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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 and its causes as self-evidently just. But there’s a quiet hypocrisy hidden in how we speak of ideas that spread: when we approve of them, we call it progress — when we disapprove, we call it contagion….
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The Industrialization of Instant Gratification
By W. Cook — Mental Root Kit Series I. The Age of Manufactured Impulse We no longer live in an age of discovery, but of design — an age where instant gratification has been industrialized. Every system, from entertainment to politics, is engineered to mass-produce emotional reward. The algorithm is the new assembly line: instead…
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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 exist, but that He is somewhere else. From that single illusion grows every priesthood, every ritual, every wall between sacred and ordinary. Jesus came to destroy the distance—and humanity built a religion to preserve it. 1. The…
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Blind Evolution?
By William Cook — Mental Root Kit ⸻ The Story We’ve Been Told For more than a century, the story of evolution has been told in stark terms: life is the product of blind chance. Mutations — random copying errors, chemical accidents, radiation events — throw dice at the cellular level. Natural selection, like an…
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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 in cosmology, existing prior to and independently of the Big Bang. Rather than emerging from the Big Bang, time is treated as a pre-existing fourth dimension whose forward flow enabled the birth of three spatial dimensions. This…
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The Rope Timeline
Speculative Philosophy of Cosmology Abstract Interpretations of quantum mechanics often turn to the Many-Worlds hypothesis to resolve the measurement problem. Yet Many-Worlds raises troubling philosophical implications, including accidental godhood, infinite redundancy, and the erosion of moral responsibility. This paper proposes an alternative model: the Rope Timeline. Here, reality is conceptualized as a single rope woven…