So, yeah. I’ve been bored. I’ve been busy. I’ve been busy being bored.
So for this HACK I’m acting like a filter, sharing some of my favorite videos for nerds like us.
Posts tagged Robert Anton Wilson
HACK № 53: The Fifth Wall
The truth is, when I think of God, the first thing that pops into my mind is the bearded guy in the clouds, watching and judging. Like, he knows that he shouldn’t judge me. But he does. He just isn’t all in my face about it. He leaves it up to me to pay attention to the signs. But make no mistake. He likes me but he doesn’t like me like me.
He loves you. READ MORE »
I Don’t Belong Here: Skeptible
I don’t believe in aliens. Let’s start there. I don’t believe in aliens. Or rather, let me expand and clarify. When I say I DON’T believe in aliens, I don’t mean to say that I DO believe that there NO aliens, just that I don’t have any belief at all. Belief is the death of intelligence, as Robert Anton Wilson memorably said. I have no knowledge of the existence of aliens, so I don’t draw any conclusions. That said, I don’t see any particular reason TO believe in aliens, either.
HACK № 39: A Conspiracy of Blessings
Howdy Mediocritons, welcome to the thirty-ninth extremity of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, I’ll go out on a limb if you promise to catch me when I fall.
Dichotomies: What are we going to do about them? What aren’t we going to do about them? Is one side more real or more preferred than the other? Or do they exist simultaneously depending upon the conscious observer? Do my rhetorical questions have answers? Or are the answers simply more questions? I could do this all night folks, or I could not. Let’s pick the latter and move on. READ MORE »
I Don’t Belong Here: Digressions, 2004-2012
For the first time ever, here’s all the Digressions! Digressions #1, #2, and #3 were originally published in If You Don’t Give Me Heaven. Digressions #5 and #6 were originally published in Heroes And Hierophants. Digression #3 has never been published anywhere, and Digression #7 is brand spanking new! Whatever THAT means.
Digression #1: The Kingdom of Heaven and the nature of magic
Digression #2: Everything vs Nothing, Jesus, and Conway’s Game of Life
Digression #3: The Existence Of God and Crypto-Solipsism
Digression #4: Metaphorical evil and the EZ-Pass
Digression #5: December 21st, 2012
Digression #6: The Eye in the Triangle
Digression #7: People don’t believe what they believe they believe
HACK № 18: Brevity Is A Trollish Git
Howdy Tulpas, welcome to the eighteenth edification of HACK. If you’ve made it this far then you’ve probably heard the ol’ aphorism, “Brevity is the soul of wit” or in other words…
Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech is the spiritual or immaterial part of mental sharpness and inventiveness.
This week: I got nothing. Well, I have lots of things but no patience to expound on any of them. So over five days of vacation last week I wrote little bits on lots of stuff. I guess my brain just needed to upload it all and clear the cache. I could’ve just used the apostrophe bit below and called it a HACK. However, since I spent many hours doing nothing but sitting in a den of iniquity hacking all this jibba jabba out, I’m just going to share it all with y’all. See what I did there? I used an apostrophe to denote the contraction of ‘you’ and ‘all.’
Read on, dear Readers. With patience it’ll all make sense. I promise to have something more relevant to your world just as soon as it becomes relevant in mine. READ MORE »
Letters From God: The Fact Of The Matter…
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Everything is an opinion. This is, obviously, my opinion. You’re probably thinking “Shannon, WHAT ABOUT FACTS!!!” Oh you sillies. These facts are results that you can decide to accept or not. READ MORE »
HACK № 4: Twenty-Three Admonitions of Self
Howdy Sentients, welcome to the fourth installment of HACK. If you’ve made it this far, now is as good a time as any to scrub your feet.
This week I’m expanding on a piece written for Heroes and Hierophants, specifically Noel’s assignment which was to invent a new religion. I came up with something called Dissolutionism, a religion based upon the principle that the only true answers are more questions. READ MORE »
HACK № 2: Forty-Two Pet Peeves
PET PEEVES
“I don’t have pet peeves – I have major psychotic fucking hatreds.”
—George Carlin
1. Any sentence beginning with the phrase “What’s your favorite….”
2. Motion sensor lights in cramped suburban neighborhoods.
3. Unnecessary and/or irrelevant reply-to-all e-mails. READ MORE »