Wee Wisdom (28)

aphorisms and short reflections

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the prospect of 'designer babies' raises an important theological question. ultimately, whether God 'designed' you, or rather gave you a body that fits your pre existing spirit. and once again, conventional theology has no real way of answering the machine challenge. it's the same with oneness and the singularity. ultimately they are just doing what the omnigod supposedly did. and there is no way to argue against it from that framework, really.





i refuse to compete. i just pete. don't need anyone to pete with.





i'm not antisocial unless i have to socialize




i cannot stress this enough, so i won't try



scantily iron clad
the past keeps calling
but we're no longer the same




chosen pilpul, chosen peephole




it amuses me when normie women think my wife is diffident and subservient to me just because we're so in sync when in fact she's entirely feral and individual. total misconception of causality. inconceivable to them that a woman could have her own opinions and not be those of HR departments. surely it must be me forcing her to not have a job or a career, and not that she thinks jobs and careers are stupid and it's bad enough that i have to have one. i couldn't be a tyrant if i tried anyway, and she couldn't be obedient if she tried either. though if the questioners are particularly insistent she'll play it just for fun.



my wife is actually more antisocial than i am. but it's very close. and no one we've met is even in the same league of reclusiveness. maybe not even in the same game. this is not just about introversion either. most of our friends are introverts. they're still too social for us. we went to the movies once in eighteen years. haven't been to a concert in more than ten years (and even before that, very few). and since getting married we have eaten out together only when other people made us. it would be impolite to decline sometimes. we still regret going to the movies. there were people there and we couldn't smoke (and to be fair the smoking ban is at least partially responsible for us not going places). sometimes we talk about it and can't decide if we would be more or less antisocial if we didn't have each other. i don't want to find out anyway.



i did not expect the amount of 'AI' talk at the social function to be so high. everyone's using it for everything. these are people i once thought intelligent. and i can keep my mouth shut, but my face will still contort in ways that reveal my true feelings. hopefully no one pays attention. (i call it the social function because it sounds more kafka)



never smoke the melting pot



it's interesting how shibboleth was replaced by the three finger meme from the Tarantino movie. i don't think it's an improvement, but it's interesting.




maybe raccoons are not trash pandas at all, but rather pandas are bamboo raccoons. much to think about.



i'm too lazy for second guessing. i just guess once and am done.




i think there is a healthy kind of fear of what is called 'the occult'. unfortunately it is rarely extended to a bunch of other things that are not occult at all, but smacking everyone in the face. souls without bodies are pretty scary, but i think bodies without souls are more so





brains are computers. brains are not computers. two sides stuck in an eternal war due to universality. no one dares to ask the proper question: which brains




take it easy but give it hard




we met in line, we were both out of line




i suppose it's good that in practice no one is really a universalist about anything, but i still think coherence is a positive value and required to dwell in heaven





religion is in large part adding like and subscribe buttons to the inspired works of gods and prophets (had a terrible night due to mosquitoes and this is the kind of thoughts that assault me on sleepless nights)




Mark in the streets (man), John in the sheets (god)



an underappreciated aspect of Joseph Smith's genius (well, actually all of them are underappreciated, but anyway) was his vision of the temple. how completely at odds with puritan church building. the boldness and radicalness of it is hard for us nowadays to comprehend.



know your surroundings well before you travel to a faraway place




Donald Fagen should have won the lit nobel prize way ahead of Bob Dylan. for that matter so should have Woody Allen, or Mitch Hurwitz. all of them are better writers than Bobby and all jews so it's fair.




we start to die way before we are born. we are still being born long after we die.




egregorian chant. egregorian calendar.




faqs about my new book: 

Q: is it christian fiction?
A: no, it's christian fact.

Q: is it suitable for children?
A:no. it's not suitable for anyone.

Q: is it autobiographical?
A: no, it's about you




the thing about apocalyptic books is you should probably read them sooner rather than later. stay ahead you know




i am a hundred men, she is a thousand women




last night tried to explain to my mom that all the awful things in the west are part of a plan orchestrated by evil supernatural entities and their worshipers rather than greedy people, and that the objective is to destroy humanity and the earth. but she has trouble seeing it. (my new book is literally about this). still, it's amazing that she can recognize the awful and reject it. much better than most her age, who either ignore it or support it. i am kind of proud that both my parents have passed all the great antichcrist tests of the last few years. important to say that like all gen x boomers they mostly failed all the earlier ones. but they actually learned, and grew. this is unfortunately very rare. so i'm grateful, and yes, even proud.




every book is an audiobook to me




i can barely care about the west, or even my own country, at this point. i really only care about my people and my immediate surroundings. even if i know in some sense it's all unfortunately connected, i just can't. and when i say my people i mean family and friends and neighbors, not my countrymen. i feel almost completely estranged from the latter for a thousand reasons.



i'm closer to cinephobe than to cinephile





space is so boring compared to the depths of the sea. i mean both secular space and the more spiritual vision of some mystics




wife is the one who names every animal we encounter. we're progressive.




staked a bunch of tomato plants. i finally sold out.




if you believe that wisdom is beyond words the wise thing to do is shut up.




you probably think i talk about my wife too much, but most of the time i refrain.




i don't believe people in the know who say that they are no better than normies. much like the people who say they are the worst sinners. it's just so obviously not true, and a performative stance that instinctively revolts me. (perhaps if thought privately it is ok, but not so publicly, announcing it to everyone like it's something to be proud of).  because it is better to know, and a virtue to want to know, what's going on. not the news, but the spiritual war dimension of the current world. it is morally better. it is a virtue to strive for good against the evil status quo. and a sin to go along and ignore it. plus, we know the morally repugnant things normies not only tolerate but do on a regular basis. what they allow children to go through, for example, to say nothing of themselves. we now know, without any doubt, that normies will take poison in order to go to restaurants and defend imprisoning anyone who doesn't. just one example of many thousands. i don't want to list them all, or even keep harping on them. but i'm not forgetting any of it either.