Archive - Unverified Revelations

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous…

Jul 14 •

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June 2024

The Metaphor of Moulting

A community becomes rigid, conformist, and ritualistic, forgetting the values that animated it at its foundation. A group of people (often younger…

Jun 29 •

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October 2023

Ordinary Mysticism

A problematization of a certain view of mysticism and a potential alternative.

Oct 27, 2023 •

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May 2023

A Political Archetype

May 8, 2023 •

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December 2022

Notes on an Unfinished Conversion

This is an attempt to make some assumptions and chains of reasoning explicit. This piece describes pressing problems for which I have not yet reached a…

Dec 15, 2022 •

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The Road to Hell: A review of "Red Son"

This is a reprint of an essay I wrote in my undergrad for a political theory class. It was one of those fun, unrigorous classes where you got to do a…

Dec 13, 2022 •

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September 2022

11 Theses on Suffering

Suffering is an undeniable evil. There are clear moral imperatives to prevent, alleviate and refrain from causing suffering.

Sep 30, 2022 •

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June 2022

The Totally Enlightened Guide to Status, Sex, Money and Power

There is an awakening when you realize how much of human behavior is driven by unacknowledged motivations. Polite social fictions are peeled back to…

Jun 13, 2022 •

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October 2021

The Systematic Valley

You gotta walk that lonesome valley

Oct 12, 2021 •

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September 2021

The Left and Right Hand Path, Oversimplified

In which I explain and oversimplify these concepts.

Sep 12, 2021 •

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April 2021

Better than Virtue: Saints, Heroes and Creators

Avoiding the meaning-trap of scrupulosity.

Apr 21, 2021 •

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March 2021

Instead of Your Life's Purpose

A meditation on meaning.

Mar 21, 2021 •

Unverified Revelations

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