Archives
- Trump, fascism, and race/class marketing (181 words: October 19, 2020)
- Lucretius on the pussification of the modern human (779 words: June 25, 2020)
- What is religion really? (283 words: April 21, 2020)
- Sympathy for the Devil was easy in the ’80s (3708 words: April 13, 2020)
- History of Buddhism as reification of epistemic processualism (953 words: April 12, 2020)
- Another rant on the Republican redefinition of “elite” (2042 words: April 10, 2020)
- Joyce Carol Oates defines “religion” (420 words: April 8, 2020)
- A trick to make duty the guilty pleasure (492 words: April 4, 2020)
- The marriage of marketing and profound wisdom (891 words: March 14, 2020)
- All this intelligent design stuff has a good missed premise (180 words: February 26, 2020)
- Theology is magick rebuffed (417 words: February 14, 2020)
- Kant’s Four Noble Truths (727 words: February 1, 2020)
- The nominative case (320 words: January 31, 2020)
- Elemental spin (849 words: January 31, 2020)
- The Korean Sangha (541 words: January 24, 2020)
- Are relativistic effects only phenomenal? (977 words: January 23, 2020)
- LRH: master of sci-fi phenomenology (786 words: January 21, 2020)
- Masturbatory meditation vs Vipassana (442 words: January 21, 2020)
- 8 Jhanas = satchitananda (283 words: January 11, 2020)
- What about time? (159 words: January 11, 2020)
- One Minute Meditation: Rev. Kane (159 words: January 6, 2020)
- The best possible meditation practice (411 words: January 5, 2020)
- Trump’s Iran move: just like an American cop (228 words: January 5, 2020)
- Just fixed my glasses (142 words: January 5, 2020)
- The method of philosophy (726 words: January 4, 2020)
- The Trump-loving poor find self-deception homey (537 words: January 2, 2020)
- Republican alchemy (540 words: December 10, 2019)
- New theses on Feuerbach (200 words: December 7, 2019)
- History of the self from Descartes to Kant (4181 words: December 3, 2019)
- What we believe about Satan (144 words: July 8, 2019)
- Religion and Alchemy (248 words: July 6, 2019)
- Christianity on other planets (302 words: July 1, 2019)
- The male-identity-crisis market (1107 words: June 22, 2019)
- Spinoza: Ipsissimus (284 words: June 14, 2019)
- How is “Emptiness” better than “Totality”? (243 words: May 13, 2019)
- Self and Ultimate Ground must overlap (55 words: May 13, 2019)
- Galen Strawson on misunderstanding the micro (1268 words: April 28, 2019)
- Doing the cheesy morale check the right way (39 words: April 28, 2019)
- How you feel when you declare your intention (15 words: March 29, 2019)
- This is how to do an exorcism (126 words: March 20, 2019)
- One Minute Meditation: A. Michael Baldwin (371 words: March 2, 2019)
- The Antinomies of religious custom (454 words: February 7, 2019)
- Lovecraft, Fingering, and Bon Scott (1003 words: February 4, 2019)
- Anselm (81 words: January 25, 2019)
- “Stillness” vs Noting (993 words: January 20, 2019)
- All that is religious melts into self-help (2072 words: January 18, 2019)
- What witch hunts tell us about power (270 words: January 18, 2019)
- Is anonymous tipping for revenge moral? A test. (155 words: January 17, 2019)
- Today’s American shaman (2182 words: January 16, 2019)
- The LRH–Damasio connection (364 words: January 15, 2019)
- Schemata of motion for 3D construction (2147 words: January 3, 2019)
- On the possibility of a generic universal mythology (391 words: November 19, 2018)
- Magick is assumed by any theory of agency (1304 words: November 17, 2018)
- Nordic Model mood revealed: it’s universal immunism (159 words: November 17, 2018)
- God as rich Corinthian leather (1208 words: November 12, 2018)
- The Buddha’s real genius (233 words: November 11, 2018)
- Is “conscience” the encroachment of the Social Ego on organism-level agency? (0 words: October 27, 2018)
- From God to “the moral law within us” (726 words: October 24, 2018)
- Where is the mole museum? (134 words: October 24, 2018)
- Ethics officers!? Crikey! (419 words: October 23, 2018)
- My answer to Camus (406 words: October 22, 2018)
- Is ethical judgment really quick multiplication? (1304 words: October 21, 2018)
- What intelligence looks like (665 words: October 20, 2018)
- Kant: the first modern metaphysician (927 words: October 15, 2018)
- What does “reason” mean? (375 words: October 15, 2018)
- The vulnerable processual self (696 words: October 15, 2018)
- Sophistry, self-help, and sales (606 words: October 1, 2018)
- One Minute Meditation: D’lish Donut (698 words: September 21, 2018)
- Trump after life inside the Nordic Model (1761 words: August 26, 2018)
- A Darwinian defense of Kantian ethics in 233 words (230 words: August 22, 2018)
- Radical placebo policy idea (396 words: August 19, 2018)
- Theory, Formalism, and PSR (478 words: August 14, 2018)
- Dualism: an indefeasible formulation (928 words: June 21, 2018)
- Vipassana for philosophers (1113 words: June 14, 2018)
- Numbers worth caring about—a list of important numbers (1638 words: June 13, 2018)
- When snowflake cops murder (1254 words: June 8, 2018)
- When is murder fun? (1666 words: June 8, 2018)
- The NT Devil (490 words: May 17, 2018)
- The truth about Social Conservatism (575 words: May 16, 2018)
- Romancing the near-impossible (833 words: May 9, 2018)
- The Scale of the Universe (391 words: May 9, 2018)
- Negative affect decreases judgmental bias (465 words: May 9, 2018)
- Where is Earth’s centrifigual force? (272 words: May 8, 2018)
- The power of white women over cops (103 words: May 7, 2018)
- Placebo Comedy: Earthing Therapy (314 words: May 5, 2018)
- Your current speed is 3,037,670 km/h (498 words: May 3, 2018)
- Tycho: the first Flat-Earther (1930 words: May 1, 2018)
- “Nirvana is samsara” (1357 words: March 26, 2018)
- How Trump redefined “elite” (554 words: March 26, 2018)
- Man, the great protoplasm bag, originated as a recoiler (665 words: March 26, 2018)
- “Always meditate” (435 words: March 25, 2018)
- Buddha-nature vs divine omnipresence (480 words: March 24, 2018)
- Real situation (441 words: March 19, 2018)
- Nightmare (623 words: March 5, 2018)
- Meet the guy who plagarizes Wikipedia for a living (447 words: February 21, 2018)
- Proper “Kundalini” technique (1273 words: February 16, 2018)
- A good will is therapeutic (407 words: February 9, 2018)
- Prejudicial problem formulation (486 words: February 8, 2018)
- Levels of self-consciousness are orders of magnitude of temporal extension in planning (672 words: February 6, 2018)
- Vipassana for Westerners (1070 words: February 6, 2018)
- Ritual magick explained (552 words: February 4, 2018)
- A new phenomenology of Schematism Tech (291 words: February 2, 2018)
- Is self-punishment for real crises a helpful nigrido stage? (665 words: January 30, 2018)
- Every appearance is performance for others (225 words: January 30, 2018)
- Epistemic devoutness and Threatening Sky Ape (1634 words: January 29, 2018)
- The Crowley recipe (443 words: January 15, 2018)
- The stupendous depths of compulsion (92 words: January 15, 2018)
- Turning aversion into compassion (544 words: January 15, 2018)
- The inverse economics of gratitude (426 words: January 7, 2018)
- Update: COSOM buys Evilspeak.org (577 words: January 6, 2018)
- The blessedness of true believers (929 words: January 5, 2018)
- How to not be a loser (994 words: January 2, 2018)
- The Pauline ban on esoteric interpretation made Christians poor scientists (825 words: December 31, 2017)
- Gematria is stray Pythagoreanism (1133 words: December 31, 2017)
- The Gernsback spirit diagnostic (650 words: December 24, 2017)
- Placebo Comedy: Meet the hexagon vendor (6590 words: December 22, 2017)
- Terror time (438 words: December 13, 2017)
- Bhakti and the essential dependence of the subject (655 words: December 12, 2017)
- Embed me with fanatics (460 words: November 29, 2017)
- Manson is dead! (240 words: November 20, 2017)
- Cop instinct: If you see someone on fire, kick him and then drag his flesh on the asphalt (178 words: November 13, 2017)
- The joy of Christian psychodrama (341 words: November 11, 2017)
- The glee of the evil good (256 words: November 11, 2017)
- Preempting distractability before you get to work (388 words: November 9, 2017)
- Myth is to metaphysics as observation is to physics (1511 words: November 7, 2017)
- For Obi Wan and Gandalf, essence precedes existence (479 words: November 3, 2017)
- The Law of Attraction is the Left-hand Path (38 words: October 17, 2017)
- Why self-help goes astray in the masturbation nation (536 words: October 17, 2017)
- Radical transformation is ongoing but occult (430 words: October 2, 2017)
- Sexuality is just plain harmful (800 words: September 26, 2017)
- Is generality just obscurity? (114 words: September 25, 2017)
- Voluntarism: the new First Philosophy (412 words: September 25, 2017)
- Schopenhauer vs Leibniz on PSR (222 words: September 25, 2017)
- Synchronicity is all we have (612 words: September 24, 2017)
- Spock is the modern Christ (677 words: September 24, 2017)
- Present feeling vs future feeling (69 words: September 21, 2017)
- A new Vision of Sorrow (597 words: September 20, 2017)
- Thoughts on Louise Hay (Assumption Tech) (615 words: September 17, 2017)
- What about operant conditioning? (83 words: September 17, 2017)
- Why desire is occult (205 words: September 17, 2017)
- Feeling old (203 words: September 16, 2017)
- DNA: agent or bridge? (109 words: September 15, 2017)
- Duran Duran made bottoming cool (688 words: September 14, 2017)
- When everything is an offending penis (451 words: September 13, 2017)
- The Day Before (Trump) (963 words: August 17, 2017)
- Make everything strange (253 words: August 2, 2017)
- Éliphas Lévi: how a utopian socialist became the West’s greatest occultist (988 words: August 1, 2017)
- Krishna’s rasa-lila: optimal cosmogony (162 words: August 1, 2017)
- “Effort” is a misleading term (312 words: August 1, 2017)
- Effort: the “life hack” self-help peddlers hate (352 words: August 1, 2017)
- Is Buddhist non-striving pathological? (84 words: August 1, 2017)
- My take on the current horse eye stimulation craze (383 words: July 31, 2017)
- Prediction: Trump will be a Hitler in the far future (230 words: July 30, 2017)
- The joy of other people’s suffering (247 words: July 30, 2017)
- Star Wars midichloria paper published (746 words: July 23, 2017)
- Whole Foods vs the nazis (805 words: July 18, 2017)
- Does insight into the robot help? (351 words: July 17, 2017)
- Lovecraft’s thrill of impossible truth (2771 words: July 14, 2017)
- Jenga and Schadenfreude (434 words: July 13, 2017)
- Physics is still a pain in the ass (504 words: July 7, 2017)
- Some stupid seriousness (991 words: July 7, 2017)
- This is what it sounds like when Grima cries (244 words: July 5, 2017)
- Intelligent design: our aversion to complexity (388 words: July 2, 2017)
- Other worlds therapy (1152 words: July 2, 2017)
- Crucial daily practice: Vipassana (157 words: July 1, 2017)
- America: Where the capitalists are spoiled, and the workers are morons (238 words: June 26, 2017)
- WWJDIHSHDMAA? (560 words: June 26, 2017)
- My litany against imagination (451 words: June 21, 2017)
- Imagination is the enemy of Vipassana (461 words: June 21, 2017)
- Agentive awareness derives from pain (491 words: May 29, 2017)
- Organismic unity and rationalist metaphysics (351 words: May 29, 2017)
- Writing and pain (452 words: May 28, 2017)
- Crowley’s lamer later years (132 words: May 13, 2017)
- Existentialism: sour grapes for smart people (220 words: May 3, 2017)
- Sauron and property law (331 words: May 3, 2017)
- Should we aim to delete ALL habit-patterns? (532 words: April 19, 2017)
- Using quotation marks to sell a lie (1079 words: March 16, 2017)
- Against Vipassana and Buddhism (910 words: March 5, 2017)
- Pumpkin spice and fully functional mythology (856 words: March 3, 2017)
- Let me save you $1500 (617 words: March 2, 2017)
- My Heroes (58 words: February 27, 2017)
- L. Ron Spock (961 words: February 26, 2017)
- The Breitbart hijacking of “elite” and the age of faith magick emoji politics (537 words: February 26, 2017)
- Cain and Abel: insight into the first propaganda class (553 words: February 26, 2017)
- Magnitude and objectivity (71 words: February 25, 2017)
- Extension or mass? (109 words: February 25, 2017)
- Remember Vipassana (75 words: February 25, 2017)
- Logo-magick is bogus (419 words: February 25, 2017)
- What are rednecks thinking about Trappist right now? (763 words: February 24, 2017)
- Why Rocky is greater than Christ (1057 words: February 17, 2017)
- Wonderment invocation (555 words: February 16, 2017)
- What is the “word of sin” really? (363 words: February 7, 2017)
- Cain and Abel: Behind the scenes (816 words: February 7, 2017)
- Pain, self, and motivation (132 words: February 6, 2017)
- The procrastination industry (1064 words: February 6, 2017)
- Jealous God (108 words: February 6, 2017)
- God as punishment (61 words: February 6, 2017)
- God as law (65 words: February 6, 2017)
- Finding God in prison (300 words: February 6, 2017)
- Cain and Abel: the function of myth (401 words: February 6, 2017)
- Success: damn Gourdough’s bastard (1079 words: February 5, 2017)
- I forgot: I’m in the house on the river (236 words: February 1, 2017)
- Paradise is childhood’s optimism (71 words: January 22, 2017)
- America: avoid reading this post (113 words: January 22, 2017)
- Vipassana and working memory (437 words: January 22, 2017)
- Wikipedia: a new intellectual pleasure (271 words: January 22, 2017)
- Best Father Ever (375 words: January 22, 2017)
- Why “making a game of it” works (199 words: January 4, 2017)
- The explosion of a lifetime (189 words: January 3, 2017)
- What Happened vs The Story: Concreteness training (250 words: January 2, 2017)
- Stop the presses! Abreaction works if it is concrete (654 words: January 2, 2017)
- Kant synopsis: object-making power of grammatical intentionality (1659 words: December 6, 2016)
- Inventing value by increasing cost (401 words: December 5, 2016)
- AC/DC: Important American Acid Fire (302 words: December 1, 2016)
- Can neurons break the rules? (213 words: November 28, 2016)
- Landmark vs Gollwitzer (503 words: November 21, 2016)
- Intentionally contrive your action in line with a rule (310 words: November 21, 2016)
- Rumination makes sadness the longest-lasting emotion (137 words: November 19, 2016)
- Black Phillip (125 words: November 17, 2016)
- Your house is on fire (273 words: October 25, 2016)
- Find your inner contrarian and commit a cumulative act of mutiny against neuronal quorum (664 words: October 23, 2016)
- Self-deconstruction by way of materialism (840 words: October 23, 2016)
- Self as artifact of grammar (482 words: October 23, 2016)
- How do Republicans ever get more than 1%? (180 words: October 17, 2016)
- Performance formula (224 words: October 17, 2016)
- Does being authentic just mean expressing our appetites? (803 words: October 16, 2016)
- Landmark in a nutshell (1204 words: October 13, 2016)
- Childhood passion vs adult interest (760 words: October 13, 2016)
- Laughter no more: from flaunting a finger at fakery to forging a feasible fake (235 words: October 13, 2016)
- Why I love cults (1504 words: October 13, 2016)
- Digital is the new real (447 words: October 13, 2016)
- Capital as bona fide agent (623 words: October 13, 2016)
- Trump and so-called “populism” (619 words: October 4, 2016)
- The carnivore argument against God (513 words: October 1, 2016)
- A new Way of Unity (492 words: October 1, 2016)
- The best example of how biology is the most determinate driver of value and meaning (663 words: September 30, 2016)
- People are basically walking sponges (554 words: September 30, 2016)
- Why is my consciousness local? (103 words: September 30, 2016)
- Why is smoking sexy? (4533 words: September 29, 2016)
- Rigid emptiness from diagonals (975 words: September 28, 2016)
- The revenge of the Christ (453 words: September 27, 2016)
- Hillary’s “entitlement” (176 words: September 26, 2016)
- Trump is not a redneck (2726 words: September 25, 2016)
- Fundamentalism as easy mysticism (333 words: September 24, 2016)
- Great Hegel lecture (2591 words: September 22, 2016)
- The Visitor (1979) (5200 words: August 23, 2016)
- The Innocents (1961) and the dead-end of lust-resentment (965 words: August 14, 2016)
- The advanced Tech behind integrity (77 words: August 5, 2016)
- Bodhi rests on an infinite well of right (228 words: August 4, 2016)
- EFT is bogus (368 words: July 27, 2016)
- Does suffering have a “source”? (284 words: July 23, 2016)
- The punishment proxy (334 words: July 21, 2016)
- How suffering sustains itself (374 words: July 21, 2016)
- POST Sampler: Default export (1188 words: July 12, 2016)
- Jesse’s Somatic Tech (136 words: July 9, 2016)
- Twilight Zone: the music (121 words: June 28, 2016)
- Eve and Matt: Taoist Bowling II (295 words: June 27, 2016)
- What D&D means to me (2626 words: June 26, 2016)
- Certainty and blindness (488 words: June 26, 2016)
- Rage is right (147 words: June 17, 2016)
- Rick Roderick: fearless perception (283 words: May 29, 2016)
- How is counting possible? (797 words: May 27, 2016)
- Marxian materialism explained (739 words: May 26, 2016)
- How to be completely relaxed while fully exposed (443 words: May 24, 2016)
- The friend business (363 words: May 22, 2016)
- Admiration (158 words: May 22, 2016)
- On “taking sides” (571 words: May 21, 2016)
- A new argument for God (279 words: May 21, 2016)
- How to make big goals non-intimidating (232 words: May 21, 2016)
- Stupid religious writing (Spiritual Intelligence, by Gerald Epstein) (242 words: May 5, 2016)
- Scientology: placebo plus abreaction (311 words: May 3, 2016)
- Landmark depends on dependence (346 words: May 1, 2016)
- Kinds of concentration (320 words: April 30, 2016)
- How to stop wrong-making (336 words: April 12, 2016)
- How to become a Yes-man (to your commitments) (1044 words: April 5, 2016)
- The drill of drills (467 words: April 1, 2016)
- Accountability outsourcing: the darkest side of group-sustained motivators (546 words: April 1, 2016)
- The day Erhard got IT (603 words: February 17, 2016)
- The extent of magick (313 words: February 17, 2016)
- Landmark: sales training as self-improvement (226 words: February 17, 2016)
- Landmark and magick (206 words: February 17, 2016)
- Meaning vs historicity (255 words: February 17, 2016)
- All stories are transparent (419 words: February 15, 2016)
- Hero stories: purpose and motivation (212 words: February 15, 2016)
- Religion and conviction (383 words: February 15, 2016)
- Is the Bible a god-penned newspaper? (798 words: February 14, 2016)
- Why Christians hate metaphor (941 words: February 12, 2016)
- The secret about The Secret (1178 words: February 6, 2016)
- Time, gravity, and Z-wards motion (271 words: February 5, 2016)
- Can we contextualize 3-space without demoting it? (203 words: February 5, 2016)
- Why we prefer theism (569 words: January 31, 2016)
- Why we like gods (473 words: January 31, 2016)
- The religion of the future (1800 words: January 30, 2016)
- Sex with the sexy young god (1853 words: January 30, 2016)
- Polyps, not particles (148 words: January 7, 2016)
- Childhood peak experiences (281 words: December 31, 2015)
- My adventures as a 1970s space utopian (382 words: December 31, 2015)
- Aquaman: water, sunlight, crystal, chrome (1541 words: December 31, 2015)
- Is freedom possible inside of true wavering? (239 words: December 31, 2015)
- The hero’s imperative (60 words: December 31, 2015)
- Resistance and value (128 words: December 8, 2015)
- Why do we experience ontological otherness to self? (160 words: November 23, 2015)
- Reality as counterforce to effort (201 words: November 11, 2015)
- Fear and success (95 words: November 9, 2015)
- Is prototypal inheritance unsurpassable? (77 words: November 5, 2015)
- The Tinderbox scattering effect (173 words: November 5, 2015)
- Effort and agreement (214 words: October 23, 2015)
- Biological basis of the Western prejudice for the immutable (326 words: October 23, 2015)
- Eight Dynamics: a reduction (1523 words: September 26, 2015)
- Alpha sex, beta sex (1408 words: September 13, 2015)
- Meaning and E-Metering (564 words: September 13, 2015)
- Matter is sentience (967 words: September 13, 2015)
- Mindfulness (109 words: August 22, 2015)
- The “I can look it up” atoms will make Habermas molecules soon (181 words: August 22, 2015)
- Buddhist looking dis-identifies (584 words: July 25, 2015)
- A real-life borg girl (202 words: July 25, 2015)
- First-person therapy example (342 words: July 25, 2015)
- The ontology of seeing (our way out of suffering) (580 words: July 21, 2015)
- Our first onion soup (252 words: July 11, 2015)
- How to disarm future triggerability (135 words: July 9, 2015)
- Through a metaphor darkly (131 words: July 6, 2015)
- A reflection on reaction as drive (935 words: July 4, 2015)
- Let feelings arise as black masses without story-telling. (593 words: July 4, 2015)
- Buddhist metaphysics (244 words: June 4, 2015)
- Before you die, become a hypertext object (445 words: June 1, 2015)
- The problem: other people (105 words: June 1, 2015)
- Why is the Borg Collective scary? (342 words: June 1, 2015)
- Effective access to Buddhist analysis (649 words: May 31, 2015)
- World-decomposition along the skandha fault lines (534 words: May 31, 2015)
- Subjectivity as storage compulsion (714 words: May 31, 2015)
- The final solution to all your problems (540 words: May 27, 2015)
- Kant synopsis (1285 words: May 26, 2015)
- Feel deeply and tell good stories: Vipassana-Landmark for writing (588 words: May 7, 2015)
- Why men should spit in public (704 words: May 5, 2015)
- Is consciousness pervaded by the Urgrund? (179 words: May 3, 2015)
- Does inward flight imply that consciousness is orthogonal to 3-space? (254 words: May 2, 2015)
- Is agency prohibited by the PSR? (380 words: April 18, 2015)
- The self: constructed as an existence-for others (46 words: March 30, 2015)
- Time and consciousness (1099 words: March 28, 2015)
- We fall into possibility holding the lens of the past (96 words: March 17, 2015)
- Darkness and the drive to understand (1715 words: March 12, 2015)
- Culture: the strongest placebo (292 words: March 8, 2015)
- Leaning into the sharp points (151 words: March 3, 2015)
- Communication as counterforce to automaticity (191 words: February 23, 2015)
- The bounds of space are the bounds of consciousness (558 words: January 12, 2015)
- Scientology’s Extroversion Tech (1160 words: January 5, 2015)
- Wear a meme, become instantiated plurally (729 words: December 31, 2014)
- Real life is already an RPG (265 words: December 14, 2014)
- Survival and survival-irrelevant interests (105 words: December 11, 2014)
- Chain letter ghost ethics (473 words: December 3, 2014)
- Creepypasta (1062 words: December 3, 2014)
- Does knowing you’re a robot help? (337 words: November 6, 2014)
- Clinging is the matrix-solidifier (677 words: August 21, 2014)
- Looking > feeling > thinking (557 words: August 6, 2014)
- Anchor points: space as ideal (projection) (364 words: August 6, 2014)
- Scientology in a nutshell (399 words: June 22, 2014)
- Put the “past where it belongs” (670 words: June 11, 2014)
- Time passing is face scraping (171 words: June 1, 2014)
- Snake patterns are taking over the Lego box (605 words: November 27, 2013)
- What if the self is nothing other than physical nature? (249 words: October 20, 2013)
- Feel as good as you possibly can right now (230 words: October 2, 2013)
- Kant intro starting from speakability (2156 words: September 15, 2013)
- The balm of Advaita Vedanta (381 words: August 24, 2013)
- Interview with the coffee robot (5434 words: June 25, 2013)
- POST Sampler: Using NOCOMPILE (1661 words: October 12, 1875)
- POST Background Option Explorer (277 words: October 12, 1875)