by orchaeus | Apr 26, 2025 | Status Update
“How do you imagine God?” I do this sometimes, but it is largely futile. It is like imagining kissing or the Sun. Beyond all possible conception, including this one. Explosively beyond, infinitely beyond. No sun? No minds. This resemblance is instructive....
by orchaeus | Apr 25, 2025 | Status Update
“Someone put up signs all over my neighborhood that say ‘Come pick up trash.’ This made me feel optimistic. So I taped pictures of myself with my phone number on the flyers. I haven’t had a date in 30 years. I may not get one now. But at least...
by orchaeus | Apr 25, 2025 | Status Update
“One of the primary forces that impedes open war between the nations is their relatively recently established economic dependence on trade with each other. It follows, then, that anything that significantly impedes or threatens trade between nations,...
by orchaeus | Apr 25, 2025 | Status Update
It’s confusing and problematical to see folks claiming to know ‘what’s going on’ in various ways that are as diverse as they are absurd. Unless the scope of one’s concern is extremely mundane, i.e.: is the door open? It is formally...
by orchaeus | Apr 24, 2025 | Status Update
“The scent of the coffee is nice.” “I am getting hungry.” — when I talk to myself in my mind in words
by orchaeus | Apr 22, 2025 | Status Update
It is impossible to determine the characteristics, qualities and categories of beings and situations… without, at the same time, re-determining your own. There are no objective perceivers. And to see, categorize or ‘know’ anything about the features...