Happy International Day of Slayer!

Posted: June 6th, 2024 | Author: | Filed under: Nihilism | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Happy International Day of Slayer!

Heavy metal posits a simple question: why believe that the metaphysical runs in parallel to the physical, such that natural selection extends beyond the physical world? This arises from its worship of power and destruction at a time when most fear them.

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Beyond the Binary

Posted: October 4th, 2022 | Author: | Filed under: Nihilism | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Beyond the Binary

To students of language, the enduring mystery of words entices and provokes us. The terms which mean the most — spirit, truth, good, information — remain the most inscrutable, but are also found at the core of almost everything that we do. It is as if we are speaking a language we do not understand.

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Metaprometheanism

Posted: March 4th, 2022 | Author: | Filed under: Guest Essays | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on Metaprometheanism

Plato wrote that all human events exist on a curve, and that curve cycles between a life-arc and death-arc, with the life-arc starting at the moment of clarity and the death-arc representing the degradation of that, starting with the death of understanding of the inner goal for individuals and civilization.

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