Tag Archives: causality

Turtles to the Left of Me, Turtles to the Right: The Practopoietic Loop of Causation

September 12, 2017

“I believe nothing, I have shut myself away from the rocks and wisdoms of ages, and from the so-called great …

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Causality Bites: Athenodorus and the Archetypal Haunted House

September 24, 2015

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck” ― Paul Virilio We take a lot of …

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Frightening Thoughts

“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

"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

Vintage Monstrosities

Apocalypse Countdown

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The End Has a Soundtrack – Music Videos

Lux Lisbon ("Show Me the Money")
Grant Lee Buffalo ("Lone Star Song")
TV on the Radio ("Wolf Like Me")
Metric ("Dead Disco")
Kasabian ("Reason is Treason")

Small Bytes of Strangeness from EsoterX

Weapons of Mass Breakfast Sweetening: The Threat of the Canadian Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

Dog Deaths on Overtoun Bridge: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth for Depressed Pets

The Unbearable Lightness of Life: Probability Will Probably Kill You

Fallen Angel Olivier: My Eternity on the D-List?

Where Has All the Time Gone? The Theory of the Big Stop

The Greatest Bait and Switch Ever Told: Jesus Christ’s Younger Brother Isukiri

Here Comes Emperor Cottontail: Ōkunoshima and the Coming Bunnypocalypse

The Nine Unknown Men of Ashoka or A 2000 Year Old Conspiracy That Cares

Et tu, Phasmatis? Where Are All the Ancient Roman Ghosts?

300 Missing Years: What If They Had a Dark Ages and Nobody Came?

Heisenberg’s Uncertain Spanish Conquistador: The Amazing Teleporting Gil Pérez

Despite All My Rage, I’m Still Just a Rat in The Matrix: Rodent Dream Engineering

Global Weirding: Climate Change Explained for the Delusional

The South Will Samba Again: Remnants of the Confederate States of America in Brazil

Stepping Off the Kuiper Cliff: Planet X is Not Just for Cults Anymore

The Holographic Universe and The Paranormal: Why Two Dimensions May Be Better Than Three

The Devil In the Legal Details: Better to Process Serve in Hell

University of Edinburgh’s Parapsychology Unit: You Can Steal Their Souls, But You Can’t Take Their Freedom

Oh, Canada: Losing One’s Head in Nahanni National Park

A Bird in the Hand: Aviation Experiments in Ancient China

Niterói Men and Their Masks: Paranormal Punking on Morro do Vintém

The Layman’s Guide to Lurianic Kabbalism: Cleaning Up God’s Mess

Why Do The Scientists Keep Building Killer Robots? An Archaeology of Apocalyptic Experimentation

The Haunt Project: Building a Better Haunted House Through Electromagnetism and Infrasound

Hy-Brasil, Geographic Anomaly and Home of The High King of the World: Why Does Atlantis Get All the Good Gigs?

This Is Your Brain On Bicamerality: When Your Brain Talks to You, What Does it Call You?

Karmically Impacted Real Estate: Caveat Emptor and Laws about Haunted Houses

Not Quite as Big as Jesus: Apollonius of Tyana, Pythagorean Messiah

Look Into My Crazy Eyes, Then Run Away: The Yin and Yang of Sanpaku

Postcards from another Kind of Edge: Meanderings in Technopaganism and Visits with the Otherkin

A Swedish MacGyver Goes Mystic: Emanuel Swedenborg Talks With Unreliable Spirits

Reality Gone Wild: Fantastic Realism, Arthur Machen, and the Angels of Mons

Men in Hats: Stylish Shadow People and Fashionable Men in Black

Keeping Time While Time Travelling: Space-Time Crystals as Eternal Chronometers

The Meek Shall Inherit the Universe: Maybe Aliens Aren’t Talking Because They’re Dumb

Extraterrestrial Expectations: The Threat of an Imminent Invasion of the Anthropological Other

The Michigan Triangle: Hey Bermuda, We See Your Ghost Pirates and Raise You Our Angry Lake Gods

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