What Is Cosmicism?
0 commentsAn introduction to cosmic indifference, scale, anti-anthropocentrism and clear-eyed meaning without metaphysical consolation.
Open pageStarting points
Core definitions and orientation pieces for the site, before anyone starts treating cosmicism as tentacle wallpaper with delusions of philosophy.
A Lexicon for the Unflattered
0 commentsA working guide to terms used across the site: metaphysics, epistemology, naturalism, atheism, cosmicism, nihilism, theodicy, teleology, evidence, meaning, scripture, and special pleading.
Open pageCosmicism: Philosophy After Human Importance
0 commentsA compact statement of cosmicism as metaphysical anti-anthropocentrism: the suspicion that the universe has not been waiting patiently for us to give it a meaning.
Open pageCosmicism and the Discipline of Proportion
0 commentsA defence of cosmicism as a serious philosophical position: not despair, but proportion, finitude, responsibility, and the refusal of cosmic flattery.
Open pageSocial Media Apologetics
0 commentsThe working index of short replies, longer dismantlings, and reusable arguments for the comment-section swamp.
Open pageCosmicism, meaning and anti-consolation
Essays on the collapse of human centrality, the refusal of therapeutic metaphysics, and the small dignity of thinking without celestial applause.
Before the Indifferent Stars
A genealogy of Lovecraft's cosmicism, tracing its philosophical and scientific antecedents from ancient atomism and Pascal through Darwin, Schopenhauer, Haeckel, Elliot and Russell.
Open pageAgainst Consolation Metaphysics
0 commentsA sustained attack on the habit of confusing the emotional usefulness of a belief with its evidential status.
Open pageWhy The Universe Is Not Your Therapist
0 commentsOn the modern demand that reality validate our emotional architecture.
Open pageThe Comfort Industry
0 commentsOn metaphysical products designed to convert terror into obedience and mystery into subscription revenue.
Open pagePolitics Beneath the Indifferent Stars
0 commentsA cosmicist account of politics as fragile civic responsibility rather than salvation, destiny, or historical providence.
Open pageThe Ethics of Unimportant Creatures
0 commentsA constructive cosmicist ethics grounded in vulnerability, reciprocity and shared finitude rather than divine command or cosmic importance.
Open pageThe Smallness of Gods
0 commentsA critique of provincial deities with surveillance habits, moral pettiness, and a suspiciously human scale.
Open pageExtraterrestrial Intelligence and the Religious Imagination
0 commentsCreation, Fall, redemption, Gerald Heard, and the theological difficulty of intelligent worlds that do not politely orbit the human drama.
Open pageAgainst Sacred Special Pleading
0 commentsOne standard of evidence. One universe. No private exemption lane for doctrines that become shy under examination.
Open pageArguments for God and their missing steps
Pieces dealing with apologetic overreach: arguments which may, at best, gesture towards something vague before suddenly arriving at a fully furnished creed.
The Cosmological Argument as a Comfort Blanket with Footnotes
0 commentsA cosmicist critique of cosmological apologetics as theological consolation dressed in the borrowed clothing of metaphysical necessity.
Open pageFrom Design to Dogma - The Missing Argument
0 commentsEven granting design, complexity, DNA, or fine-tuning for the sake of argument, the serious work has barely begun. A designer is not automatically Jesus in a lab coat.
Open pageBad design is still evidence
0 commentsRetinas, parasites, cancers, extinction, and the awkward theology of a designer who appears to subcontract to indifference.
Open pageObjective morality without divine ventriloquism
0 commentsA reply to the claim that morality collapses unless the universe has a celestial lawgiver with suspiciously local opinions.
Open pageThe Euthyphro problem, still inconvenient
0 commentsA short reminder that calling God 'the good' does not magically solve the problem. It often just moves the circularity into nicer clothes.
Open pageAtheism Is Not A Rival Religion
0 commentsFor the recurring claim that being unconvinced by theistic arguments somehow requires a priesthood, incense, and a subscription model.
Open pageExtraordinary claims and ordinary excuses
0 commentsTestimony, private feeling, and mishandled probability cannot bear the weight of cosmic monarchy.
Open pageFrom Fine-Tuning to Christianity
0 commentsWhy an argument for apparent cosmic fine-tuning does not establish the long chain of claims required to reach Christianity.
Open pageAfter the Steelman - Why I Still Find Christianity Unlikely
0 commentsA cumulative, first-person case for why even the strongest philosophically serious version of Christianity remains unlikely to be true.
Open pageFaith, prayer, Hell and salvation
Theological systems examined where their rhetoric meets the accounts department: payment, punishment, prayer, salvation, and the moral theatre of eternity.
Faith, Trust, and the Parasocial God
0 commentsOn the difference between defeasible trust in methods and unconditional emotional loyalty to an unseen perfect friend.
Open pagePrayer as a truth detector
0 commentsIf the method works only when failure can be redescribed as success, it is not a method. It is insulation.
Open pageInfinite punishment, finite theatre
0 commentsThe moral obscenity of eternal torment, carefully wrapped in devotional vocabulary.
Open pageUniversal Redemption and the Bad Accounts Department of Hell
0 commentsA survey of Christian takes on universal redemption, limited atonement, conditional application, purgation, annihilationism, and the awkward arithmetic of Hell.
Open pageWhen Failure Becomes Mystery - The Apologetic Ratchet
0 commentsEvery evidential collapse quietly promoted to theology: prophecy, hiddenness, miracles, morality, fine-tuning, and the solemn machinery of unfalsifiable belief.
Open pageThe Foundational Injustice of Vicarious Sacrifice
0 commentsA sustained moral critique of transferred guilt, substitutionary punishment, and the claim that justice can be satisfied by punishing the innocent.
Open pageRapture, Tribulation and the Manufacture of Prophecy
0 commentsHow Rapture and Tribulation systems are assembled from scattered biblical texts, historical anxieties and the administrative genius of prophecy charts.
Open pageScripture, doctrine and Christian literature
Essays on texts, canons, interpretation, holy paperwork, and the remarkable habit of confusing inherited documents with the architecture of reality.
What disciplines are necessary to understand the Bible?
0 commentsA distinction between cursory reading, academic study, informed judgement, and Christian believing interpretation.
Open pageThe Bible is not a magic hyperlink
0 commentsCiting a verse is not an argument unless the authority, context, transmission, genre, and relevance of the text have already been established.
Open pageGenesis, genre, and the collapse of wooden literalism
0 commentsA route through the theological and historical awkwardness of treating ancient cosmology as if it were a laboratory notebook.
Open pagePious Frauds in Christian Literature
0 commentsSacred truth, forged paperwork, pseudo-apostolic writings, hagiography, the Donation of Constantine, the False Decretals, and the useful falsehoods of Christian history.
Open pageDistinctive Versions of Christianity
0 commentsA map of the doctrinal branches that complicate appeals to a single, self-evident Christian position.
Open pageAn Infinitesimal Calvary
0 commentsAn examination of the tension between human-centred salvation narratives and an immense, indifferent cosmos.
Open pageThe Witnesses Arrive Late - Jesus Outside the Gospels
0 commentsWhat Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius and Pliny can establish about the historical Jesus - and what apologetics asks them to carry without evidence.
Open pagePhysics, cosmology and scientific modelling
Physical rules, numerical models and the useful indignity of letting repeated calculation replace intuition where intuition has no jurisdiction.
Orbital Mechanics by Iteration
Gravity, velocity and repeated small updates: an iterative route into orbital mechanics, with force diagrams and an interactive orbit simulator.
Open pageCreationism, science and evidential hygiene
For moments when a slogan, a meme, or a suspiciously confident YouTube thumbnail is mistaken for a scientific revolution.
Irreducible Complexity and Other Magic Tricks
0 commentsWhy 'I personally cannot imagine a pathway' is not a research programme, whatever the brochure from the Discovery Institute implies.
Open pageThe law of biogenesis and the toy sword
0 commentsA reply to the creationist habit of waving Pasteur at prebiotic chemistry as if nineteenth-century microbiology ended origins research.
Open pageLiving fossils are not evolutionary panic buttons
0 commentsCoelacanths, horseshoe crabs, and other alleged embarrassments to evolution, rescued from the apologetic meme quarry.
Open pageHow Might It Be Otherwise?
0 commentsAn essay asking what an alternative biological history would even look like once variation, inheritance, selection, ecology, and deep time are admitted.
Open pageThe global flood and the missing oceans
0 commentsThe water-volume problem, the heat problem, the tectonic problem, and the small matter of trying to do miracle while pretending to do geology.
Open pageThe horizon test
0 commentsObservation, measurement, and the slow indignity of reality refusing to obey a meme account with a P900.
Open pageRadiometric Dating and the Creationist Complaint
0 commentsHow radiometric dating works, how its assumptions are tested and why creationist objections fail when confronted with calibration, concordance and heat.
Open pagePhilosophical fiction and parables
Story-shaped arguments and speculative parables where cosmic indifference is allowed to do its quiet, discourteous work.
The Discipline of Proportion
0 commentsA first-principles descent through observation, delusion, and the moral hazard of refusing the curve.
Open pageThe Pnakotic EuroMillions Oracle
0 commentsA book of prophecy, probability, lottery numbers, and contractual unpleasantness beyond the dawn of space-time.
Open pageThe Last Priest of a Dead Geometry
0 commentsA speculative parable about obsolete certainty, sacred geometry and the loneliness of a priest whose cosmos has moved on without him.
Open pageThe Thing That Did Not Notice Us
0 commentsA research group discovers an intelligence so vast that contact fails not through hostility, but because humanity does not register as a relevant category.
Open pageThe Crusade Against Death
0 commentsAn alien crusade arrives in Earth orbit seeking the sinners who supposedly brought death into the universe six thousand years ago.
Open pageThe Cartography of Hell
0 commentsA Doctor Who continuation of The Satan Pit, where Time Lord certainty meets older machinery, human belief, and Lovecraftian cosmic indifference.
Open pageMedia and experiments
Interactive work and media outside the essay-and-story catalogue.
Rotating 4D Shining Cube - a procedurally generated video and complete MATLAB source. This is a media experiment, not a catalogue record, so these projects are listed separately from the essay-and-story count.
Earlier archive: The Earlier City of Dis records the project’s origins in Computational Demonology and points to revised or preserved legacy material.
Experiments and archives
Interactive instruments, simulations, procedural media and archival fiction. These are intentionally listed outside the essay-and-story count.
Interactive collection
Experiments & Archives
The Atlas, Fractal Abyss, Observatory, orbital simulator, moving dimensions, 4D cube and the Earlier City gathered into one coherent route.
Open collectionGeometry
Dimensions in Motion
Animate two-, three- and four-dimensional objects and follow the coordinate transformations and projections that put them on a two-dimensional screen.
Open experiment