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1 month ago | secretorum.life | Oliver Burkeman |Roger’s Bacon

It’s painful to confront how limited your time is, because it means that tough choices are inevitable and that you won't have time for all you once dreamed you might do. It’s also painful to accept your limited control over the time you do get: maybe you simply lack the stamina or talent or other resources to perform well in all the roles you feel you should. And so, rather than face our limitations, we engage in avoidance strategies, in an effort to carry on feeling limitless.

Jan 21, 2025 | secretorum.life | Roger’s Bacon

There was a football game Sunday night. The Baltimore Ravens played the Buffalo Bills. The Baltimore Ravens lost. Mark Andrews dropped a game-tying pass in the final minute. It hit him right in the chest. There is a world where Andrews catches the ball. There is a world where the Baltimore Ravens win the game. There is world where they kick the ever-loving shit out of the Kansas City Chiefs and go on to win the fucking super bowl. I am choosing to live in that world.

Jan 9, 2025 | secretorum.life | Roger’s Bacon

Previously: “A New World” (1), “A World of Pure Imagination” (2), “Gnosticism: Origins” (3), Gnosticism: Inversions (4), “Gnosticism: Convergences” (5)April Deconick (The Gnostic New Age) describes gnosticism as an “emergent structure” of the religious imagination defined by a particular constellation of attributes: “mystical practices, a transgressive esotericism and hermeneutics, a belief in an innate spiritual nature, a quest orientation, and an inclusive metaphysics”.

Jan 4, 2025 | secretorum.life | Roger’s Bacon

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Dec 26, 2024 | secretorum.life | Roger’s Bacon

Previously: “A New World”(1), “A World of Pure Imagination”(2), “Gnosticism: Origins”(3), “Gnosticism: Inversions”(4)One should place one’s penis into the vagina of one’s mother and one’s sandals on one’s father’s head, while fondling (or licking) one’s sister’s breasts and kissing her fair seat. He who does this, O great Goddess, reaches the abode of Extinction.