Ontology – EsoterX

Tag: Ontology

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

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

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

September 12, 2017 — 0 Comments

Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

Eternalism vs. Presentism: How Soon is Now?

June 29, 2017 — 1 Comment

Philosophical Monsters Ship in Black Boxes

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

Philosophical Monsters Ship in Black Boxes

October 7, 2016 — 1 Comment

Catchresis and Release: Anomalistics and Category Errors

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Catchresis and Release: Anomalistics and Category Errors

June 20, 2016 — 2 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

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

Welcome to Interzone: Anomalistics Turns You on Vegetable

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Welcome to Interzone: Anomalistics Turns You on Vegetable

May 4, 2016 — 3 Comments

I’ve Got Your Pseudoscience Right Here, Buddy

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

I’ve Got Your Pseudoscience Right Here, Buddy

April 21, 2016 — 6 Comments

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Anomalistics and Absurdism

Anthropology, Folklore, Monsters, Philosophy

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Anomalistics and Absurdism

October 14, 2015 — 5 Comments

My Computer Wants to Kill Me: The Horror of the Rational

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

My Computer Wants to Kill Me: The Horror of the Rational

August 31, 2013 — 0 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