Small Talk (5)

aphorisms and short reflections

the average cat is wiser than the average human. the average dog is about the same.

omnigodists are like those women who are only into abusive and uncaring men. if he's not above it all and shows the least amount of humanity, they're not interested.

according to omnigodists the uncaring foot trampling the lovely flower is the one worthy of worship.

omnigodists gift stems rather than flowers.

omnigodists don't really believe in free will, only in free would.

the will is only free if we're willing to pay the price.

the omnigod is the metaphysical equivalent of aphantasia. both can be remedied by opening one's eyes.

God isn't faceless, you're just afraid to face him.

the divine economy is the only one that never left the gold standard. no inflation there.

I'm thankful for the internet. and to be even more controversial I'll add: the benefits for the few far outweigh the lost souls of the many, which really is the case for everything.

I saw an -ism today. it crawled through the grass, seemed afraid. and it meant nothing. I tried to get its attention, but it just got more scared and ran to the university.

omnigodism is a severe case of not getting that ideas are worth next to nothing and that it's all about the execution.

only true free will can free you from the wheel and the need to reinvent it.

online i am nobody but someone, offline i am somebody but no one.

God brought bread and wine, but what are YOU bringing to the table. God wants to know. make it good.

if you're trying to make a point, make it sharp. the other option is dull.

my wife never read a single essay of mine (i don't think), but she reads all my stories. This tells me the stories are more important.

'we all...' no. 'everyone....' no. not even once.

expect true perspective to never be panspective but always prospective as well as inspective.

one size does not fit all, neither does one shape. except by mutilation, of course.

it's because i'm a night person that i wake up early to write and contemplate. that's when i'm out of myself, conversing with the gods. inspiration can strike at any time, but for it to wound and for you to bleed, it has to catch you off guard. this is also why manual, repetitive tasks are essential for intellectual and creative work.

if you want to know what kind of man i am, this is a clue: i find the depths of the seas infinitely more interesting and mysterious than the stars. Similarly, i don't care for gods that never come to the earth.

people don't feel the words they use so they say polymath and then mathematics instead of arithmetic and never sense anything wrong.

you can only have a good time when you're in a good space.

i have very few memories from childhood and early adolescence, but i remember exactly where i was when i learned the word soliloquy.

I know my work is getting good when I lose subscribers for every text I publish.

other than evil, the thing i hate more in the world is 'taking care of business'.

God showed me how life down here was, and i said right away, Sounds absurd, sign me up.

i'll believe it when i seed it.

i don't use dialogue marks in my stories. but neither did the authors of the bible. so i feel i'm in good company.

some words are too bright so we put on shades of meaning.

as a european i will never know what baseball is.

solo scriptura, solo fide, solo gratia. duet scriptura, duet fide, duet gratia. jam scriptura, jam fide, jam gratia. all these are options.

projects gain by having a period of waiting before being finished. Jesus didn't resurrect right away, he set that aside, got busy with other things and only then got back to finish the job.

a drawing by a four year old is more realistic than any photograph. it's our definition of realism which is faulty. an image devoid of human 'translation', and hence symbolism or emotion, is less real. but many now think the machines are more real than us.

devils use machines to enter the earth. the real automatons have already been unleashed for a long time. i'm sure *they* were surprised when most didn't notice. if you have even a shred of potential of doing something good, beautiful, righteous, true, free: you are their mortal enemy.

unexamined metaphysical assumptions blind people to the most obvious truths.

a person is what a person does and a person does what a person is.

there are no more short cuts, only deep cuts.

my deepest beliefs bring me very little comfort, because they imply that nothing is assured, that goodness and beauty and truth are fragile, that evil triumphs very often and easily. but this is why they prevent complacency.

the year starts in autumn. the darkness precedes the light. this is elementary.

litmus tests cannot be passed by copying from the guy next to you in class. you actually have to know why the answers are what they are.

the greatest tool of the devil is the guy who almost gets it

the resurrection means that when we return to paradise we will keep the knowledge of good and evil.

there is God and there are gods. there is Man and there are men. not all gods are God, not all men are Man.

knowing is intercourse, and it's good when it happens after commitment. but, between the sexes and between gods and men, sometimes seduction gets there first, and not always from the side you expect. sometimes you start with the answer, even if most times it's with the question.

I am only a fool on special occasions, like April first, or the end times.

it's true Man partakes of all the kingdoms: mineral, plant and animal. but there is gold and there is silver, there is oak and there is bramble, there is eagle and there is snake. and all the other stuff too. the particular is more important than the universal.

progressivism is a misnomer. they are not progressing towards anything. they are, and always have been, aiming towards regression to the subhuman. much like pride, or diversity, the name they chose is the opposite of what they want and are.

when i say God i usually mean at least four people and two extensions: Sky Father, Earth Mother, Word Son, Wisdom Daughter, Holy Spirit and Holy Soul. apparently this is too much for people who mean it as a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.

your God is too limited, they say. but they are wrong, it's my tolerance for incoherence which is limited enough.

levitation used to be impressive but what's hard now is keeping your feet on the ground.

if you can't think of something to do other than a job, then you deserve to have a job.

i'm just improvising over mythic vamps. the danger of wrong notes is more than compensated by the potential for them to become the beginning of unheard of progressions. you can't be in the zone if you're always worried about the zoning laws.

God only hires the best, but he's always hiring. he's also always firing. on all cylinders, too.

the most counterintuitive discovery of psychology and sociology is that there is nothing really new to discover in those fields.

my wife was telling me about her cousin who got a very dangerous dog but says he's ok because 'he went to school'. honestly, if your dog has to go to school, he shouldn't be around anyone. just like people.

I spent a lot of time living, dying and resurrecting. The rest I squandered. ~ Jesus of Nazareth

yes, i live in my mind. no property taxes. no zoning laws. strange, but mostly decent, neighbors.

i am seeking endarkenment, if nothing else because it's the opposite of what western buddhists seek. maybe they seek enlightenment because they are not very bright to begin with. similarly, you only seek liberation if you're not free already.

fairy tales, not fair e-tales

if the money spent on schools was efficiently distributed the kids might learn something and they wouldn't even be traumatized. that defeats the whole purpose of schools.

in the end times, the only people who sell their souls are the ones whose souls are worth next to nothing. a bubble economy.

men only want one thing and it's discussing.

humor is a virtue and humorlessness is a sin.

except for mormons, christians want to have the God of islam, and eat it too. when challenged they go from abstraction to abstraction until the limit is reached and the conclusion, or rather evasion, declared: it's a mystery! stop prying!

inspiration happens when you stop to breathe.

To avoid death by a thousand cuts, try life by a thousand healings.

Etymologically speaking, a fallacy is an epic fail

the fake master tells the disciple why he is an idiot. the true master just tells him he is one.

anyone ever seen a live giveaway, or is it all blurry pictures?

the philosopher said, God is out of time, and the peasant, who of course misunderstood his lofty words, said, What lack of faith, there's always time, whatever disease God might have, we will pray for his recovery.

top three Kubrik movies: 1. Clockwork Orange; 2. Eyes Wide Shut; 3. Moon Landing.

It’s hard to vibe with people who think luddite is an insult.

etymologically speaking, paranoia is to be beside your self.

there's a certain greatness to smallness, and a certain smallness to greatness, but mediocrity is always mediocre.

atheists, and only atheists, are a product of blind chance and their thoughts arise directly from the chemicals in their brains. when an atheist ceases to be one (in truth, not just in theory) a spirit is summoned from the heavens (or hell) and is finally attached to the body, and the new theist becomes a living soul.

i know my worth! it's little.

To live forever you must die forever.

Miracles are the ultimate anarchist craft. No concern for the most sacred of laws.

it's sad when people treat sports like religion. it's sadder when people treat religion like sports.

God never builds bridges, it's always boats or, in special cases, walking on water.

atheism seeks non player characters, omnigodism seeks non character players.

Abraham, Isaac and Esau couldn't do it. They were too obedient.

if you have faith as a mustard seed everything is a sign of the end times.

During an eclipse, the sun and moon finally get together. This is why you can't look at it. It's not proper.

they are lying even when they say something true. this shouldn't be hard to understand. thinking about bergoglio, but it really could be any leader of any prominent institution. intelligence and wisdom really are not synonymous. it's funny if you can get past the frustration.

The human intelligence that ‘artificial intelligence’ imitates is neither human nor intelligence.

sometimes it's you who have to give the sphinx a riddle.

I’m too pessimistic to think I’m the worst sinner in the world.

God is a family and Heaven is a homestead.

Absolution comes from repentance. But even that cannot prevent the consequences of sin. Nor should it, if we are to live in a moral world.

You don't really care about goodness and beauty and truth if you refuse to recognize evil and ugliness and lies.

Men give women flowers, women give men roots.