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Nissa Tolton

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  • Blog
    • Dreaming
    • LGBTQ
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    • Political
  • Books
    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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Category: Philosophy

Magnificence Requires no Meaning
  • Philosophy

Magnificence Requires no Meaning

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 June 202623 June 2026

The so-called big questions are red herrings.

Evolution Updated for the Third Millennium
  • Philosophy

Evolution Updated for the Third Millennium

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 21 April 202623 June 2026

We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from

Buddhist monks make a sand mandala
  • Philosophy

How like a Song

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 9 March 202610 June 2026

If you are permanently in a dream world, how do you spend your time? After all, nothing matters.

A Buddhist monk in Akihabra
  • Philosophy

Daily Religion

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 19 February 202619 February 2026

Civilisation requires compromises. In exchange for comfort, we lost our reason for being here.

a psychedelic magnatron
  • Philosophy

Definition of spirituality

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 27 December 202521 January 2026

The greatest mystery of the universe is how our own ignorance shrouds it.

a contemplative samouri
  • Historical
  • Philosophy

Only the Cutting

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 28 June 20253 July 2025

This quote from Myamoto Musashi has always struck me as a book contained in a single sentence.

Der Kerkermeist
  • Philosophy

Making Decisions

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 28 June 202520 February 2026

Making decisions is easy. Building the scaffolding for decision-making is hard.

Involuntary Buddhist
  • Philosophy

Involuntary Buddhist

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 11 March 202512 June 2026

The limitations of time and space cultivates Buddhism, even in non-believers.

cartoon of a smug pastor
  • Philosophy

Moral Superiority — Again

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 22 November 202330 September 2024

Yes, yes, but what of the people who have morals but do not consider themselves morally superior?”

  • Philosophy
  • Political

Alliances

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 7 November 202330 September 2024

A dinner table conversation about alliances

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