The Double Standard of Contagion: When Morality Becomes Self-Exemption
By W. Cook — Mental Root Kit Series Every generation sees its beliefs as the pinnacle of reason...
The Industrialization of Instant Gratification
By W. Cook — Mental Root Kit Series I. The Age of Manufactured Impulse We no longer live...
The Yoke That Isn’t: When Jesus Ended Religion
by Wm. Cook Prologue: The Root Illusion The oldest lie in the world is not that God doesn’t...
Blind Evolution?
By William Cook — Mental Root Kit ⸻ The Story We’ve Been Told For more than a century,...
Time as the First Mover: A Thought Experiment
William Cook ⸻ Abstract This paper proposes a speculative framework in which time is considered the first mover...
The Rope Timeline
Speculative Philosophy of Cosmology Abstract Interpretations of quantum mechanics often turn to the Many-Worlds hypothesis to resolve the...
The Problem of Evil:
Introduction The “Problem of Evil” has long been presented as the most serious challenge to the existence of...
The Integrity of Truth: Absolute, Indexed, and Cultural Drift
Abstract Truth has long been debated across philosophy, science, and culture. Yet without a stable definition, the word...
The Devil You Know: Framing Freedom as Sin
“What religion calls discontentment—the root of sin—is in truth nature’s cry and humanity’s deepest drive for freedom.” ⸻...
Autism as an Evolutionary Step — Struggle and Strength
Autism is not new — historical accounts show people with autistic traits long before modern medicine, Tylenol, or...