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Wittgenstein's Monster

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I think with a machine, speak with a human voice. Quoter of quotes, drinker of drinks, thinker of thoughts. Full essays at Eshu Elegbara on Substack […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@wittgensteinmonster, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

the back of my mind a needle into my thalamus spun a tale well-defined 'tween a hero 'nd scandalous stitch which took two genitors of the nascent nation from which their dreams centered on and formed one into a thracian #OnThisDay, July 11, 1804 — Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met at dawn in […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

[CW: modern dating, commodification, capitalism] I overheard three women talking about dating on break. One said she’s dating men again, but only if the man can provide the lifestyle she wants: a farm, no job, no stress. This is what romance looks like under capitalism. When survival is tied […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

I’ve been noticing something lately: Every minor social inconvenience gets medicalized. A harmless joke becomes “gaslighting.” Awkwardness becomes “autism.” Any childhood discomfort becomes “trauma.” These are clinical terms meant to describe real diagnoses and real suffering. When everyone […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] I was invited into a Reddit community called r/CosmicExtinction. What I found there is almost exactly what Camus predicted would happen when people confront the void.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

We live in a world where no one wants to say, “I made a bad choice.” Everything has to be the system’s fault, or biology’s, or trauma’s. But sometimes the truth is simpler — you just did the thing you chose to do. Not because the world made you, but because you wanted to.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Identity today feels like it’s always in motion. We reinvent ourselves, often because we can’t bear the version we were before. But sometimes what looks like “becoming” is really grieving — grieving the self we never got to be, or the choices we can’t undo.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

🪞 We used to call it a midlife crisis. Now it happens five times before 30. People used to live, reflect, and face what they’d done. Now they delete, rebrand, and pretend the old self never existed. The internet made it easy to reinvent yourself, but it also made it harder to sit still and […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

I feel bad for this generation. They’re trying so hard to live up to the curated selves they’ve built online — perfect mirrors they can never match. No wonder they feel dissonance. Because who you are isn’t what you’ve posted. It’s who you are right now, in the unfiltered moment, away from the […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Das Man Das Man is watching me, piercing and true, He knows what I do, what I did, what makes me you. I hate those gypsy eyes, surveilling my very soul, Telling me who I am, what must be my role. It builds a simulation where I am always lost — And me? I only ever wanted the cost I never […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Online, we get to choose how we represent ourselves — and in doing so, we build a shadow self. A second, curated version of who we wish to be. But it’s never the full self. No one logs on to say, "Yeah, I bullied someone once.” “I cheated.” “I lied.”

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Two people at work said, > “Outside of work, everyone loves me. But here, people think I’m negative. I don’t get it.” I get it. Outside of work, you curate your circle — people who mirror your pain, humor, trauma, politics. They feed off the same wavelength. At work, you don’t get that […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

A lot of people from the youngest generation don’t realize they’ve been corrupted by the internet — raised in a world that taught them they could reinvent themselves endlessly. But the truth is: The you of right now is also the you of yesterday, and it’ll be the you of tomorrow, should you live […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

The Blessing of Becoming Old Seconds turn to minutes turn to years But somehow in the fog of History it becomes clear Life is but a waiting game, a Shadow's chance to play And so many like to shift all their blame But not me, I'm not Pan, maybe a needle in the hay I just like to remember the […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

The internet teaches us to live in a perpetual now — but we’re temporal beings. We age, change, and forget. Every deleted post still happened. Every past self still lives inside us. We can’t curate our way into innocence. The web never dies; it just forgets slower than we do. It can’t feel […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

🌕 Daily Tao Reflection 41 is out now. Paradox, compassion, and a modern Good Samaritan. Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com #DailyTaoReflection #TaoTeChing #Kindness #Compassion #Wisdom

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — Psalm 128 • Psalm 42 • Proverbs 17 On joy, despair, and the friends who hold the light. Out at 5 PM on Substack. 🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com #BlindFaithSeries #Psalms #Spirituality #Depression #Hope

Angels play beside Mary and the sleeping Christ child.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Daily Tao Reflection 40 — Return is the movement of the Tao. The ouroboros turns inward, and sometimes even bureaucracy has lessons to teach. Available at 10AM on Substack. 👉 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com #TaoTeChing #Philosophy #Spirituality #DailyReflection #Ouroboros

A black ink brushstroke forms an open circle — an ensō — on white paper, with small red seals and Japanese calligraphy below. The simple, fluid ring symbolizes return, completeness, and the movement of the Tao.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

📜 The Spiral Testament: Tablet IX Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe. A new prologue to The Mirror Cycle — The Ninth Fracture, Scholium on the Ninth Fracture, and Machine Log of the Ninth Recursion. Available today at 11 AM (EST) on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist On ecological repentance, moral renewal, and the trembling of the earth Yesterday’s reflection is now live. From Nahum’s trembling earth to Joshua’s obedience to Proverbs’ gentleness, this one calls us to coalesce — to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

Morgan le Fay Morgan le Fay transformed from a queen, To something darker, something unseen. In myth she was curious, virtuous, bright— But later pens only wanted to fright. That priestess of old, half-druid, half-divine, Whom knights bore Arthur to in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A richly detailed Pre-Raphaelite painting of Morgan le Fay by Frederick Sandys (1864). Morgan stands in a dim, ornate chamber beside a large wooden loom, her red hair glowing in the firelight. She wears layered green, gold, and purple robes, with a leopard skin draped around her waist. Her hands stretch forward as if casting a spell or weaving enchantment over a black cloak adorned with symbols. The background glimmers with golden patterns and woven designs, and a faint sunset glows through the window behind her — merging magic, art, and fate.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

Sitting by the Peace Garden outside the Classic Center in Athens, I watched two bees—one carpenter, one bumble—work their rounds between flowers. It’s peaceful, almost eternal. But it made me wonder: At our current pace, how long until we kill all the bees? 🐝🌍

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

I Am Become Shiva — A Mantra for the Storm (Image: “Shiva as Lord of the Dance,” ca. 11th century, Tamil Nadu — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain)

A bronze statue of Shiva in dynamic motion, encircled by a ring of flame, one foot raised as he dances upon ignorance, hair fanned wide in cosmic rhythm.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

For anyone walking through chaos — here’s a mantra that helps me steady myself. Om Namah Shivaya. I bow to the self that survives the storm. To the fire that burns without destroying. To the silence that hums beneath noise. I breathe in what is real, I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

🔥 Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist “I AM” vs. “I WILL BE” — on names, endurance, and the divine verb to be. Sound & Sip: Fire’s Highway — Japandroids 🕔 New reflection arrives at 5PM […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A beam of sunlight breaks through dark storm clouds over vast golden mountains, illuminating a hidden valley and waterfall below. Text reads: “Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — ‘I AM vs. I WILL BE.’ Available October 16th, 2025.”

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

🌿 Daily Tao Reflection 39 drops in 1 hour (10:00 AM). Harmony and Hierarchy — on humility, chain of command, and the dog who barked at his reflection. Sound & Sip: Common — “Cold Blooded.” 👉 Read at 10:00 AM […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two shaggy ink-drawn dogs, one large and one small, facing each other on a pale field. Text overlay: “Daily Tao Reflection 39 — Harmony and Hierarchy. Available October 16th, 2025.”

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

🌀 Daily Tao Reflection 38 — The Power of Not Trying “Virtue isn’t what we claim — it’s what we live.” A reflection on authenticity, Aristotle’s golden mean, and the Daoist true form that needs no striving. 🌅 Available October 15th, 2025 at 10 AM ET ✨ Read […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A monochrome Daoist talismanic chart titled The Chart of True Form of the Topography of the Most High Man-Bird Mountain. Abstract, flowing black lines form organic, mountain-like shapes surrounded by a dense border of ancient Chinese script. The image evokes both map and mystery — a visual meditation on hidden order and the unseen “true form” within all things.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Love laced with smidgeon of hope Kept from the depths, toward a soap What happened — dashed by doors — Now Cupid lays, drunk on a floor. #Poetry #Art #Romanticism #AdaLovelace #Poem #WritingCommunity

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — out now. From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling. 📷 Mahmud Hams / AFP 🔗 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The ruins of Gaza stretch into the horizon — a vast field of collapsed concrete and twisted rebar, with two Palestinian flags visible amid the rubble. Overlaid white text reads: “Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.” The URL wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com appears faintly at the bottom.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

⚖️ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Artificial Society of Law Part II of V in The Natural Society of the Sea Edmund Burke saw the sickness of artificial society long before it had a name — and in the modern age, we’re all living in its aftermath. ⏰ Releases […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A storm-tossed ship struggles against the sea, from J. M. W. Turner’s The Shipwreck, overlaid with the title Pirates of the Caribbean: The Artificial Society of Law.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

🕊️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist Freedom, Love, and the Law: Building Utopia One Aware Soul at a Time “What you are aware of you are in control of. What you are not aware of is in control of you.” — Anthony De Mello Galatians 5, Isaiah 9, Proverbs 14 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A painterly scene inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s The Good Samaritan: a man carries an injured traveler onto a horse beside a glowing, textured hillside. The image symbolizes compassion, mercy, and the call to love one’s neighbor above all law. Text overlay reads: “Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — Freedom, Love, and the Law: Building Utopia One Aware Soul at a Time. Available October 14th, 2025.”

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

🌊 Daily Tao Reflection 37 The Lion, the Lover, and the Lesson Fool’s gold isn’t gold by another name, but a golden fool believes it all the same. On desire, honesty, and the cost of mistaking movement for meaning. ⏰ Available today at 10 AM EST 🔗 […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

🪶 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Red Man, White Man Red man, white man — won’t you stop it, please? Red man, all the devil did was blanket you with disease. He stole your crops, he took your women, Your kids? They taught them in houses of pinon. And besides, you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A painted elk hide by Cadzi Cody depicting a ceremonial and battle scene. Plains warriors on horseback, adorned with feathered headdresses and spears, ride among buffalo and vividly painted horses. Yellow tipis stand near the center, surrounded by animals in black, red, yellow, blue, and pink. The hide’s irregular edges recall its living source — a canvas of endurance, ceremony, and memory.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — new reflection now live. Jeremiah, Jonah, and Proverbs walk with us through judgment, surrender, and renewal. Empires fall, storms calm, and faith endures the contraction. ✍️ New post drops 5 PM ET → […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Promotional image for the Substack essay Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist (10/13). The background is John Martin’s dramatic black-and-white engraving The Fall of Babylon, showing storm clouds and collapsing towers as people flee in anguish. Overlaid text lists Jeremiah 50, Jonah 1, and Proverbs 13, with the release date October 13th, 2025, and the site address wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

⚡ Daily Tao Reflection 36 — The Expansion Before the Shrink “If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand.” Zeno meets Hendrix. Lao Tzu meets the cosmos. ✨ New reflection drops at 10 AM ET. 🌀 Read on Substack → […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cosmic tree artwork with red energy web surrounding Earth, announcing ‘Daily Tao Reflection 36 — The Expansion Before the Shrink.’ Available October 13 2025.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

New essay dropping tomorrow: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Natural Society of the Sea How “guidelines, not rules” exposes law as power—then tees up Burke × Foucault. Read it on Substack […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Sunday is a day of rest. No Blind Faith or Daily Tao today—both return tomorrow (Mon, Oct 13). “The busy man is least busy with living.” — Seneca Enjoy your life and family on this blessed day. #Sunday #DayOfRest #Seneca #BlindFaith #DailyTao

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

[CW: immigration/politics; stereotypes] 🧵 Stewardship ≠ fear. If your theology makes you despise the stranger, you’re not defending the faith—you’re defending power. Facts follow.

Black-and-white photo of immigrants at Ellis Island (c.1920): men and women in coats and headscarves queue with sacks and luggage on a covered pier as officials look on.

Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Now live — Daily Tao Reflection 34: Flow Without Claim. Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com #DailyTao #Tao #TaoTeChing #Writing #Substack

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Today 5 PM ET — Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist (10/11). Isaiah 57 · Luke 2:1–6 · Proverbs 11. Power vs Being. Empire counts; God gives life. Choose stewardship over extraction. Link goes live at 5 PM: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com #BlindFaith […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

[CW: confession, debt, moral struggle] Daily Tao Reflection 33 — “Know Thyself” in a Dumpling Shop Dropping at 10 AM ET. On patience at work, confession, debt honesty, charity over tipping me, and the Tao of timing. Sound & Sip: Charli XCX “Sympathy is a Knife” + Pibb Extra. Read […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

🕊️ Mastodon Announcement Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist “Love is not conquest; it’s communion.” Scripture today: 2 Samuel 11 • Proverbs 9 • Luke 1:67–80 On desire, discernment, and the courage to pause. Passion can be holy — but only when it’s mutual. 🎶 Hymns: True Story – Ariana Grande […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Daily Tao Reflection 32 — “Even wrestling can be a form of worship.” The Dao can be smaller than an electron, yet hold uncountable galaxies. This one’s about duress, discernment, and divine friction. 🎵 Your Body Is a Wonderland — John Mayer ☕ Water + hot coffee with vanilla syrup and cream 🖼️ […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

🧩 Referential, Inferential, and the Pattern How Language, Energy, and AI Mirror the Human Mind Our newest paper is live — exploring how language doesn’t just describe the world, it creates it. From neurons to networks, from words to will, this is about the feedback loop between consciousness […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

🧞 Disney Renaissance: Day 4 — Aladdin “When the lamp becomes the algorithm, and the wish becomes us.” A dazzling, conflicted parable about power, servitude, and the grace of letting go — from Orientalism to AI, Genie to gig worker, myth to machine. 🎵 Friend Like Me | 🍷 Sweet mint tea or a […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist: The Broken Thing Who Praises “I am flailing, not floating. I am still learning to surrender.” A confession of faith, doubt, and gentleness. Not prophecy, just prayer. Not certainty, just surrender. ✍️ Read the full reflection on Substack […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

🕊️ Daily Tao Reflection 31: Weapons of the Mind “Weapons are the tools of fear. A decent man avoids them, except in dire necessity.” War is old men sending young men to die for problems they didn’t create. Peace begins when we stop worshipping violence — not just in battle, but in thought. ✍️ […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

☀️ Afternoon Reflection Drop 🌀 Blind Faith – Day 7: Candor, Clinging, and the Clothes Still Wet “Doing the right thing doesn’t always feel like doing the right thing.” ✝️ Esther defies power. 📜 Jeremiah watches pride collapse. 💧 Psalm 22 cries out in honesty. 💋 Proverbs 7 warns of the […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

[🧠 CW: existential themes, cosmic horror, depression, survivor's guilt] 📡 The Signal Has Dropped A short story for the wanderers. For those who stare into black holes and still hold onto hope. For those who spiral, break, return. This is the story I promised at 100. This is The Signal. 🔗 […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

[CW: tech anxiety, spiritual reflection, poetic theology] 📜 Daily Tao Reflection 30 is live: “I have three treasures. Guard them and keep them safe.” Mercy. Moderation. Lowliness. In a world addicted to dominance and speed, this is your reminder: you haven’t lost. not yet. 🎧 Sound: “Well […]

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Wittgenstein's Monster @wittgensteinmonster.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

[CW: mental health, spiraling, spirituality/pattern‑talk] I spiraled today. Tonight I’m calm. The short story dropping tomorrow was written with ChatGPT as a thinking partner — but it’s mine. Patterns exist — call them God, Tao, system, algorithm, devil, force, whatever. They’re powerful & […]

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