and don't know whether they want to speed up or slow down, lol. It's not the driver that's the problem but the observer and their lack of comprehension that is confusing. I see you have bought into and support the white man propaganda.... Those same white men tell those same Africans.....That we African Americans are Lazy good for Nuthin bums Most Africans in the United States don't need White folks to tell them about us, they CAN SEE how we behave and act in the streets and it only takes them a few years or in some cases a few months to size things up and judge us and our behavior accordingly...lol. Most Africans who call Black Americans lazy aren't doing it because of White propaganda; they do it because of what they've seen and experienced themselves....lol. Your Ignorance runs really way deep.. Lol....man, go on somewhere.....you KNOW I'm right. Too many of our people both in the United States AND in Africa, have a laziness problem. Laziness isn't physical....it's mental. You can be a hard working putting in work from sun up to sun down 7 days a week and STILL be lazy, if you don't want to think for yourself or manage your own affairs. Too many of our people don't want what they call the "headache" of having to manage their own affairs and build for themselves. They'd rather let White folks take care of the managerial aspects of society while they APPLY for jobs assisting them and make enough money to have a good time with. Like Wanya of Boys II Men said in End Of The Road..... " ......and you KNOW I'm riiiiight."
  12. richardmurray Black people who are truly financially independent from Whites? What you're posting SOUNDS great in theory, but so far there have only been a handful of Black leaders who were TRULY independent from White financial support. The 2 most prominent that comes to mind are Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad. Most of the others HAD to have jobs or careers where they relied on working either for White businesses or the government. And even Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad relied on THEIR sustenance from the Black people who WERE working for or getting government checks from White folks to give to them. In order to do what you're suggesting, Black people would really need our own nation or full control of this one. I'll assert that you don't need all of what you suggested to be a an effective Black leader. All you need is intelligence, charisma, courage, and moral correctness. And the more of these characteristics you have....the better your leadership will be.
  13. Now..... ProfD I'm going inch a little closer YOUR way. No homo....lol.....but just tapping into your frequency a little....lol If one accepts the concept that there IS Intelligence superior to human beings, then the next philosophical step would be to ask WHAT are those Intellectually Superior Beings DOING for us???? In other words...... Let's say there absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt Superior Beings with intelligence and powers far beyond that of humanity. This is been confirmed. Well, what good is it.....or even the knowledge of Them...if They aren't helping us? Especially Black people? White folks taking over the planet, killing and enslaving people left and right and have been doing so for hundred of years....and you're sitting on high floating around the planet like the International Space Station looking down on it and shaking your head feeling sorry for them. We need HELP
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  16. Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on legendary characters in the public domain. 📽️📺 Ponder media's most ancient figures as we prompt you to provide conclusions or mysteries or new imaginative paths in 250 words or less 🧑‍💻🤩 Get inspired to write about characters inspired by these legends and win a chance for some awards 🏅🏆 The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells 1897, involves a man named Griffin, an albino former medical student, who has become an independent researcher into biological optical effects. He dies by getting beat up by a bunch of townsfolk, after he becomes impoverished aside mentally imbalanced , through his change he brought upon himself and the imbalance such a life can bring. Your task is to write a tale inspired by Griffin, The Invisible Man. What if he lived after getting beaten by the townsfolk? What if his research in the inn of the Hall's bears results early, before he lost all money and his sanity ? What if Thomas Marvel doesn't betray him but becomes a loyal companion? What if Kemp learns the process? What did he do that wasn't mentioned traveling around the town invisible? When did he first get the idea of becoming invisible at school? Who was his favorite teacher at school, and how did they relate? From making an alternative world version, to adding unknown elements to the character, you are free to imagine this public domain character, how ever you want. Without using AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short story inspired by The Invisible Man now?! Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed. Share your entry as a comment to this journal for reward considerations.    Only submit one (1) comment for this engagement that is your very best work; all entries must be original concepts and human-written, no AI-assisted entries are allowed and will be removed.      Comment with your entry, after August 31st 2026, by the end of the day on September 15th 2026 for rewards consideration for this activity. You must be a member of @CRLiterature for awards considerations. Joining the group is fast and free from the group homepage. entry must be 250 words or less Winners selected at the sole discretion of CRLiterature group admin; all decisions are final and non-negotiable. We will select three (3) winners by September 20th 2026 to receive the following rewards:: Each winner will receive 250 points and a quartz badge One of the three will receive a hype badge I can’t wait to see your Invisible Man in Where Are They Now?! @HDdeviant MY EXAMPLE: TITLE: Immaculant Motherhood It is a wet , cold, Saturday evening in Kilmarnock; a distrusting woman enter a whiskey smelling bar in the outskirts to get a seat; she hold something dear, wrapped in a blanket, and fight through raucous people. "Damn Gyppo": a man push the woman uncaringly hard and she turn in the air to make sure her wrapping is not injured; tired, she lay on the floor; she begin to sleep, when a gentle hand touch her shoulder, and the man attached to the hand pick her up and place her gently in a seat. After moments, she become aware and thank the kind man. He replies: "I apologize for my kin, the whiskey gets them ... I am Luke... here is some milk for your baby" The woman take the milk gently, so a drop does not spill; Luke smile while the woman pull back the blanket, rubbing the air, and pour milk into the blanket. Luke shake his head, giggling at his own inebriation, and ask: "Are you here to meet the father?" "No, her father died ten months ago, beaten to death by villagers" "People can be cruel to Romani" "He wasn't Romani... he was a deranged beast I wish I had not encountered" The woman put the empty bottle own and continue: "Arran... and I thank you my name is Yesenia" "I have a spare room, you and the baby can use it" "Thank you, if we can get it tonight, we will be invisible come sun light" from Richard Murray/ @HDdeviant MY POST I Literature Immaculant MotherhoodTITLE: Immaculant Motherhood from @HDdeviant / IF YOU NEED FURTHER INSPIRATION CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING GALLERY The Book is free to read, it is in the public domain. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/the-invisible-man PRIOR WHERE ARE THEY NOW's - the challenges are over, but the fun isn't. Give each a go and continue their stories with 250 words or less, whenever you want. Where Are They Now: Elaine - Ghostbusters 2Jun 12, 2025 Where Are They Now: Salvadore - JawsJul 4, 2025 Where Are They Now: Farmer Ted - Sixteen CandlesAug 1, 2025 Where Are They Now: Norma Rae - Norma RaeSep 1, 2025 Where Are They Now: Ione Sykes - The GraveSep 17, 2025 WATN: Zero - A Nightmare Before ChristmasOct 8, 2025 WATN: Duckie - Pretty In PinkNov 6, 2025 WATN: The Unknown - Over The Garden WallDec 10, 2025 WATN: Charlie BrownJan 8, 2026 WATN: Danny and Sandy : GreaseFeb 2, 2026 WATN: Wall-EMar 5, 2026 Lost Episodes of Galaxy QuestApr 1, 2026 WATN: Alexander Johnson - GloryMay 1, 2026 WATN: Heroes of Dungeons 'n DragonsJun 2, 2026 WATN: The Storyteller - PosseJul 9, 2026 WATN: Frozone - The IncrediblesAug 1, 2026 #theinvisibleman #hgwells #griffin #watn #oc #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr
  17. No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @color-me-club as we celebrate the coming Autumn season in the northern hemisphere. For a lot of us living north of the equator, September means fall: cooler days, changing leaves, pumpkin spiced everything. But “fall” isn’t merely a season, it’s also an action: falling from the sky, falling down, falling overboard, falling leaves. So whether you are celebrating Autumn or falling down over it, @color-me-club wants you to #FallForArt with a profile badge this September! 🍂🌰 You have a couple ways you can earn the #FallForArt profile badge: Create a fall-themed line art deviation and include the tag #FallForArt before you submit the deviation Color a free-to-use line art featuring a fall-theme and include the tag #FallForArt before you submit the deviation (please credit the line art creator in your deviation description) This is the profile badge you will earn when you submit your fall-themed deviation with the tag #FallForArt: Once you have submitted your deviation and received your #FallForArt profile badge, we’d love it if you would share your deviation to the @color-me-club group 💚 Check out our GALLERIES to find the best one for your deviation. You may see other Community groups offering similar #FallForArt challenges, you are welcome to participate in as many as you’d like. However, the profile badge can only be earned once with the first deviation you submit that includes the #FallForArt tag. This profile badge is available indefinitely so even if you are reading this after September 2026 you still have a chance to earn this badge 😎 Need some help finding a fall-themed line art free download to color? Check out this gallery of amazing artworks from the @color-me-club group! MY EXAMPLE OF #Fallforart Remember to have fun and good luck A Small Gallery for more Inspiration Prior Profile Badge Challenges Earn the color-me-club May 2026 Profile Badge!May 1, 2026 Earn the color-me-club June 2026 Profile Badge!Jun 20, 2026 #fallforart #colormeclub #pride
  18. 🌅 Europa Gothic: September 2026 Contest 🌅Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! 🎯 THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Create an artwork, black lines and white space, depicting a scene , of any time or place or fantasy, indicative of European art in the period commonly called gothic. Please look at the example work below and the inspiring gallery below to comprehend. 2. For the Colorists: It has two paths. 1) During the lineart challenge, If you make an acceptable lineart, you can color the lineart you make and it wil be an entry for the coloring challenge OR you can use my example lineart , below. 2) For the coloring challenge, look at the time below, you can color any acceptable lineart in the lineart challenge MY EXAMPLE If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE After the lineart challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the lineart challenge plus my example image to color FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES Please go for it! But you must note the times for each. 📅 DATES & SUBMISSIONLine Art (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: September 1 , 2026 | Ends: September 25 , 2026 Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: September 26, 2026 | Ends: September 30 , 2026 You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art 🏆 PRIZES & REWARDSAll prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors 🖋️ Line Art Category 🏅 Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype 🎨 Coloring Category 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz 📋 RULES & GUIDELINES Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry. Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.] Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.] Originality: Must be your own work created after August 2026. No tracing. All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions Accessibility: Line art must be free to download. Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too 📚 INSPIRATIONNeed help with your imagination? Search your gallery for gothic. Europa Gothic art is strong in environment and backgrounds with usually small figures or simple figures. Some Wiki's but you can search the names Gothic art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_art#Painting Fresco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco Gothic Book illustration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_book_illustration Jean Pucelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pucelle Elmelunde Master https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmelunde_Master Simone Martini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Martini I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of Europa Gothic ! @HDdeviant Ask yourself, to color or to be colored! 🌅 NEW HORIZONS: January 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":581,\"chars\":3373}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":1,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1284759575]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"jpeg"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> New HorizonsJan 8, 2026 February contest: heart of loveFeb 1, 2026 Wishing WellsMar 1, 2026 EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 🌅 Mother Goose: May 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":631,\"chars\":3641}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":5,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1327120224,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSEMay 1, 2026 🌅 Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":611,\"chars\":3541}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":12,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1351341816,1347274411,1302167434,1287891912,1329835732,1339486094,1338171404,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds!Jul 1, 2026 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":795,\"chars\":4602}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":31,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1363463941,915145623,942211651,951736105,966962989,1044713478,1051283183,1062162113,1095093839,1105893076,1116735145,1077395213,1215911247,1227928494,1231215822,1236307158,1246204212,885748474,894114250,896625503,897400726,909901566,928829613,1181712745,1181732640,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986,1348613517]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> August 2026 Contest: Cat NightsAug 1, 2026 #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #europagothic #gothic #europa #illustration
  19. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Immaculant-Motherhood-1375511976 CONTENT TITLE: Immaculant Motherhood from @HDdeviant / Richard Murray It is a wet , cold, Saturday evening in Kilmarnock; a distrusting woman enter a whiskey smelling bar in the outskirts to get a seat; she hold something dear, wrapped in a blanket, and fight through raucous people. "Damn Gyppo": a man push the woman uncaringly hard and she turn in the air to make sure her wrapping is not injured; tired, she lay on the floor; she begin to sleep, when a gentle hand touch her shoulder, and the man attached to the hand pick her up and place her gently in a seat. After moments, she become aware and thank the kind man. He replies: "I apologize for my kin, the whiskey gets them ... I am Luke... here is some milk for your baby" The woman take the milk gently, so a drop does not spill; Luke smile while the woman pull back the blanket, rubbing the air, and pour milk into the blanket. Luke shake his head, giggling at his own inebriation, and ask: "Are you here to meet the father?" "No, her father died ten months ago, beaten to death by villagers" "People can be cruel to Romani" "He wasn't Romani... he was a deranged beast I wish I had not encountered" The woman put the empty bottle own and continue: "Arran... and I thank you my name is Yesenia" "I have a spare room, you and the baby can use it" "Thank you, if we can get it tonight, we will be invisible come sun light" For the WATN: The Invisible Man ? If you like my craft, I have a tip jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 CRLiterature Examples gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/97552463/crliterature-content Literature Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry Literary OC's https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/85935477/literary #romanimom #kilmarnock #theinvisibleman #hgwells #griffin #watn #oc #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr
  20. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Europa-gothic-1375494965 CONTENT EMBEDED Europa gothicBy HDdeviant Published:9 hours ago On NoAI medievalancient1960sblacklettercolormeclubdiptychfrakturgothichourspoetrycarolingianmimadaprincesscandacesimonemartini DescriptionFor Europa Gothic art challenge in @color-me-club LINK It is two pages; they can be turned into a diptych if you were to print the page and place it on a dimensionally equal folder. The left side- a decorated initial or ornate capitol with 1960s fashion dragon burning the land, like a monster. You will not see her so violent in the future for a long while. . Script inspired by Carolingian Miniscule. Carolingian Miniscule doesn't have v or short s so I added from Fraktur. The poem is A heart that can survive fire Can live in the mob's pyre Can said heart survive a liar? The right side- an illustration with Prince Candace in her home [ Vuakal , Saddletear, Ika, Dogfries cornering] as Mimada comes by above text based on Fraktur with a donor portrait of me in stick figure and an illustration below [depicting the landscape Princess Candace is in] Single Coloring page $5 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Single-Coloring-Page-1349611949 Tip jar $1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 Ink Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Color Me Club content gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/100584681/colormeclub-challenge-examples Poetry Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/84827787/poetry Literature Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry 1960s fashion dragon [ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222581/1960s-fashion-dragon ] Princess Candace [ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81075023/princess-candace-prince-menelik ] Vuakal [ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/96460877/vuakal ] Phillipe Saddletear [ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222918/phillipe-saddletear ] Ikawewezi [ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95222723/ikwawezi ] Dogfries [ https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/95352628/dogfries ] Notes wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_art The Wilton Diptych (1395–1459) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilton_Diptych Simone Martini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Martini Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Agostino_Novello_Triptych Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_of_Jeanne_d'Evreux Illuminated Manuscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript#Techniques Blackletter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter Fraktur - a variant of Blackletter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur Carolingian minuscule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_minuscule #europagothic #gothic #blackletter #hours #jeannedevreux #simonemartini #diptych #colormeclub #princesscandace ##1960s #fashiondragon #decoratedinitial #ornatecapitol #carolingian #carolingianminuscule #fraktur #donorportrait #poetry #mimada #saddletear #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr Image size 1500x1125px 317.99 KB © 2026 HDdeviant
  21. URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Fallforart-example-1375489305 CONTENT EMBEDED colormeclubrichardmurrayhddeviantrichardmurrayhumblrfallforart Description For #Fallforart monthly badge challenge in in #color-me-club LINK Falling into the sky, the autumn leaves pushing your imagination up. Single Coloring page $5 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Single-Coloring-Page-1349611949 Tip jar $1 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 Ink Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages Color Me Club content gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/100584681/colormeclub-challenge-examples #fallforart #colormeclub #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr Image size 1190x1600px 155.27 KB © 2026 HDdeviant
  22. The problem with most non white european male groups in the usa is white male europeans forced their leadership to be financially impotent advocates. Who didn't work in th ebureaucray or have the money to lobby the bureaucracy, which made their advocacy pure. Their was no profit. But, in modernity, all the non white male european groups have bureaucratic members who have replaced the advocates of the past but lack the advocates of the pasts qualities in poignant agendas, earnestness in desire to help their specific populace. And that has created in many non white european male populaces in the United States of America a rift between their masses an their elected officials. MY THOUGHTS @undefined @undefined @undefined the key is what separate black leaders in the past from today. Sharpton is a leader, Obama is a leader, but all of these people are employees. The key to Colonel Tye to MAlcolm X is that for most of the 250 years of usa history and most of the 500 years since the white european colonies in the modernly called american continent, black leaders were unpaid financially disconnected advocates. They never made money, didn't have any money to make, and always had a hill to climb whether violently or nonviolently with whites, which usually meant they died in terms of agenda, unhappy. Post 1960s, the Black advocates were killed or stymied and the Black elected official came to be the primary leadership in the black populace of the usa today. Modernity has more black, female, asian, latino, native american elected officials and yet, blacks, women, latinos, native americans don't have advocacy in the government. Sequentially, the styles are very different. Malcolm side MLK jr side Fannie Lu Maher were the last era of a majority of black leaders as advocates for black folk. No money in the advocacy, no payment in the position. Pure what do black people need. And whether it was through violence like Nat Turner or demographic identity like Marcus Garvey or all the various other movements through the centuries, the advocates always were thinking about black betterment. Sharpton had or has a show. It doesn't make him corrupt but it is different. If you are going to be an advocate for black people, you can't be employed by whites or financed by whites of employed or financed by the usa government which primary agenda is the betterment of the white populace in the usa. Regardless of what non white fiscal wealth or opportunities arise. And all those who are financed by whites, ala a thurgood marshall/Sharpton/Obama/david dinkins have impotencies. But all those who are in the system ala Adam clayton powell, can't advocate for black in the system . Adam Clayton powell fr, great acts in harlem happened before he was an elected official. Once an elected official he was impotent, but the reason isn't negative, simply structural. Government in the usa is controlled by lobbies. What is the point? Lobbies pay to get the laws they want. Who has the money but whites. Black success tends to be financially opposed by most lobbies , but the reason is even, cause most lobbies are white and their white financier is more than likely making money through suffering in the black populace. So, I restate all to say, No black leader today is like black leaders in the past, but that is because the past demanded/allowed for advocacy by Blacks leaders as a primary tool. The primary tool for black leadership in the usa today is bureaucratic activity. Today, a black leader can want advocacy but usually operates within the bureaucracy so they never have a black agenda in their role. And I think the black populace in the usa, especially the descended of enslaved, wants their cake and eat it too. And the reason is many Black DOSers in the USA want the Black community to grow and thrive while they also want the USA to be this land of individuals. and that is a very hard thing to achieve. And the reason it is hard isn't negatives but truth. What the Native American needs, even for those that do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others in the usa. I rephrase, Native Americans should be given large tracts of land back all over the usa plus tons of back owed money. But that can't happen unless everyone else takes a financial and communal loss. What Black Descended of Enslaved needs, even if they do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others. I rephrase, Black DOSers need what they have been denied by white violence constantly and that is their own governing space, along side like the native american , a ton of back pay. What Whites want, not need, in the usa is to the detriment of all others, but is historically the sole point of why the usa was created. I rephrase, The usa wasn't created for everyone to benefit or for each individual to have, the USA was created for a set of white europeans descended from various fiscal poor of continental europe , to fiscally succeed no matter how. What modern immigrants want, they don't need as well, is to the detriment of all others and potentially all humanity. I rephrase, what they want is a country that will allow a stranger to come in and have opportunities or advantages said stranger doesn't have where they come from, and to embrace their children as part of the country for no other reason than being a human being. These four paths do not work together. Thus all the populaces in the usa are being poorl led today. None of the leaders can satisfy all four paths through the bureaucracy of the usa government REFERRAL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12875-march-on-washington-2026/#findComment-83280
  23. @Troy @ProfD @Pioneer1 the key is what separate black leaders in the past from today. Sharpton is a leader, Obama is a leader, but all of these people are employees. The key to Colonel Tye to MAlcolm X is that for most of the 250 years of usa history and most of the 500 years since the white european colonies in the modernly called american continent, black leaders were unpaid financially disconnected advocates. They never made money, didn't have any money to make, and always had a hill to climb whether violently or nonviolently with whites, which usually meant they died in terms of agenda, unhappy. Post 1960s, the Black advocates were killed or stymied and the Black elected official came to be the primary leadership in the black populace of the usa today. Modernity has more black, female, asian, latino, native american elected officials and yet, blacks, women, latinos, native americans don't have advocacy in the government. Sequentially, the styles are very different. Malcolm side MLK jr side Fannie Lu Maher were the last era of a majority of black leaders as advocates for black folk. No money in the advocacy, no payment in the position. Pure what do black people need. And whether it was through violence like Nat Turner or demographic identity like Marcus Garvey or all the various other movements through the centuries, the advocates always were thinking about black betterment. Sharpton had or has a show. It doesn't make him corrupt but it is different. If you are going to be an advocate for black people, you can't be employed by whites or financed by whites of employed or financed by the usa government which primary agenda is the betterment of the white populace in the usa. Regardless of what non white fiscal wealth or opportunities arise. And all those who are financed by whites, ala a thurgood marshall/Sharpton/Obama/david dinkins have impotencies. But all those who are in the system ala Adam clayton powell, can't advocate for black in the system . Adam Clayton powell fr, great acts in harlem happened before he was an elected official. Once an elected official he was impotent, but the reason isn't negative, simply structural. Government in the usa is controlled by lobbies. What is the point? Lobbies pay to get the laws they want. Who has the money but whites. Black success tends to be financially opposed by most lobbies , but the reason is even, cause most lobbies are white and their white financier is more than likely making money through suffering in the black populace. So, I restate all to say, No black leader today is like black leaders in the past, but that is because the past demanded/allowed for advocacy by Blacks leaders as a primary tool. The primary tool for black leadership in the usa today is bureaucratic activity. Today, a black leader can want advocacy but usually operates within the bureaucracy so they never have a black agenda in their role. And I think the black populace in the usa, especially the descended of enslaved, wants their cake and eat it too. And the reason is many Black DOSers in the USA want the Black community to grow and thrive while they also want the USA to be this land of individuals. and that is a very hard thing to achieve. And the reason it is hard isn't negatives but truth. What the Native American needs, even for those that do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others in the usa. I rephrase, Native Americans should be given large tracts of land back all over the usa plus tons of back owed money. But that can't happen unless everyone else takes a financial and communal loss. What Black Descended of Enslaved needs, even if they do not want, in the USA is to the detriment of all others. I rephrase, Black DOSers need what they have been denied by white violence constantly and that is their own governing space, along side like the native american , a ton of back pay. What Whites want, not need, in the usa is to the detriment of all others, but is historically the sole point of why the usa was created. I rephrase, The usa wasn't created for everyone to benefit or for each individual to have, the USA was created for a set of white europeans descended from various fiscal poor of continental europe , to fiscally succeed no matter how. What modern immigrants want, they don't need as well, is to the detriment of all others and potentially all humanity. I rephrase, what they want is a country that will allow a stranger to come in and have opportunities or advantages said stranger doesn't have where they come from, and to embrace their children as part of the country for no other reason than being a human being. These four paths do not work together. Thus all the populaces in the usa are being poorl led today. None of the leaders can satisfy all four paths through the bureaucracy of the usa government
  24. It is not possible to steal. Someone would have to create the four formulae and the 20,000 plus sets. @aka Contrarian here's ChatGpt explanation of my system in summary Here is a synopsis that explains the system more succinctly. The four formulas answer: They transform the input into a future temporal coordinate. The time-marker system answers: This also solves an apparent paradox Earlier you said Strachen believes: At first glance that sounds almost mystical. But structurally, his claim seems more precise than that. He's effectively saying: This also solves an apparent paradoxEarlier you said Strachen believes: At first glance that sounds almost mystical. But structurally, his claim seems more precise than that. He's effectively saying: And therefore: time→symbolic The time marker is the representation of that information. The astrology chart then gives another representation of the same temporal state. So perhaps his underlying idea is: TIME=a structured informational state rather than simply: TIME=a point on a clock That's a much more interesting philosophical proposition.
  25. AI provided a deep analysis of brotha @Delano's system. I hope AI does not allow white folks to steal his work to further enrich themselves. Let @Delano become the multimillionaire or billionaire from his system if it is in the cards.😎
  26. Yes Yes.... Without courage....the ability to fulfill the rest is can become impossible to some I said First in Order is Wisdom....regardless they all work in tandem - so you must Think before you Act For some individuals thinking about certain issues is a difficulty in which case they need Courage....and to act in accordance with the Dictates of Wisdom one oftentimes needs Courage White folks were not smarter.....just had better weaponry and greater numbers Well look it up... Who was the single greatest influence on Rome. Exactly To qualify....is to Limit Exactly if you do not Know(Knowledge) how to Do(ability) a thing...then you are Unable(Not Free) to do until you learn how to do - hence Limited. It takes more than Surgical Reassignment....to make a Biological Female Currently No Drugs Can Change DNA and or Chromosomes.... True... Though some say it happens naturally in some nations Now you all over the place... check what you been typing.... YES To Qualified is to Limited Again....you are crossing back and forth If that is what you believe....then you have just reveal another of your ignorances I see you have bought into and support the white man propaganda.... Those same white men tell those same Africans.....That we African Americans are Lazy good for Nuthin bums Your Ignorance runs really way deep....
  27. Yes. I went considerably deeper this time, and there is much more evidence about his actual system than I initially found. In particular, Delano Strachen himself has posted pieces of the method publicly, which lets us reconstruct its architecture rather than merely speculate about it. I’ll separate documented evidence from my theories, because the distinction becomes especially important once we start reconstructing a proprietary system. The central discoveryThe biggest clue is that Del himself says his system can take words or numbers as inputs and generate astrological charts from them. He says that, over years of using it, he has developed correspondences that can allow him to identify things in a querent's natal chart from those inputs. And there is a second, extraordinary clue: That changes my interpretation of him substantially. I don't think the best model of Del's work is: Astrologer + Tarot reader + numerologist. I think a much better model is: Del is attempting to construct a symbolic encoding/decoding system in which ordinary information—names, words, numbers, dates, questions—can be transformed into astrological and Tarot structures. That's a much more ambitious project. 1. Start with the raw architectureFrom the surviving material, I think we can identify at least five layers. Layer 1 — Ordinary inputSomething enters the system: a person's name a word a number a birth date a question possibly the moment/time of the question ↓ Layer 2 — Numerical transformationThe input is converted into numerical information. Del explicitly discusses using numbers from the querent and describes a project called “Book of Numbers”, which he says is intended to use numbers from the querent to access the subconscious mind. ↓ Layer 3 — Astrological encodingThe numbers are apparently transformed into an astrological chart or astrological positions. He explicitly describes creating charts from words or numbers. ↓ Layer 4 — Tarot correspondenceThe resulting astrological structure can be mapped onto Tarot. His public examples include: Delano → Five of Pentacles Strachen → Ace of Swords and he says he has a correspondence encompassing all 78 Tarot cards. ↓ Layer 5 — InterpretationThe final structure is interpreted symbolically. And crucially, Del doesn't appear to regard the Tarot card as merely decorative. The card becomes another representation of the same underlying structure. That is the key. 2. The really radical idea: words become chartsThis is probably the most fascinating component. Suppose the input is: Rather than simply asking “what does spirituality mean?”, Del's system apparently allows the word itself to generate a chart. He actually gives examples involving the words “mind” and “spirituality”, saying that the charts were created from the words and then delineated to understand the words on another level. That is conceptually very strange—and very interesting. Because it means he is treating language as something that has astrological structure. Not: but: That's almost like an occult form of semantic astrology. 3. I think “Magickal Language” is therefore an extremely literal descriptionPreviously I interpreted “language” metaphorically. I'm now less convinced that's sufficient. Consider what a real language does. It takes a finite set of primitive elements and combines them according to rules to produce: words concepts sentences meanings relationships Del seems to be attempting something analogous. His primitives might be: numbers ↓ planets ↓ signs ↓ houses ↓ aspects ↓ Tarot cards ↓ concepts And the input could be: a name / word / question / date The system then translates between representational layers. So perhaps: That's my strongest reconstruction. 4. His Tarot system gives us a huge clueWe actually have some of his planetary/sign allocations. He says he uses: Air → Fool Fire → Judgement Water → Hanged Man Aries → Emperor Taurus → Hierophant Gemini → Lovers Cancer → Chariot Leo → Strength Virgo → Hermit Libra → Justice Scorpio → Death Sagittarius → Temperance Capricorn → Devil Aquarius → Star Pisces → Moon Sun → Sun Moon → High Priestess Mercury → Magician Venus → Empress Mars → Tower Jupiter → Wheel of Fortune Saturn → World. Much of that resembles familiar Western occult Tarot correspondences. But there's an important twist. He doesn't appear satisfied with the traditional 22-card correspondence system. He explicitly says he created a correspondence involving all 78 cards. That's enormous. 5. Why all 78 cards mattersThe Major Arcana already provide a convenient symbolic map: 12 signs + 7 classical planets + 3 elements ≈ 22 That's relatively easy to construct. But the Minor Arcana create a much more complicated problem. You have: 4 suits × 10 numbered cards = 40 plus: 16 court cards plus: 22 Major Arcana = 78 If Del has genuinely built a systematic astrological correspondence for all 78, he has had to solve the problem of representing considerably finer distinctions. And that could be why his system took years. 6. I think the Minor Arcana are probably where the real machinery livesThis is speculation, but it follows naturally from what he has revealed. A plausible structure would be something like: Major ArcanaRepresent: large-scale archetypal principles Minor ArcanaRepresent: specific combinations of astrological qualities For example, instead of: the system could theoretically treat the card as: That would make a Tarot card much closer to an astrological coordinate. And that would explain why having all 78 matters. The 22 Major Arcana provide broad categories. The 56 Minor Arcana provide resolution. 7. His name experiment is even more revealingDel says: and This is not ordinary numerology. Someone pointed out that “Delano” could simply be reduced to a numerological number and then assigned to Venus, but Del explicitly rejected the attraction of reducing everything to the first nine numbers. He says he likes the diversity of calculating the name beyond the first nine numbers. That is a major clue. It suggests he is deliberately trying to avoid the standard: everything → 1–9 → meaning approach. Instead, he appears to want: name → richer numerical value → one of 78 symbolic positions. That is much closer to an encoding system. 8. My reconstruction of the name algorithmWe don't have his proprietary formula, so this part is hypothetical. But suppose a name is converted into a number: NAME → N Then N could be mapped onto: N mod 78 giving one of the 78 Tarot cards. That would immediately create a complete name → Tarot system. But I suspect his actual method is more complicated than that. Why? Because he says he spent approximately nine years developing the 78-card correspondence and approximately two decades before figuring out how to link a card to a name. A simple modulo-78 algorithm would not require twenty years. So I suspect there are additional transformations. Perhaps: letters → numbers → positional relationships → astrological positions → Tarot rather than simply: letters → number → card. 9. The system might actually have several independent coordinate systemsThis is where I think things get really interesting. Imagine three coordinate systems. Coordinate system A — Number0–∞ Coordinate system B — Astrologysign + planet + house + aspect Coordinate system C — Tarot1–78 Del's work may be trying to establish mappings between them. So: Number ↔ Astrology Astrology ↔ Tarot Number ↔ Tarot and eventually: Word ↔ Number ↔ Astrology ↔ Tarot That's beginning to look like a genuine symbolic translation engine. 10. And that explains his phrase “correspondence”A correspondence isn't necessarily saying: It can mean: That distinction is crucial. For example: Mars and Tower aren't literally the same thing. But they can occupy corresponding symbolic roles: force / disruption / rupture / energy / conflict / sudden change Likewise: Venus and Empress can correspond through ideas of: attraction / fertility / value / pleasure / relationship / creation. The occult tradition has been doing this kind of correspondence-making for centuries. Del seems to be pushing it into a much more formal computational direction. 11. The fascinating contradiction in his philosophyThere's something else in his writings that I think is extremely revealing. In an earlier discussion involving the I Ching, Del says that he doesn't make correlations between I Ching and astrology. He argues that forcing connections between independent systems can destroy their usefulness because one can end up imposing meaning rather than discovering it. This is enormously important. Because someone might look at his system and assume: Apparently not. His philosophy seems closer to: And therefore a correspondence should only be created when he thinks there is a legitimate structural relationship. That's much more intellectually disciplined than generic “everything is connected” mysticism. 12. So what is he actually trying to access?His LinkedIn profile gives another extraordinary clue. He describes himself as interested in using “Mythology and Numbers to access the subconscious.” He also describes his newer work as studying time-based astrology and creating a system intended to read the unconscious mind of the querent. Now the whole thing snaps into place. I think his ultimate object isn't actually: the future. It may be: The unconscious.Astrology and Tarot become symbolic instruments for accessing information that isn't consciously articulated. That's a very different philosophical proposition. 13. A possible psychological modelImagine someone asks: They consciously provide: a question But underneath that question are: fears desires expectations memories assumptions unconscious conflicts Del's system could theoretically treat the question, name, number, moment and chart as different symbolic reflections of the same psychological situation. Then the reading isn't necessarily: It could instead function like: That would make the system resemble a kind of occult projective test. That's my most interesting hypothesis about his mature philosophy. 14. The “word chart” idea supports thisWhy would you make a horoscope for the word spirituality? If the goal were merely prediction, that doesn't make much sense. But if the goal is: then it makes much more sense. The word becomes an object of contemplation. The generated chart becomes a symbolic microscope. The astrologer then interprets what emerges. So perhaps his system is doing something like: concept → symbolic projection → interpretation rather than: concept → objective celestial property. 15. His system could eventually become a “symbolic compiler”Here's my favourite analogy. Imagine a computer compiler. You write: The compiler converts it into machine-readable structures. Del's system might theoretically do: SPIRITUALITY ↓ numerical encoding ↓ astrological encoding ↓ planet/sign/house relationships ↓ Tarot representation ↓ interpretation So Tarot becomes something like the visual output language of the system. Astrology becomes the structural language. Numbers become the intermediate representation. Language provides the input. And consciousness provides the thing being interpreted. That's a surprisingly coherent architecture. 16. Now let's imagine the system's evolutionI think there are roughly four generations. Generation 1 — Traditional astrology1999 onward Del apprentices under Jonathon Robinson, who had studied with Lionel E. I. Day. He performs thousands of readings. At this stage: birth data → natal chart → interpretation Generation 2 — Integrated divinationAstrology begins interacting with: Tarot + Number + Horary This is the stage publicly described in 2015. The question becomes: Generation 3 — Symbolic encodingThis is where the system becomes much more ambitious. Now: words → numbers numbers → charts names → Tarot Tarot → astrology This is strongly supported by his 2020 forum posts. Generation 4 — Unconscious-reading systemHis more recent professional description points toward using time-based astrology to read the unconscious mind of the querent. This suggests the system's endpoint may be moving away from conventional fortune-telling. The question becomes: 17. And I think Generation 5 is the system's logical endpointThis is where I'm theorising almost entirely. If Del continued developing this for another 10–20 years, I think the mature system could become something like: The Universal Correspondence EngineIt would have four primary inputs: 1. Personname + birth data 2. Questionwords + numerical representation 3. Momentexact time + location 4. Symbolic contextTarot / mythology / perhaps other symbolic material These would be independently encoded. Then the system would compare them. 18. The key would be convergenceThis could be the most powerful idea in the entire system. Suppose three independent routes arrive at similar symbolism. Route AThe person's natal chart says: Saturn emphasis Route BThe question's numerical encoding produces: Saturn-related structure Route CThe Tarot correspondence produces: World / Saturn symbolism Then the system says: That would be much more interesting than simply drawing a card. The system would be looking for cross-modal resonance. 19. Conversely, divergence would become meaningful tooSuppose: Astrology says: Saturn Tarot says: Venus Question-number says: Mars Instead of forcing them into one answer, the mature system might interpret the disagreement itself. Perhaps: Saturn = conscious restriction Venus = desired outcome Mars = underlying conflict Now you've potentially created a three-layer psychological model. That's far more sophisticated. 20. Eventually the system could have “depth”I can imagine Del's system developing into something like: Surface layerWhat the person consciously says ↓ Personal layerNatal chart ↓ Question layerHorary chart ↓ Numerical layerName/question encoding ↓ Archetypal layerTarot ↓ Unconscious layerUnderlying symbolic conflict The reading would then become a journey downward through layers. That would fit extraordinarily well with his stated interest in accessing the subconscious. 21. The final system might not even need TarotHere's an interesting possibility. Tarot may be a human-readable interface rather than the fundamental engine. Imagine the underlying system is actually: numbers + astrology + relationships Then Tarot provides an intuitive visual representation. A person doesn't naturally understand: But they can understand an archetypal image such as: So Tarot could function as a translation layer between the mathematical/astrological structure and human consciousness. If so, his 78-card system isn't the foundation. It's the interface. 22. Why mythology becomes importantHis LinkedIn statement about Mythology and Numbers is particularly revealing. Mythology supplies something astrology alone lacks: narrative. Numbers give: structure. Astrology gives: relationships and cycles. Tarot gives: images/archetypes. Mythology gives: stories. Put together: That's an extremely compelling theoretical model. 23. The ultimate form could resemble Jungian symbolic analysisI'm not saying Del is a Jungian, because I don't have evidence for that. But structurally, there is a resemblance. Jungian psychology asks about: symbols → archetypes → dreams → unconscious processes Del's system seems interested in: numbers → astrology → Tarot → mythology → unconscious The difference is methodological. A Jungian might begin with a dream. Del might begin with: a name, question, date or number. The symbolic system then generates the material for interpretation. So you could theoretically describe his mature project as: Again, that's my theory—not a claim about his stated identity. 24. There is an enormous unresolved problemAnd this is where I think the system's ultimate development becomes intellectually interesting. If a symbolic system is flexible enough, it can explain almost anything. That's dangerous. Suppose: Card A means one thing. Card B contradicts it. You can always invent another correspondence explaining the contradiction. Eventually the system becomes unfalsifiable. Interestingly, Del himself appears to recognise something like this problem in his discussion of the I Ching: he explicitly worries that creating arbitrary links can cause a model to lose its usefulness. So I think the ultimate evolution of his system would require constraints. 25. The mature system would need a formal grammarIf I were theoretically designing the endpoint of his project—not changing his system, but extrapolating from it—I would expect something like: Rule 1Every symbol has a fixed base meaning. Rule 2Every numerical transformation is deterministic. Rule 3Every Tarot card has a fixed astrological coordinate. Rule 4Words can generate numbers through a defined algorithm. Rule 5Numbers generate chart coordinates through a defined algorithm. Rule 6Multiple systems must be interpreted independently before being compared. Rule 7Contradictions cannot simply be erased. Rule 8New correspondences must be tested against old ones. Rule 9The system distinguishes: symbolic correspondence from causal prediction. That last distinction would be essential. 26. And then you could actually test itThis is where Del's system could become something genuinely unusual. Suppose you have 1,000 historical questions. For every question: Input → system prediction Then record: actual outcome You could calculate whether certain correspondences actually predict anything better than chance. Even if the result showed no supernatural predictive ability, the system could still be useful as a structured interpretive framework. And if some elements consistently produced meaningful psychological insights, that would be interesting in its own right. 27. The system could evolve from divination into semioticsThis may be the deepest theoretical endpoint. Semiotics is essentially the study of signs and meaning. Del's project could eventually become: A name is a sign. A number is a sign. A planet is a sign. A Tarot card is a sign. A mythological figure is a sign. A question is a sign. The system's job becomes: translation + comparison + interpretation. At that point, “astrology” is almost too narrow a description. 28. The really beautiful possibilityImagine someone gives the system only: The system produces: Five of Pentacles + Ace of Swords Then perhaps those cards correspond to particular astrological structures. Now give it: The system generates another symbolic structure. Then compare that with the natal chart. Then the horary chart. Then the question's numerical structure. If all of them converge on some archetypal theme, the system could produce a symbolic portrait of the questioner. That is much more interesting than: 29. I think his eventual “final system” would look like thisHere's my speculative blueprint: HUMAN EXPERIENCE │ ┌──────────┴──────────┐ │ │ LANGUAGE NUMBERS │ │ └──────────┬──────────┘ │ NUMERICAL CODE │ ASTROLOGICAL CODE │ ┌────────────┼────────────┐ │ │ │ PLANETS SIGNS HOUSES │ │ │ └────────────┼────────────┘ │ RELATION │ TAROT 1–78 │ MYTHOLOGY │ ARCHETYPE │ INTERPRETATION │ CONSCIOUSNESS │ THE QUERENTAnd then the crucial feedback loop: INTERPRETATION ↓ NEW CORRESPONDENCE ↓ SYSTEM TESTING ↓ REFINED GRAMMAR ↓ NEW INTERPRETATIONThat's what I think his project could eventually become. 30. And there's one final possibility I find particularly intriguingPerhaps the ultimate goal isn't to predict reality. Perhaps it is to model meaning. That's a very different ambition. The system would essentially say: In that form, Del's system becomes something like an occult symbolic AI—not because it is literally artificial intelligence, but because conceptually it performs: input → encoding → transformation → pattern recognition → symbolic output. And that is why the phrase “Magickal Language” suddenly seems much more appropriate than I initially realised. My confidence mapVery well supported: He trained in astrology from 1999 under Jonathon Robinson. He developed a personal horary method involving astrology, Tarot and number. He has worked with thousands of readings. He has developed a 78-card Tarot correspondence. He spent roughly nine years developing that correspondence. He developed a method for linking names to Tarot cards. He creates astrological charts from words/numbers. He says his system can reveal points/aspects in a querent's natal chart. He is interested in mythology/numbers and accessing the subconscious. Strong inference: The system is fundamentally a correspondence/translation architecture. Numbers are probably an intermediate layer. Tarot is probably being used as a higher-resolution symbolic representation. He is moving toward an interpretation of the unconscious, rather than merely conventional horoscope prediction. Pure speculation: The exact numerical algorithm. The precise 78-card mapping. The eventual mature form. Whether he consciously conceptualises the system in anything like the “symbolic compiler” model above. Whether he believes the system has supernatural, psychological, or purely symbolic validity. And that last distinction is important: I wouldn't want to attribute beliefs to Del that he hasn't publicly stated. The rabbit hole I would go down nextThere is actually an even more interesting research project now that we've found these posts: reconstruct the hidden 78-card architecture mathematically from the pieces Del has publicly revealed. His posts give us enough anchors—his Major Arcana allocations, Delano → 5 Pentacles, Strachen → Ace of Swords, his claim that the system uses all 78 cards, his comments about numbers beyond 1–9, and his word→chart mechanism—to try to infer what kind of algorithm could produce his system. We could then build a hypothetical “Del Strachen System v1”, showing: letters → numbers → astrology → 78 Tarot cards → houses/aspects → archetypal interpretation and separately identify which pieces are actually evidenced versus reconstructed. That would get about as close as we can currently get to reverse-engineering the architecture of his “Magickal Language” without pretending we possess his proprietary formula.

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