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  • How Fast is Exponential Growth? (Or, Yao Ming Confronts the Vastness of the Universe)

    Math with Bad Drawings On this humble brown planet, we’re used to things growing at a steady pace. Trees add a ring every year. Families expand by one child or marriage at a time. Even in their most extreme months… Continue reading

  • When I take off my vulnerability armor and allow myself to be seen…..

    Originally posted on OutTales around the Fire: One of the many things I love about storytelling is that each time a story is told, something is always discovered or rediscovered by the storyteller. No matter how many times I tell… Continue reading

  • I contradict myself

    I post something about atheism then write a poem on the Transcendence to the Divine. I throw up the scriblings of mystics but then put forward the theorems of materialists. I co-translate the Dao de Jing yet entertain the truth… Continue reading

    I contradict myself

  • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

    To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.… Continue reading

  • Max Stirner

    Because our time is struggling toward the word with which it may express its spirit, many names come to the fore and all make claim to being the right one. […] Without our assistance, time will not bring the right… Continue reading

  • Red White and Robotic

    Originally posted on Riled Risibility: A well-loved holiday staple in the west, the candy cane elicits in many feelings of peppermint laced winter wonder and sentiments of snow-covered good cheer. Most associate the sugary treats with Christmas cookies, ornaments, and… Continue reading

  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt… Continue reading

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading

  • Dear Dionysus XXXVI: Beansprout Dracula

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  • Zen of Spring

    Originally posted on monk's designs: monk's designs View original post Continue reading