by orchaeus | May 18, 2017 | Status Update
I imagine a team of people on a small boat at sea; they are intimate, their lives and spirits are intertwined, and this felt sense overwhelms all fictions and narratives. Life, for them, is immediate, purposive to the root, they are one body in 12 people, one purpose...
by orchaeus | May 18, 2017 | Status Update
“I saw that the spider was in a dangerous place in my home, where it would not prosper and might be crushed. “You should move from there,” I spoke to it in the inner way. The next night it was gone. Into me, where we both shall prosper. Indeed, it...
by orchaeus | May 18, 2017 | Status Update
Book of the Week
by orchaeus | May 16, 2017 | Status Update
Some context: Cassirer is discussing the ‘problem’ that emerges when we subsume all phenomenon under a logical framework. A variety of special problems arise here, but perhaps most fundamentally, the problem of the domination of our thought, perspectivity,...
by orchaeus | May 15, 2017 | Status Update
Although I do not entirely agree*, this is an interesting perspective: “One of the great paradoxes of romantic love is that it »never produces human relationship as long as it stays romantic». It produces drama, daring adventures, wondrous, intense love scenes,...
by orchaeus | May 12, 2017 | Status Update
Much of our common thought, expectation and activity is senseless, and based upon suppositions and inferences that, when carefully examined, are either wrong, absurd, or baseless. For this reason I assert that modern peoples are at least as ‘superstitious’...
