Ethereal Insights

Yahweh in (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush My Views on Conversions | Wednesday – November 11, 2026 P eople may be concerned with the question of conversion, and here I am not merely referring to the word "conversion" in its mechanical sense. Indeed, I am specifically referring to converting from one faith to another, seeking fellowship among the followers of one exoteric tradition different from your own, and typically this will revolve around someone seeking knowledge outside their the tradition they grew up in; in modern colloquialism this is typically and simply referred to as undergoing a religious conversion, although this could apply to something different than religiosity, perhaps most notably changing material and ideological outlook . Of course, in the purview of this post I am wholly and one-sidedly interested in religious conversion and I will pay no attention to ideological conversion, a topic for another time.     Now, when it comes to religious conversion...

The Chocolate Cup (1878) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Chocolate | Tuesday – November 10, 2026 T hey say that Chocolate is a happy flavor, and I suppose that this is true, but only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be completely controlled by the whims of our basic and degenerated biology, read " Never Trust Your Body! ", because really, Chocolate in its natural and "wild" form is really quite the opposite of a "happy flavor", and I suppose too that Chocolate is a rather childish flavor, and yes there is nothing wrong in this, for this is merely an observation, an observation not so much about the world but rather about a flavor. Now, allow me to get real for a moment, they say too, the profane scientists, that food must be nutritious and not merely childish and invoking of a happy feeling, and this is true, and quite often it is the case that food that is good, food that is nutritious is not the most happy inducing kind of food, usually because nutriti...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Is Life Worth It? Monday – November 9, 2026 N ever before, in the history of the world was the question of whether life was truly worth it or not more salient than now, and yes, can we truly be made to answer this question honestly? Now, some people, perhaps most notably Professor David Benatar, would make a distinction between whether or not life is worth it and whether or not life is worth starting, and if you are interested in this distinction you should read my post about antinatalism , which is an adjacent subject.     Allow me to begin by saying that I do not believe that there is any reason for a man to feel that life is not worth living, unless there are material reasons that have compelled him to reach this conclusion, because by saying that he do not believe his own life to be worth living anymore, this man is admitting not only that his life is something quite bad, something negative; this man is also admitting that the whole or a rathe...