Dave > Recent Status Updates

Slow at work so I'm starting the Odyssey

Discovered this guy on a podcast: former materialist, inventor of lots of mainstream computer technology, but had an enlightenment experience that flipped everything inside out from a spiritual/philosophical standpoint.

I've been searching for someone to explain the technicalities of quantum mechanics, free will and consciousness from the correct perspective ever since I read Schopenhauer. Seek and you shall find am

Apollonius is kind of a savage ngl

goddamn

Finished Iliad. Love it for its historicity, the mythical pantheon, and the ethereal setting of ancient days. Not super interested in war literature though, which was the entire book, so the Iliad didn't grip me as much as other novels can. And again, very tedious with the great multitude of the minor one-off Greek characters scattered through: it is simply impossible to retain the mental coherence of them all.

fuckin awesome

Goddamn this guy is so dialed in

wow

The man, the myth, the legend

Another freshly discovered writer gifted at prose. Damn I'm gonna be busy

As I had imagined, the Iliad is fairly tedious with respect to the enormous cast of obscure and minor Greek characters sprinkled throughout every page, but one can still follow the thread of the plot by the major characters and gods. Poetic metaphors abound as well—a nice touch. Almost finished.

Why have I never heard of this author before?? This book is the breath of the divine itself channeled through this man.

Saving the rest for tomorrow. I need to reflect.

Oh my God this book is beautiful. Finishing this tonight. This is why we scavenge through endless books, to find the few poetic diamonds like this. What a writer! The book itself is a spell and by reading it one becomes enchanted. Holy—