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On ESR and Truth: yeah, I think he's using "truth" as shorthand for "what can we know and state confidently with a rigorous epistemology." A lot of his thinking was shaped by Korzybski's General Semantics, and since then he has said he has a lot in common with the Rationalist folks from LessWrong.

And as for the the all-knowing God, I think he was going for the most extreme version of omniscience in order to make the point of what an "outside perfect observer" could be, in service of making his wider point.

On spectacle: oh yeah, defintely. That's one thing I like about the occult philosophy JMG has introduced me to - it helps to make that distinction very clear and gives a good, solid way to think about it. It is perhaps one of the ironies of the modern world that so many folks spend so much time immersed in the non-material, but if you asked them what they believe about the world, they'd say that only the material world is real.

On making things: very much so! It really is shocking how meaningful it is to make something with your hands when you almost never do so. I'm always pleasantly surprised by how great it feels to do something crafty, even if I'm not very good at it.