by orchaeus | Jul 13, 2023 | Status Update
“The first move, the first ‘adjustment’ in any relationship whatsoever, even in »thought, determines not merely all futures, but their »character, «origins, and »meaning… the entire manifold of possible futures begins to collapse. The very...
by orchaeus | Jul 13, 2023 | Status Update
“We only have a few words, in English, at any rate, with which we can refer to any experience of beings that are outside of time. The simplest list has four members. Four of them are: 1. Spirit-being 2. ‘Alien’ 3. Angel $: ‘»The Divine...
by orchaeus | Jul 8, 2023 | Status Update
“At the group level, especially at the large group level, our species is entirely ‘captured’ by a vast library of processes that are, effectively, malware. Before our modern societies arose, this was still true, but the forms were slightly less...
by orchaeus | Jul 3, 2023 | Status Update
“The joke’s on us. I mean Area 51 is a trivial side-project compared to how actually weird timespace is. It’s filled with intelligences that only science-fiction authors were courageous enough to try to imagine. But even they didn’t imagine...
by orchaeus | Jul 1, 2023 | Status Update
“The actual reason that humans adore babies and very young creatures is as shocking as it is unnoticed: organisms that are newly-embodied radiate the energies and memories of their origin. They are, in a sense, still half-alien. Or half-angel. Or both and more....
by orchaeus | Jun 29, 2023 | Status Update
“From many angles the onset of the shadow vastly precedes contact with the bird that is generating it. The shadow may ’emerge’ from anywhere, and flit past at ‘impossible’ speeds. With birds, you may never see the bird. Or find it. In...
