001144

by | Jul 6, 2024 | Status Update

“Even those activities which aim at the immediate satisfaction of vital needs—hunting, for instance—tend, in archaic society, to take on the play-form. Social life is endued with supra-biological forms, in the shape of play, which enhance its value. It is...

001145

by | Jul 5, 2024 | Status Update

I find myself compelled to derive the categories of things or beings in my awareness. So that, when someone sent me a strange thing, I wanted to know “what” it was; i.e. to what category (set-family) does this object belong? But then something strange...

001153

by | Jun 30, 2024 | Status Update

Criticizing that which exists, did exist, or is commonly practiced is not merely often useless… it is, quite commonly, lethal. While insightful critiques can be useful, they are thus if and only if they lead to the development, recommendation and...

001156

by | Jun 30, 2024 | Status Update

“He’s talking about contact with a Nonhuman Intelligence, even though he doesn’t say this explicitly. And I know what this is like, because, for 9 months in 2002, and again, for a few months in 2009, I underwent something at least slightly similar,...