What is Koanic Soul?
This is a followup to my previous post. I’ve been asked many times, “What are koans?” Now that I’m pretty much at the end of my journey, I can give the answer that I couldn’t give at the beginning or...
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Feminists fail at math again
There’s a kerfluffle on the ‘net over Susan Walsh’s inept critique of Rollo Tomassi’s infamous male/female SMV vs time graph. Vox has a pretty good take, and his commenters drive the nail home: “George...
View ArticleHow to do your budget and plan capex purchases with YNAB
above is the vid, below are my raw notes for the presentation: lotsa exciting stuff – unity project. give you a taste of one completed portion Didn’t do neanderhall reset last weekend, cuz another...
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You are still going to die.
As I gazed on skyscrapers limned in black, the words of a friend echoed in my thoughts: “I think you’ve spent a lot of time exploring your personal darkness.” My darkness? What a joke. The bright...
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I’ve solved everything.
diet diet – fixed IBS, got insomnia. cuz rice+ meat, can eat and eat. thus eating more, esp late at night. fixed IBS clean test nap tracking spreadsheet simple...
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Human society is a cockroach.
Back in the heydey 2000-2002 of the Sci Fi Channel / Atom Films partnership, I was addicted to the bizarre and divers short films hosted on its online portal. Films such as Antebios seared themselves...
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Fluorescent lights destroyed the Sabbath
It’s no accident that the soul-sucking insomniac cubicle life Edward Norton endured in Fight Club was cast in pale blue fluorescent light. Read the Amazon reviews for blue blockers. That lighting was...
View ArticleIn Defense of Suicide: Are you Man or Pig?
An intelligent question on Quora: “If we all end up dying, what’s the purpose of living? What’s the purpose of achieving so much in life when you are just going to die in the end?” Ozymandias has...
View ArticleKoanic’s Pussy: A Refutation of Quantum Indeterminacy
There are three postmodern revolutions in man’s view of reality, one for each level: the macrocosm, the mesocosm, and the microcosm. Each is defined by an instrument. For the macrocosm, the telescope,...
View ArticleNailing down health – killing cyclicality
written <2014-03-17 Mon> It’s been both encouraging and alarming watching the possibility space for a non-cyclical baseline diet diminish towards zero. Encouraging because it’s approaching 1;...
View ArticleBeard, HIIperDoro, and the Core Meditation
I’ve managed to cram the year’s teaching experience I was supposed to have for this job into a month or two, and learn AP literature and history to passable levels at the same time. Everything from...
View ArticleThe Neanderthal weakness is happiness, not pain
When you go deep enough into a profound and vexing subject, you always find that the truth is… not the opposite, but orthogonal. You were thinking in two dimensions, and the answer is in the third....
View ArticleList of psychological failure states:
The slip: right and left brain hemispheres de-sync. triggered by ingenopathic pain susceptibility and deepsock left-brain overactivity. solution: corpus callosum meditation. The undertow: gradual...
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Right Action core edit
It has been well understood for 2000 years that faith without works is dead. But hearing this leads neither to greater faith nor greater works. Rather, it stresses, pressurizes, creates anxiety. If my...
View ArticleThe Blood Tithe – A Modest Proposal to Decimate the Youth
Teaching my Dark Enlightenment version of AP US history has been… enlightening. From Glubb’s thesis of empire lifecycle and the history of the US as presented by Beard etc, I see that the shift from K...
View ArticleState plan – the US Constitution Rebooted
History and HBD have exposed flaws in the plan of separation of powers adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. This morning, I meditated on how their errors might be corrected. I sought a...
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Full explanation of my new Koanic Soul meditation method, Part I
I reckon it’s time for a full explanation of the new version of Koanic Soul, which is a massive undertaking. So here goes. This is the symbolic system, on paper: This is the symbolic system, split onto...
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Full explanation of my new Koanic Soul meditation method, Part II
** A meandering transition Apropos nothing, claiming that the Problem of Evil disproves Christianity is about as intelligent as saying the Matrix I is unrealistic because people can’t actually fly....
View ArticleFirst Lesson on Perfection
There remained one last lesson to perfect my koan setup. It had not undergone a true suffering test – the fatigue/pain cycle characteristic of my illness. In my latest health trial, I’d cut down to...
View ArticleEconomic Policy in One Simple Lesson – How to Set Tariffs
Everything necessary to set economic policy for a nation can be summarized in a short list of first principles. 1. What is an (ideal) nation? Read Beard’s “A History of the United States”. Note the...
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