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This is for elasticity’s sake. I hate being told to meditate, because whenever things are silent for longer than a couple seconds new things just crop up to fill it, including things I didn’t even know I had in me — One Republic’s most obscure, etc — and that makes me feel defective. So I have invented a new thing that is somewhere in between a meditation and and information reception. Basically, you choose a single string of input that is so dense that you’re basically itching for respite, and through that, your mind buffers to a still. It has to be something you’ve never encountered before, and it cannot reference any other work or idea at all. I do the Hegel in the sauna after fasted cardio and it’s completely miserable.
I’m sure there are other things you could choose from. I did a sea semester with a Mormon a while ago and read her old testament, and this had virtually the same effect. But I like Phenomenology because it’s like the seeded bread of philosophy. It’s like the original everything, and I’m always more than willing to be devout to the totality of play-pretend invention.
I’m sure there are other things you could choose from. I did a sea semester with a Mormon a while ago and read her old testament, and this had virtually the same effect. But I like Phenomenology because it’s like the seeded bread of philosophy. It’s like the original everything, and I’m always more than willing to be devout to the totality of play-pretend invention.
Feb 25, 2026