Theology of procrastination

You're distracting God from Something Very Important, and the Deadline is coming

Hey.

You haven’t subscribed to this email list, so it’s a little fucked up that you’re on it. But you have, probably, subscribed to a Russian newsletter I started and then immediately abandoned last year; or you’ve given me money on Patreon; or you’re one of the four people that I know personally whose addresses I added by hand.

Those are the reasons I thought you might like to receive this email; if I was mistaken, please accept my apology and hit “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of the page. (I’m assuming there’s a button like that.)

What happened is I was looking into this newsletter platform (Substack) for work, and then I created an account just to see how it looks from the inside, and now here we are: I am not doing work anymore.

I’m pitching you a religion about a God who’s not doing his work.

There’s a suspicion that persists throughout history and pops up in various traditions all over the world—that our reality is somehow not where it’s at. It’s an illusion, a jail, a work of art, …