why we should

I have a certain care or consideration for believers. This may not be apparent from reading my less than supportive posts on the imperial cult that is Christianity, and especially the rogue imperial sub-cult that is Catholicism, statist moves which give us the definition of religion and its over-application to practices which might best be regarded as ‘worlding’ rather than…

Via medicalxpress.com when scrolling on my phone, “Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia.” So I’ve become aware of the following article in Nature “Plasticity and Language in the Anaesthetized Human Hippocampus.” I took a few things away from this quick scroll,…

There is a type of selfing the world which worlds the self in terms of an identity. It is generally unwise, while it may have prosocial outcomes, these do not generally provide not long-term strategies. One can identify with someone when they tell a story, and one says in recognition “That’s me in the mirror!” It is still a mirror,…

Josh Zlatus reveals he has an “abiding passion” that let’s him begin on interest and activities like psychotherapy or literature, and then diving deeply and lengthily, but works them out like miner, and so finds them a little wanting. Only to go on. So it goes. I call that abode the world, and the passion is the life. We world…

There are many middle worlds in the realm of literature and mythology, and indeed in the dominion of empires and realms with which these originary places are orbitally locked. Zhongguo/Middle kingdom, Mesopotamia, meditullium, Madhyadesha, Midgard, Middle earth. There are so many they have no middle ground, but constitute all mythology between the earth and the heavens, somehow... Quite often they…

Thus in these brief weeks Dorothea’s joyous grateful expectation was unbroken, and however her lover might occasionally be conscious of flatness, he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest. The season was mild enough to encourage the project of extending the wedding journey as far as Rome, and Mr. Casaubon was anxious for this because he…