Like I said...

Western civilization is a death cult and has been for quite some time now...

Why Now? Or: Stalin vs. Trotsky, Round Deux

Last weekend, America began a new Near Eastern war against one of the most ancient cultures on earth: Iran. The goal was/is to drop bombs on them for four weeks, pulverizing their military and industrial base so badly that the ordinary Iranians finally rise up and overthrow their evil

Note on infant baptism

Fr. Chad Ripperger discusses the real reason for latae sententiae excommunications for women who procure abortions, or the “health care“ professionals who carry them out. I cover infant baptism here. Ripperger’s claim that abortion is especially heinous, not because it involves killing only, but because it permanently denies the

Disintegration via Drink

Contra Music

This week, I've applied my energy to being observant of states, mental and physical. Video and audio were canceled on my devices, so there was just Noble Silence. Time for practice, reading and doing chores. I was feeling under the weather and ended up taking a half day

System of a Downer

Charles Upton, The System of the Anti-Christ I've been reading Charles Upton's book, The System of Anti-Christ, since we here at the Tangle are all about the arrival of the Man of Perdition. I have an interest in the Anti-Christ because while I no longer identify

I had a dream!

Dreaming is the product of the monkey mind, the rattling and noise of a frenetic animal's inner world even during deepest sleep. Give its products no thought, for if you are deluded in waking time, imagine how much worse it is in sleep, when mindfulness, awareness and perception

The Epstein Document Dump

I have been engrossed in alternative media coverage of the first dump of Epstein documents. The more scintillating bits involve the very wealthy fussing over grape soda, pizza and beef jerky. At this point, we know from the context of exchanges that these are code words for other things. As

Authentication Breakdown

One of the pressures on us cattle is security. Particularly, computer security. We need to be secure. Knowledge is everything and we can't be letting all our secrets hang out. In the last couple of years, companies have ramped up investment in securing their cloud infrastructures, their on-premise

Tax harvesting and the AI Backlash, pt. 2

I mentioned in a recent blog post on AI that humans would never be allowed to go free range. I mentioned the tax harvesting that the state requires in order to function and the problems with people abandoning downtowns and local businesses to stay at home and work. One of

The AI Backlash, pt. 1

I met the announcement of ChatGPT around 2022 with fear and dread. At last, we would have a tool to replace the white collar class. In fact, whatever was left of the middle class. I didn't use it at first, being nauseous over the thought of being out

Via Negativa

Buddhism is the way of negation. This I am not, this is not me, this is not mine. A millennium or more before the rise of via negativa theology in the Christian Church, Shakyamuni set out a path for the complete cessation of suffering that was subtle, hard to comprehend

Why (the) black (pill) is (can be)(the) white (pill)

The black pill can be the white pill. In theism, god is said to turn evil into good. In non-theistic traditions, the truth is similar, but you have to do the work. There is not a god, hidden or otherwise, to lead you from the bramble-choked path to the walkable

Why AI will not lead to a "post labor" economy

I've been a remote worker for over a decade. I have been blessed to work for companies where remote first was the regnant philosophy for hiring and promotion, long before Covid. Software companies and consultancies had an advantage in that they could embrace non-traditional work situations for a

On the Progress of the Beast, pt. 1

I've been editing my December 2024 post on anti-Christ. I discuss there at some length the place of Bitcoin (BTC) in society. Fixing grammar, type-os, what not got me to thinking about an update. The Beast never sleeps. Here it is closing in on October 2025 and in

The West is a suicide cult

Civilizations are organisms which follow the life cycle of a mammal. Birth, infancy, youth, maturity, senescence and final break up. Final break up is another term for death, one I like because it expresses what happens as our bodies disintegrate into parts. I prefer to think of my body as

Dead Internet Theory

I keep seeing think pieces, VLOGs and essays on the death of the Internet. The narrative goes like this: The Internet in the 1990s was a wild west where humans were the creators of all content and it was unpredictable, zany, engaging and adventurous. Then, corporations via social media began

Thoughts on infant baptism, pt. 1

For the vast majority of Christian history, it was accepted that baptism by water and spirit were absolutely essential for salvation. The words come from Christ in the Gospels: Verily, verily I say unto thee, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into

Sleep, the importance thereof

I've reached a critical juncture in my life, where I'm chomping at the bit to leave my corporate job and become a full time day trader. This sounds like a bad idea and probably is, but this year, I've been making okay money. Nothing

Flickering images

For the past several years, I've been a tv addict. I have a nice large tv with bright vibrant colors and it streams all sorts of stuff. My primary use has been YouTube because this, of all Mara's devices, is the most interesting for me personally.

Well hello, Traveller!

I opted to take a break from practice a couple or three weeks ago. My exercise schedule and general busy-ness meant that when I sat down in the evenings to meditate, I would nod off. Meditation for someone with no commitments to a wife or children can still be difficult.

The Carnivore Life

Having been an addict for nicotine, caffeine and alcohol at various points in my life and having cut those off with no real struggle several years ago, I still have one quasi-addiction: carbohydrates. When I went off alcohol for good, I was using several bottles of wine a week to

Brahma's Children

My work situation started out pretty stable three years ago. Good company, good team, clear direction and a sense of purpose rooted in positive innovation for the sake of customer service. Everything is impermanent. Wisdom is seeing anicca, dukha and anatta in everything. The last several years – well, decades of