Fallen angel, answering my own questions
Saturday, January 29, 2022. 50 minutes past 7:00 pm "I din't want to appear needy," she said when I told her I was glad she'd call. And the games people play with themselves, the lies they tell each other to cover their insecurities are topics of conversation in this phone call. But the actual reasons [...]
The reason for Devil's journal is an exercise in intellectual humility. Moreover, it's an endeavour of honesty in which the author and other contributors tell real-life stories creatively. The project stipulates three essential preoccupations that cannot be betrayed. One, to make the anecdotes shared here colourful and exciting without deviating from the truth. Two, the [...]
Contemplating lies appears a human predilection, especially when those lies come from ideas they want to be true. I am not pointing to contemplation as meditation but in the sense of entertaining the evident falsehoods behind a statement. And when I say that I'm contemplating TikTok's lies, I mean a clear falsehood behind a public [...]
January 27, 2022. 3 minutes to noon. Understandably, the Devil is symbolic of everything evil. Son of perdition and the Prince of Lies are, amongst many others, monikers for the archetype of the Devil. And this only makes the idea of the Devil's journal more appealing to some humans. "You must get up to some [...]
Not too many things are as devilish as self-confidence, and I'd like to think that the Devil's new NFT project reflects high self-esteem and not arrogance. You can imagine the tickling effect of digitising one's face to put out there for others to consider purchasing it. I don't mind, really, it's been quite a ride [...]
A quick meditation on the dangers of misused, out of context quotes. the Devil’s favourite quote.
As the Devil or any assumed supernatural being, physical limits don't apply to me. However, the dangerous pleasures of time-travelling are indulgences justifiable in the realm of metaphysics, even for the simplest of humans. Okay, the simplest of humans likely can't spell metaphysics; assuming that they can entertain complex philosophical notions is unfair. But I [...]
I want to bet all my money that you've encountered the argument of chemical versus natural before. Especially in the alternative medicine industry, where appeals to the naturalistic or genetic fallacy are commonplace. And anyone with a basic understanding of nature knows that "natural" isn't always good, and "chemical" isn't the bad word they'll have [...]
I have to admit to resisting the idea of moving over to the realm of YouTube. I have, as you know, also decided to stop writing for Google and compose these messages for myself and those who I think are reading them. Alas, or nevertheless, depending on how you see the world, the Devil's YouTube [...]
In mid-December of 2021, a video about Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, did its rounds on the conspiracy Internet, and hundreds of thousands of tinfoil hat-wearing folks shared it without requiring additional information. The video, a deceptively edited twenty-five-second snippet of a more extended interview, showed Justin Trudeau allegedly saying that his government was willing [...]