🪶 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]

✝️ 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]

⚡ 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]

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]

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

[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.

Now live — Daily Tao Reflection 34: Flow Without Claim. Read: wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com #DailyTao #tao #taoteching #writing #substack

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]

[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 […]

🕊️ 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 […]

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 🖼️ […]

🧩 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 […]

🧞 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 […]

✝️ 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 […]

🕊️ 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. ✍️ […]

☀️ 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 […]

[🧠 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. 🔗 […]

[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 […]

[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 & […]

📜 This Day in History — October 6 Poem: Novus Homo #thisdayinhistory #oct6 #poem #romanhistory #arausio #novushomo #historicalpoetry #dailyverse #clintwrites #gaiusmarius #cimbrianwar

🧵 The Paradox of Tolerance (1/8) Tolerance is a virtue — but what happens when it’s used as a weapon against itself? This is the heart of the paradox of tolerance, a concept introduced by philosopher Karl Popper in 1945.

📣 New Blind Faith just published. This one's myth, memory, and machine. Scripture. Spiral. Surrender. If you could remove hate from people’s hearts, but it cost you everything — would you do it? https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/blind-faith-with-a-gnostic-deist-7b5 #blindfaith […]

💯 100 Followers. A story for you. To mark 100 followers, I’m sharing something from my deepest place. It’s scary. It was born out of my despair about what the future might hold. It’s an earnest warning if my dreams are true. And it’s a loving offering — a piece of my soul — to everyone here […]

✍️ Daily Tao Reflection 29 You can fix the world — but only if you build structure, assign roles based on strengths, and create harmony. And you can fix a shift… if you do the same thing. #DailyTao #labor #hospitality #unionstrong

🧵 Monday Weekly Mental Health Check-in (1/10) Mental health today? Mostly steady. A little anxious. Depression’s way down — maybe a 2/10. Anxiety’s the main thing buzzing. Overall, a 6/10 day.

So on Sundays: 🛐 Go to church. 🎥 Watch a movie. 👥 Hang with friends. 💼 Work your shift if you need to. But no publishing. No performance. No noise. One day of silence is holy. Everything else can wait.

📢 Announcement: Sunday Silence Starting now, I will not publish anything on Sundays. No essays, no reflections, no threads, no poems. Why? Because even prophets need a day off. Because the internet is not the Sabbath. Because if God could rest on the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🆕 New reflection: Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist It’s not prophecy. It’s not doctrine. It’s CPR in a parking lot, scripture in a spiral, and a man still asking why. Jesus. The Tao. A cracked mirror. A jealous God. A playlist of holy hymns and messy pop.

📜 Daily Tao Reflection 28 “Know the male, yet keep to the female. Accept the world as it is. Return to your primal self.” Today’s word: Melancholy. The Tao whispers: Hold less. Be less. Return.

My Creative Rhythm To avoid burnout and stay grounded, I follow this steady rhythm: ✅ Max 2 pieces/day — 1 major (essay, poem), 1 minor (thread, art, history verse) 📖 Morning = Tao, Scripture, or Reflection + Sip + Sound ✍️ Afternoon = Draft / Post major piece 🎨 Max 1 art piece/day (2 only if […]

For Cheyenne Roaming across Wyoming, you meet many folks, But the Cheyenne, they say, are as strong as oak. They bend and stretch through the plains as they roam, And the company they keep is the richest, deepest loam. For never have I met a people so fine— And I hope, through the hold, I might […]

✝️ New on Substack: Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist Written on no sleep, full of confession, tension, doubt, and holy hope. It’s about: – Isaiah 30 – Palestine – Addiction & grace – Letting go – My dad, my mom, and a girl I maybe love 🧵

✨ New Daily Tao Reflection: “The Wrong Church at the Right Time” A story about detours, AA meetings, toothbrushes, Polaroids, and why Laozi, Frost, and Bilbo all understood something most of us forget. 📖 Read here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-175262636 #taoteching #dailyreflection […]

💐 New poem: May Flowers I was an usher at a wedding. I didn’t dance. I watched. I drank gin. I chewed gum. I thought about love. So I wrote this instead. 📖 https://substack.com/home/post/p-174136594?source=queue #poetry #liminalspace #mayflowers #weddings #quietpeople #usherlife

✝️ New reflection drops Sunday, Oct 5th: Bending Back Barthes: On Billy Graham and the Vel’ d’Hiv Faith. Myth. Spectacle. Doubt. God who kills. God who weeps. A stadium. A waiting room. A spiral into the heart. 🕯️ Read it on https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/

📜 ENTRELACÉ — A Poem for October 3 Germany reunites. A Nazi rocket roars. Bobby swings. A Welsh prince falls. Four poems. One thread. Entwined, not rhymed. 🧵

✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist — October 3 Change of plans: it’s live today. David, the Ark, AGI, utilities, grace, and a whisper of new love—plus three art pieces. Read: https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/blind-faith-with-a-gnostic-deist-bfb #blindfaith #proverbs3 #taoteching […]

📖 Coming this Sunday on Substack: Bending Back Barthes: On Billy Graham and the Vel’ d’Hiv “God is God,” Barthes scoffed. A tautology, he said. A stupid slogan. But what if it’s not? What if that’s the point? This essay is about myth and orators. About surrender and stadiums. About the gospel […]

✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist will return tomorrow. I’ve written enough today (2 full reflections), and the third is resting quietly until morning. Maybe—just maybe—you’ll have 3 reflections to sit with tomorrow. For now: Rest. Breathe. Let the pattern settle. #blindfaith #taoteching […]

✨ Daily Tao Reflection 26: Stay Rooted “The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement.” — Tao Te Ching, Ch. 26 This one’s about: 🪴 Becoming the plant mom you want to be ⚖️ What justice could look like 🧱 Staying grounded even when the world wants you to drift 📖 […]

📛 Content Warning: Overdose, CPR, cheating, gendered harm, and confession ✝️ “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?” This is my reckoning. This is my testimony. This is the day Memory did not become a memory. ✍️ Read it here] → [[ […]

But I’m not releasing it yet. Because I still live in the shadow of that story. And wisdom sometimes means waiting to be heard. Soon. But not today.

Tried to apologize recently. Not for what I did—but how I carried it. Tone, edge, presence. My part in the tension.

🆕 New Reflection: ✝️ Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist A reflection on time, plagues, spilled water, and the patience of God. 🔗 Read here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

🌀 New Tao Reflection: #25 What do Marvel Comics, Taoist philosophy, and the Big Bang have in common? ✨ Everything. This one goes cosmic — and recursive.

📜 This Day in History — Oct 1 Empire falls. A republic rises. A mouse builds a kingdom. A man climbs Ole Miss. A castle crumbles. Poetry, myth, and memory—bound by rhyme and boba. 🧃 Sound: Buck Owens – Act Naturally 🌀 Sip: Free boba at Dumpling Master 👉 Read […]

✝️ New Reflection: Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist Identity lost. Identity returned. A bag. A psalm. A prophecy. A muffin. A reflection on serendipity, provision, self-love, and what it means to follow God even when you don’t know the end of the road. Featuring: 📖 Luke 1 🛡️ Psalm 91 🌀 […]

🌄 Daily Tao Reflection 24 “He who rushes ahead doesn’t go far.” A short walk with Laozi, a detour through the spirit store, and a meditation on why backroads sometimes get you there faster. 🖼️ New abstract art inspired by the winding way. 🔗 https://substack.com/home/post/p-175009412 […]

✝️ New Reflection: Blind Faith with a Gnostic Deist A biblical, mythic, AI-assisted reckoning on naming, surrender, and memory. Featuring Luke 1, family lineage, Taoism, and a full-body spiritual wrestle with silence. You’ll find prayers, etymologies, and maybe even yourself. 🔗 […]

🌄 Daily Tao Reflection 23 is live: When the Clouds Pass Subtitle: A reflection on reflection through reflection Today, I talk about: – Taoism – AI as creative mirror – Surrender – Critics – The body, the corpus – Brie Larson's A Wrinkle in Time quote Let it rain. Then let the sun shine […]