A somewhat Darwinian approach to the Christ Myth. It maybe a "just so" theory from a French intellectual but it packs a compelling punch. https://www....
He did once say he was fond of Emil Cioran. The morbid poetic aphorisms crack me up and the're pithy. A love of uselessness that simulates an illusion...
I've seen some quite healthy and happy Mormons.Even Jehova's Witnesses, in between statements of "there is only one true God," seemed happy. I guess i...
But there was something else... the booming voice of Captain Luda. "All hands!" Bimble looked down at his hands as the jeering motley crowd of weather...
I would cut it at "But there was something else." Holding to the possibility that the rogue wave is the expedient we need to further the story along t...
The true name of if he exists, is Michael Mod. But for the purposes of this story no one ought to know that the name of is Michael Mod. His caretaker,...
Sounds like a transposition of Zeno's traversing half of a half of a half... distance with color. If physics solves Zeno's paradox by pointing to the ...
Cheer up. Life is absurd because wherever you go, there you are. Unless you are not. But that is seldom if if ever the case. It might be the case when...
It's really good. Wish I could make mine as enjoyable but writing is like trying to collapse Bimble's superpositions. The wave never collapses as one ...
It's all very gnostic. Sad to say I'm not Truly interested in anything, just half-heartedly interested. So if we go through the door (by some art of n...
You're one strange cat, that's for sure. I think doing numerology would make me depressed because I wouldn't know why I'm doing it. What is the point?...
Were the Ancient Ones the ancient Egyptians? Do you find any humor in the "fact" they used these units of measurement? They might have used the royal ...
But why can't we change the units of measurement? What happens if you change the diameter of earth to kilometers but keep the height of the sphinx and...
When you say square perimeter of Earth, does this also mean the area of the earth, or is it the area of a square or circular plane tangential to the s...
Then why bother measuring? And where did you get those measurements anyway? Are they on Wikipedia? What deity does my name correspond to by this numer...
Found it on reddit but it might be a mistelling. This is the chaos of mindless internet wandering. You hit the camel's balls(?) between two bricks as ...
These ideas are very common but they're dressed up in different ways. Maybe we can say there are archetypal patterns which shift into metaphor/analogy...
I concur by absurd rejection. I just don't know what I don't know. All beings are equal when and if all beings are equal. There are no gods if and whe...
Coincidence is an explanation for the parallel you describe also, but not very exciting or spooky. You've provided a new means to shift the content of...
It's a long walk out of the boonies of Botsawana, my geographical antipode, once I dig through the center of the Earth to get there. Will I survive? I...
Yes. There is no 1st person experience of death or sleep presumably. There are kinds of awareness around or preceding (in case of death) those events....
A light in the distance drew Bimble toward it. The brazier next to the town's well created an island of the known. This memory of town held up and sta...
Vaccum decay had been initiated by a non-deterministic irregularity in the fabric of space time 22 to the 12th power miles away from Dungeon Master's ...
I don't think there is anything wrong with "nothing is still something" because negation requires something to negate. Nothing is always framed by som...
Suppose there is nothing it is like to be dead. So there will potentially be something it is like to be after one has taken the suicidal leap. There i...
Pedimanous (handlike) feet are always prehensile (they grasp) in nature. I've always had a tenuous grasp on the definition of the word glib which has ...
Next time you are inspired to go to the ceramic studio, consider trying the technique of Sgraffito in decorating your cups, bowls, bongs, tea pots, Ru...
The icosagon glowed like a faceted piece of coal. Silence broke with a thudding knock and light poured through a door. "What in tarnation is going on ...
Bimble was seized and knew instantly he was in the grip of a night terror, paralyzed. His own shadow twisting around him, creeping upwards and around ...
Sounds very similar to a Thai curry, minus the manioc and plantain. Never have tried a plantain or manioc (outside of tapioca dessert) but I'm guessin...
No, we've got the domestication list for the chef: Banana (Goat) Potato (Goat) Goat Fried plantains and stewed goat. Vodka. Enough to fuel any will to...
Oh you can see my correct count but I cannot. Mine is stuck at 664. The fault is somehow on my side. Edit: Oh, never mind. I'm looking at the other co...
Apparently the giant companies like Dole are eschewing new tech gene modification to try and get ahead of the new oncoming fusarium wilt problem (like...
If the banana was domesticated 7,000 years ago, does that mean they were as seedless back then? The selection of the banana preceded any why. Maybe it...
This is exactly a training task assigned in some spy guilds, to infiltrate the local whore houses using invisibility but the prevalence of guard dogs ...
This is already like DnD. The forum is full of characters who have skill profiles. Original posters are like summoners of monsters (the posing of a pr...
If it is fated that I will get fatter by abstaining from eating food, then it is fated. If it is fated that I will bear a child as a man, so it is fat...
?? Kotatsu (kanji for torch and footwarmer) ?? Kotatsu (kanji for fire and footwarmer) I still wonder how the Japanese prior to the Westernization of ...
The decadence of nobles is always tawdry aside the privations of the common folk. In some towns there are not the smallest of tittynopes left to susta...
:rofl: Unfortunately I was slurring vowels together trying to distinguish diphthongs today while skimming leaves out of the ponds. It's based on sound...
Sarah could be no one else, otherwise Sarah wouldn't be who she is. After schopenhauer1 drove antinatalist arguments into Sarah's head she was not her...
Try this: the insulating properties of a sand as a mold? Some sand melts and stick to the surface of molded pot but probably can be sanded off. Edit: ...
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