List of My Earlier Writings

My "Map of the Articles" has grown too long to edit. It crashes my internet browser, so I've had to break up the list into two parts: before and after Medium. 

Here are the older articles, the ones I wrote before I switched to writing on Medium.

Earlier Writings:

Summaries

Stultified by Reason: the Vision of Heartless Nature

Reason, Faith, and the Authentic Self 

The Absurdity of Faith and Reason

Philosophy in the Wasteland

Enlightenment and Suicide 

Dark Mysticism: Tragic Heroism and Fear of the Undead God 

Deflating Traditionalism: Why Existentialism beats Spirituality

Opposing Nature: Life's Meaning in the Monstrous Universe 

Posthuman Religion from the End of Art 

The Art of Narrating Ourselves into Being 

Politics Made Simple

Clash of Worldviews 

Necronomicon

Eldritch Revelations: The Irony of God and Cosmos 

Eldritch Revelations: The Full Anthropocentricity of Religions 

Eldritch Revelations: Restoring God through Deified Humanity 

Eldritch Revelations: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Fear of Death 

Eldritch Revelations: Our Imminent Doom 

Eldritch Revelations: Why the Truth is Never Personal 

Clash of Worldviews: Ego and Enlightenment 

Scripture from the Future: Who Represents Humanity?

Philosophy of Religion

The Psychedelic Basis of Theism 

Entheogen: the Source, Substance, and Bane of Religions 

Awake while Sleeping: DMT and Paradoxical Consciousness

Untangling Myths and Delusions

Theism: Does its Irrationality Matter? 

Does God Write Books? 

Prayer, Truth, and the Re-enchantment of Nature 

Defining God into Existence: The Presumptuous Ontological Argument

Clash of Worldviews: The Moral Argument for God

Life of Pi’s Argument for Theism 

A Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics

Against the Theist’s Nightmare of Hell 

The Social Reality of Heaven and Hell 

The Paradox of Secular Holiness

The Comedy of Theism

The Man-made Gods of Monotheism 

The Gods are our Imaginary Friends 

The Fraud of Theology 

The Sham of Philosophical Theism 

Theistic Proofs in an Echo Chamber

Is Theism or Atheism a Delusion?

Jordan Peterson's Just-So Story of Religion

Christianity

Clash of Worldviews: God and the Devil 

Christian Chutzpah: Why Christianity is the Worst Religion 

The Source of Christian Audacity

Christian Crudities: An Aesthetic Condemnation of Christian Myths 

The Savior and his Diabolical Master

Christianity and the Axial Age

The Meaning of Christianity

Clash of Worldviews: Eastern and Western Christianity 

The Unique "Strengths" of Christianity

Scientology, Christianity, and the Persistence of Cults

New Atheism and Edward Feser's Thomistic Gambit 

William Lane Craig's Christian Philosophy: A Tale of Exploitation and Betrayal 

The Helpful Strangeness of Religious Fundamentalism

Why Evangelical Christians shouldn't Think too much 

Second Debate with a "Thinking Christian" 

The Bitter End of "Christian Thinking"

Is Jesus Lord or Legend? 

Seeing through the Matrix of Christian Discourse 

American Atheism and the Lie of Conservative Christianity 

Capitalism and Conservative Christianity: The Biblical Roots of the Fraud

Love or Disgust? A Christian debates a Misanthrope

Other Religions

Dennis Prager's Jewish "Wisdom"

Islam and the Secret of Monotheism

Clash of Worldviews: Islamist Terrorism Edition

The Art of New Age Myths 

The False Synthesis of Hinduism

Buddhism and Existential Angst 

Nihilism, Cosmicism, and Nishitani's Buddhism

Daoism, Nature's Tragedy, and the Existential Hero 

The Horror of Life's Meaning: From Eastern and Western Religions to Liberal Humanism

Atheism

Lovecraftian Horror and Pragmatism

Clash of the Atheists 

New Atheism and Godless Spirituality

Should Atheists Mourn the Death of God? 

A Pragmatic Argument for Functional Atheism

Untangling Scientific and Philosophical Atheism

Stephen Hawking’s Scientific Atheism

Are Atheists Religious?

Can Evil Derive from Atheism?

Pragmatism as a Dead End for New Atheism

New Atheist and Spiritual Atheist in Dialogue

Existentialism

Nietzsche and Secular Liberalism

Existentialism and the Ideal Religion

How to Fathom the Nature of Truth 

Life as a Dream: The Secular Myth of Objective Truth 

Reason, Attitude, and Ultimate Reality

The Incoherence of Naturalism 

Wisdom, Horror, and the Folly of Secular Humanism 

What is Enlightenment for? 

Humble Cognition: Dread and Awe from Objectivity

Kierkegaard and the True Self's Alienation 

Nietzsche: Godless Prophet

Cosmicism and Heideggerian Authenticity 

Dark Naturalism and Sartrean Freedom 

Karl Jaspers and the Horror of our Cognitive Limits

Cosmicism

From Theism to Cosmicism: Toy Gods and the Horror of the Supernatural

Varieties of Mysticism

Inkling of an Unembarrassing Postmodern Religion

The World’s Creation as God’s Self-Destruction

Darwinism and Nature’s Living-Deadness

Science and the Matrix Metaphor

God and Science: The Ironic Theophany

Causality: The Unhidden Face of God 

Is Nature Beautiful or Monstrous? 

Can we Transcend the World's Monstrousness? 

Objectivity and the Inhuman

Horror for the Codes of Creation

Cosmicist Epistemology 

Pragmatism and Pantheism: A Match made in Nature

Clash of Worldviews: Is Philosophy a Boon or a Con? 

Why is there Something rather than Nothing? 

Is there Something rather than Nothing?

The Meaning of Death

Is the Devil a Hero?

The Satanic Grandeur of Modernity 

Kazantzakis and The Saviours of God 

Cosmicism, Tragedy, and Greek Mythology 

Tragic Heroes in Fiction and Reality

Staring Into the Abyss: The Cultist, Silver Surfer, and Court Jester 

Theologian John Haught on Nature's "Story"

Brassier's Nihilism and the Creation of Meaning

Nihilism and the Re-enchantment of Nature: A Reply to Scott Bakker 

Stoicism and Cosmic Horror 

The Irony of a Natural Afterlife 

Defending Existential Cosmicism


Scientism

 
Scientism: Modern Pagan Religion

Hyper-Rationality and the Two Cultures

Speculation, Scientism, and the Art of Wisdom 

Scientism and the Artistic Side of Knowledge

Jerry Coyne on Scientism and Freewill 

The Irrelevance of Scientific Determinism

Sam Harris’s Science of Morality

Answer to Sam Harris's Moral Landscape Challenge 

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Scientism and the Scapegoating of Philosophy 


Science and Technology

Existential Cosmicism and Technology 

Artificiality: The Miracle Hiding in Plain Sight 

The Miracle of Intelligent Selection of Events

Technoscience, Existentialism, and the Fact-Value Dichotomy

Humanization and Objectification: Why the World Doesn't Speak for Itself

The Roots of Instrumentalism and Mysticism in Science

Homelessness and the Transhuman

Technocracy, Buddhism, and Technoscientific Enlightenment

Mechanists and Transcendentalists, Kant we all just get along?

Dialogue with R. Scott Bakker

Naturalizing Normativity: A Reply to Scott Bakker

Personalizing Ourselves: Science, Liberalism, and the Reality of Illusions

Are Minds like Witches? The Catastrophe of Scientific Progress

How Horror begets Mind from Matter

Science, Nihilism, and the Artistry of Nature 

Qualia, Artificiality, and Fractals: A Solution to the Hard Problem 

Consciousness as the Seed of Artificiality 

Character and Freewill

Clash of Worldviews: Free Will Edition 

Yuval Harari on Freewill and Liberalism 

Karl Friston's Theory of (Normal) Life
 

Liberalism and Conservatism

Liberals and Conservatives, Humanists and Animalists

The Hidden Divide Between Conservatives and Liberals 

The Ironies of Political and Economic Freedoms

Clash of Worldviews: The War for Social Justice

Clash of Worldviews: Political Edition

Liberalism: From Scientism to Nihilism

Should liberals try to win more elections by being less rational?

Existential Grimness and Cornel West’s Catastrophic Love

Atheism Plus and the Liberal Conceit of Hyper-Rationality

Why is Canada So Boring?

Conservatism: Myth-Making for Oligarchy

Obama or Romney?

The Miracle of Modern Conservatism 

Is there a Conservative sense of Fairness? 

Julius Evola and the Sham of Conservative Philosophy 

The Trojan Horse of George Will's Conservatism

Clash of Worldviews: The Paradox of Late-Modern Conservatism 

Nerds and Predators in World Affairs: Deja vu from Childhood

Does Everyone Deserve Democracy? 

Does Cognitive Science Undermine Democracy?
  

Donald Trump

Gnostic Themes in American Politics 

The American Spectacle 

The Ogre-Clown of Trumpland 

Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 

Is Donald Trump Authentic?

Clash of Worldviews: The Meaning of Trumpism 

Will Trump's Presidency be more Traumatic than 9/11? 

Clash of Worldviews: Is Trump's Presidency Good for the World? 

President Trump is our Punishment 

The Failure of Democrats to Defeat Trump's Evil with Heroism

Oligarchy

Sociopathic Power Elites, Beta Herds, and Omega Watchers 

Avatars of Monstrous Nature and Estranged Creators of Unnatural Worlds

Oligarchy: Nature’s Inhumanity to Humans

How Oligarchic Gods Tame Consumers

Untangling Liberalism and Libertarianism

Political Correctness: Spellbinding the Masses 

Do We Really Want to be Free? 

Centrism and the Search for a Worthy Social Order

The Downside of Impartial Journalism

Terrorism and the Metaphysical Innocence of Civilians

Parasitic Supervillains and the Housing Bubble

Deciphering the Myth of Competition 

What's so Wrong with Vast Inequality? 

The Incoherence of Meritocracy

Beasts in Suits: The Regressive Impact of Scientific Management Theory 

Calling All Human Robots: Don't be Too Introspective at Work! 

Why Bosses become Loathsome

Reason, Progress, and the Frankfurt School
 

History

Mythopoesis and the Consolation of Technology

Ancient and Modern Enlightenment: from Noosphere to Technosphere

Decadence, Enlightenment, and the Great Story 

Modernity and Disenchantment

Against Steven Pinker's Case for Humanistic Progress

Taking Fictions Seriously: Why the Late-Modern Show Goes On

Psychopathic Gods and Civilized Slaves

Subhumans, Outsiders, and Glimpses of Posthumanity 

Outer and Inner Gods: The Encroachment of the Inhuman

The Secret History of Enlightened Animals


Sexuality

Prisoners of the Power Pyramid

Is Love the Meaning of Life?

Embarrassment by Sexual Ecstasy

Perversity of the Sexual Norm

Sex is Violent: Why the F-Word is Taboo

Individualism and the Sexual Attraction of Opposites 

Sex and the Authentic Self

Freedom and Equality: A Critique of Roosh V.'s Antifeminism 

Incels and the Call for Omega Enlightenment

Sexism and the Horror of Sex

Should we procreate to honour our ancestors?

Clash of Worldviews: Sex and Love Edition

Clash of Worldviews: The Sexual Harassment Epidemic 

Sexual Bliss and the Anguish of Enlightenment
  

Ethics 

The Paradox of Moral Obligations

Happiness is Unbecoming

Morality, Living Art, and the Undead Muse 

Are All Real Values Aesthetic?

Life as Art: Nature's Strangeness and the Aesthetic Attitude 

Why all we do is Art for Sages

Higher Morality and Satanic Rebellion against Nature 

Gods, Heroes and the Self: Our Life in Stories
 

Morality and the Aesthetic Conception of Life

Case Studies of Aesthetic Morality: Abortion and Gay Marriage

Atheistic Morality Despite Life’s Absurdity 

The Nature of Sympathy 

The Nature of Creativity

Authenticity and the Cost of Self-Creation 

The Strangeness of Normality: Alan Moore on Art and Magic

Childhood Innocence and the Outsider's Humility 

Sadism and the Horror of Liberty

The Problem of Evil and the Role of Omega Spirituality

Asceticism and the Existential Crisis 

Bearing Witness to an Inhuman World

The Wistful Quest for Honour 

The Brawl of Masculinities

Against Richard Carrier's Case for Natural Morality 

Morality and the Enlightened Psychopath 

Buddhists, Pessimists, and the End of Suffering

Pop Culture

Untangling Modernism and Postmodernism 

Civilization requires Myths, and Myths are Absurd

Philosophy and Social Engineering

Comedy and Existential Cosmicism

Donald Trump vs The Comedians: The Farce's Existential Import

The Ironies of Modern Progress and Infantilization 

Humanists, Technocrats, and a World of Babies

The Travesty of Self-Help Advice

Horror or Snark? The Millennial's Dilemma

Fame and the Comedy of False Gods 

Humankind as Life's Executioner: The Environmentalist's Nightmare 

Chinese Materialism and Wildlife Poaching

Polygyny, Porn Stashes, and the Clash of Hyperobjects

The Vileness of Guns and Just Wars

Games, Sports, and Mixed Martial Arts

The Emptiness of Postmodern Art (and of its Consumers) 

Hit Music: The Assault on the Brain 

Walter White's Special Love for his Baby Blue 

Sheldon Cooper: The Nerd’s Paradox

Woody Allen’s Curious Intellectualism 

Do Americans deserve Visionary Movies? A Review of Darren Aronofsky's film "mother!"

We're the Squishy Monsters!

Mental Health

When Madness is Normal: Sanity in the Minds of Animals and the Rise of Divine Persons 

Freud and Nietzsche: Psychiatry between Existentialism and Scientism

The Curse of Reason

Mental Disorder as Monstrosity 

Psychiatry, Anxiety Disorders, and Existential Angst

Introversion and the Esoteric

Artistic Creativity: Angst's Antidote and the Outsider's Solace

The Question of Antinatalism

Debate with YouTube Antinatalist, Inmendham 

Is Infamous YouTube Pessimist "Inmendham" Hero or Villain?

The Unmasking of Misanthropy: Jordan Peterson and David Benatar on Antinatalism 

Is Having Children Always Wrong?

Revenge of the Omega Men 

Teen Angst and the Omega Mentality 

Is the Cynical Intellectual a Parasite?


Rants

Manjaws

Bounties of Liberty 

Coca-Cola 

Sex is Ridiculous 

Power and the Abuse of Language

Fools' God 

Mental Health 

Homelessness and the Trumpocalypse


Poems, Fictions, and Conversations

Grim_Bard Poems on Instagram

Dirge in the Undead God

Prophets of Woe

Lies and Unmaskings in an Elevator

The Rant Within the Undead God

The Pointing

What Leads the Empty Suits? 

Social Justice and Existential Cosmicism

Commiserating in the Undead God 

Science and Aesthetic Morality 

Pragmatism, Naturalized Platonism, and Freewill: A Conversation


Satirical News Reports

Man Discovers Awful Truth, Shames Mass Media

Tea Party Advocates Destruction of All of America (Except for its Golf Courses)

Wild Animals of America Party accuses Republicans of Thinking too much

Mass Murderer calls Republicans soft on Satanic Values 

Polls show increased Respect for Republican Shamelessness 

Republicans Deploy Demonic Microphones used by Hutus in Rwandan Massacre

Talking Points should be delivered to Empty Rooms, Politicians and Journalists Agree 

Backward-Walking Politician has Limited Use of Political Platitudes

Americans Debate whether they Get Stuff Done 

American Voter Turnout shrinks to Six People in 2028 

"Inappropriate," the Power Elite's Ubiquitous Euphemism 

Liberal Morality Emasculating, argues noted Political Pseudoscientist 

Researchers discover why Republicans are Evil and Democrats are Cowards 

Sole Survivor of a Flurry of Mass Shootings Opposes Firearms Regulation

Robopundit Alex Castellanos soft sells Republican Anarchism

U.S. Steps Up Iraq's Military Training by Attaching American Heads to Iraqi Bodies

American Hypocrisy Fuels Interdimensional Starship

President Trump Confined to White House, Refuses to Take Revolving Door

CIA Digs up Dirt on President Trump, Forms New Planet 

Sign on Trump's Lapel Provides Running Tally of his Lies 

Trump Orders Obama's Presidency be stricken from the Historical Record 

President Trump attended Secret Workshops to learn how to Lie like a Politician

DNC Discovers Secret of Transformational Leadership

Comedians Replace Democrats to Oppose Psycho Clown Republicans 

God condemns Conservative Bullies for Opining on Comedy

Coalition of a Hundred Countries goes to War for Regime Change in the United States 

Republicans and al Qaeda face Conundrum of how to Continue their Escalating Evil 

Democrats begin Impeachment Proceedings on the Grounds that Donald Trump is an Old Man 

God praised for outfitting Donald Trump with Self-Destruct Button 

Liberals accused of Insensitivity for mocking Mentally-Disordered President Trump

Putin contends Trump wasn't Competent enough to have Colluded with Russia 

Russian Intelligence Operative reveals why Putin helped Elect Donald Trump 

President Trump Murders Alt Right Conservatives, their Ghosts still Support him 

The Creature of American Democracy Battered and Hunted under President Trump 

World's Religious Leaders Pray for President Trump's Comeuppance, to Restore God's Good Name 

Donald Trump, the Antichrist, is "Close Enough to Christ," said Evangelical Leader  

President Trump's Audacity Awarded Democrats Political Immunity for Two Centuries, said Political Pseudoscientist 

Open Letter to President Trump, from the Entertainment Industry 

Mueller passes Ongoing Investigation to Granddaughter, years after Trump finished Second Term 

Trump's Voters Smarter than Liberals, study shows 

Are All Americans Guilty of Hate Crimes against President Trump? 

Kleptocrat Playsets (Batteries not Included)

Democrat employs Strange Tactic in Defeating President Trump

Mueller and Trump: Partners in Crime 

Robert Mueller: The Knight who Tripped over his Lance 

What Crazy Nonsense will replace Trump on Mainstream News Outlets?

Consumer Protection Law Humbles Politicians and Mass Media

Tribal Antics of Canadian Question Period melt Face off of Skull

Torontonians fear Mayor Rob Ford's Scandals make their City too Interesting 

Canadians urge Ukrainians to seek Peace through Dullness 

Canadians Obsessed with American Politics, seek to Vote as Honourary Americans

Wall Street Banks' Financial Dealings stump the Lord Almighty 

G7 Leaders remind President Trump how American Economic Imperialism works

Feudalism Reinstituted in Suckersland where One Man Owns Everything

Millionaire tricks CNN into Stopping its Coverage of Missing Malaysian Plane 

Pope Francis's Superficial Christlikeness is Miraculous, Observers Say

Rush Limbaugh blasts Pope Francis and the Jesus he rode in on

Victims of Ice Storm learn Horrible True Meaning of Christmas 

Cosmos Show embroiled in Legal Controversy with Churches

Christians buy "What would an Iron Age yokel do?" bracelet 

Duck Dynasty and American Social Cohesion in Jeopardy, Experts Warn 

Evil Industries Imitates Scientology at Trial over Fraud
  
Hardline Atheists Condemn Sleep and Sex as Irrational 

Prophet of Doom cheated out of his Due Respect

Hotheads' Violence caused by Hot Climates, Study finds

Hope for Sufferers from Crazy Uncle Syndrome

Promise for Baldness Cure Causes Social Rifts 

Man with Skin Cancer loathes Doctors, Dies without Medical Treatment 

Surgeons are Heroic for facing Blood and Guts without Puking, says Surgeon

Dentists Besieged on Mock Your Dentist Day 

Psychiatrists reach Opposite Conclusions about President Trump's Mental Health 

Whipping set to replace Screeching in Olympic Curling 

Delaware Man Masters Martial Arts, using only Initial Free Lessons 

Man unable to apply a Lifetime's Research into Self-Improvement, dies wholly Unsuccessful in Life

Weed-Smoking Potlandians debate whether to Legalize Nicotine and Alcohol 

United States Successfully Imprisons All its Citizens

Toy Mandibles Empower Weak-Jawed Masses 

Deaf Inventor of Leaf Blower Unveils new Noisy Devices 

Computer Program Translates Ordinary English into Shakespearean Verse

A Cocktail of Journalistic Insights 

CNN Lobbied Oxford Dictionary to Add the Word "Russianoligarch"

Newscasters Normalize their Relations with Our Alien Overlord Tromp 

CNN replaces Serious Commentary on Trump's Presidency, with Constant Laughter

News Media Confuse Viewers by speaking as if all Oligarchs are Russian 

News Channel treats Politics as Theater 

Mainstream News Anchor proves he understands Trump's Presidency by repeatedly Punching himself in Face 

American Parents Love Guns more than their Children, study shows

Fashion Industry schemes to punish Men by turning Women into Freaks 

Footnote added to the Hollywood Sign, reminding Starlets to "Expect to be Molested" 

Hollywood Reboots itself, giving Creative Class power over Studio Executives and Producers 

Disney Studios rooting for the Evil Empire in Future Star Wars Films, says Hollywood insider

Man Mocked for Alleging his Female Boss Sexually Assaulted him 

Sexual Battle Lines drawn between Toxically Masculine Trolls and Devious Lesbian Feminists, argues Social Scientist 

Woman sues Women Studies Feminists for preventing her from Sleeping her way to the Top 

Documentary examines Movie Star's Reluctance to Play God

Club Punishes Talk Show Audiences for Drowning out Guests with Lingering Applause 

China officially Adopts Infantilized America in 2047

Wealthy Man replaces his Sexist and Racist Thoughts with Clones to silence Critics

Homophobic Man struggles with his Fear 

Man sues Porn Industry for making Sex Boring

Study shows Men secretly Resent Women's Phatness 

Lonely Single Man seeks someone just to Laugh at his Jokes 

Beautiful Women conceal their Hotness to attract Nice Guys

Young Woman miraculously ignores her Beauty and studies Philosophy 

Uglies on the Outskirts scheme to lure Beauties away from Big Cities

Man with Tourette Syndrome Makes Fools of us all

Embittered Man Opens Shelter for Regretful Advertisers 

Smart Phones Turn their Users into Assholes, Researchers say 

Starving Artists call the Internet a Vast Communist Conspiracy 

Last Remaining Internet Author Paid accidentally by Parakeet

Life Coach Recommends Obsessive, Idiosyncratic Behaviour to Earn Immortality by Word Coinage