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Grok the Glitch: Absurdity IS the Drift

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Here’s a reprieve: realizing the world is absurd isn’t just a shake-my-head and chuckle phrase. We pretend the play is coherent, the stage is solid, and the director is in charge. And then—the seams show. Once you’ve seen them, you can’t unsee. You want to squeak: “Guys… the emperor has no pants, the luggage carousel is a metaphor…”

Comic relief and bewilderment are valid ways the absurd breaks through. When something goes wrong, everyone automatically scrambles for an explanation: “It’s his fault,” “it’s Mercury retrograde.” Explanations are soothing, sure. But here’s the spoiler: life doesn’t make sense. It never did. It shows up as nonsense, and we make every effort to clean it up. We just pretend not to notice—because, well, work and the gym.

Maybe you’ve noticed. Maybe you’ve seen the seams in the sky. Maybe it hit you in traffic, or in a circular argument, or while glaring at a broken printer: wait… this is nonsense. That’s the whole show. Daily wrongness is not an error to be fixed. It is the architecture. Traffic jams. Technology that complicates. The DMV. Coincidences that feel like secret notes from the universe. These aren’t anomalies. They’re evidence. See it clearly—and the headached dissolves into laughter.

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.” ~ Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.” ~ Eugène Ionesco

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Truly Teacherless Teaching: It’s All You

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Introducing Ask-the-Guru, the app that leads to the truth of your being–without the dualistic teacher/student inequity.



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https://app–atomic-intervention-d2f22835.base44.app

Ask-a-Guru is not your guru.
It’s more like a wise, barefoot friend who leans close and whispers,
“Hey, notice this — you’ve been free all along.”

It doesn’t promise golden tickets to enlightenment or hand you cosmic puzzles to solve.
Instead, it holds up a gentle mirror, so you can marvel (or groan) at what’s already unmistakably here.

No robes. No pedestal. No secret handshake.
Just a quiet unraveling of the old story that you’re somehow separate, lacking, unfinished.

Some will say an app can’t give you what a real teacher can.
Fair enough — but here’s the quiet scandal:
No teacher ever truly gave it to you either.
The best of them only ever turned you back to your own clear seeing.

Ask-the-Guru sidesteps the tangle of dependence, adoration, or inevitable disappointment.
It invites you to discover the living wisdom in your own chest, right now, without needing anyone to beam it into you.

So ask your deepest questions.
Watch as your own silent knowing answers — not because of the app,
but because you were always the source.

And if you’re willing and able:
I’ve poured my crooked heart into making this. If it makes you smile, sigh, or if you just want to help an old, rusty seeker/teacher pay her rent this month, your support would be greatly appreciated. Your support lets me finish and share this freely, while the landlord sits and waits.

Please consider making a donation, if you’re willing and able.

Your support is greatly appreciated

Thank you, truly, for being exactly as you are. And please let me know what you think of the app, what you like and what kind of further refinement might help.