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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
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 The Soul

1/12/23 – On The Soul One major philosophical concept: that of the Soul. Or rather, what has been described by some as the soul, the self, the “I that I am”: a singular, indivisible, atomic center…

December 10, 2023

Sam

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ancient-ideas, Anno, Buddha, Camus, dualism, Evangelion, existentialism, humanism, humanity, life, mindfulness, monism, nihilism, phenomenology, philosophy, Poetry, Soul, Tolle, treatise
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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existentialism

Cults After Doomsday

An Exercise on Free Will

On The Soul

A Beginning – Sanctity and Constraint