# consideration (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover consideration. Page: Feed: --- ## [Untangling the 10 Commandment Part-2: The Essence of the Contract](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/untangling-the-10-commandment-part) _2026-08-19 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ PODCAST #214 ## [The "Cool Girls" Did Not Approve Anything On This List](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/cool-girl-fashion) _2026-08-19 · Bella Gerard · B List_ All the more reason to scroll through! ## [The Mystical Aspects of Sound](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/the-mystical-aspects-of-sound) _2026-08-18 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ Book IV: The Cosmic Symphony – Consideration #254 ## [Insights of Sun Tzu – The Nature of War, The Cost of War & The Strategy of War](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/insights-of-sun-tzu-the-nature-of) _2026-08-13 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ "Reality by a Thread" ## [Untangling the 10 Commandments: Part-1 "A Binding Legal Contract"](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/untangling-the-10-commandments-part) _2026-08-12 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ PODCAST #213: ## [The Physics & Metaphysics of Sound](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/the-physics-and-metaphysics-of-sound) _2026-08-11 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ Book IV: The Cosmic Symphony – Consideration #253 ## [A Definitive Guide To Non-Cheugy Shell Jewelry](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/a-definitive-guide-to-non-cheugy) _2026-08-11 · Bella Gerard · B List_ To quote the great Zara Larsson: "Summer isn't over yet." Plus: Staud's fall faves, the battle of the embellished kitten heels, my stuff on TRR, and more. | For Your Consideration, Vol. 21 ## [The Art of War (The Five Constants of War)](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/the-art-of-war-the-five-constants) _2026-08-06 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ "Reality by a Thread" ## [A Better Life, A Worse Instagram](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/a-better-life-a-worse-instagram) _2026-08-06 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Kinda chic to detach my identity from my social media presence! ## [Untangling the Consequence of Realness](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/untangling-the-consequence-of-realness) _2026-08-05 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ PODCAST #212 ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5ZxHo7XJ8HNe) _2026-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [The Subtle Qualities of Sound: Timbre & Texture](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/the-subtle-qualities-of-sound-timbre) _2026-08-04 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ Book IV: The Cosmic Symphony – Consideration #252 ## [I Know An \[August Mood Board\] Hates To See Me Coming](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/august-mood-board-2026) _2026-08-03 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Our final summer mood board of the season... ## [WAR PART 6 – THE PEACEMAKERS: Jesus](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/war-part-6-the-peacemakers-jesus) _2026-07-30 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ "Reality by a Thread" ## [Untangling the Image of God](https://frankelkins.substack.com/p/untangling-the-image-of-god) _2026-07-29 · FRANK ELKINS · How Things Work: A Brief History of Reality_ PODCAST #211 ## [Balloons, For Legs? Groundbreaking.](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/balloon-pants-trend-2026) _2026-07-22 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Summer's airiest trend floats on for fall. Plus: 5 bras worth the money, a roundup of TheRealReal faves, H&M's latest collab and more. | For Your Consideration, Vol. 20 ## [The Biweekly Blister, Vol. 12](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/the-biweekly-blister-vol-12) _2026-07-15 · Bella Gerard · B List_ No paywall — my treat! ## [Raiding My Instagram Bookmarks, Vol. 6](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/raiding-my-instagram-bookmarks-vol-0e0) _2026-07-09 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Fashion! Art! Flatlays! ## [The 5 Swimsuit Theory, Revisited](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/best-swimsuits-summer-2026) _2026-07-07 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Variety may be the spice of life, but it's the bane of my bikini drawer. ## [I Know A \[July Mood Board\] Hates To See Me Coming](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/july-2026-mood-board) _2026-07-02 · Bella Gerard · B List_ And yet, here we are! ## [Can I Interest You In A Cabana Stripe?](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/cabana-stripe-fashion-trend) _2026-06-30 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Plus: The Outdoor Shower Edit, the Marni showroom, and more. | For Your Consideration, Vol. 19 ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Y0fL1HpqKJPj) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Hot Girls Have Melasma (But They Wear The Right SPF!)](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/eighth-day-rejuvenating-moisturizing-spf-review) _2026-06-25 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Do you? ## [Some notes on the Parā tantra](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/some-notes-on-the-para-tantra/) _2026-06-20 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ This is by no means a comprehensive treatment of the text under consideration. Nor does it aim to perform a comparative analysis of other tantra-s and paddhati-s with a similarly synthetic outlook. It gives a broad overview of the text Continue reading ## [I'm In A Frilly White Pajamas State Of Mind](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/im-in-a-frilly-white-pajamas-state) _2026-06-18 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Welcome to Reset Summer. | For Your Consideration, Vol. 18 ## [Shoe-Shopping My Way Through My Italian Honeymoon](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/where-to-buy-shoes-in-italy) _2026-06-11 · Bella Gerard · B List_ The best souvenirs are shoes I can't buy anywhere else. ## [The Biweekly Blister: Honeymoon Edition](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/the-biweekly-blister-honeymoon-edition) _2026-06-08 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Vol. 11!!! ## [I Know A \[June Mood Board\] Hates To See Me Coming](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/june-2026-mood-board) _2026-06-01 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Yes, I pre-scheduled this before I went on my honeymoon. ## [The Novice Blister's Guide To Catching Up On B List](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/beginners-guide-to-b-list) _2026-05-22 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Because I'm OOO on my honeymoon, thank you very much! ## [Fuck A Year-Round Wardrobe](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/seasonal-dressing-vs-year-round-wardrobe) _2026-05-19 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Quit gaslighting yourself out of stellar seasonal pieces. ## [FLAG Theory Is A Fashion Myth](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/flag-theory-is-a-fashion-myth) _2026-05-15 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Does anything ever really Fit Like A Glove? ## [Might I Suggest A Pre-Summer Skin Reset?](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/blue-lagoon-cleansing-balm) _2026-05-07 · Bella Gerard · B List_ We're leveling up our double cleanse and bringing multi-masking back. ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FKQtr5rfrv0G) _2026-05-07 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [I Know A \[May Mood Board\] Hates To See Me Coming](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/may-mood-board-2026) _2026-05-04 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Honeymoon Edition! ## [The Biweekly Blister, Vol. 10](https://bellagerard.substack.com/p/biweekly-blister-vol-10) _2026-04-28 · Bella Gerard · B List_ Double digits!!!! ## [Mārtāṇḍa meets Mercury](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/marta%e1%b9%87%e1%b8%8da-meets-mercury/) _2026-04-27 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ The first reflex of the Mārtāṇḍa myth, viz., the sun as the dead egg, is attested in maṇḍala-10 of the Ṛgveda as part of a famous cosmogonic sūkta (RV 10.72): aṣṭau putrāso aditer ye jātās tanvas pari devāṃ upa prait Continue reading ## [Indo-European and other notable motifs in Latvian dainas](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/indo-european-and-other-notable-motifs-in-latvian-dainas/) _2026-04-06 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ As we have discussed before, outside the Indo-Iranian and Old Greek worlds, some of the most conservative Indo-European traditions were found among the Baltic peoples. Linguistic and genetic evidence favor a higher-order satemizing clade of Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian. Among the Continue reading ## [A Door Without a Frame Falls Flat. How Messaging and Strategy are Critical to Successful Logo Design.](https://nicolablack.com/a-door-without-a-frame-falls-flat-how-messaging-and-strategy-are-critical-to-successful-logo-design/) _2026-03-09 · Nicola · Nicola Black Design_ The post A Door Without a Frame Falls Flat. How Messaging and Strategy are Critical to Successful Logo Design. appeared first on Nicola Black Design . ## [Meanderings through the virial theorem, globular clusters, galaxies and dark matter](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/meanderings-through-the-virial-theorem-globular-clusters-galaxies-and-dark-matter/) _2026-02-15 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ For an introduction, read this. In the mid-eighteen hundreds, even as Hindu civilization was at its lowest point, science in Germania was reaching a high point that would lay the foundations of modern physics. The great Carl Gauss was in Continue reading ## [Notes on the Kiñcita tantra and the Guhyakālī tradition](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/notes-on-the-kincita-tantra-and-the-guhyakali-tradition/) _2026-02-02 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ Guhyakālī by Nepali artist RP Shreshtha. Prolog In 1994, when we were visiting R1’s house, we saw, for the first time, an actual picture of the deca-zoocephalous Guhyakālī in her father’s devagṛha. We were aware of her mūla-mantra as part Continue reading ## [Promiscuous Weapons: the tale of organisms and nations](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/promiscuous-weapons-the-tale-of-organisms-and-nations/) _2025-12-29 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ asmābhiḥ kalpitaṁ śastraṃ vijayāśā-parāyaṇam tad eva śatravo yuñjanty asmattaḥ sutarām punaḥ The weapon devised by us, devoted to the wish of victory – that very weapon \[our\] enemies now employ more thoroughly than we do. About seven years Continue reading ## [A philosophical sketch of polytheistic pantheism](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/a-philosophical-sketch-of-polytheistic-pantheism/) _2025-12-08 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ In the course of our daily study (pārāyaṇa) of the śruti, we practiced the following ṛk of Vasukarṇa, the son of Vasukra of the clan of the Vasiṣṭha-s: dyāvā-pṛthivī janayann abhi vrata āpa oṣadhīr vanināni yajñiyā । antarikṣaṃ svar ā Continue reading ## [Some further notes on the Mongol religion-4: the ritual to call back the spirit](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/some-further-notes-on-the-mongol-religion-4-the-ritual-to-call-back-the-spirit/) _2025-11-30 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ While far removed from each other in space and time, both the Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead describe a structured journey of consciousness through what seems like a non-ordinary postmortem reality. Notably, the existence of a structure to Continue reading ## [Communication or coincidence](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/communication-or-coincidence/) _2025-11-25 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ The year 1991 flashed in our mind along with the letters S, K, G, K, S. Those were the initials of five of six people who had once mattered to us in life but were now memories from a past Continue reading ## [Echoes Across Lives? Soteriological considerations](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/echoes-across-lives-soteriological-considerations/) _2025-10-20 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ For the purposes of this note, we take a broad definition of soteriology. While it often implies the final state, we wrap within the term the various notable waystations one might experience. We also include states that are often seen Continue reading ## [The hare on the Moon: an ancient mytheme](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/the-hare-on-the-moon-an-ancient-mytheme/) _2025-09-28 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ The pervasiveness of didactic animal tales in the Śanti- and Anuśāsana-parvan-s of the Mahābhārata, the Jātaka-s of the Tathāgata, and the Pañcatantra of Viṣṇuśarman suggests that proto-versions of these tales were a prominent feature of Indo-Aryan folkloric narratives. Indeed, we Continue reading ## [Crossing the Bridge](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/crossing-the-bridge/) _2025-09-10 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ We have often wondered what was in the mind of the great mantravādin Bhāskararāya Makhīndra when he titled his commentary on the Nityāṣoḍaśikārṇava section of the Vāmakeśvara-tantra the Setubandha (building the bridge). Where was the bridge to, and what was Continue reading ## [Revisiting the Pleiades](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/revisiting-the-pleiades/) _2025-09-01 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ The Pleiades (Kṛttikāḥ), probably the visually most dramatic object in the Earthly skies, emerged quite recently in typical astronomical time scales. Multiple independent studies place their origin between 100 and 120 million years ago (Mya). Low-mass stars lose lithium at Continue reading ## [A political roundup: Aug 2025](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/a-political-roundup-aug-2025/) _2025-08-19 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ This is just a brief discursion to note our thoughts on some recent events with the advantage of hindsight and to tentatively look forward in terms of what might ensue. The chief event in the period we are covering was Continue reading ## [Fragments of a new Arthaśāstra](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/fragments-of-a-new-arthasastra/) _2025-08-19 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ ॥ arthaśāstrasya prakīrṇāni nutanāni pariśiṣṭāni ॥ namāmi devadeveśam indraṃ vajradharam prabhum । ādityān rudrān vasūn caiva vande ham aśvinau saha । huve haṃ sajoṣasā indrāṇīṃ sarasvatīṃ rodasīṃ ca sarvābhir gnābhir yutāḥ । staumi uttarasyāṃ diśi rājarājaṃ vaiśravaṇaṃ mahāntam । yamaś ca bhṛgavaś Continue reading ## [The object and the mirror](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/the-object-and-the-mirror/) _2025-08-10 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ Via an acquaintance, we ran into a middle-aged mleccha woman, who had survived a difficult health situation in her childhood. In premodern times, it might have been a death sentence, but she managed to survive to an age at which Continue reading ## [New light on Drepanosauromorpha](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/new-light-on-drepanosauromorpha/) _2025-07-28 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ In 1935, the fossil hunter Louis Grauvogel began discovering an enormous cache of fossils in the quarries of the Grès à Voltzia of the Vosges in the disputed Lorraine region between France and Germany. One day in May 1939, he Continue reading ## [Who is a Hindu?](https://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/who-is-a-hindu/) _2025-07-06 · mAnasa-taraMgiNI · mAnasa-taraMgiNI_ Again and again, the question of who is a Hindu comes up on social media. We have encountered some form of it for almost 30 years on the internet, starting from the days of the old mailing lists to this Continue reading