The Free Market is Anti-Gnostic
That's why I'm always drawn to it. It doesn't deny or decry a structure of oppression. It just says, "That's the way things are; deal with it." The gnostic says, "I hate the way things are, so I'
Eric Scheske
Is the New Left the Old Occult?
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
A Micro-Review/Essay
“We’ve finally got to heaven. It couldn’t be cooler, it couldn’t be grander, it couldn’t be anything.”v
The elves of Middle Earth longed for the sea, even if they didn’t know it. A wood elf might spend his entire eviternal existence
The World of Meditation is Here
Get ready for “Six-Minute Hesychasm” and “How to Get as Mentally Jacked as Jack Kornfield”
These May Be The World's Most Unusual Booze Brands
Arkhi Vodka
Once upon a time in ancient Mongolia, the nomadic horse tribes began fermenting
mares' milk to make a drink called airag, a product similar to the drink we know
as kefir. At some point, they started taking this fermented mares' milk and
distilling it to make
Dorothy Parker was a Brilliant Slut and Four Other Sundries to Entertain Your Friends at the Bar Tonight
The godfather of modern libertarianism, Albert Nock, was in his prime during Prohibition. Needless to say, he railed against it, noting once that it’s absurd to regulate something that, in nature, flows as freely as water.
He’s right, of course. And the fact that it flows as freely
Late Winter is a Great Time to Let Your Right Hemisphere Out in the Garden
Plus: Seven Things I Did in the Garden this February
Will Putin Use Nukes?
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From his principal avenues of attack on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir
Putin began this war with three strategic goals.
Send an army south from Belarus to capture Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and replace
the government. Send forces into
The Javelin is Wrecking Putin's Tanks
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[https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-woman-throwing-a-javelin-6271998/]Ukraine is a
highly devout country – about 87% of its 41 million citizens practice
Christianity. So it's notable that, to many Ukrainians, Mary Magdalene now has
a
new moniker
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Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Have a Right Hemisphere
Language is the prime material of logical constructions. Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction (1928)
Large language models are trained on human data from the Internet. Lex Fridman, #370, Edward Frenkel (37:30)
"AI Might Eliminate Us, but It Can't Replace Us." Anonymous