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The crunching sound of yet another stone breaking from under his feet, rolling down the slope and into the chasm below. Besides the dusty wind, this repetitive rattle was the only thing to be heard here. It felt like they'd been walking these dreary mountains forever, and the scenery remained just as bleak and colorless. The endless jagged horizon must be the most hostile view he'd ever laid eyes upon. Hours ago they crossed a feeble brook, but even in the crack through which it was running there was hardly any life to be found. Had all life and color departed this world? What is left there within his barren, weary soul.... The journey had been exhausting. They flew across the sea, avoiding the arid deserts of the south, but then they took an even longer detour to the east, staying far away from the dark shapes of the Turah Mountains. Father said these mountains are unsafe, so they flew far east, far enough for the mountains to disappear, and only then they headed towards this

To the Directorate of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 36 Nakhimovskiy Ave, Moscow 15 September, 2005 Respectable Mr. Director and Members of the Directorate, My name is Alexei Smirnov, Doctor of Geological and Oceanographic Sciences and formerly member of the Institute myself, where I defended my first Doctor Dissertation in 1982 and worked for nearly 16 years since in the research of The Black Sea. I write to you in relation to a recent application for new funding of further research of The Black Sea depths, which is currently awaiting your approval. More specifically, I am writing with a request that you will reject this application and any other in the future for the research of this specific subject. And I will attempt to make my case on this by relaying something that has never made it to any of my publications, scientific and not. As some of you may recall, despite my expertise and stature in the field, I

A lot has been said and yelled about in regards to the advent of AI into art, and I should be glad, especially that the backlash from the artists is growing in power and in resolution. Consider these many pages to be my 10 walls of text on the subject. I may not be original, though my viewpoint tends to be a bit different, and I'm going to speak regardless because it is important to me. No one who knows me will be surprised by my position. However, there are things that need to be said because they concern all of us. We are besieged by something that can without an exaggeration destroy an essential part of our lifes, yet which has no reason to exist in the first place. When I say AI came into art, I worded it like this for a reason and I mean it in a bulldozer-like fashion. AI is not art. I do not ever call it art because it simply is not. It is random generation, nothing more, that's the only name it gets from me. However, I will take it a step further and say that not only AI is

About Satanism.... Research is not easy because Satanism is a very broad thing, people within the faith understand it differently, it is effectively an umbrella term for a whole range of different beliefs rather than a singular religion. In other words, there are many branches of Satanism and even if they all more or less revolve around the figure of Satan in at least some form and more or less stand in opposition against xnity and/or the abrahamic religions as a whole, the different branches have their own take each and actually tend to conflict each other on many points. It is important to know these branches exist and what they are about at least in general terms, so that when you read Satanic lore you may know where it comes from and what views and takes on the Satanic faith it is grounded on. I cannot really say I am a specialist in different types of Satanism except my own, certainly not in detail, but over the years I have encountered a lot of different beliefs and practices