The Metaphor

The Metaphor

Parish or Perish
Live in the world immediately around you or die.
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The Loss of Magnificence
The forgotten virtue that makes public beauty possible.
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A Dialogue on Mystical Experiences
weaving through the woo-woo
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The Disenchantment of the Modern World Is a Myth
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Why I am Christian again
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We Don't Talk About Jordan Peterson
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Technology Is Over
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There Is a House in New Orleans
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It’s Not a Revival
Vibe shifts aren’t measurable until they’re not important.
Oct 17 • James Taylor Foreman
What to do about IQ
How I learned to stop worrying and love the test.
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Small Talk Is King
I don’t want to talk about my feelings.
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Un-Shrinking Your Head
Man does not live by compression alone.
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Slop Suggests the Existence of Its Opposite
LinkedIn Hell and other metaphysical realms.
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The Telos of Cornhole
If your ideas are making you worse at sports, they’re the wrong ideas
Published on Chisel • Sep 17
Only God Can Judge Me
What Americans most fundamentally believe.
Sep 15 • James Taylor Foreman
Michael Levin’s Pragmatism Solves the Postmodern Problem
The biology of the gods.
Sep 12 • James Taylor Foreman
To Believe Is Like To Go to Sleep
To all the times I couldn’t sleep.
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The Metaphor
The Metaphor
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