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Category: Philosophy

122 Posts

Bugging Out During the Second Great Dying

Anthropology, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Bugging Out During the Second Great Dying

April 30, 2017 — 4 Comments

Lies, Damn Lies, and Anomalies: Fake News and Skeptical Schadenfreude

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Lies, Damn Lies, and Anomalies: Fake News and Skeptical Schadenfreude

March 8, 2017 — 3 Comments

Divine Messaging for Fun and Prophet

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Divine Messaging for Fun and Prophet

March 2, 2017 — 1 Comment

The Specious Present: It’s the Size of the Moment that Matters

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Specious Present: It’s the Size of the Moment that Matters

February 10, 2017 — 0 Comments

Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger

Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Our Colonized Consciousness: Defense Against the Doppelgänger

February 9, 2017 — 6 Comments

EsoterX: Podcasts are the Retina of the Mind’s Eye

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

EsoterX: Podcasts are the Retina of the Mind’s Eye

January 30, 2017 — 0 Comments

Statutory Murder: The Trial of Theagenes of Thasos

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Statutory Murder: The Trial of Theagenes of Thasos

January 25, 2017 — 1 Comment

Where the Wild Things Are: Anomalies and the Poverty of Critical Thinking

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Where the Wild Things Are: Anomalies and the Poverty of Critical Thinking

January 13, 2017 — 3 Comments

Sympathetic Empiricism and the Palatine Lights

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Sympathetic Empiricism and the Palatine Lights

December 7, 2016 — 3 Comments

Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Skepticism and the Post-Human Economy

November 22, 2016 — 3 Comments

Perish, then Publish: Jacopo Alighieri and the 13 Missing Cantos

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Perish, then Publish: Jacopo Alighieri and the 13 Missing Cantos

November 22, 2016 — 2 Comments

Political Mysticism: Eugene Vintras and the Saviours of Louis XVII

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Political Mysticism: Eugene Vintras and the Saviours of Louis XVII

November 11, 2016 — 0 Comments

Our Xenomorph Who Art in Heaven

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Our Xenomorph Who Art in Heaven

November 8, 2016 — 1 Comment

Anomalistic Beer Goggles: The Consequences of Doubt

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Anomalistic Beer Goggles: The Consequences of Doubt

October 26, 2016 — 4 Comments

EsoterX: It’s Not True I Had Nothing On, I Had the Radio On

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

EsoterX: It’s Not True I Had Nothing On, I Had the Radio On

October 23, 2016 — 0 Comments

The Danmar Experiments: Chasing Ghosts to the Tail of the Earth

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

The Danmar Experiments: Chasing Ghosts to the Tail of the Earth

October 14, 2016 — 0 Comments

Philosophical Monsters Ship in Black Boxes

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Philosophical Monsters Ship in Black Boxes

October 7, 2016 — 1 Comment

Why We Elect Monsters

Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Why We Elect Monsters

October 3, 2016 — 4 Comments

I’ll See Your Fear of Death and Raise you Some Existential Anxiety

Anthropology, Folklore, Mythology, Philosophy

I’ll See Your Fear of Death and Raise you Some Existential Anxiety

September 21, 2016 — 2 Comments

Primate Estate Planning: Monkeying Around with Extinction

Anthropology, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Primate Estate Planning: Monkeying Around with Extinction

September 19, 2016 — 1 Comment

Clowning Around: At Play in the Uncanny Valley

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Clowning Around: At Play in the Uncanny Valley

September 14, 2016 — 4 Comments

Jabberwocky in the House of Uncommons: The Honorable Apparition of Sir Carne Rasch

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Jabberwocky in the House of Uncommons: The Honorable Apparition of Sir Carne Rasch

September 10, 2016 — 1 Comment

Everyone’s a Little Bit Crazy: Schizotypy and Strange Phenomena

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Everyone’s a Little Bit Crazy: Schizotypy and Strange Phenomena

August 31, 2016 — 1 Comment

Training Wheels of the Gods: João Vaz Corte-Real and the New Land of Codfish

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Training Wheels of the Gods: João Vaz Corte-Real and the New Land of Codfish

August 28, 2016 — 0 Comments

How to Measure Useful Fictions: Science, Anomalistics, and “As if” Philosophy

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

How to Measure Useful Fictions: Science, Anomalistics, and “As if” Philosophy

August 24, 2016 — 4 Comments

Mongrel Gods and Demon Mutts: Heathens in the Woodpile

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Mongrel Gods and Demon Mutts: Heathens in the Woodpile

August 18, 2016 — 3 Comments

Punking the Plague: Anthropomorphic Disease is Dumb

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Punking the Plague: Anthropomorphic Disease is Dumb

August 15, 2016 — 1 Comment

Ghost Morality and Celestial Bureaucracy: What Would Casper Do?

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Ghost Morality and Celestial Bureaucracy: What Would Casper Do?

August 10, 2016 — 0 Comments

Supercivilization and the Shoe Event Horizon

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Supercivilization and the Shoe Event Horizon

August 9, 2016 — 4 Comments

Sisyphus was a Sissy: The Ghost of Benjie Gear

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Sisyphus was a Sissy: The Ghost of Benjie Gear

July 26, 2016 — 0 Comments

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Women, Then you Find Out it’s a Simulation

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Women, Then you Find Out it’s a Simulation

June 29, 2016 — 8 Comments

Catchresis and Release: Anomalistics and Category Errors

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Catchresis and Release: Anomalistics and Category Errors

June 20, 2016 — 2 Comments

The Anomalistic Condition of Possibility: Visibility without Tangibility

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

The Anomalistic Condition of Possibility: Visibility without Tangibility

May 31, 2016 — 1 Comment

A Spectacle of Absence: The Monster as Performance Artist

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

A Spectacle of Absence: The Monster as Performance Artist

May 26, 2016 — 1 Comment

Unidentified Flying Pyromaniac: The Harlech Meteor of 1694

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Unidentified Flying Pyromaniac: The Harlech Meteor of 1694

May 22, 2016 — 0 Comments

12-Step Program for Recovering Skeptics: The Anomaly as a Hard Target

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

12-Step Program for Recovering Skeptics: The Anomaly as a Hard Target

May 20, 2016 — 6 Comments

Ontological Ossification: There’s Nothing Left to Discover?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Ontological Ossification: There’s Nothing Left to Discover?

May 12, 2016 — 3 Comments

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Curtius Rufus Meets Africa

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Curtius Rufus Meets Africa

May 12, 2016 — 1 Comment

Anomalistics, Pure Philosophic Rule, and the Scientific Administration of Things

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Anomalistics, Pure Philosophic Rule, and the Scientific Administration of Things

May 11, 2016 — 0 Comments

Transcendental Tongue Twisting: Mantras and Semantic Satiation

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Transcendental Tongue Twisting: Mantras and Semantic Satiation

May 8, 2016 — 2 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist