Aphorisms (XI)

God rests in mysterious ways.

reason is a tool. rationalism is a machine.

if you read Light in ancient texts you shouldn't think of incandescent light bulbs. the same is true for many other things, like War. if you can't get out of the anachronistic mindset, you will not understand the first thing about what the ancients were talking about.

there is a not so tenuous connection between non-dualism and the singularity.

God rests in mysterious ways.

music doesn't always cheer me up, but it always increases the quality of my suffering.

suffering is an art form. and one that cannot be imitated by 'ai'.

the pleroma of apocatastasis is the nous of the pneuma through the theosis of the hypostatic apophasis. sorry, was having a stroke. I'm fine now, thanks for asking.

my ancestors are not behind me, they are ahead of me.

I have a Will to Live; but Life has no Will to Me.

even though the first is gone, I'm still playing second fiddle.

butchers also wear white coats but I trust them more than doctors on matters of health. maybe it's the blood stains.

I've had bad days and bad nights, but never bad twilights.

contrary to popular opinion, it is impossible to hide behind jokes. they are thinly veiled. it's just that some people have really bad eyesight.

I quite enjoy those days when depression manifests as insanity.

Jesus is probably contemplating another flood - but this time with lighter fluid.

Theologians suffer from paralysis by apocatastasis.

I never asked to be born. I demanded it. God thought it was a bad idea from the beginning. I'm going to prove Him wrong if it kills me.

I don't know what I'm doing but I know what I'm not doing is doing me.

I thought there were worlds inside me, but it was just astral projection.

how do I convince my wife to come live in a cave until this civilization things blows over? apparently the company of vultures is not a good argument. I don't know what to say to her when she's being this unreasonable.

our purpose is to become human. like God.

before you can have a good time, you must find a good space.

the word 'etymology' means literally the study of what's true, real - what IS. there is a reason our wise ancestors decided that the study of what's true is the same as the study of what words originally meant. wordlore is truthlore.

there are actually two ways of Alchemy: the well known Great Work - forcing elements together to create the Philosopher Stone. the other, almost unknown, is the Great Rest - letting things sort themselves out and then harvest the Philosopher Pak Choi.

many people confuse Acedia with Rest, Contemplation or Leisure. but Acedia is the opposite of these. it is Boredom. 'killing time', vain agitation - like Martha. True Rest has no awareness of time, it sits and listens - like Mary.

learning how to rest is a lot of work. and vice versa.

Sloth just means Slowness. whereas Acedia means lack of care (A+Kedos), negligence, and is etymologically related to Hate. so learn the difference, it could save your life (by losing it).

I believe academics are obligated to write in the most uninspiring and lifeless way possible – it’s a pact made with blood, a curse lifted only when the checks from the university stop coming. I just can't believe it is a freely chosen form of expression.

has someone tried going up to an academic with a heavy cross in hand and saying: 'the power of Christ compels you... to write like a normal person!'?

I used to hate leaf blowers (and I still do). but then I got new neighbors. their screaming and psychotic laughter made me love when the leaf blowers came around, because it drowned their voices. the moral of the story is: no matter how bad things are, they can get worse.

I am a committed personalist, so I despise academics more than I despise the Academy.

every compliment is an accusation, and every accusation a compliment.

you think the world is disenchanted? there is an easy solution: chant to it.

we need to find new ways of expressing eternal truths. the old ways, good as they were, will now get you censored, excommunicated, fired, imprisoned or even killed. there has never been such an artistic challenge in all of history. may we rise to the occasion.

you can't be a patriot if you have a motherland.

'what goes on between a consenting adult and a machine is none of your concern'.

if it's written, it is correct to use 'literally' (with letters), contrary to popular complaints. and it is wrong to say 'figuratively' (with figures, drawings). On the other hand, since letters are also figures, I guess both are correct - literally and figuratively not speaking, of course, because you can’t speak literally or figuratively, only orally. The only way to speak literally is to recite the alphabet.

contrary to both popular and conspiratorial belief, the Lord of the Rings is neither fiction nor about the ancient past. it was a prophecy about the future. a future that is now present.

being above it all, not front and center, below the radar - something I can get behind.

the Holy Land is a rice farm and a citrus orchard in Shikoku island.

I tried to get in touch with my feelings. they blocked my number and have filed a restraining order.

every well is a wishing well if you wish it well and do it well. you may as well, it is well worth it. and your wellness will not run dry.

I came not to bring peace lilies but a swordfish.

not everything is hopeless, but some things are - quite demonstrably so. it is hopeless to have hope in what is hopeless. hope is a seed. and wasting of seed is a sin.

Jesus may not have been a pessimist but He certainly was not an optimist, because He was not a fool.

the problem with training is that it is easily derailed.

if I lose my train of thought I have a smoke while waiting for the next one.

I often get to the heart attack of the matter.

you won't be able to make heads or tails of digital currency.

in every conflict, I am always rooting for the trees.

I have no strong suit or weak nakedness.

you cannot be generous or a genius without genitals. etymologically speaking.

my neck of the woods has an Adam's apple tree.

what the future holds is what the present lets go.

we didn't quite get it the first time around, so we came to expect His return, as if both asking and demanding 'come again?!'.

once we drank pure milk
from the immaculate teat
of the Virgin Goddess
it was whole and rich,
nourishing yet light to young bellies
but then we skimmed, refined, denatured.
abstracted we hungered and then demanded,
strong meat and drink,
flesh and blood
of the Living God.

don't be a gluttonous reader, because your intellect will be overweight. but also don't read only what you need to survive. read with pleasure, but in moderation, and remember to feed the hungry.

I am easygoing and hard to stop.

no one wants to talk about the room in the elephant.

those who can't be part of something may find consolation in being the whole of something.

I no longer fall asleep. I climb to sleep. and sometimes I can't make it to the top, but if I do I have to either fight the guards or outsmart them to enter the palace of rest.

when you do not allow yourself to worship freely all the Good, True and Beautiful beings that exist, you end up worshiping those modern golden calves called religious institutions, and sacrificing your very intelligence to them.

christians have mommy issues; pagans have daddy issues. buddhists are more original, they just have issues. (atheists don't really exist).

when you think about authority, do you even feel that the word comes from author?

do you feel sumptuous in your presumptions or assumptions? I hate double prefixes.

the more I study language the more I realize there aren't actually dead and living languages, only dead and rotting ones.

I believe some humans are inherently evil. and I have been told that I can't be a christian and believe that. Weird, because some say you can’t be a christian if you believe humans are inherently good. I suppose it has to be all or nothing, otherwise it's not 'fair'. This idea of fairness I imagine they acquired from too many years of public education – or maybe it’s required by their job in government, corporation or NGO.

I remember when freedom wasn't illegal. now you have to buy it from some shady character in a street corner.

I've inherited a fortune. unfortunately, it is ill fortune.

how many lightbulbs does it take to change a man?

the opposite of easy is not hard - it's diseasy.

you might think I am insufferable, but you would be wrong because my wife suffers me all the time.

sometimes what you thought was bad luck turns out to be the worst luck.

you do choose where you are born, but you are also limited in your choice by your nature. being Portuguese, I could have chosen to be Spanish or British (maybe French too) - but that's about it.

I am a moral absolutist, which is the opposite of an absolute moralist.

I am Death. and I am Alive. and sometimes the other way around. Thus sayeth the compost.

Death sucks. Life blows. It is a whirlwind.

the key to the music of a flute is in the holes.

testify, protest, attest: all these share the same root as testicle. You have to have balls to do it.

I wouldn't wish my worse enemy on that.

I am superstitious and substandard.

web gain is a net loss.

I'm a know-it-all so I need to be taught a lesson.

'Condemned to be Saved: an Introduction to the thought of David Bentley Hart'

the best I can be? I'll do my worst!

my opinion about dreaming? I don't know, I have to sleep on it.

in the same way that Truth is a Man, Beauty is a Woman. and Goodness, well, it's when they Know each other (yes, in the Biblical sense).

you either believe that sin makes you blind or that blindness makes you sin. the first is realistic and empirical, the second is an excuse, regardless of how cool you think non-dualism is.

Knowledge (Science) is always Sexual - read your Bibles. the problem with modern scientists is that they are either rapists or masturbators.

these days you either have a screw loose or are just a cog in the machine.

I don't attribute my successes or my failures to God - they are on me, and on fate, and on chance. I attribute to Him only the knowledge of which is which.

it is impressive how the majority has never been correct about anything.

absolutist metaphysics and universalism often lead to pedantry and overeating. this is empirical.

a lot of good things come out of boredom. only machines are never bored.

‘practice makes perfect’. An exemple of this is how the gods made Woman only after practicing with Man. I think it's pretty clear the second try is more well rounded.

it's crazy to think that almost every single copy of the Bible out there, whether in modern or dead languages, translates Elohim wrongly as singular. a whole edifice built on sand. for centuries. reminds me of a certain parable.

as a pessimist, I think every silver lining is a golden calf.

the confusion of Faith with Belief led to the absurd idea that you can have Faith but not be Faithful.

it is rare now to sell one's soul. the devil merely leases them for a time. a subscription service.

it's ok for me to be my own priest because I never trusted priests to begin with.

it's ok for me to be my own teacher because I will never learn.

it's ok for me to be my own prophet because I will never listen.

it's ok for me to be my own pope because I'm not infallible either.

every day is a chance to turn your life around. I do it every day so that I always stay in the same place.

I would never settle for more than asking for less.

no longer 'spiritual but not religious', but rather 'ghostly but not churchy'.

who collects royalties on the patently absurd? no one, it's in the public domain.

everyone flirts with Sauron, but most won't put a ring on it.

if there is natural and unnatural and supernatural there is also a subnatural but no one wants to talk about it. it's probably illegal too.

just learned the Indonesian smoking baby quit when he was four and now wants to be a doctor. we are doomed. he could have been a philosopher-king, ushering a new golden age, but no greatness is allowed in this fallen world.

if you can't tell if I'm joking or serious, consider that non-dualism is seriously funny.

living it up on a downward spiral.

the resurrection is to die for.

the imperial system is superior by every metric.

if cocks crow do crows cock?

I convicted myself, God wanted to exonerate me.

the sadness that comes from knowledge is more blissful than the bliss that comes from ignorance.

be glad if your life is a tragedy. it's better than it being a reality show.

I'm into quantum organics.

a lot of theology is just asking when did God stop beating His wife and then answering that there never was a time when there was no beating and He was really beating Himself.

the best thing about pre-history is the lack of historians.

I'm a risk giver.

if you reject the Word of Life, you get the Death Sentence.

I love words but they don't love me back. they cheat on me all the time.

A lesson in ecclesiology: every church can be the One True Church. all you have to do is ignore the not-One, the not-True and the not-Church parts. easy.

it's all downhill. so have fun on that slide. you couldn't even die on that hill it's so steep and slippery.

when Christians became the Empire they declared the Empire had become Christian - and thus they changed what Christian means, probably forever, into its very opposite.

shallow authenticity leads to deep fakes.

Jesus wants nothing to do with Christianity. He's had enough of guilt by association.

just when I thought I was in, He pulled me back out.

My argument for the existence of God? I met Him.

the Machine can imitate Light, but never Darkness.

every time That Hideous Strength comes to mind I want to read it again. it's like reading the news, except true and not written by treacherous retards.

the god of the philosophers is non-binary.

for me to be One with God, God must be a Zero with me.

there are bodybuilders, and then there are bodygardeners.

I love Life, that is why Death is my favorite subject.

unless you master Death, you will never learn Life.

If God is light and we are shadow, then it's by looking at ourselves that we know where God is coming from.

a sunset or a sunrise are more beautiful than the midday sun because there is a bit of darkness in them.

those who have ears let them hear, because Jesus is not going to shout.

the way to not return to dust is to consider the lilies of the field.

degradation is a downward change in degree (grade), degeneration a downward change in nature (genus). yet, sufficient degradation becomes eventually degeneration.

I am a Jesus 'consider the lilies of the field' kind of guy not a Paul 'work out your salvation with fear and trembling' kind of guy.

I am not defined by the folly of the world, even if I can't escape it. if there's a storm I can choose to stay inside or go in the rain, but the storm is still there. I am just realistic - and hence pessimistic. personally I make fun of the storm, curse the rain and if someone tells me to wear a coat I make fun of them too.

God may not be able to change everything, but He does give instructions on how to build boats.

I like liking things. but I also like disliking things. non-dual, if you will.

being a tit man AND an ass man: the non-dualism I can believe in. but true enlightenment is found in the pluralist position of being also a face man, a hair man, a thigh man, a hips man and a waist man.

a true Lover is also a true Hater.

the omnigod cannot make sense because it's senseless.

I don't really believe in society. Eden was paradise because it was just Adam and Eve there, naked, keeping the garden.

all it takes to be special is to belong to a species.

I have a good memory. and a whole host of terrible ones. or, you know, vice versa.

I lost my faith. but then I went back to the forest and there it was, where I'd dropped it.

I pray for death. she needs my prayers. it's a job very few appreciate.