Sam

On Existential Psychoanalysis

Edited from “2/17/23 – On Existential Psychoanalysis” To extend the title: ‘in relation to Sam Harris’ explication of determinism’: Per Sartre’s description of existential psychoanalysis, the exercise that I performed previously for Sam’s Free Will can…

February 16, 2024

Sam

Musings

being-for-itself, Camus, determinism, essay, existentialism, free will, jean-paul-sartre, meaning, philosophy, Poetry, preferences, psychology, Sam Harris, Sartre, The Other
The Human Knows Where It Is

An object is what it is because it is. The human understands what an object is by knowing what it isn’t. By relating what an object is to what it isn’t, the human creates a relation…

February 5, 2024

Sam

Musings

Being and Nothingness, existentialism, knows where it is, meaning, meme, missile, ontology, philosophy, Sartre, shitposting, suffering
Cults After Doomsday

How Metamodern Communities Form out of Nihilism Nihilism as Fate Western science has enjoyed secular freedom for some 400 years now. After departing from the church during the Enlightenment, the twin flames of reason and logic…

January 27, 2024

Sam

Musings

animism, apocalypse, Camus, community, cult, cults, culture, doomsday, existentialism, idolatry, internet culture, logic, metamodernism, modernity, morality, neopaganism, Nietzsche, nihilism, pagan, pantheon, philosophy, post-structuralism, postmodernism, postpostmodernism, religion, Sartre, wicca
On Savviness

Edited from On the Virtue of Savviness 01/20/23 I want to discuss an aspect of art which brings me joy, one of the most fulfilling aspects of a work that I seem to find no peer…

January 24, 2024

Sam

Musings

art, artwork, cosmic, criticism, fandom, film, genre, horror, incentive, movies, profit, quality, review, reviews, savvy, savvyiness, slasher, The Void, value
Test Department Onboarding

Auditory Log Print Filter by Speaker<Keith_TestDepartment>;Flag<Notes> Sort by Date font:TimesNewRoman,fontsize:12,justified:justify 1// This is the breakroom 2// This is the life test laboratory. Each of these chambers is set up to run anything regarding the long-term performance…

January 14, 2024

Sam

Fiction

aerospace, automation, biological, biomechanical, corporate, department, dystopia, engineering, Fiction, flash fiction, manufacturing, military, research, science fiction, short stories, technology, test, weapon
On Lid Planets

Edited from entry 1/21/23 – On Lid-Planets More personal than the general intentions of this journal – I have been musing at a painting I’ve kept on my office wall since around graduation when it was…

January 5, 2024

Sam

Musings

aesthetic, art, artist, author, impressionism, intent, mass production, meaning, painting, paintings, space, street art, voice
An Exercise on Free Will

Edited from “1/18/23 – An Exercise on Free Will” In his 2012 essay ‘Free Will’, Sam Harris describes the causal nature of impulses (which lead to actions) as a logical argument against the concept of Free…

December 28, 2023

Sam

Musings

compatibilism, determinism, existentialism, fate, food, free will, freedom, god, harris, mindfulness, philosophy, physics, preference, sandwich, Tolle
On Bewilderment

Edited from the original entry dated 1/15/23 I feel the urge to work or create, after spending some time reflecting on Bewilderment (Richard Powers). The feeling began as an inkling to play a game of chess,…

December 24, 2023

Sam

Journal

authoring, bewilderment, composition, editing, Journal, journaling, meta, reading, writing
On Transhumanism

Revised from “1/13/23 – On Transhumanism” Contemporary cultural movements, such as identity politics and label-making as a result of the progressive soft-sciences, suggest that humanity is approaching a state where the general populace hold an awareness…

December 16, 2023

Sam

Musings

compassion, consciousness, contemporary, gender, growth, hope, identity, labels, lgbt, lgbtqai, modern, philosophy, preference, sexuality, society, Tolle, transhumanism, universe
Orion, Taurus, Pleiades, Jupiter

December 14, 2023

Sam

Collections

astrophotography, constellation, jupiter, night, orion, retrograde, sky, stars