Wee Wisdom (2)

aphorisms and short reflections

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men do more interesting things, women are more interesting.









procrastination is the time between sowing and germination.







the devil is terminally online, the god selectively so







there is nothing great about a blank page. when something is written, which means something else cannot be written instead, is when the magic happens, and where the value is. the same is true of being as such versus manifested existence. capital g god the blank page of nothingness versus the god with pierced hands, eating broiled fish with his friends.







the mortar and pestle of truth, an essay on paradox theodicy







fertility comes in many forms. we live in a deeply infertile age, and yet the numbers, taken as a whole, keep going up. obviously there are things beyond number for a world to be fertile.








i know how to grow corn, but not a corn patch








i disagree with the idea that earth is a school, because i think we are here to learn.








sometimes the mind becomes so full of an idea that it squirts out ink







i don't do research, i only look into things







academic or plumber? neither. i don't want to deal with sewage.







morality is fundamental, thus it cannot be imposed from above, not even by the highest god. to a large extent it is ingrained, though it can be rooted out. but when it's not, its cultivation is rarely successful.









i have more sympathy for those who are fuzzy on the ultimate goals of the human spirit, than for those who are fuzzy on its prerequisites.






the best defense is in sanity






the career is an egregore whose appeal i never really understood






sleep is a form of death, a necessary downtime for renewal to occur. wokeness prevents this process from being completed in society. hence the name perhaps.








even the simplest tool embodies a spirit, which is given energy by human use. there is no logical basis to suppose that an increase in complexity arrests this process.  in fact, the opposite. the more complex, and the more human attention, the more amplified the effect. this is why earth is of great interest to all pure spirit worlds. even the whiff of incarnation is a powerful high for a disembodied spirit.







ahriman built the machine, but sorath rules it







optimism and pessimism are the same drug. it depends on the dose, and how the medicine is delivered.







winning or losing eternally, only if we stop playing






many misunderstand the spirit world as timeless, when it simply is less active. the gods we know, even if we take all the names we have and take each one separately, are very few in number, and the exception. it's not their nature that is different but their abilities and motivations. when the gods began their creative work, it was with such relatively rare intent and intensity that immediately the measure of time became paramount, that is, separation into days and nights.





in heaven death is like sleep here on earth







leisure based salvation, it's what you do with your time off that counts






the virtuoso lets the instrument play, so it is with the music of spirit and body







Jesus was not the first christian, but he might have been the last







there is no such thing as false nature






i don't know who needs to hear this, and i don't want to know







i'm very grateful for and to my senses. i love all six hundred and thirteen of them.







our instincts are good, we are simply ignorant about their true purpose, or too weak and uncreative to follow them properly







human reincarnation is an avoidance of the question rather than an answer






if you say yin yang, out loud or in your mind, over and over and over again for long enough, you will either understand everything or go absolutely insane. which, to be fair, might appear as the same exact phenomenon.

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