believing ⁽⁴⁾

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…

Originally posted on substack.com in February 2024. It is perhaps a caricature of analytic philosophy that an analytic philosopher takes it for granted that beliefs are merely propositions that are held to be true. They use belief as a type of shortcut or shorthand for a whole world of formally logicked pain. It is the analytic philosopher’s job to nut out that solution space.

① "not believing in X" is easily confused with ② “not believing” if you have no frame of practice in noticing 'world-building' is what you mean by meaning. We live in an age that follows the rise and fall of many empires. Empires are a collection of kingdoms and cities. Empires are a derivative of the practices of those states.

In February 2024 in Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie I left off with an enigmatic: And Julia Kristeva’s Lacanist worlding? I may leave that for another day with the cheap remark that it is not engrams all the way down. No, they lie only between the fool and the world. So finally I…