I wonder why living on a computer feels so much worse than the image held in the past of people who lived their lives cooped up inside reading books, who also spent their lives in unreal worlds disconnected from any ‘We’ around them and therefore themselves. I guess maybe every age has things that are seen as extreme wastes of life, from TV to daydreaming.

The living nature of language and the ancestral chains inherent to it are so interesting, constructing our sense of self and the world within the bounds of the games of our language and all the implicit biases that have snowballed over the centuries. I wonder how much slang and in-jokes are able to temporarily break from the weight of cultural history and work within shared personal history.

Truly what feels from a divine otherworld to me is the soft, the blindly trusting, the saintly naive kindness in the face of a merciless nature. To summon a bit of that vulnerability within myself can sometimes mean going against the natural instinct of hardness, distrust, and fear. Striving to live in this way can become virtuous in this secular way you’ve described when I can give myself over to it

Insightful as always. In regards to virtue, it reminds me of: https://publica.org.au/wp-content/uploads/fowers-et-al-2020-the-emerging-science-of-virtue.pdf Ironically, I think you are actually getting closer to what was originally meant by "heaven" by approaching virtues in this manner. They *are* based on maximizing constructive outcomes for all simultaneously, but not necessarily individual "pleasures".

i'd have been an autist one way or another. i'd argue there is a moral obligation to shitpost, silence is defeat

re: delusion -- maravillosa escritura. es delicioso hundirse en las cavernas de la locura, ¿por qué no caer en las grietas, no está siempre ahí esperando?

también, me gusta la idea de las páginas no cotizadas para el sitio. progess general se ve bien, y emocionado de ver lo que vas a llamar al dominio

gracias por las palabras amables -- me tomó un rato pensar el nombre del dominio… la verdad, no tengo muy claro cuál es el objetivo final (´･ω･`)

bro is making neocities in elixir... godspeed

neocities is rather unique in its format, part social platform, part indie web. the lack of financial incentive is blessing and curse, as there is little content on here which would have monetary value, even the most popular sites.

it is, in some ways, one of the few routes of online "rebellion" (commoditizing everything) in a tongue-in-cheek reflection

i use a "mx master" myself and haven't had button issues... yet. have had many mice that lasted shorter.

it's time to upgrade to a wacom tablet for scrolling

most religions can b deconstructed as the desire for permanent happiness, which is impossible here or anywhere else. even prolonged states of bliss must come to an end. thus the seeking of the profoundly religious and drug addicts are essentially the same

...I always thought that most of them were about seeking to understand truths beyond transitory emotions or social conditions. Indeed, seeking a "permanent bliss" for oneself alone and without consideration of the conditions that facilitate it is empty.

the telos of most religion is about getting to heaven, jannah, sagga, etc. going to the toilet is more important tbh

None of those are "places" as such, but dualistic states of mind...One can meet immediate needs in the short-term, have purposeful goals in the long-term, *and* be overcome by neither.

perhaps it is impossible...