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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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🌕 Daily Tao Reflection 41 is out now.
Paradox, compassion, and a modern Good Samaritan.
Read: https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#dailytaoreflection #taoteching #kindness #compassion #wisdom
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October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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
Angels play beside Mary and the sleeping Christ child.
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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
A black ink brushstroke forms an open circle — an ensō — on white paper, with small red seals and Japanese calligraphy below. The simple, fluid ring symbolizes return, completeness, and the movement of the Tao.
October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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📜 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 […]

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October 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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✝️ 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
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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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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 statue of Shiva in dynamic motion, encircled by a ring of flame, one foot raised as he dances upon ignorance, hair fanned wide in cosmic rhythm.
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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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
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🔥 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
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🌿 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
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🌀 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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A monochrome Daoist talismanic chart titled The Chart of True Form of the Topography of the Most High Man-Bird Mountain. Abstract, flowing black lines form organic, mountain-like shapes surrounded by a dense border of ancient Chinese script. The image evokes both map and mystery — a visual meditation on hidden order and the unseen “true form” within all things.
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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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 #poem #writingcommunity
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — out now.

From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.

📷 Mahmud Hams / AFP
🔗 […]

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October 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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⚖️ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Artificial Society of Law
Part II of V in The Natural Society of the Sea

Edmund Burke saw the sickness of artificial society long before it had a name — and in the modern age, we’re all living in its aftermath.

⏰ Releases […]

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October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🕊️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist
Freedom, Love, and the Law: Building Utopia One Aware Soul at a Time

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

Galatians 5, Isaiah 9, Proverbs 14 […]

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October 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🪶 Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Red Man, White Man

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 […]

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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 1:32 PM
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✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — new reflection now live.

Jeremiah, Jonah, and Proverbs walk with us through judgment, surrender, and renewal.
Empires fall, storms calm, and faith endures the contraction.

✍️ New post drops 5 PM ET → […]

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October 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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⚡ Daily Tao Reflection 36 — The Expansion Before the Shrink

“If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand.”

Zeno meets Hendrix. Lao Tzu meets the cosmos.

✨ New reflection drops at 10 AM ET.
🌀 Read on Substack → […]

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October 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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New essay dropping tomorrow: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Natural Society of the Sea

How “guidelines, not rules” exposes law as power—then tees up Burke × Foucault.

Read it on Substack […]

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October 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Sunday is a day of rest. No Blind Faith or Daily Tao today—both return tomorrow (Mon, Oct 13).

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

Enjoy your life and family on this blessed day.

#sunday #DayOfRest #seneca #blindfaith #DailyTao
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October 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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[CW: immigration/politics; stereotypes]

🧵 Stewardship ≠ fear. If your theology makes you despise the stranger, you’re not defending the faith—you’re defending power. Facts follow.
Black-and-white photo of immigrants at Ellis Island (c.1920): men and women in coats and headscarves queue with sacks and luggage on a covered pier as officials look on.
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Now live — Daily Tao Reflection 34: Flow Without Claim.

Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#DailyTao #tao #taoteching #writing #substack
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October 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Today 5 PM ET — Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist (10/11).

Isaiah 57 · Luke 2:1–6 · Proverbs 11.

Power vs Being. Empire counts; God gives life. Choose stewardship over extraction.

Link goes live at 5 PM: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com

#blindfaith […]

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October 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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(7/8)
So what do we do?
We remember this:

Toleration is the prerogative of humanity.
But defending tolerance requires boundaries.
And those boundaries must protect the conditions of peace, reason, and dignity.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:21 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.

Why?
Because even prophets need a day off.
Because the internet is not the Sabbath.
Because if God could rest on the […]

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October 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM