Wee Wisdom (31)

aphorisms and short reflections

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if you give in to them, they'll take it out on you




i've heard people say that we live in times of unprecedented peace and prosperity, and that dooming is just a false perception. and some of these people are religious, supposedly. all it proves to me is that being religious means absolutely nothing. they can be just as blind as anyone else. i guess i still hold some fantastic notion that ideas may shape people, but clearly unless they are embodied in the right way, it doesn't make a lot of difference.




if you're worried about the decline of art, practice one or several

the arts are not content creation, but container creation. places where we can exist. gathered, not scattered.

it's much easier to find people practicing lots of arts and support them than it is to write essays about how and why there are no more artists. but maybe it doesn't pay as much.





watched an interview with Jon Pageau, and the interviewer didn't understand how, or even knew that, the swastika was an ancient symbol found all over the world since forever. is this really where we're at.





one day in highschool i was looking out the window bored, and i saw a strange pink cloud approaching. a few minutes later the school was invaded by tens of thousands of dragonflies. they buzzed around and over the whole school for hours. because their wings are translucent and they were pink, there was a pink hue over everything. it was like a weird surreal dream.

another memory from highschool. school trip to the city center. the geo teacher and i got lost, then it started to pour like crazy and we got totally soaked and then took shelter under a very small portico that could barely fit one body and we shared quite a romantic moment. she was a very fine and intelligent lady. probably the only teacher i had who wasn't a total retard. hope she's doing well.

and another school trip to a castle on top of a hill by the sea. it was damp and foggy and i ditched the class to walk around the graveyard and looking down to the endless ocean listening to Elliot Smith's first album feeling like shit cause my girlfriend at the time had dumped me again.

some years ago had to get a tooth pulled out and i asked the dentist if they could replace it with a gold one but he thought i was joking. i kept telling him i was not but he just refused to believe it. people hear what they want to hear. and thus here i am, without a gold tooth.

all these memories flooding me now, maybe i'm about to die




smart dust
dumb idols
a new flood



grow with the flow



pill dickles




engaging with 'AI' causes the same symptoms as what used to be called diabolic possession. that's because it is the same. and just like before, it must be invited in. so don't.




one aspect of being childlike, as Jesus said to do, is to think in stories instead of abstractions. i had to relearn this. and it was hard. but if i was able to, so are you. a couple of years ago i didn't even understand what this meant exactly. and i'm not completely sure of all the ingredients that went into it. but the recipe will be different for different people. the important thing is that it happens. an interesting thing is that by doing this you immediately become more pagan, and move away from conventional theology. by necessity. so i guess it works the other way too. what i mean is that the childlike pagan may understand narratively what Jesus is about and can incorporate it into his worldview (as all our western ancestors did). the neoplatonic pagan will not accept christian trinitarianism, because nothing different from it really is being offered.





Lucifer is a name. Satan is a title. learn the difference. it could save you from being retarded. there are other examples of this. God and Christ especially. and much of theology is just elaboration on these specific misunderstandings.

Lucifer's sin was optimism. he learned and changed sides as he himself was crucified beside Jesus. now he's appropriately pessimistic.

that Jesus said to be innocent as doves and wise as serpents suggests that even before the crucifixion Lucifer had already reconciled with the Holy Spirit. i believe it happened after the temptation in the desert. once Lucifer saw that Jesus would not yield despite being in the flesh, that in fact he wouldn't even argue with him, his whole worldview came crashing down and he was forced to accept his failure.

i don't think he understood that he changed sides right away. but Jesus did.

it's really very important for people to understand this because otherwise they will be fighting an imaginary devil. and the new devils are much much worse.





many people think the Lord of the Rings is about destroying the ring. yet despite its title, it is rather about saving middle earth. lots of people view things in this way, and it's a big problem. that the point is not the good you're protecting, but the evil you're destroying. a negative goal is not enough.



the Lord gives it and the Lord takes it away. why would that not apply to church authority.

found an avocado growing. don’t remember burying the seed.