On Nobility

Posted on 16/05/2022 by oligomath

nobility is having a big soul. megalopsychia. magnanimitas. the virtue of magnanimity is characterised by scorning personal comfort and safety and having the will to speak and act openly what is right and against what is wrong

but importantly, the magnanimous man is not petty or vengeful. even more importantly he claims much, and is entitled to do so.

when the magnanimous man, call him Erastes, suffers for his own benefit or for some wider good, everyone will agree that this is good

through his great soul, Erastes claims another, slightly less magnanimous, man, Eromenos. Eromenos suffers similarly through the actions of Erastes, agrees that what Erastes has done is not punishment, but simply an encouragement of magnanimity in the soul of Eromenos. But because he is not quite as magnanimous as Erastes, this is not without some friction, but nothing serious.

Pathikos, on the other hand, is a petty man full of faults and bitter resentment, who does not see Erastes’ actions in the same light. When Erastes claims Pathikos, his attempts at magnanimity all fail and Pathikos inevitably ends up either ruined and dead, either physically or, it is to be hoped, spiritually: reduced to a living tool of Erastes. Thus ever to the parvanimous!

When everyone shows magnanimity, or is flourishing in a way oriented towards it, this all works perfectly. If Pathikos’ lack of nobility is treated justly by the magnanimous then Pathikos is made into a slave. I think it would take a superhuman level of virtue not to see the means by which such a man is enslaved as “punishment”, but that’s the noble ideal.

And that is the problem. Since there are many people who lack even a human level of virtue going around getting jobs in the civil service, one gets petty people dressing up in noble garb and substituting sadism and rules-following for magnanimity, Fucked Up Family Dynamics Writ Large for the magnanimous claiming of other souls, and bitter revenge for justice: the one thing we didn’t want to happen.

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Some Academic Gaians

Posted on 13/05/2022 by oligomath

i saw an interesting variation of “consequences” on twitter yesterday unfortunately again i got exposed to an academic fetishmining by posting an “anonymous” comment and getting her coperverts to identify and punish him. the interesting thing is that one of the perverts said something like “time for him to discover the natural consequences of his actions 😁”

now usually the “natural” part is left unsaid but here this perverted Fury boldly said she and her fellow Kindly Ones were acting as a force of Nature. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this particular munch was part of the ideological branch of physics – they were people who instead of scamming money to do maths all day, they were scamming money to Promote Climate Justice or something, and the anonymous target was directly attacking their game.

inference here is that Natural Law, Science, My Career, My Libido are all the same thing… ugly business

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Qabbala – Major Adaptor

Posted on 13/05/2022 by oligomath

for anyone who, like me, has spent too much time memorising kabbaliastical correspondences and who wants to use the Major System of phonetic image-formation for remembering numbers. i provide the following adaptor:

  1. top /t d T D/
  2. (k)nowing /n/
  3. mother /m/
  4. right /r/
  5. left /l/
  6. shiny /S Z tS dZ/
  7. green /k g/
  8. form /f v/
  9. picture /p b/
  10. sandalfon/stuff /s z/
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Rectification of Names: Sleep Paralysis

Posted on 09/05/2022 by oligomath

“sleep paralysis” is a very bad name because it implies nothing more than simple motor paralysis, but phenomenologically it’s more complicated than that: awareness of the body is significantly suppressed but not completely. you can tell that some things are still clearly on “this side” of the unawareness and show up all the brighter. i find that with the gross body cut out then the subtle body is usually pretty luminous during sleep paralysis with chakras extremely obviously flaring on and off and of course, the eyes and ears of the subtle body seeing wild illusions the baseline for which is just noisy white light but which can cohere quite surprisingly with a little practice.

in this respect it mimics a light jhana. you enter the first jhana by attaining “access consciousness”, which you do by picking a meditation subject and concentrating on it until bodily awareness becomes a background. at this point you locate a pleasant vibration in some chakra or some part of your subtle body and shift your concentration onto that, whereupon this nice feeling develops into “piti” – vibrations, raptures, lights etc.

this is the same territory as sleep paralysis but entering it from a meditation is different from entering it after a nightmare.

a few days ago, the first of may in fact, i entered this territory in a sleep paralysis like route when i was kicked slightly into awareness by the dawn bell i have my phone make every morning, at which i usually pray the Angelus. my awareness spontaneously focused on the bell and amplified it to take up all of aural awareness which made my third eye pop (this being where visionary stuff usually localises itself) but when i started to pray, per the conditioned response to the bell, my heart chakra also popped off, generating piti which flared for a while and then calmed down into a loong freeform astral-wandering hypnopompia type which must have lasted three hours.

“sleep paralysis” is a rly bad name for it.

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Eugenics Without Tears

Posted on 08/05/2022 by oligomath

this is some Genetic Hyrcanian Spring shit right here because generational ascendancy is possible but you have to believe in yourself as a tuple comprising an agglomeration of traits, one device for maximising the good traits and another device for creating situations where the bad traits become good.

your view of futurity should not be “i exist in the future as a singular descendant whom I live through”. my friend, this makes you an evil ghost.

your view should be that you pass into the Descendants, a group of people who are possessed by a pool full of blessed Lares, damned Larvae and middling Manes – that’s you.

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James Anderton RIP

Posted on 08/05/2022 by oligomath

i found out a few days ago about a copper who was famous in the 80s, but whose reputation failed so thoroughly to be passed down to me that i only found about how he existed from the obituaries. even the people posting about how glad they were he was dead had a sort of “how did i forget about this swine? quick, remember!” air.

huh looks like another chief constable died a month ago but by his own young hand rip

anyway, james anderton, floruit 1975 to 1991, classic reactionary type, hated gays and gay pride, but very pride in coppers beating people up loudly and publically rather than doing it shamefully and quietly as was the rising and current style, went from being a methodist preacher to roman catholicism for moral reasons which is pretty psychological i’d say

obviously a terrible fellow who would be a liability to any police force, and apparently *was* even at the time. the news stories focus on how he was wicked to the gay community, which he was, but even looking on wikipedia it’s obvious why he was valued: he was a good friend of the incipient 80s security state and was allowed to import tactics from Northern Ireland: big vans and snatch squads

and, of interest to the bee in my head that buzzes about the british gun control programme:

Anderton was particularly criticised by members of his Police Committee for his attitude toward armed police. In 1983, he announced mobile armed patrols to counter an increase in armed robberies in Greater Manchester. These patrols later became known as Armed Response Vehicles and are now routinely used by police forces across the United Kingdom. In 1986, Anderton issued 9mm MP5 carbines to selected officers based at Manchester Airport on security patrols. Following the riots in Brixton, Tottenham and Handsworth in 1985, Anderton announced that the Greater Manchester Police would be equipped with plastic baton rounds. Anderton justified his decision with police casualties suffered during these riots:

“We have two choices in the police force – either we stay where we are and die or we ignominiously cut and run. As long as it is in my power, I have no intention of leaving my officers unprotected… I shall never abandon the citizens of Greater Manchester to the mercy of rioters, rapists, looters and criminals.”

which made me extremely sure that this man had a great deal of influence in the gun control programme which nobody ever talks about

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Kim Stanley Robinson Was Not Exaggerating

Posted on 08/05/2022 by oligomath

i thought the Reds in the Mars Trilogy were an absurd extrapolation of anti-human sentimental nature worshippers until yesterday i saw a clique on Twitter talking about how Yikes Nobody Gets To Light a Campfire Anywhere It’s Current Year because one of them found a circle of stones (itself problematic because it disturbs the fantasy of wilderness) that someone had built on a sandstone outcrop (good because heathland can go up in flames) but the sandstone cracked in the heat. immersion ruined. save the sandstones.

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Parallel between Jhana and Sleep Paralysis

Posted on 03/05/2022 by oligomath

the solution is like getting into jhana. you learn to quickly orient yourself into sleep paralysis space and recognise that because you are in a jhanoid state “quite secluded from sensuality” that there are some positive feedback loops you can get into quite easily just by directing your attention at them, just like in first jhana. raptures are pretty easy: you just invert the valence of the feedback and instead of spiralling into fear, you spiral into rapture. if you do this then the transitoriness of the sleep paralysis state (it needs a better word than this) breaks differently, because it’s become characterised by rāga instead of dvesa

the prescription for when you get overtaken by dvesa is lovingkindness, which is why people give the advice of shooting love beams at night hags. interestingly the prescription for getting overtaken by rāga is generosity/selflessness

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To Someone With an Illustrious Idea of the Roman Senate

Posted on 02/05/2022 by oligomath

do people like to imagine this? maybe cicero stans do but when i think about representations of the SENATVS in film and TV, the gestalt I have picked up is of a bunch of fat old men in togas barking and laughing (clearly modelled on the British parliament) while someone stands in front trying to put on a show of emotionally manipulating his clearly tender audience while actually putting on a show of how he has manoeuvred all of them through force, blackmail and cunning

though speaking of British style representations of the SENATVS, it is very strange how nobody ever ever ever depicts the curia they are sitting in as being one of the two purpose built curiae with rows of benches and an aisle in the middle, but they always always use the temporary round pompeian curia. this is understandable for a dramatic production because it was a literal theatre, and the central act of any drama about the late republican period is the murder of caesar, which did take place in the pompeian curia….but STILL…

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“I Suffered So Why Should Anyone Else Have It Easy?”

Posted on 02/05/2022 by oligomath

it is extremely load bearing though. at its heart it is a family dynamics problem of fucking up your kids like you were fucked, and no worse.

as a very, very general rule, an outsider coming into your family and fucking up the dynamics is doing it to destroy your family. i would say in the current environment the two main reasons for this are a) the cuck scenario: someone (a rival lover or a snake cult or something) wants to take your spouse and children for their own, b) the apoptosis scenario: the state has decided that society and maybe you would better if your family were destroyed and is undertaking efforts to do so

it is evident that having some innate resistance to people coming in and fucking your fucked up dynamic some more is adaptive in a world filled with cuckoos and apoptosis induction factors

it is also evident that society works by having people work out family dynamics on a bigger scale

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