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a shapeless and diverse contexture
Simone Weil was right about attention but wrong about God. She is right that attention is an open receptivity, a waiting—but it is a pure waiting: a waiting for nothing, yet able to receive everything.
February 8, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Simone Weil was right about attention but wrong about God. She is right that attention is an open receptivity, a waiting—but it is a pure waiting: a waiting for nothing, yet able to receive everything.
My religion is paying attention to things until I'm in love with them and drunk on them
February 8, 2026 at 3:07 PM
My religion is paying attention to things until I'm in love with them and drunk on them
Deleting some old posts. Id like to mass delete but I don't believe in paying for things.
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Deleting some old posts. Id like to mass delete but I don't believe in paying for things.
The more I think about this book the more I think Zhuangzi and Montaigne should kiss
February 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM
The more I think about this book the more I think Zhuangzi and Montaigne should kiss
Recently saw an app that lets you deleted all your old posts and I now want this for all my published writing
February 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Recently saw an app that lets you deleted all your old posts and I now want this for all my published writing
Yet another autistic client had told me I'm autistic
January 31, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Yet another autistic client had told me I'm autistic
The affective core of the conservative intellectual project is an aversion to complexity
January 21, 2026 at 12:28 PM
The affective core of the conservative intellectual project is an aversion to complexity
Has anyone here read Francois Jullien. Thinking of adding his works to my ever growing list.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Has anyone here read Francois Jullien. Thinking of adding his works to my ever growing list.
I've been trying to think about the thinkers who have been profoundly influential on me. It's embarrassing in a way how clearly continentalist my early education was.
January 21, 2026 at 10:17 AM
I've been trying to think about the thinkers who have been profoundly influential on me. It's embarrassing in a way how clearly continentalist my early education was.
Read the words "listen with the qi" and experienced and insane surge of energy
January 15, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Read the words "listen with the qi" and experienced and insane surge of energy
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It's sad how quickly the USA went right to the "armed thugs going door to door looking for frightened teenage girl in the attic" stage of fascism.
January 12, 2026 at 1:51 AM
It's sad how quickly the USA went right to the "armed thugs going door to door looking for frightened teenage girl in the attic" stage of fascism.
I've been reading Wittgenstein for a while now. It was so I could read Cavell and have a better idea of what he was talking about. But I'm getting really sick of Wittgenstein. But I can't give up yet.
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I've been reading Wittgenstein for a while now. It was so I could read Cavell and have a better idea of what he was talking about. But I'm getting really sick of Wittgenstein. But I can't give up yet.
"He is working on several book manuscripts including one on Zhuangzi's political philosophy and one on Linji's Chan/Zen philosophy."
I did not know it but he'll yeh I'm looking forward to them!
I did not know it but he'll yeh I'm looking forward to them!
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
"He is working on several book manuscripts including one on Zhuangzi's political philosophy and one on Linji's Chan/Zen philosophy."
I did not know it but he'll yeh I'm looking forward to them!
I did not know it but he'll yeh I'm looking forward to them!
Movies are anxieties coated in sexual fantasies
January 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Movies are anxieties coated in sexual fantasies
Hey babe, let's get real dizzy
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Hey babe, let's get real dizzy
Religiously/mystically/contemplatively aligned friends: where do you go for communal experience. Do you have equivalents to church or Sangha?
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Religiously/mystically/contemplatively aligned friends: where do you go for communal experience. Do you have equivalents to church or Sangha?
Distracted from the urm by the err what was I
December 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Distracted from the urm by the err what was I
I think I might be finished with social media
December 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I think I might be finished with social media
Every cunt on this site seems to be an expert in all the things, thank heavens
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every cunt on this site seems to be an expert in all the things, thank heavens
Need job for house and food so I can read. Job takes up most of my time. Recovery from job takes up portion of my time. No time for read. What do?
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Need job for house and food so I can read. Job takes up most of my time. Recovery from job takes up portion of my time. No time for read. What do?
May I just say that doing this close reading of the Philosophical Investigations was a dumb idea.
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
May I just say that doing this close reading of the Philosophical Investigations was a dumb idea.
Sorta gone off a lot ghr fiction I usually read (modernist, literary). What's some fun bullshit I should read? Or very good genre stuff?
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sorta gone off a lot ghr fiction I usually read (modernist, literary). What's some fun bullshit I should read? Or very good genre stuff?