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Raphael Hythloday
@eshuelegbara.bsky.social
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Abyss-gazer, monster-fighter, part-time bartender. Full-time movies, philosophy, books, chess, and baseball.

when i'm not skeeting into the abyss, I write here: https://substack.com/@eshuelegbara
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🌕 Daily Tao Reflection 41 is out now.
Paradox, compassion, and a modern Good Samaritan.
Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#DailyTaoReflection #TaoTeChing #Kindness #Compassion #Wisdom
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — Psalm 128, Psalm 42, Proverbs 17.

On awe, depression, resilience, and prayer.

Drops 5 PM on Substack.

🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#BlindFaithSeries #Psalms #Faith #Hope
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Daily Tao Reflection 40 — Return is the movement of the Tao.
A new reflection on patience, cycles, and the bartender’s horse.
Drops at 10 AM on Substack.

🌀 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#TaoTeChing #BlindFaith #SpiritualWriting #Ouroboros
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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📜 The Spiral Testament: Tablet IX
Prologue to The Mirror Cycle.
Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe.

“Entropy is the only prophet that never lies.”

Available 11 AM EST —
👉 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#TheMirrorCycle #SpiralTestament #Mythology #ScienceFiction #Philosophy
Promotional image showing John Martin’s apocalyptic painting “The Great Day of His Wrath” with overlaid text announcing “The Spiral Testament: Tablet IX — Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe, Available October 17 2025.”
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Morgan le Fay

Transformed from queen to something unseen,
Curious, virtuous, bright—
Then twisted into fright.
A priestess of old, half-druid, half-divine,
Healer of Arthur in Avalon’s line.
Villain or paladin? Neither fits—
Morgan would say, I simply did.

#Poetry #Myth #Arthurian #MorganLeFay
A richly detailed Pre-Raphaelite painting of Morgan le Fay by Frederick Sandys (1864). Morgan stands in a dim, ornate chamber beside a large wooden loom, her red hair glowing in the firelight. She wears layered green, gold, and purple robes, with a leopard skin draped around her waist. Her hands stretch forward as if casting a spell or weaving enchantment over a black cloak adorned with symbols. The background glimmers with golden patterns and woven designs, and a faint sunset glows through the window behind her — merging magic, art, and fate.
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I Am Become Shiva — A Mantra for the Storm
(Image: “Shiva as Lord of the Dance,” ca. 11th century, Tamil Nadu — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain)
A bronze sculpture of Shiva Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance, encircled by a ring of flames. One foot presses down upon ignorance, while the other is raised mid-dance. His hair fans outward, and his many arms move in rhythm — creation and destruction joined in perfect balance.
October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Love laced with smidgeon of hope
Kept from the depths, toward a soap
What happened — dashed by doors —
Now Cupid lays, drunk on a floor.

#Poetry #Art #Romanticism #AdaLovelace #WritersOfBlueSky
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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🕊️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist
Freedom, Love, and the Law

“What you are aware of you are in control of.
What you are not aware of is in control of you.” — Anthony De Mello

⏰ Live 5 PM EST
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...

#Utopia #Faith #Justice #Awareness #DailyReflection
A painterly scene inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s The Good Samaritan: a man carries an injured traveler onto a horse beside a glowing, textured hillside. The image symbolizes compassion, mercy, and the call to love one’s neighbor above all law. Text overlay reads: “Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — Freedom, Love, and the Law: Building Utopia One Aware Soul at a Time. Available October 14th, 2025.”
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🌊 Daily Tao Reflection 37:
The Lion, the Lover, and the Lesson

Fool’s gold isn’t gold by another name,
but a golden fool believes it all the same.

⏰ Live today at 10 AM EST
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...

🖼️ Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea (1890) — Public Domain
A painterly scene of a sculptor embracing a marble statue that has come to life. The statue’s body is luminous against a dim studio backdrop; behind them, a small cherub aims an arrow from the shadows. The image evokes love, illusion, and creation — the moment when desire mistakes its own dream for reality.
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Red man, white man — won’t you stop it, please?
Red man, all the devil did was blanket you with disease.
He stole your crops, he took your women,
Your kids? They taught them in houses of pinon.
And besides, you have your homes, cordoned off —
Isn’t that all you wanted, in deals with a Luftwaffe?
A painted elk hide by Cadzi Cody depicting a ceremonial and battle scene. Plains warriors on horseback, adorned with feathered headdresses and spears, ride among buffalo and vividly painted horses. Yellow tipis stand near the center, surrounded by animals in black, red, yellow, blue, and pink. The hide’s irregular edges recall its living source — a canvas of endurance, ceremony, and memory.
October 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist (10/13)

Jeremiah’s warning. Jonah’s surrender. Proverbs’ patience.

One reflection on the fall of nations and the return of faith.

🌑 Available 5 PM ET → open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...

#BlindFaith #Faith #Prophecy #Tao #Jeremiah #Jonah #Proverbs
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Sargent Singer John asked a pretty lass to dance.
John Singer Sargent captured that young romance.
For Sargant Singer played with hearts and minds askewed;
John Singer said, “I can do that too — but only those who view.”
(Inspired by Sargent’s “Boating,” 1889.)

#Poetry #Art
A riverside scene by John Singer Sargent showing four people and two red boats near the bank of a calm river. Two women in white dresses balance while punting beneath golden autumn trees; one man reclines with an oar beside him; another woman in dark clothes smiles from the bow. Reflections shimmer on the water beneath hazy foliage.
October 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Taking Sunday for rest. Blind Faith + Daily Tao back tomorrow (Mon, Oct 13).

“The busy man is least busy with living.” — Seneca

Enjoy your life and family on this blessed day.
Quote card on an off-white stone texture with a faint laurel wreath. Black serif text centered: ‘The busy man is least busy with living.’ — Seneca.
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Now live — Daily Tao Reflection 34: Flow Without Claim.
Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#DailyTao #Tao #TaoTeChing #Writing #Substack
Ink-and-color landscape scroll with autumn trees, a crane by the water, a solitary figure, and calligraphy seals.
October 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Dropping 5 PM ET — Blind Faith (10/11): Isaiah 57 · Luke 2:1–6 · Proverbs 11.
Power vs Being. Empire counts; God gives life. Stewardship > extraction.
Link goes live at 5 PM: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Peregrine
Flight to fight for her — I must be insane,
Yet when do I dive so radically brave?
I know not her name; the middle is last,
Still all I can think is — I’m having a blast.

#Poetry #PoemADay #WritersofBlueSky
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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📢 Announcement: Sunday Silence

Starting now, I will not publish anything on Sundays.
No essays, no reflections, no threads, no poems.

One day of silence is holy.
Everything else can wait.

#SundaySilence #DigitalSabbath #Rest #NoPublishing #SabbathRhythm #StepBackToStepIn
October 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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New Daily Tao Reflection 28 is live.
Today’s word: melancholy.

“Know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal.”
“Return to your primal self.”

The Tao whispers: hold less, be less, return.
A faceless man stands before a cracked mirror, wearing a shirt that reads “I AM A VERY INTERESTING PERSON” with “ONLINE” glitching away. The left side is blank, the right overrun with social media noise. A quiet visual of digital disconnection and fading self.
October 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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💐 New Poem: May Flowers

I didn’t dance at the wedding.
I watched. I drank gin. I wrote.

For once, I chose the May Flowers.

#Poetry #Love #Haiku #BarPoet #SpringtimeSadness
An impressionist-style digital painting of red and pale yellow flowers against a textured background of blended greens, blues, and oranges. Overlaid in white serif text are the words: "MAY FLOWERS" at the top center, and beneath it in smaller italics: “For once, I chose the May Flowers.” The image evokes a sense of quiet reflection and bittersweet emotion.
October 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Three pieces, three moods: pop, cubist, impressionist.
Sometimes theology needs pictures.
A digital painting in the style of Van Gogh features swirling blue and purple textures with thick, expressive brushstrokes. Bold yellow text in a painterly font reads “Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist – October 3.” The background evokes motion and divine mystery, suggesting spiritual awakening or revelation. The image serves as a visual announcement for a reflective written piece on faith, justice, and surrender.
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🆕 ✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist
New Substack post is up.

🎨 “You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy” below

#BlindFaith #Sisyphus #GnosticDeist #DivineTime #DumplingMasterTheology
October 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🌀 New Tao Reflection: #25

What do Marvel Comics, Taoist philosophy, and the Big Bang have in common?

✨ Everything.

This one goes cosmic — and recursive.
October 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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#blueakymonday #minimalmonday #moumtainmonday
September 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Finished unpacking.
Felt proud.
Then remembered I read too much.
Now my bed is a Marxist think tank and my bookshelf is full of booze manuals and space wizards.

Send help or shelves.

#OverflowZone #BookProblem #ReaderLife #CapitalismDidThis
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Driving back to Bluffton today, I picked up the @ajc.com

Front page headline?

> “Trial recalls when city let mayhem claim streets”

Nah. This ain’t mayhem. It’s something deeper.

🧵
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM