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William James Tychonievich

I am an American but have spent most of my adult life in Taiwan. My background is in linguistics, and I teach English and own an English school. I blog from the perspective of a Romantic Christian, unaffiliated Mormon, and synchromystic. Readers are welcome to contact me directly -- wiltyc at either protonmail or gmail -- but should be warned I'm not particularly good at responding to emails in a timely manner.

My other blogs

Fourth Gospel First

Who is ascending to whose Father? - The lack of modern punctuation in biblical texts is not ordinarily a problem, but in the case of the following verse, it creates significant ambiguity: Je...
5 weeks ago
Taking the Book of Mormon seriously

Did Alma the Younger expect everyone to have experiences like his? - Here is the first speech of Alma the Younger after his conversion. And it came to pass after they had fasted and prayed for the space of two days and two n...
1 month ago
The Magician's Table: A Tarot blog

A darker view of the Three of Pentacles - Since June 9, 2024, I have seen the Three of Pentacles as being primarily a dark or negative card, even though Waite's *Pictorial Key to the Tarot* assign...
5 months ago
Winking Back from the Dark: A blog about Whitley Strieber

Astronomical ratios misrepresented - On p. 208 of The Fourth Mind, Whitley Strieber writes: The diameter of the Earth times 108 equals the diameter of the Sun. The diameter of the Sun times 10...
1 year ago
From the OLD Narrow Desert

Zarathustra’s roundelay - I have never found an English translation I liked, so I thought I’d give it a go myself. Here is Nietzsche’s original. O Mensch! Gib acht! Was spricht die ...
7 years ago
Boisterous beholding

Blogging again - I’m blogging again, after a few years’ break, at narrowdesert.wordpress.com.
8 years ago
The highway is for gamblers

Crawling with rats - On the night of February 9-10, I dreamed that I moved some furniture and found that the back of it was hollow and full of rats — about eight or nine of the...
9 years ago
Ambigrams by Wm Jas

Blog discontinued - Rather than try to maintain three separate blogs, I have decided that in the future I will post everything — including any future ambigrams I may design — ...
13 years ago

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Blogs I read

The Gentleman Adventurer

Yoga - a reminder that nothing good comes out of India - I have long held the opinion that practicing yoga is a very bad idea, especially for a Christian.
6 hours ago
The Orthosphere

The Impossibility of Political Organisation for the Online Right - Neema Parvini (Academic Agent) gives his analysis of why the online right will remain politically irrelevant. In his videos, he is far from a dispassionate...
8 hours ago
American Stasi

News Briefs – 08/10/2026j - This is the AnonymousConservative.com Daily News Brief.
22 hours ago
Bruce Charlton's Notions

What did Queen Elizabeth II have for breakfast? - Some forty-plus years ago I met somebody who had a holiday job working at Balmoral Castle - the Queen's Scottish Highland home; and he told me what she...
22 hours ago
Junior Ganymede

But He Loves Me! - There once was a short little candle getting even shorter as she burned. “But my flame loves me!” she cried, and no doubt she was right.
2 days ago
Meeting The Masters

The 2026 Eclipse - On 11th August 1999 there was a solar eclipse which was about 90% of totality in the south of England where I saw it. This coming 12th August there is an...
2 days ago
Irish Papist

The Ilac Shopping Centre and the Daffodills - A fountain bubbled dreamily. Above it, a hot air balloon Rose and descended endlessly Then higher still, a tiled cartoon Of Moore Street shawlies. Just acr...
2 days ago
Trees and Triads

Myself When I Am Real - a novelette
2 days ago
oneClimbs.com

The Temple Endowment’s Ancient Blueprint – The Stick of Joseph - So, I don’t come up with the titles for any of their videos, I just come with the ideas and they add the titles and thumbnails so it’s sometimes kind of am...
4 days ago
The Thinking Housewife

Do Not Seek Spiritual Bliss - “CONSIDER 3dly, how St. Peter being out of himself, with the joy of this vision, was desirous to be always in the same happy situation, and always enjoying...
5 days ago
Francis Berger

We Recently Experienced a Striking Example of Christian Unity, But Few Christians Want to Acknowledge It - Now and then, some Christian blogger or other dons his Deus vult armor and issues a stentorious rallying cry for this-worldly Christian unity and the exalt...
5 days ago
Notes &c.

Temple Open House - San Diego Open House
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Black Dog Star

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The Duckstack

Gossip Trounce - Extended Intermissive - Taking a break
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NLR

There is no perfect taxonomy of human thought - Over the course of history, people have believed a variety of different things for a variety of different reasons.
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At the Edges of Faerie

Powerless: Review - I do not exaggerate when I say that every Laeth book has moved me personally, though each in a different way.
2 months ago
Atavisionary

You can challenge spirits. But how do you challenge incarnate devil worshippers? - There is a Christian concept that you can test the spirits. Do you come in the name Jesus Christ? And if they can’t confirm Jesus they might as well get lo...
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Reimagining the BoM

A Hiss & A Byword - This year and last, the Jews of our world seem to be having their moment. There is an increasingly vocal segment of the political right and left that have ...
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Uncorrelated Mormonism

What Is the Atonement? - In Christianity, there is nothing more fundamental than the atonement, yet also nothing more mysterious. We speak of the atonement in certain terms, yet th...
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The Saxon Cross

Far Over Misty Mountains Cold - The Dolomites and their Legends
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Son of Mercury

The Second Sifting, Compartmentalized Memory & The Language of Creation - Spring 2026 Q&A
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Luther's Meanderings

Large Language Models - How LLMs work, with parallels for other machine learning systems.
7 months ago
Wanderer's Rest

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