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"An infinite time has run its course before my birth; what was I throughout all that time? Metaphysically, the answer might perhaps be: I was always I; that is, all who during that time said I, were in fact I."
-Jorges Luis Borges translating Shopenhauer
The Nothingness of Personality
Reflections of Online Classes During Summer Quarter
Reflections of Online Classes During Summer Quarter
Finally, I’m done with the quarter, I think. It involved creating a 15 page document in which I posed as a potential chef for a restuarant and compiled a meal plan for four with all local ingredients for under $35 (including an entry, a starch side, a vegetable side, a salad, a dessert and beverages), as well as outlined all the nutritional information of each ingredient per serving; a 36 page…
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Practical Paganism: Allister Crowley, Jorges Borges & Umberto Eco As Metaphysicians
A short introduction to Aleister Crowley, Jorges Borges and Umberto Eco:
Recently a friend of mine admonished me with a quote from Allister Crowley ("release yourself from the passion of results") because of my impatience during a disscussion about a creative project we are working on together. It seemed rather odd to me to hear Crowley quoted in such context. As the infamous magus, scholar, and otherwise, his philosophies were some of the pretexts for movements impatiant with cumbersome morals and social dictates of that era, such as the 'revival' of hedonism in the 1890's and the Neitschesque creed of action ver thought. The friend's simple sentence has been running in my mind over and over the last few weeks, not so much as a reminder to stay calm but to remind me of how the struggle of the sentient mind over the confines of the reality around him has been going on for quite a long time.
ELF: Practical Paganism: Allister Crowley, Jorges Borges & Umberto Eco As Metaphysicians
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"For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or (more precisely) a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply and disseminate that universe."
- Jorge Borges Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
