Sanctity and Constraint

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A Storied Tradition of Hellish Inhumanity

On completing Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, a certain emotion hangs with me, which is best illustrated through the path of his narrative, and the fact that I often read it as a reprieve from the…

January 18, 2026

Sam

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existentialism, religion, culture, nihilism, humanism, philosophy, writing, meaning, Darwin, evolution, imperialism, race, native, books
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

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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
A Beginning – Sanctity and Constraint

Midway through the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a realm of noise and blinding light – for though my feet had never left the path, it was lost behind the din.…

December 8, 2023

Sam

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blog, culture, existentialism, humanism, introduction, journey-of-life, memes, nihilism, Poetry, religion, starting, verse