Ethereal Insights

Smokers' Delight By Troy T. The Case For Smoking | Monday – June 15, 2026 S moking, a topic that I have covered in the past , is too often considered unhealthy and even immoral. The facts are, of course, much more nuanced and much more complicated: sure, profane scientists claim that smoking " kills " and causes all sorts of diseases, as if modern are not diseased enough already , but they very rarely mention the real benefits that smoking can provide, such as calming the nerves and regulating your mood, really helping you to perfect your life. Yes, it is true that profane scientists claim that about 1 out of every 10 people who smoke will end up with lung cancer, which is actually a pretty good statistic if you think about it. But of course, to those false preachers, to those profane scientists, really to those witch doctors , all I can say, ask really, is this: what about that 10% who do end up getting lung cancer? How is that statistic, that number, helpful? No, these...

Tibetan ( 卐 ) depiction of Mahakala ( महाकाल ): The Protector of the Dharma ( धर्म ) Hard Work? Sunday – June 14, 2026 I n our times there is a lot of talk about hard work, as if hard work in and of itself will produce great results. Of course, the reality is that hard work in and of itself is quite worthless, even in the most corporeal sense imaginable , because what modern people demand and expect is always great comfort, and if a man is a hard worker yet his work fails to produce great comfort, he should expect a low wage. To put it in more technical terms: if you are working hard but the work you are doing is in low demand and there is a lot of supply of the kind of work that you are doing, then you should expect a low wage, regardless of the amount of work, hard or not, that you put in, read " What is Capitalism? ". So, essentially the whole concept of working hard is really nothing but a big fat lie , and I would submit to you that the objective of this "big fat li...

"Life is a succession of choices, what is yours?" By Javier Allegue Barros Failure | Saturday – June 13, 2026 F ailure... Failures... Indeed, life is full of them and I have had my "fair share" of them, and I am also continuing to have them, which is okay. I guess what I am trying to express is a somewhat modern sentiment here: if failure is an option, it would be prudent to avoid that option. The fact is of course that failure, more often than not, is something that happens to you whether or not you like it; it affects you and you are left to deal with it or not deal with it. Of course, what failures do is that they emphasize the many ways of life, sometimes too much, but often just enough, because one could use failure as a tool to become more productive, because if you are a failure then there is plenty of room to improve. Sometimes however, it becomes clear—often if you have failed and failed again—that improvement indeed is not an option and that instead you n...