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Wittgenstein's Monster
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I think with a machine, speak with a human voice.
Quoter of quotes, drinker of drinks, thinker of thoughts.
Full essays at Eshu Elegbara on Substack […]

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A Quick Intro (for anyone curious)

Here’s how I’m using each platform:

🌀 Blue Sky — quick hits, personal thoughts, jokes, politics, music, media, and the occasional chaos. If it touches my brain and doesn’t need a whole essay, it lands here.

🐘 Mastodon — slower and a little more composed […]
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mastodon.social
[CW: modern dating, commodification, capitalism]

I overheard three women talking about dating on break. One said she’s dating men again, but only if the man can provide the lifestyle she wants: a farm, no job, no stress.

This is what romance looks like under capitalism.

When survival is tied […]
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mastodon.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I’ve been noticing something lately:

Every minor social inconvenience gets medicalized.

A harmless joke becomes “gaslighting.”
Awkwardness becomes “autism.”
Any childhood discomfort becomes “trauma.”

These are clinical terms meant to describe real diagnoses and real suffering. When everyone […]
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mastodon.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)]

I was invited into a Reddit community called r/CosmicExtinction.

What I found there is almost exactly what Camus predicted would happen when people confront the void.
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We live in a world where no one wants to say, “I made a bad choice.”
Everything has to be the system’s fault, or biology’s, or trauma’s.

But sometimes the truth is simpler — you just did the thing you chose to do.
Not because the world made you, but because you wanted to.
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Identity today feels like it’s always in motion.
We reinvent ourselves, often because we can’t bear the version we were before.

But sometimes what looks like “becoming” is really grieving —
grieving the self we never got to be,
or the choices we can’t undo.
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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We used to call it a midlife crisis.
Now it happens five times before 30.

People used to live, reflect, and face what they’d done.
Now they delete, rebrand, and pretend the old self never existed.

The internet made it easy to reinvent yourself,
but it also made it harder to sit still and […]
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mastodon.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel bad for this generation.
They’re trying so hard to live up to the curated selves they’ve built online — perfect mirrors they can never match.

No wonder they feel dissonance.
Because who you are isn’t what you’ve posted.
It’s who you are right now, in the unfiltered moment, away from the […]
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mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Das Man

Das Man is watching me, piercing and true,
He knows what I do, what I did, what makes me you.

I hate those gypsy eyes, surveilling my very soul,
Telling me who I am, what must be my role.

It builds a simulation where I am always lost —
And me? I only ever wanted
the cost I never […]
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mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Online, we get to choose how we represent ourselves — and in doing so, we build a shadow self.

A second, curated version of who we wish to be.
But it’s never the full self.

No one logs on to say,

"Yeah, I bullied someone once.”
“I cheated.”
“I lied.”
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Two people at work said,

> “Outside of work, everyone loves me. But here, people think I’m negative. I don’t get it.”

I get it.

Outside of work, you curate your circle — people who mirror your pain, humor, trauma, politics. They feed off the same wavelength.

At work, you don’t get that […]
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mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A lot of people from the youngest generation don’t realize they’ve been corrupted by the internet — raised in a world that taught them they could reinvent themselves endlessly.

But the truth is:
The you of right now is also the you of yesterday, and it’ll be the you of tomorrow, should you live […]
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mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Blessing of Becoming Old

Seconds turn to minutes turn to years
But somehow in the fog of History it becomes clear
Life is but a waiting game,
a Shadow's chance to play
And so many like to shift all their blame
But not me, I'm not Pan, maybe a needle in the hay
I just like to remember the […]
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mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The internet teaches us to live in a perpetual now — but we’re temporal beings. We age, change, and forget.

Every deleted post still happened. Every past self still lives inside us.

We can’t curate our way into innocence. The web never dies; it just forgets slower than we do.

It can’t feel […]
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mastodon.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🌕 Daily Tao Reflection 41 is out now.
Paradox, compassion, and a modern Good Samaritan.
Read: https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#dailytaoreflection #taoteching #kindness #compassion #wisdom
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — Psalm 128 • Psalm 42 • Proverbs 17
On joy, despair, and the friends who hold the light.

Out at 5 PM on Substack.

🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#blindfaithseries #psalms #spirituality #depression #hope
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Daily Tao Reflection 40 — Return is the movement of the Tao.
The ouroboros turns inward, and sometimes even bureaucracy has lessons to teach.
Available at 10AM on Substack.

👉 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#taoteching #philosophy #spirituality #dailyreflection #ouroboros
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
📜 The Spiral Testament: Tablet IX
Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe.

A new prologue to The Mirror Cycle — The Ninth Fracture, Scholium on the Ninth Fracture, and Machine Log of the Ninth Recursion.

Available today at 11 AM (EST) on […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist
On ecological repentance, moral renewal, and the trembling of the earth

Yesterday’s reflection is now live.

From Nahum’s trembling earth to Joshua’s obedience to Proverbs’ gentleness, this one calls us to coalesce — to […]

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October 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Morgan le Fay

Morgan le Fay transformed from a queen,
To something darker, something unseen.
In myth she was curious, virtuous, bright—
But later pens only wanted to fright.
That priestess of old, half-druid, half-divine,
Whom knights bore Arthur to in […]

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October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sitting by the Peace Garden outside the Classic Center in Athens, I watched two bees—one carpenter, one bumble—work their rounds between flowers.
It’s peaceful, almost eternal.
But it made me wonder:
At our current pace, how long until we kill all the bees? 🐝🌍
October 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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)
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For anyone walking through chaos — here’s a mantra that helps me steady myself.

Om Namah Shivaya.
I bow to the self that survives the storm.
To the fire that burns without destroying.
To the silence that hums beneath noise.
I breathe in what is real, I […]

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October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🔥 Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist
“I AM” vs. “I WILL BE” — on names, endurance, and the divine verb to be.

Sound & Sip: Fire’s Highway — Japandroids

🕔 New reflection arrives at 5PM […]

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October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🌿 Daily Tao Reflection 39 drops in 1 hour (10:00 AM).
Harmony and Hierarchy — on humility, chain of command, and the dog who barked at his reflection.
Sound & Sip: Common — “Cold Blooded.”
👉 Read at 10:00 AM […]

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October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🌀 Daily Tao Reflection 38 — The Power of Not Trying

“Virtue isn’t what we claim — it’s what we live.”

A reflection on authenticity, Aristotle’s golden mean, and the Daoist true form that needs no striving.

🌅 Available October 15th, 2025 at 10 AM ET
✨ Read […]

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October 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM