thesotiris

@thesotiris · 2 days ago

I am not a good writer: A story of humbling vanity

Articulating form to magnify essence… that was my Sisyphean naivety, the wasting of years to impress the impressionable. My pelt of gold was an apotheosis of ego , not Thelema for Aletheia . Y...

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@thesotiris · 5 days ago

Why the West is dying: Facing Veritas

You cannot save a dying organism unless you first acknowledge its affliction. It takes bravery to accept uncomfortable truth. It is not “defeatism” to have the courage to recognize harsh reality over...

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@thesotiris · 1 week ago

The best argument for statelessness: Logic on the side of freedom

The best argument for statelessness emerges in response to the most common straw man fallacy against statelessness; that is “ without a government, people would descend into chaos. ” This is demons...

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@thesotiris · 2 weeks ago

State vs. Statelessness

Two fundamental differences between centralized government & decentralized self-governance When I explain to people (those willing to listen) how a society can make laws without government , and ho...

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@thesotiris · 3 weeks ago

Toxic positivity & self-punishment

Give yourself some credit for the rough path you find yourself on It’s more tempting for the fortunate to attribute all of their success to themselves than for the unfortunate to blame their failure...

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@thesotiris · 3 weeks ago

Losing hope: Optimism in despair

Unfounded optimism deprives you of useful urgency and footing on reality. Blind faith that “things will somehow get better” on their own is a vulnerability that makes you susceptible to manipulation....

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@thesotiris · 1 month ago

Traffic lights: the perfect analogy for government - Slow, inefficient, costly, frustrating & lethal

Traffic lights are a Pavlovian bell, an exercise conditioning blind obedience to perceived “authority.” They represent a gamification of submission, whereby matching your behavior to basic colors gra...

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@thesotiris · 1 month ago

No good deed goes unpunished: When kindness vilifies you

Have you ever helped someone only for that someone to turn against you? “ The ingratitude! ” you think to yourself. Yet, haughtily expecting acknowledgment for your mercy is why you are the villain o...

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@thesotiris · 1 month ago

Second chances

We all deserve a second chance, right? Not really. It’s nice to get one, but we don’t ‘deserve’ it. We may have deserved the first chance, that first benefit of the doubt. And I say “maybe,” becaus...

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@thesotiris · 1 month ago

Why the West is NGMI [Part 1]: The death of religious identity

Rejecting your religious identity without first proposing an alternative is like a serpent shedding its skin before having already developed new skin underneath. Without an alternative frame to prote...

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@thesotiris · 2 months ago

Philosophy is skepticism & doubt... and you can doubt that too

When I was a kid, I used to make up funny scenarios with my younger brother. One of our jokes was an imaginary situation in which we had a time machine and went back to the time of ancient Greek phil...

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@thesotiris · 2 months ago

Government is an unnecessary evil: Evil must not be made necessary

My laptop has an integrated webcam cover slide. It’s a pretty neat feature. It gives you some peace of mind knowing that you’re safe, at least from FBI/NSA Facebook backdoors that live-view you and d...

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@thesotiris · 2 months ago

The military is gay: Uniformed homo-erotic fantasies

“You're in the army now, bitch!” The fetishization of the military is the homo-erotic fantasy of weak males with crippling insecurities and no conviction in their masculinity. Theirs are unresolved...

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@thesotiris · 2 months ago

Confidence vs. Arrogance

Arrogance is masked insecurity; a bluff of flamboyant pomposity, a staged overcompensation for a lack of confidence in oneself. Arrogant people are insecure, and they know they are insecure; otherwis...

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@thesotiris · 2 months ago

What was COVID? An historical analysis

In late 2019 to early 2020, Chinese media were marketing staged videos of random people supposedly collapsing and spasming in the streets… allegedly due to a “novel coronavirus.” Those instances were...

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@thesotiris · 3 months ago

Love vs. Attachment: A dangerous misconception

There is a subtle difference between love and emotional attachment; one that assigns vastly disparate meaning to these two distinct sentimental statuses. If you can’t identify the difference, you ar...

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@thesotiris · 3 months ago

How to manufacture a pandemic: A short checklist for aspiring technocrats, theocrats & other shamans

Engineer a mild pathogen with a distinct symptom for recognizability (e.g. taste loss). Falsely attribute cases/deaths via arbitrary interpretation of what constitutes sickness or cause of death...

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@thesotiris · 3 months ago

Theodicy: Scrutinizing the 10 Commandments

If a human can achieve higher moral standards than a god, then that god is either not moral, or it doesn’t exist at all; it just a product of the imagination of humans whose moral standard could not...

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@thesotiris · 3 months ago

Islamic Feminism & Muslim Matriarchy

Islam is inherently matriarchal. When Muslim males oppress women, they do it on behalf of other Muslim women. Shocker, I know; it’s contrary to what you thought you knew about Islam. Muslims themselv...

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@thesotiris · 4 months ago

Alternatives to the story of Abraham: What does Abraham actually teach us?

Many consider Judaism and/or Christianity (the European interpretation of Judaism) to be the foundation of morality. Such a grand claim deserves equally grand scrutiny. As a disclaimer, this is not...

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@thesotiris · 4 months ago

How government kills masculinity [Part 2]

Witness the hyper-feminized “where have all the men gone?” reality of the post-20th-century reality: Women have become entitled and by-default disrespectful to men. They feel no reservation to blanke...

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@thesotiris · 4 months ago

How government kills masculinity [Part 1]

If I could define masculinity in one word, it would be control . A man is not defined by his muscles, aggression, circumstantial resources, or even his intellect. Muscles are the easiest thing to acq...

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@thesotiris · 5 months ago

Authority is a bluff

Authority is a bluff . It exists only if you fall for it. You fall for it if you stand for nothing, if you don’t stand up for yourself or your family. Authority is a bluff . It takes only a critical...

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@thesotiris · 5 months ago

The tomboy debate - Samirah vs. Hannah Barron: Eastern shaming against the West

In The shaming fallacy [part 1] , I failed to communicate my point accurately enough; that shaming, just like violence, is unethical only when initiated, when it seeks to alter the neutral state of...

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@thesotiris · 5 months ago

Porn ban: Is it a good idea?

Moral & functional arguments: 3 reasons why pornography prohibition is dangerous Just like recreational drugs, pornography is a vile phenomenon of the human condition that has existed throughout his...

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@thesotiris · 5 months ago

Punishing criminals in the absence of a state

Justice without authority - smarter, fairer and more efficient One of the greatest objections against statelessness (organised society without the perceived authority of a centralised government) is...

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@thesotiris · 6 months ago

Belief & Knowledge: Knowing is believing

We all believe in something, even though we wish we knew instead. Some of us know we believe. Others believe they know. Even if you do know that you know something, you must first believe in...

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@thesotiris · 6 months ago

The shaming fallacy [Part 1]: Ideals so weak they can't hold up without coercion

There’s a recent prevalence of Eastern-style shaming in the world, and particularly towards Westerners. Just observe the social media chatter from (in)organic influencers: “ If you don’t do X then y...

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@thesotiris · 6 months ago

Free will oxymoron: As free as you know you aren't

If causation dictates all, then free will cannot exist. Your neurons are wired a certain way; your synapses follow neural pathways that form your mental architecture, a predictable result of genetics...

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@thesotiris · 6 months ago

The noble savage myth: Western passive condescension

The Westerner’s obsession with ennobling the savage (or at least what he deems as savage) is merely his coping mechanism for his internalised guilt stemming from his prejudiced judgments (whether fa...

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