Small Talk (48)

aphorisms and short reflections

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civilization really is only justified for its geniuses. Beethoven can justify a couple of centuries. but we really are running out of credits. it will all come down. and deserves to.






wilderness is God's gardening. yes, it can be fierce and violent, just as much as it can be beautiful and tender. this gives some indication of the character of God, quite unlike the abstractions everyone loves.






God once thought he made a mistake and wanted to drown all mankind. he changed his mind. which means he can change it again.






i saw a ghost. it was the west.






i'm not just a gnostic, but a diagnostic







i pine for heaven. i also oak and willow for heaven.







i never once regained intellectual trust for someone after i lost it







people who feel the need to converse with AI would fare much better just keeping a journal. the spirits one encounters in the page through the pen are much more intelligent, and not diabolic, the opposite of the machine ones.








in highschool i always chose to do group assignments with the deadbeats. they let me do it all by myself, and were happy to get the grade. everyone was happy.








nondual awareness, or as i like to call it, tunnel vision








a single platypus is worth a thousand platitudes








when liars tell the truth, there go the truthers, and the truth too. we seem now to have entered that phase.







a society without boundaries can have no borders and vice versa







i can say something without everyone getting mad, but why would i want to









there's cringe, which can be cute, and then there's western buddhist








the truth hurts in all the right places








Adam named the animals but not the plants








at fifteen i was an anarchist, at seventeen i was a conservative, and at nineteen i was a conservative anarchist. and that's pretty much what i still am.








Secret Teachings For All Ages, by Childish P. Hall Monitor









you should be antisocial in your vices. otherwise they are not pure and might even be considered virtues. if your self destruction brings any social benefit, it's self improvement.










a healthy young man must have the unwavering conviction that every pretty girl is an incarnation of the divine feminine.

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