by orchaeus | Feb 25, 2025 | Status Update
Please take a few moments to create and post an entirely fictional autobiographical paragraph that represents your secret autobiography. “Darin’s father was a largely invisible comet that struck the car in which his teenage parents were surreptitiously...
by orchaeus | Feb 25, 2025 | Status Update
“A few weeks ago, as we got ready to record our conversation, my interviewer asked for clarity on how to properly say my last name. She wouldn’t even attempt a pronunciation; she didn’t want to mess it up. Laughing, I urged her to “give it a...
by orchaeus | Feb 25, 2025 | Status Update
“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.” — Eric Hoffer
by orchaeus | Feb 25, 2025 | Status Update
“I have the strongest of reasons to suspect that the ancients did not name the stars because »they imagined that they might be beings, or gods. They named them because »they knew them as beings, in a way not very dissimilar to how I know my son or father. They...
by orchaeus | Feb 24, 2025 | Status Update
“Light, Time, Space and the forms of organisms are »literally the same feature of that which exists. Treating them as distinct is an error of first principles. I will not here mention that with which we entertain such features as likeness or distinction.”...
by orchaeus | Feb 24, 2025 | Status Update
“Interesting (to use the cliche), but seriously… even in Blackfoot mythology, I see the male/female dichotomy… and in the Sun/Moon stories, the (male) Sun seeks to ‘sever’ the (female) Moon into pieces, objects, that can ideally be...
