Wee Wisdom (14)

aphorisms and short reflections

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matter is swollen spirit, spirit is condensed matter


battling is half the knowing


my aphorisms are only those that, before the last thing that supposedly happened, every well-born person considered sane and normal


meaning comes from thinking


i should have been a gravedigger. now it's too late, except to dig my own.


the answer is always it depends


a teacher once said to me, Get out of my classroom. wise man.


i am learning how to be satisfied with unsatisfying answers


an undotted i is just an l, and a uncrossed t is too. we can use both to sing la la la la and distract ourselves from the question. what was it again. la la la la.


the only bridge the Lord ever built was Adam. but really he was more of a ladder. though of course a ladder is a vertical bridge, and a bridge a horizontal ladder. i do wonder if trolls also live behind ladders.


i prefer uncanny peaks


what Hayek is to the austrian school, Evola is to the perennialists (both are derivative and so very boring)


a pathological liar is someone who lies in his study of pathos


there are so many indignities that were impossible to conceive of for someone living even fifty years ago that some pieces of age old wisdom are really just laughable. for some things you have to find new answers. the old ones will just make the problem worse. ironically this is why neopagans currently have more relevant answers than christians, generally speaking. because neopaganism is actually made up and modern, whereas christianity is fighting devils that have retired long ago. it isn't even important if the neopagans think they are retvrning to tradition. that they are in fact creating one, and adapted to our circumstances, is what is really important. nothing prevents christians from doing this, except of course themselves. i'm speaking in generalities. what seems to me to be the state of the sentient west. there is plenty of genius and retardation on both sides, obviously.


art is not the product, but the skill in making it. once we started saying things like 'make art', the war was lost. now with ai, we can see the extent of the defeat.


Jesus defeated satan (converted him actually), but this very victory made other gods turn to the side of evil and become enemies of humanity. new satans. incredible how christians don't get this. satan is a title, like president. it's not the name of a particular being. other people can do the job. unfortunately there never was a shortage of applicants. some gods had cushy jobs in the spiritual bureaucracy. didn't take too kindly to Jesus dismantling of it. i don't think that's the whole story, but a big part.


finding the answers for yourself doesn't mean not learning from others. it just means you are not deceiving yourself as to who is judging and selecting the sources. it's you. it can never be anyone else.


christians having an obsession with oneness in all things (one god, one devil, one humanity, one universe) is truly unbelievable. but it testifies to the power of framing. say what you want about the churches, but they used to be expert marketers.


if you add up all the words you get a thesaurus, if you add all the numbers you get another number. suspicious.


fats don't care about your feedings


Jesus says you can't put new wine in old bottles. so christians reject any kind of new wine.


i will share my views in a hearing


some people don't agree with me in the same way that some foods don't agree with my stomach


even though it's a tall order, and unlikely, i write expecting it to be read aloud. it's at least aloud in my mind


where do i see myself in twenty years? a grave probably.


no one has ever talked about me, whether to say good or bad things, except my friends and family and wife. everyone else was talking about a phantom of their own making.


Jesus on the cross was a saving disgrace


building a bomb shelter made of cynicism for the ai explosion


i'm sure i won't survive any kind of collapse. more importantly i want my dignity and that of those i love to survive.


nothing happens in my books. it's all in your mind as you read them.


truth lies beyond words, but not how you understood this sentence in the first reading


he who makes for himself private laws is truly privileged


the brains of people who think brains are computers are computers. just like people who think people have no soul have no soul.


so many antichrist tests


i don't know why anyone would want to rescue christianity. let things die so they can resurrect. seems like the obvious solution. coherent with the basic story. it's already a corpse anyway. artificially animated. and the more it is, the more the rot sets in. belonging to a church no longer guarantees anything by itself. and it used to, when it was actually alive.


"if you read the bible carefully you will end up in [my church]"


paganism is a very misused word. but abrahamic is misused even by christians, and for centuries, which is why pagans misuse it in the same way. neopaganism is much more abrahamic than any current so called abrahamic religion. mormonism was truly abrahamic but it abandoned it in the sixties.


i'll leave holding people accountable to the accountants


i don't want to be rewarded because i never even felt like being in a ward in the first place


i'm a sucker for the power of ideas. i think that if one has the right ideas, and takes them seriously, it will translate to good discernment. buy i'm obviously wrong. we are capable of psychic dissonance to an extraordinary degree. but it's a hard conviction to give up. i need to keep reminding myself of this so that i don't fall into the same trap. keep myself alert to my own capability for inconsistency.


cut my finger deep
but the clouds were majestic
win some lose some


you can just not do things


our cat is disgusting sometimes, but always beautiful


there was a time i was unemployed and started doing some paid musical scoring work to pay the bills. never hated music so much. when i was in university, i started to hate every subject i had classes on. curse. or superpower. probably both.


of all the stupid names in literature (like novel, or romance), the stupidest one of all is, without a doubt, literary fiction.


only teddy bears should be named rupert


i could be wrong. but that implies that i might be right. and that should scare you (or amuse you, or leave you indifferent, i don't know)


Jesus had thick skin but a short temper


it's funny that they still call it freemasonry when it's just an unending chain of binding oaths and you never get to build anything


the original six star wars movies are narratively perfect, and much deeper than most people give them credit for


i understand what people mean by locked in, but it's the times i feel most free


she is a cat
and i have a lap
can i make it any more obvious


i'll never rebel or revolt. i don't like to repeat myself. i'll just continue the first belling and volting.


the only thing denser than dark matter is the academic mind


pause and effect


the fact that bananas can only be reproduced by endless cloning and not seeds is a powerful symbol of their soullessness (disclaimer, i hate bananas)


ai is great at doing a lot of things, and none of those things are great for humans


i can now clearly see that TDS goes both ways, for one it's derangement, for the other, delusion


lately i have been struck by how relevant the hebrew bible is for our specific time, if only we abandon a few preconceptions. and more and more i am, perhaps paranoically, inclined to believe these preconceptions were given to us on purpose, to deceive us, and both sides of us.

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