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Writings

Essays, exegeses, and reflections of the Tianmu tradition

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Canonic

Carve Your BlockNobody can save you, except yourself.God as Quantum SuperpositionIs God a superposition?Guest and HostHow Indo-European culture meets the weight of our sins.History Is In MotionThe world in front of you still exists, the wind blows and the garden grows.Mama Said Knock You OutLL Cool Jacobite and the nature of power.Nobility and WildnessThe first thing you must rewild is yourself.One-Not-OneBeating you with the paradox stick.The Mind Has No InterfaceHow to actually have free will.The Mind is My DoctrineTrue enlightenment lay in wielding duality as a weapon and non-duality as a shield.The Mountain of CorpsesCivilisation's equivalent exchange.The Wordcel's DilemmaIf you meet language on the road, kill it.You Remember, Don't YouYou remember, don't you? When it all began?

Commentary

Affective Empathy is EvilAlso titled: The CIA Controls Everything and That's Good Actually.AI PsychosisWhy oh why do good men... go crazy?.Choose Your LifeOn forging your own pathIs Rationalism a Religion - What is a ReligionPeople who identify as not religious often reproduce the very structures of religionLove in the New WorldHow love means something different now than it ever has.New York City EthnographyAmerica isn't post-racial, it's pre-ethnographic.On The Dissident Right and Internet IntellectualsNone of the popular internet intellectuals are actually intellectualsON THE WORDCELS AND THEIR FOUL LIESA flame for the voidlings.Protestant AwarenessA prediction on the Protestantosphere.Public and Private RegisterPublic and private register in Yanks.Smol Bean Fascism, Why Liberalism WonEven among far-right quasi-Hitlerites, true nazism is rare.The Great EunuchA meditation on an eschatological world.The Next MiltonWhere did all the great ones go?The Point of Civilization is UtopiaOn the telos of civilisation and why the impulse toward utopiaThe Tragedy of the Commons Is a MythThe enclosure of the commons was not a natural inevitability but a deliberate act.What Women Actually WantHow to actually fuck hoes and get bitches, no really it worksWhere Did the Hedonists GoA lament for a pleasureless world of infinite pleasure.WhitenessThe 'white race' is a historically and culturally illiterate construction.Who Benefits From Your Child's Broken WillIt's not about chores, it's about enforcing submission.

Exegesis

Dharma and MoralityA forest is refreshed by fire, a flower grows in decay.Enlightenment At the Bottom of a BowlOn the simplicity of enlightenment.How Can Many Religions Be TrueMost people in 2025 are already Perennialists.Hun and Po, Heaven and EarthTwo souls, two worlds.Insight and StructureA rant about the structure of conscious experience.Judas and JesusJudas was clearly a good guy.On EnlightenmentOn the simplicity of enlightenment.On LiberationAbout man and his terrible split from life.On MythopoeticismOn the re-enchantment of the world through living myth.Self and No-SelfThe two crosstruths of the Self.The Waves of SufferingWhen the waves of life wash over you, let them shape and erode you.True Polytheism Has Never Been TriedSeriously, polytheism is not what you think it is.What Does it Mean to Kill BuddhaOn the famous Zen koan!What Is TruthThe epistemology of truth.Yin Yang, Heaven and EarthOr how one became two became three

Thoughts

In 2025 Everyone is a ShamanOn the modern proliferation of pseudo-shamanic identityLive UniquelyHave fun and be yourself.Quantum MagicAs above; so below, a hypothesis.Sensitivity and NobilityA keen wound makes a keen edge.Vaporware UniverseThe universe probably thinks to itself, where is my mind?Village ShitRant on the horror of the panopticon.