Calvin’s dad voice:
The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories.
Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists.
Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism.
Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.
The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories.
Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists.
Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism.
Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.
May 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Calvin’s dad voice:
The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories.
Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists.
Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism.
Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.
The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories.
Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists.
Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism.
Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.
Full moon mysticism
January 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Full moon mysticism
The Rasputin Effect: Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe, Anne Applebaum writes.
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Rasputin Effect: Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe, Anne Applebaum writes.
reading the Heated Rivalry books through the lens of homosexual mysticism
January 19, 2026 at 2:54 AM
reading the Heated Rivalry books through the lens of homosexual mysticism
Hey #portfolioday, I paint Finno-Ugric Mysticism inspired art for myself and neat fantasy stuff for Magic: The Gathering!
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Hey #portfolioday, I paint Finno-Ugric Mysticism inspired art for myself and neat fantasy stuff for Magic: The Gathering!
big wins like brown and obergefell--and not just the big wins, but the *strategy* of lawsuits, the basic praxis of so many progressive groups "well we'll sue you, that's how we win" has induced this kind of mysticism
May 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Symposium of Post-mysticism, part 2
September 14, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Symposium of Post-mysticism, part 2
this is mysticism
People remember inflation. Their memory is likely faulty, but they remember, and once they've experienced it they are scarred forever.
August 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
this is mysticism
The mountains of my world building project are full of strange gods, mysticism and witchcraft 🏔️🌨️
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The mountains of my world building project are full of strange gods, mysticism and witchcraft 🏔️🌨️
we should have seen this tech cult mysticism coming the moment they started calling 3rd party datacentrs "the cloud"
June 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
we should have seen this tech cult mysticism coming the moment they started calling 3rd party datacentrs "the cloud"
Don’t tell me facts as if they’re mysticism cookie
March 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Don’t tell me facts as if they’re mysticism cookie
The Rasputin Effect: Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/0lEVKi4H
January 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The Rasputin Effect: Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/0lEVKi4H
When im so Catholic i hate basic religious mysticism
Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.
The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?
The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?
October 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
When im so Catholic i hate basic religious mysticism
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
It created a false Overton Window on this that puts a person who believes I straight up new age mysticism as the middle. And that’s malpractice, imo.
July 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It created a false Overton Window on this that puts a person who believes I straight up new age mysticism as the middle. And that’s malpractice, imo.
On year five of Putin's three day special military operation the Russians are resorting to bone mysticism to try and boost the performance of their ground forces.
September 13, 2026 at 3:07 AM
On year five of Putin's three day special military operation the Russians are resorting to bone mysticism to try and boost the performance of their ground forces.
I hope that the historians do find space to mention the Jezebel Etsy witches. It’s a window into 2020s post-ironic mysticism that might otherwise go unmentioned.
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I hope that the historians do find space to mention the Jezebel Etsy witches. It’s a window into 2020s post-ironic mysticism that might otherwise go unmentioned.
There are plenty of people who get into western philosophy because of "the mysticism"
March 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
There are plenty of people who get into western philosophy because of "the mysticism"
no one really wants to admit that LLM mysticism is in the same vector space as gooning.
July 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
no one really wants to admit that LLM mysticism is in the same vector space as gooning.
October 31, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
~ Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
#Painting, Caspar David Friedrich, ‘Evening,’ 1821.
~ Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
#Painting, Caspar David Friedrich, ‘Evening,’ 1821.
September 16, 2026 at 7:58 AM
“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
~ Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
#Painting, Caspar David Friedrich, ‘Evening,’ 1821.
~ Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
#Painting, Caspar David Friedrich, ‘Evening,’ 1821.
Montesquieu? Lists. Rousseau? Mysticism.
Aquinas? Lists. Augustine? Mysticism.
(The latter is probably the *only* such pairing in which I prefer the mystic.)
Aquinas? Lists. Augustine? Mysticism.
(The latter is probably the *only* such pairing in which I prefer the mystic.)
Calvin’s dad voice:
The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories.
Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists.
Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism.
Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.
The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories.
Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists.
Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism.
Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.
May 7, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Montesquieu? Lists. Rousseau? Mysticism.
Aquinas? Lists. Augustine? Mysticism.
(The latter is probably the *only* such pairing in which I prefer the mystic.)
Aquinas? Lists. Augustine? Mysticism.
(The latter is probably the *only* such pairing in which I prefer the mystic.)
it helps to divide mysticism into three classes of effects: transport spells, absorption spells, and uhh fuckin uhhhh
There are many common variants of mysticism spells, not to mention the countless custom versions created by ambitious spellcasters. It helps to divide mysticism into three different classes of effects: transport spells, absorption spells, and other mysticism spells.
September 22, 2026 at 12:13 PM
it helps to divide mysticism into three classes of effects: transport spells, absorption spells, and uhh fuckin uhhhh