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28 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard $0.06
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aZB3yy0tDlUXQ1j_ Historians and philologists are my "tribe".I'm actually much more of a historian than a philosopher. The scale of the humanities in England is surprising.So, the discussion of a...
25 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Seven 1. Hell is the monster. 2. People in hell are the bones of the fire. 3. Handcuffed behind their back and screaming. 4. With bones of burning liquid. 5. It's real. 6. Don't go...
25 Mar 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard $0.01
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aZBg9RhzcDeFtXMP England and British culture: not just tea drinking. An attempt to understand England better and delve deeper into history and culture. I was inspired to share my observations of...
24 Mar 2026 5 minute read 2 comments Andy Savage $0.12
Being surrounded by people can be lonelier than being alone. Walking alone in search of truth can feel more connected than most people ever experience. Most people are terrified of solitude. They fill their lives with noise, people, distraction—any...
23 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Five 1. Pessimism is the great, great grandfather of optimism. 2. True optimism is born in a vacuum of hope. 3. Take heart, O disenfranchised one. It is the marginalized whose faith...
23 Mar 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard $0.03
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aY7VA4vb3xaWztjS Probably everyone knows that the Bible tells about the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden and that God forbade eating fruits from this tree. But Adam and E...
22 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments i'mature $0.01
Text spotted on a t-shirt while negotiating Ho Chi Minh City’s metro. It was printed slightly lower than I would have liked, and missing a question mark. But still, it made me think. You know when we dream, all manner of impossibilities happen and s...
14 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty 1. You can't sleep here. 2. This isn't a restaurant. 3. I understand the menu intellectually, but have yet to accept it into my heart. 4. Let's get a bite to sleep. 5. Who are the...
13 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Nine 1. Roast beer; root beef. 2. Boot rear; boast reef. 3. The day of the bored will come as a thief in the night. 4. Do you want to leave this world alive? 5. Make yourselves read...
8 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.12
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Eight 1. It's not even a story anymore. It's just a tangled ball of broken Christmas lights. There is neither beginning nor end to it. 2. Or so it seems. 3. Don't you want to go to...
