why we should

Over the last week I have been reading Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome. Rüpke's uses the word appropriation to describe what people do with agency in maintaining but personalising ritual, both in shrines at home and in holding…

metaphor analogies you by way of the world like the way coins are words The analogy of power has… —since agriculture’s rise to give recidivist baboon-like hierarchists some purchasing power to layer societies,—has …overridden the metaphor of life, with ratios of stacked distinctions, however ill-proportioned.

Krebs cycle is another pivot, or hinge, the threshold where Janus dances, the gate is a dance surfing a flow of protons. Consciousness re-iterates this in/by/through/up/out/ involutions, some meta, some complexified, some hindsighted into logic, like the way a bear eats berries to pile on fat for…

Or, not what I had planned, which involved a matrix of ratios on self/world:reality This is a planned post on proportions of the Janus ratio. But not the planned post. Planning got me nowhere. I ended up somewhere else, but at least I am not…

In a few comments elsewhere I have started using the term Janus ratio, to describe our threshold of attention, the gate on which it pivots is the urge to live. I’ll try to make sense of it, by some attempts at definition of this neologism, below. The Janus…

I've used the term the "Janus ratio" to indicate our relations to the… —gap. There are many gaps. One gap is our view in-out. In self, out there world. Here the Janus ratio indicates where our attention allocates it self in world. The point is…