Author Archives: oligomath

Angelus Analysed

Posted on 26/07/2022 by oligomath

the pre-tridentine hail mary is simple hinayana, a mantra exerpted from the gospels the tridentine addition of the first person plural supplication elevates it to mahayana the angelus lifts it to vajrayana by adding the structure of: BONG BONG BONG… … Continue reading →

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Tolkien and Simulation

Posted on 25/07/2022 by oligomath

i think i have underconsidered the importance of the clever heretic tolkien’s belief in secondary creation to the simulationist current of religion

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Mr. Tolkien the Magus

Posted on 25/07/2022 by oligomath

trying out the idea that Tolkien was broken by the Great War and reforged by a trauma-spirit (what are they called in Worm again?) that led to a genius growing inside him, covered by a triple personality-shell of 1) being … Continue reading →

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On Cremation

Posted on 25/07/2022 by oligomath

what i find most distasteful about the modern cremation rite is you do not see any burning. the cremations i have been to are crudely dramatic, with recorded music, electric motors and an absurd curtain covering the coffin as your … Continue reading →

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On St. Mr. Democritus

Posted on 17/07/2022 by oligomath

Democritus is only the go to name because he’s in the scientific mythology as one of the brief “ancient names” mentioned to add important Classical References to the heroes and acts of the early modern project of “Science” the way … Continue reading →

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They Wanted You To Know Linguistics

Posted on 17/07/2022 by oligomath

This is from the foreword of The French Language (2nd Ed. 1953) by Alfred Ewert M.A. Litt.D. in the Faber and Faber “The Great Languages” series. In 1933, when the first edition was published, it was still reasonable to expect … Continue reading →

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Cookbooks Don’t Tell You How to Eat

Posted on 13/07/2022 by oligomath

one thing i have noticed with evocational grimoires is this pattern: they have complicated methods of evoking spirits with big diagrams, long formulae, barbarous words, methods for escalating to higher tiers, what sort of space weather there should be… but … Continue reading →

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Alimony in AD 2022

Posted on 10/07/2022 by oligomath

alimony, as separate from child support, is a little strange and i do not understand at all how it makes complete sense in a post-christian (i.e. marriage is not a remedy against sin intended to last almost but not quite … Continue reading →

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On Extinction Rebellion et al.

Posted on 09/07/2022 by oligomath

the class war element is wrong because these people are not nobles. they’re workers and petty bourgeois. they are dressed in working men’s clothes. people aren’t stopping because there’s a feudal relation of duty between them. they are stopping because … Continue reading →

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Cultural Christian Neurosis

Posted on 02/07/2022 by oligomath

Traditionally Chinese people have lived in a realm where Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism have operated side by side each adding their own flavour to life and one person may favour one over another while recognising the influence of all of … Continue reading →

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