On November 14, 2022, I deleted my personal Twitter without announcing it. Before spin class, I was looking through the suggested items in my Google News feed, and I saw that two-factor authentication was being dismantled. Had —apparently — already been dismantled. F–k, I thought, I've been logged out for months and won't be able … Continue reading One Month Ago, I Deleted Twitter
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On being in a God’s series
I have written at length about seira, both on this blog and in The Soul's Inner Statues. One thing I've reflected on over the past few days — seeded by interactions in a variety of places since July or so — is just how grounded and level-headed the conversation about individual people being in a God's … Continue reading On being in a God’s series
Yes, We Should Be Rethinking Social Media
I titled this post "yes, we should be rethinking social media" because everyone can benefit from taking a step back, especially during times of turbulent change when habits are easier to break and reform.
Internalizing Externals and Fighting One’s Way Out
The true warfare with the Giants takes place in souls: whenever reason and intellect rule in them, the goods of the Olympians and Athena prevail, and the entire life is kingly and philosophical; but whenever the passions reign, or in general the worse and earth-born elements, then the constitution within them is tyranny.Proclus, Commentary on … Continue reading Internalizing Externals and Fighting One’s Way Out
Something Helpful From Proclus If You Want to Be Less Very Online in 2022
A few years ago, I discussed a passage from Proclus' Parmenides commentary. It was a short post, and I didn't share much beyond that. I want to flesh out some thoughts about that, speaking very heavily in first person, with the expectation that I am facing challenges similar to many people. Here is what Proclus … Continue reading Something Helpful From Proclus If You Want to Be Less Very Online in 2022
A Miscellany of Quotations: Proclus’ PARMENIDES Commentary
You may have read my previous post that mentioned torching everything on my Twitter account except for my current pinned Tweet and a few ornaments. Among the things torched were my live-reads of various philosophical texts, with images of the text. I had always intended to go back and clean my notes up significantly because … Continue reading A Miscellany of Quotations: Proclus’ PARMENIDES Commentary
Shifts and Changes
At the beginning of September, I was very restless, which for me can only be settled by organizing things in the world around me. There's a correlation between my spatial environment and my mental environment, and my physical environment had reached a tipping point of dissatisfaction in the 826 square foot apartment that I have … Continue reading Shifts and Changes
Something Beautiful from Plotinus
This week, I ended up reading Ennead I.6, "On Beauty," because I encountered a quotation from it twice, and it seemed like completing the repetition triad was in order. I would like to share the quotation with all of you, which makes a satisfying tetrad. How, then, can you see the kind of beauty that … Continue reading Something Beautiful from Plotinus
Speech and Silence
I had a nightmare last week that I'd been cursed, twice. The first time, the counter-work fixed it. The second, Yoyo woke me up before I was able to do anything, crawling up to me on the bed to lie by my side as if I would forget her breakfast if she wasn't the first … Continue reading Speech and Silence
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