apophenia

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Fragments, observations, things still becoming. Shorter than essays; usually less considered.

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What's left when you leave a belief system

When you leave a system that had power over you, the natural thing to do is go after its contents. The theology itself. The specific rules and regulations that were used to evaluate you. The mythology about who's chosen and who isn't. The political line. We list out the contents

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This is knowable

When I was a child, the Internet was born and phones crawled across the surface of the planet and the whole of human knowledge became accessible with a moment's effort. Querying the well of human knowledge was novel, then routine, then a fundamental part of our humanity as we

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A pound of Norse flesh? Tracking down a rare motif.

A Norse trickster god and a Venetian merchant walk into a courtroom. Both are facing death and both escape their sentence on the same, hyperspecific technicality. Surely these cases are related? While reading the Merchant of Venice recently, I noticed a similarity to a Norse