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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Sensational(ism): activity, stimulus, drama, emotion, thought mitigated... imagination fed but with what?

Doc Savage Magazine #8 - by Ernie Chan

Monday, October 5, 2026

Walter Grab - "Bild A9DW"

distraction... counterpoint... counterbalance...

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Sunday, October 4, 2026

The story of the Watchers and the Nephilim from 1 Enoch

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The story of the Watchers and the Nephilim in this video comes mainly from 1 Enoch (the Book of Enoch), an ancient Jewish text that is not part of the biblical canon of Jews, Catholics, Protestants, or most Orthodox churches. The only major church that accepts it as Scripture is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
1 Enoch is pseudepigrapha, meaning it is attributed to Enoch but was written centuries later. It was composed between roughly the 3rd century BC and the 1st century AD, and it was widely read in the Second Temple period. Fragments of it were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the New Testament quotes it in Jude 1:14–15.
The Bible itself (Genesis 6:1–4) only briefly says that the "sons of God" took wives from the "daughters of men," and that the Nephilim, the "mighty men of old," were on the earth in those days. It does not explain who the "sons of God" were, and interpretations have varied over the centuries. The Book of Enoch expands this passage. It describes 200 angels called the Watchers who descended on Mount Hermon, fathered giants with human women, and taught forbidden knowledge to humanity, leading to the Flood.
This video is a dramatized adaptation of these ancient extra-biblical traditions, not the official teaching of most Christian churches.
Enoch walked with God for three hundred years — and then, one morning, he simply was not there. Before that, two hundred angels swore an oath on Mount Hermon, took wives among men, and taught the world iron, war and sorcery. Their sons grew five metres tall and ate the harvest of whole villages. And one old man was sent up the mountain to read them their sentence to their faces.
Genesis 4-6 · Genesis 5:21-24 · Hebrews 11:5 · Jude 1:14-15 · 1 Enoch 1-16 (the Book of the Watchers) ""And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." — Genesis 5:24"
The Chronicles of Enoch is a full-length biblical film about the seventh man from Adam, the world before the flood, and the fall of the Watchers. It follows Enoch of the village of Jared — the man Genesis says walked with God and was taken without dying — from the night two hundred angels swore their oath on the snow of Mount Hermon, through the birth of the Nephilim giants, to the vision in the house of crystal and fire where he was given a sentence to carry back down. It draws on Genesis 5, on Hebrews 11, on Jude, and on the Book of the Watchers from 1 Enoch, and it stages every scene in the world it happened in: mud brick on stacked stone, hand-spun wool, hammered copper, and the first iron blades at the forges of the fallen. If you have ever wondered what Genesis means when it says there were giants in the earth in those days, or who the sons of God were, or why one man in the whole line of Adam never saw death — this is that story, told end to end. His son Methuselah lived longer than any man who ever lived, and he was still standing on that hill when the sky closed.
Made with AI-assisted animation, written and directed by hand, faithful to the biblical text.

Saturday, October 3, 2026

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