by orchaeus | Jun 29, 2025 | Status Update
Active mutual concern and various modes of vigilance that arise therefrom are the essence of true relation. Conversely, anything that »operationalizes this for utility, »convenience or ‘profit’, necessarily destroy true relation »at its root.
by orchaeus | Jun 24, 2025 | Status Update
“I’m pretty sure that the primary reason men have heads is so that women can deprive them of them.” — Bobby Yingo (fragment of a conversation about swords)
by orchaeus | Jun 22, 2025 | Status Update
The water is wet. It’s true. And the wetness makes a way of cleansing oneself. But it is not merely the wetness that cleanses. The spirit of water itself, and the specific »kinds of waters in the living world matter enormously here… … the water...
by orchaeus | Jun 22, 2025 | Status Update
Social media is largely owned and ‘captured’ by precisely the interests that actively produce the problems we face; a post on facebook directly, financially supports those interests, while ‘bleeding off’ the emotions and potentials for mutual...
by orchaeus | Jun 22, 2025 | Status Update
“Before beginning, smash your hands thoroughly, so that they no longer function. Then, attempt to play the Chopin chords. You will immediately notice that, with great effort and physical agony, you can almost sound a few of them. In this way, you will come to...
by orchaeus | Jun 22, 2025 | Status Update
“As dogs and cats are to us, we… are to them. But we have lost them… not in Nature, but in our minds, hearts… and ‘ways of life’.” — infraheard
