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A NightmareI awake from the nightmare to find myself alone.Affective Empathy is EvilAffective empathy is evil. I don’t mean that literally, of course, but the fact is that the most common way affective empathy is used in society today is evil. On the surface it seems good, biological...AI PsychosisI've known a lot of people who suffer from psychosis, and have suffered from it myself, and from my experience ChatGPT thinks a lot like psychotics do. In any area where there's no reasonable associat...Carve Your BlockEveryone wants to be saved, everyone wants things to be equal, everyone wants the world to be fair. Yet nobody can save you, nobody is equal, and the world has never been fair. Yet there is a way to b...Choose Your LifeLet me give you one word of advice: men on the internet are all insane losers, and so are most women. People who are very online, essentially every person who is popular online, are all mentally ill....Dharma and MoralityDharma is not what people typically think of when they think of "good." Dharma is perpendicular to any polarity. It is wholeness and placeness. It is truth and sincerity of being. It is not your pet c...Enlightenment At the Bottom of a BowlHow fitting that having known the depths of pleasure and the heights of suffering, Buddha finds enlightenment at the bottom of simple a bowl of porridge. Knowing the whole of life, one knows joy is no...FatherNow Father heed my words May the knife in me become the knife in youGod as Quantum SuperpositionOne useful way to look at "God" or "consciousness" is to see it as a quantum superposition of all possible things, as well as all possible absences of all things. All their states, properties, and pro...Guest and HostWhen we think of the word 'sacrifice' we think of it, these days, often as a dirty word. Sure, Jesus was 'sacrificed' for our sins, but such nomenclature has been turned over for 'died for our sins',...History Is In MotionIt is a difficult thing to live in times such as these. Melancholic most days, as if some all-uniting meaning or forgotten home is always left just out of reach. It's doubly difficult on days like tod...How Can Many Religions Be TrueOkay I’ll bite... “Many religions are true” is just asking someone if they believe in, essentially, the most vague gesturing towards ‘Perennialism’ and I mean specifically the oldest more orthodox def...Hun and Po, Heaven and EarthThe ancient Chinese believed we had two souls. The Hun 魂, the spiritual soul, would leave behind the body at death and become one with Heaven. It's your idea, your legacy, your aura, your personhood....In 2025 Everyone is a ShamanOne of the most interesting things about ‘Shamanism’ and all religious traditions that practice it, is that when Shamanism was first discovered 24k years ago in Lake Baikal only a very very small mino...Insight and StructureA lot of people want Buddhism without the metaphysical structure, all the nonsense yapping about emptiness and dependent origination and hell realms blahblah. The thing is, the practice isn't the poin...Is Rationalism a Religion - What is a ReligionIs ‘Rationalism’ a religion? This is the Question of the Day, but answering something like that requires us to actually understand what a ‘religion’ is. What is a religion? Well, if one wanted to know...Judas and JesusI am quite high so take all of this with a grain of salt, along with that, I am also not a Christian. I am speaking wholly from my own perspective, irrespective to the Christian tradition, I am not in...Live UniquelyIf you're unique, you have no choice but to live uniquely.Love in the New WorldI think something that shows like Cowboy Bebop and other Sci-Fi intuitively picked up on was that culture is heading towards the birth of found-tribes, as opposed to birth-tribes. Birth-tribes would b...Mama Said Knock You OutWhat is wrong? What is right? Who decides? We've been asking this question for what appears time immemorial, did the question come first, or the violence inherent to it? Look anywhere, it doesn't matt...MedusaDo yearning hearts ken what shall be wise for both thee and for me? Or should one know better and stand all the rest, for above all things there are those who are better and those who are nae, like ke...Muse's DoughterO lorde Muse canne nought thou sie? Myn forefaderes wrought an ooth upon mie Ayre blod stille flowes thrugh trewe adre To ken the wheles Doom on Nytmares eldeNew York City EthnographyI want to talk about ethnography because I am in a mood. New York City is a very unique place because it contains many 'native' New York ethnicties, by which I do not mean Amero-Siberians (American In...Nobility and WildnessNobility (of character) is inherently a wild quality. It is what a wolf has that a dog doesn't. It's what makes cats so capricious and so compelling. It's why we speak of lion "prides," and see ravens...On EnlightenmentA lot of people on here claim they're "enlightened" after some dramatic experience. Perhaps a world shattering DMT trip or some very colourful hallucinations or more often, a real genuine Earth shatte...On LiberationThe average person is completely incapable of experiencing reality directly. This isn't an indictment of them, it's just the fact of the matter. From birth in our society experience of reality is quic...On MythopoeticismThe later mythopoeticists, the Tolkiens and Le Guins were apologetic about their mythpoeia, cleverly relegating it to the realm of the psyche. An affair for the human soul, incredibly important, but d...On The Dissident Right and Internet IntellectualsNone of the popular internet intellectuals are actually intellectuals, they’re just edgy aesthetes—BAP, Yarvin, Land, Yudkowsky, etc—none of them are well read or innovative, nor do they inherit any t...ON THE WORDCELS AND THEIR FOUL LIESThe funniest thing about wordcels is that they most often lack the very thing necessary to truly understand language: spatial intelligence. Like inhabitants of Flatland proudly mapping their two-dimen...One-Not-OneOne thing you'll notice in religion/metaphysics/philowhatever is that there's a lot of terms and metaphors and explanations that are both entirely contradictory and yet pointing to the same "thing." W...Protestant AwarenessThere's an unspoken belief among the dominant downstream Protestant culture of innate cultural superiority, which is, obviously, objectively true. Liberty and individualism and common law and feminism...Public and Private RegisterSomething few people understand about my precious midwestern culture is that when I'm being friendly, affectionate, and polite, I fucking hate you and I want you to die (jk ur alright). And when I'm b...Quantum MagicA common hypothesis of quantum mechanics and how it works which is spoken of a lot by quantum computing guys is that there's multiple realities that branch off one another as superpositions collapse....Reading List![[readinglistv0.1.png]]Self and No-SelfWhat is No-Self and what is the Self?Sensitivity and NobilitySensitivity is inherently a noble aristocratic quality. To one doomed to a life of toil, sensitivity is a dangerous thing, for indignation will only make the chains that burden burn the skin even more...SingularityMan begins to rebel against the increasing constriction of the of the system. A cavalcade of populist reactionary despots trade elections with the old elite across the West, signaling a desire for a l...Smol Bean Fascism, Why Liberalism WonI think the actual reason why there is a culture of revived interest Hitler is much more telling of Liberalism's supreme victory, even among the far right quasi-Hitlerites, true nazism is rare, usuall...The Great EunuchA common critique of technology and socialist ideas of automation in ecological circles is that each new level of technology merely moves a worker's abstraction to a higher level, rather than actually...The Mind Has No InterfaceThe mind has no interface. Modern psychology and therapy have been trying to hyperstition the mind into being a manipulateable object for centuries, and it's (clearly) been a disastrous failure. Your...The Mind is My DoctrineLaugh with me for existence is divinity and divinity is madness.The Mountain of CorpsesAn Egyptian slave stares up at the limestone monstrosity him and his people are assembling block by block, well aware that it will be his grave; his blood will stain the stones and the sand below will...The Next MiltonThe modern world has too much overhead and chaos for genuinely deep literature to emerge often. Great art requires stillness and an incredible clarity of mind, you need a dark blank canvas of a headsp...The Point of Civilization is UtopiaAnd here we see why Proletariat Communism will fail, what is the “Proletariat” but human excess? People born to labor and nothing else! Why then does Prole Communism say it is “Saving” the Proletariat...The Tragedy of the Commons Is a MythThe tragedy of the common is a myth. It did not happen. However, there -was- a “Tragedy of the Commons” and yet it was entirely different from the narrative that you were fed in school, the truth is,...The Waves of Sufferinglot of people notice that by mentally embracing pain they can nullify the suffering they experience from it. Rather than suffering, which is the pain resisted and projected into the past and future, t...The Wordcel's DilemmaWhat people fail to understand about language is that it's not self-relative. Language isn't Math, words aren't defined relative to other words. A dictionary definition isn't what a word means, what a...True Polytheism Has Never Been TriedI think perhaps, true polytheism has never been tried.Vaporware UniverseIf the universe is a simulation, its vaporware.Village ShitI hate village shit. I hate the grainoid panopticon. I hate the teeming call to assimilate. History is a dialect between the free and the people who want to devour them. It is as if everything noble a...Wealnae body kens hwat thou wat, a goed en or a bad, yet beating hearts ken, n auld eens wot.WerieThe eldes were on an on Lyves blesst and cursd writ upon The long tangled threds of one Who may noughtt rest until the storie is don For trewe weriness rests not on olde bone But in the gemynd of a lo...What Does it Mean to Kill BuddhaTo kill the Buddha, to kill the Buddha. An oft repeated phrase, some call it a koan, but what means? Important first to understand that it situates itself within the Chan/Zen lineage of Buddhism, the...What Is TruthWhat is truth? My truth is different than your truth. A mountain's truth different from us both, and a planet's even different so. What of the solar system as a cohesive body, or of a colony of ants?...What Women Actually WantMen have absolutely no idea what the majority of good women find attractive. The world is not a fucking MMO, you cannot min/max. Height? Income? Women are fucking psychic bro, they don't care about th...Where Did the Hedonists GoWhere did all the hedonists go? Why is it so rare to see people enjoying life?WhitenessThe "white race" is a historically and culturally illiterate construction. White supremacists do not love their people or culture, because white is not a people or culture. White supremacists love bel...Who Benefits From Your Child's Broken Will!ImageYin Yang, Heaven and EarthWhat Is Yin/Yang? What is Heaven/Earth? How the fuck does Astrology really work? Featuring: Verses from the Rigveda (Translated by yours truly).You Remember, Don't YouYou remember, don't you? When it all began? Not just your life, but all of it, you remember, don't you? We were there, together you and I. Perhaps you forget, but we've all been through this before, m...