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Wee Wisdom (46)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedan example of how people close to you may not know you at all: lots of people in my family used to say i was going to be a politician, more specifically a diplomat. i think they concluded this just because i spoke eloquently for a kid. but still.i wish people would stop using the word elites to mean parasites. you wouldn't call a tapeworm smart, much less part of the elect. (lizard people conspiracy is out. tapeworm...

(how i first came to believe in God)

i talked about damascus moments before, and now i will talk about doubting thomas moments, because doubt was really what led me to believe in God.

i was born into an irreligious family, and raised without any religion. even the handful of people who could be said to not be atheists or agnostics, were not affiliated with any church (and specifically not with the catholic church, which is the only real native religion; everyone i knew was very much anti-catholic, specifically, mostly for political ...

(my short and stupid experience of trying to get published by the system like a good boy)

today is the one year anniversary of the publication of my first novel Phantasia, and i thought it would be fun to talk about what happened between finishing it and releasing it six months later or so.

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after fifteen years of writing no fiction at all, and of having the thought give me nausea, i was as surprised as anyone that i had written a novel. but somehow it happened. and what do you do afterward, if not try to publish it. and since i was quite surprised and also proud of myself, i wanted t...

(damascus moments)

this came about through two different conversations i was having with friends (as usual). slightly edited for publication.

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my favorite Gospel has to be Mark, because that's the one that 'got' me. the reason, I think, is that it's where Jesus is more human. then John, then Matt-Luke. I see the division not as John - synoptics, but Mark-John (or question-Mark and answer-John, as I call it), and the others. Matt-Luke are a bit fanfictiony to me. they put a bunch of stuff there, and tried to make ...

Wee Wisdom (45)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published'ai' is the big engine that could not. but it will keep going anyway, because the purpose is only the destruction of everything.the internet is demonic, but 'ai' is diabolicspiritual discernment stops at the door of the church, pleasemy wife follows a social media page from our county and sometimes she tells me there will be this or that event. i ask her, Do you want to go, and she replies, No.rite...

Wee Wisdom (44)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedcatch twenty two, release twenty threei'm never working on anything, but many things are always working on me. sometimes i wish they weren't.it was good luck that people took issue with something i said on a day when i was feeling too depressed to argue. wasn't even tempted. there is always something to be grateful for.Fukuoka says that fruit is actually at his best and fully ripe when it starts to shriv...

(on the function of satan, and who does it.)

the following was originally part of a conversation, but i think perhaps some of you might be interested in these ideas. for what it’s worth, they are part of the plot of my novels, especially the first, so if you mind spoilers and were interested in eventually reading them, beware. more importantly, the novels were actually how i learned these things, and there are many more dimensions to these ideas that can really only be conveyed through the stories, not in a text like this. but i have learn...

hypnagothic #three

hypnagothic has been to faerie and came back with some new tales for issue number three. or is it number tree.

check it out at hypnagothic.art

stories in this issue:

The Veil (Serena Salamandra)

The Sugar Kingdoms (Sean Gois)

a short prehistory of the carrot (Laeth)

The King with Nine Wives (Sympractical)

St. Merlin of the Borders: A Reply to a Simple Request (Hermeticat)

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Wee Wisdom (43)

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedi can't take myself or what i do very seriously. it would be inconsiderate to the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.usually first drafts are poor. this is why i jump to the final one right away.i don't know if this is well known or not, but i've discovered at some point that i could pray within a nightmare and the diabolic stuff goes away or i wake up. usually the latter.yes it's all connected, a...

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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedif you create your own prison, you have to make your own escape.no drywallto punchwet bloodi never worked at anything i've written. that's just the truth. whenever it becomes work, or i notice it is, i stop and only go back to it when it's no longer work. the idea of it being work is as absurd to me as the idea that making love is work. for me work means essentially the opposite of enjoyment. yet i know some pe...