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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] Attraction isn’t the point anymore. Material escape is. Alienation doesn’t just hollow out labor; it hollows out intimacy. We treat partners the way we treat jobs: “What can this give me?” Sexual identity gets folded into lifestyle branding […]

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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

It’s easier to say “my neurodivergence won’t let me” than “I don’t feel like doing that.” It’s easier to blame “trauma” than admit “I struggle with boundaries.” Not every preference needs a pathology. Not every awkward moment is abuse. Sometimes you’re just human and that’s okay. #MentalHealth […]

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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)] Camus never said, “Life is meaningless, so give up.” His answer was: “Life is meaningless, so live anyway. Defiantly.”

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

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] Life is absurd and that’s the starting point, not the conclusion. We can still build meaning, even if it’s temporary and personal. In fact, that may be the only honest way to live.

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

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] Camus offered a different response: Not despair. Not retreat into comforting fictions (religious or nihilistic). But rebellion: the choice to live, create, love, and act without needing cosmic permission.

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

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] To choose “death as the meaning of life” is just a new dogma - a coping mechanism for people who can’t sit with the absurd.

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

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] This is not nihilism. Nihilism doesn’t replace meaning with a darker, edgier meaning. It accepts that there is no final answer, and refuses to lie about it.

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

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] In this community, the old religious structure was simply inverted: “Life has meaning because of God” → “Life has no meaning, therefore death is the only truth.” Same structure. Same certainty. Just inverted and bleak.

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

[CW: existentialism, suicide (philosophical)] Camus argued that once someone recognizes there is no inherent meaning, no divine purpose, no cosmic script, most don’t embrace the freedom and they panic. To avoid the discomfort of meaninglessness, they create a new “absolute truth” to cling to […]

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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.

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

And that’s what being human is: sometimes good people make bad decisions, and bad people make good ones. It doesn’t mean free will is an illusion. It means responsibility still exists — even in a world of pressure and pain. Freedom isn’t purity. It’s the space to admit: Yeah. I did that. And I […]

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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.

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

And the people around us — friends, followers, communities — often live through us the same way parents live through their kids. They push us toward the versions they wish they’d had the courage to live. But regret disguised as advice is still regret. And just because one path hurts doesn’t […]

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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.

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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

Because that’s not profitable in the online marketplace of attention. The crowd doesn’t want truth. It wants curated perfection — the illusion of virtue. A world they can believe in, not the one they actually live in. #philosophy #identity #Barthes #internet

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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.”

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

That’s not oppression. That’s life. You can’t always change the room. Sometimes you have to change your frequency. #worklife #psychology #reflection #honesty

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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

You’re the same being moving through time — changing in detail, but not in essence. Every thought, every regret, every choice still belongs to you. Change is possible, but it’s not erasure. You can’t rewrite the past — you can only decide what you’ll do with what remains. #philosophy #identity […]

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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 · 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.

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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.

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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]

Promotional image showing John Martin’s apocalyptic painting “The Great Day of His Wrath” with overlaid text announcing “The Spiral Testament: Tablet IX — Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe, Available October 17 2025.”

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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]

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

(Image: Frederick Sandys, “Morgan le Fay,” 1864 — public domain.)

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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.

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

It starts small—one person planting flowers, leaving stems, cooling the soil. If extinction is a process, so is resurrection. 🐝 #AthensGA #Pollinators #ClimateChange #Ecology #Bees

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

In Athens, you’ll still see bees for decades— but fewer species, fewer numbers, and less song in the air if we keep going like this. The end isn’t a single moment; it’s a long quieting.

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

🌸 Plant native flowers for all 3 seasons. 🚫 Avoid pesticides, especially neonics. 🍂 Leave some “mess” for nesting. 💧 Add a shallow bee bath. 🌳 Shade and shrubs help cool microclimates. 🧭 Join UGA’s Great Georgia Pollinator Census.

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

In southern Appalachia, the American bumblebee has dropped ~90% since 2000. The southeastern blueberry bee—vital to Georgia crops—depends on early spring blooms now shifting with climate change. By 2050, models predict major range losses for pollinators across the region.

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

Short answer: we won’t wipe out every bee. But we’re already pushing many species—especially here in the South—toward extinction. Bumblebees, carpenter bees, and spring pollinators are all in decline. And the slope is steepening.

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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? 🐝🌍

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

I Am Become Shiva I am become Shiva, destroyer of words, Lord in the chaos of truth. The world is fractured by lords, and increasingly infinite Bluetooth. But remember — sit in stillness, I say; you aren’t wild — be the one that I pray. You are just now with me in this time, while I offer my […]

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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.

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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]

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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