Small Talk (34)

aphorisms and short reflections

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all are one is the same as saying none is none








insanity is a badge to wear proudly on the sleeve of your favorite sleeveless shirt








i don't care if you drink raw milk. i care if you're one of raw ilk.







history is dated








key the lock and throw them away










scholarship does not only consist in deep knowledge of a subject, but also, and especially, in being able to present that knowledge in a way that will produce boredom.










no one knows what the atonement is. oh sure, at-one-ment. sure, sure, that explains it all. i prefer to call it the attunement.








everything about the oceanic realm entrances me. i use the word entrances instead of fascinates because, and i like to remind people of this, a fascinus is a penis shaped amulet.










my blood is oceans and seas. my self is rivers and streams.










i'm not arrogant, i'm just not falsely modest.









refuse the news
divorce the discourse
redeem the meme
~ section one of my upcoming self help book, twelve rules for the internet








i weep for all the mormons polluting their bodies with energy drinks just to avoid drinking a cup of coffee








don't shoot the messenger, shoot the medium that is the message









i'm thirty five but i look thirty six and a half







my wife is so sleepy it's very cute






i love that strand of western christian mysticism where the nuns seem to, not only love Jesus, but be in love with him, and where monks seem in love with Mary.






hell is full of the damned, and so is the earth








how can they be called lovers of wisdom, when they do violence instead of making love.








if you do not dare to judge by the fruit you are condemned to throw pearls before swine






every tentacle of the beast is hell bent on corrupting, defiling and discarding the body. the discussion of the particulars is effectively illegal. it's a spiritual war, but it's fought over, and won or lost in, the flesh. it is disheartening that so few understand it.








both the genius and the generic are in the genes. words don't lie.









with principles the possibilities are endless









the best husband and wife are better than the best monk or nun, but the average husband and wife are worse than the average monk or nun. asymmetry.











the catholic confessional is a good example of an unorthodox innovation that is not only an improvement, but a whole new game. the flair, the drama, the intimacy, the darkness. one of the first signs of the emergence of the individual in religion. i find it beautiful.










american evangelicalism was an elaborate plan by God to eventually produce the band Creed









luck smiles at me often, but it's always a smirk. she's a flirt and a tease.












orthodoxy is so obsessed with the mind of the fathers that they forget the hearts of the children









Bruce Charlton and Francis Berger are the only people more pessimistic than me. this is one reason i consider them my teachers.











i'm not going to butcher a good aphorism just to make it more nuanced. this is not how it's done.











i am caustic about wasted potential. i would never scold a sardine for not flying. a vulture, i'd feel obliged to.










exaggeration and hyperbole allow one to see fundamental patterns. like a magnifying glass.









it would be unfair to say that orthodoxy nearly killed me. the truth is i nearly killed myself with orthodoxy. unfortunately, many such cases.









the new testament contains an underappreciated world building plot twist. the reason for the underappreciation is that all the abstractions and contradictions in the official theology of three in one kind of obscure it. the twist is that the one the hebrews called god was not their father but their older brother. by implication, it is true of the gods of the nations as well.








when Jesus resisted the devil in the desert, the devil was fired and another took his job.











there's only one race. the human race to the bottom.








pessimism has nothing to do with lack of hope. in fact, quite the opposite. any pessimist will tell you that optimists are hopeless.

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