Category: Companionship

• Curve Chasing—No Guardrails

  In a hyper-sexualized culture racing without guardrails, a growing number of young people are choosing restraint. This essay explores why a “sexless” generation is emerging—not from fear or moralism, but from exhaustion, clarity, and self-preservation.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 1, 2026

  Companionship, Psychology, Religion

  abstinence movement, attention economy, chastity, cultural exhaustion, digital fatigue, Gen Z culture, intimacy crisis, media saturation, modern sexuality, Monastic Wisdom, recovery from excess, relationships and boundaries, restraint and meaning, sexual overexposure

• AI-Induced Psychosis

  Chat GPT has enormous potential to delude users into thinking they’re the next best thing to Shakespeare, Montaigne, or even Christ.

  RMDell’Orfano

  May 5, 2025

  Companionship, Mysticism, Perception, Psychology

  ai, ai robots, artificial-intelligence, Becoming like God, Chat GPT, chatgpt, Japanese humanoids, openai, private trainers, technology, wrinkle cure

• Gone to the Dogs

  I love dogs. They evolved with us from prehistoric times. They know how to charm us, or rather, mesmerize us into total dependency. I suspect this news bit definitely signals a depressing sign-of-the-times dog owners pamper their pets at $8000 a pop to fly with their masters. This makes me wonder if dogs own and train their masters, and…

  RMDell’Orfano

  May 24, 2024

  Companionship, Religion, Wealth

  Anubis, cats, dog, dog-training, dogs, dogs fly first class, Elvis Presley, God’s too expensive, gone to the dogs, Hound dog, pets;

• Gripped by the Infinite

  Why have no lay-Catholic communities formed like Bruderhof?

  RMDell’Orfano

  April 7, 2024

  Companionship

  boring lectures and tours, bruderhof, commercial smiles, lay-Catholic communities, masquerade charm, One man one woman for life, plastic people, predictable movies of porn, pulp fiction, They kingdom come on earth

• The Twelve Tribes

  much like the Bruderhof community I visited back in the 1960s.

  RMDell’Orfano

  April 9, 2023

  Companionship

  Amish, bruderhof, Communism, slave labor cult, The commune experience, the twelve tribes, The Yellow Deli

• Bogart’s Hug

  The 160 # poodle got up on his hind legs and actually hugged me.

  RMDell’Orfano

  April 6, 2023

  Companionship

  hugs, pets;, poodles

• Pet Idolatry

  Pets don’t go to heaven.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 28, 2023

  Companionship

  animal rescue, Anubis, detachment, idolatry, pampered pets, pet cemetery, Pets don't go to heaven