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Sep. 08

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) One clean story lane. It doesn’t make any mistakes, has one clear direction, and follows through without any distractions. Very compact, with no unnecessary scenes, and everything fits together. Great characters, and one of the best third acts of any movie out there. 7/10 Gary: Shotguns? What, like guns that fire shot? Barry the Baptist: Oh, you must be the brains of the operation. Yes, guns that fire shot.

Sep. 04

Burn After Reading (2008) I feel like it took too much time for the hook to become apparent. Also, I’m not sure if this even has a story in the classical sense; it’s more like stuff happens, albeit well described. 6/10 GARDNER CHUBB (CONT’D) … What did we learn, Palmer? PALMER I don’t know, sir. GARDNER CHUBB I don’t fucking know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.

Aug. 30

A Respone to Domyo Dharma Talk 'Beyond Mindfulness: The Radical Practice of Undivided Presence' I recently listened to a Dharma talk from a Zen monk called Beyond Mindfulness: The Radical Practice of Undivided Presence, and I think some of the points were wrong, or at least not what the Buddha originally intended. As such, this serves as a kind of response to it. Do keep in mind that I am a layperson and not trained in Buddhism, while the speaker is a trained Zen monk. With that out of the way, let’s get started.

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Ljot Swanhild: the process of disconnecting

August 18, 2026

My dream existence would be a stone, outside of the realm of time, and just sitting there, and be nothing.

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Philosophical Ramblings #14: A Rejection of Morality

July 21, 2026

Every ethical situation presents a demand to choose. This demand, the necessity of choosing between alternatives, of taking a stand, is what makes it an ethical situation at all. Not choosing is itself a choice, but one made passively, without the burden of active deliberation.

The obsessive construction of moral frameworks arises from a desire to abdicate this burden. Each ethical confrontation places a weight on the chooser: one must choose, and one must live with that choice forever. The responsibility is unsharable and permanent. To escape this, the individual creates or adopts, a moral framework. Then one says: ‘I did what is right’. The framework becomes a screen: responsibility is displaced from the individual onto an anonymous abstraction called “morality,” where it is diluted and depersonalised. The individual no longer stands behind a choice as its author, but hides behind a pre-approved category.

Following a moral framework is a choice made by proxy. The framework chooses in one’s stead. The decision was already settled before the situation arose, not because the agent reflected and resolved, but because the framework had already classified the kind of situation and prescribed the correct response. This is the deepest abdication: not the refusal to act, but the refusal to bear the weight of acting as oneself.

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