@saturnine_grace For church history I like Ryan Reeves’ videos on youtube
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Twizzy’s Gaze on Gaze
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What are some good *theology* podcasts i should check out? I already know some theory, philosophy, esoterica ones
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right for the wrong reason. “The point of crucifixion” is not for you to crucify yourself but for you to BE crucified. Why else would Peter Abelard make the distinction between ‘Origen’s sin’ of self-castration and castration by the world, which for him unleashed the Paraclete.
Enzo@Enzorpheus
No Patrick, the point of the Crucifixion was not for you to crucify yourself also.
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Cringe is not embarrassment. It is the affective registration of nonrelation itself.
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“Economic rationality brutalizes via distributed self-scapegoating. I‘ll infinitely perform the truth that the world refuses to accept!” Yes, women can be abject heroes too; it looks uglier from the pov of a masculine abjection that seeks its advantage in everything destitute.
Aella@Aella_Girl
fwiw i am not a vegetarian, and I think this choice increases the odds that i would have been ok owning slaves if i were born into the right culture
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AFFECT is mood in its state of being begotten. The only affect that does not lie is anxiety because anxiety is the mood of the begetting of mood. Every other affect lies in that they all in their own way tempt the subject to reside within the mood as something unbegotten.
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Thought flattens but it is not itself flat. One gets the impression thought takes the quickest path only because thought concerns itself with making a path, which will always be the most minimum distance between two objects. But the making itself made be radically elliptical.
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@Ripoffconverse The narrative is very straightforward. There is a girl who is solicited to become the god of the internet by a false god who is playing at godhood in a pathological effort to repeat the trauma of becoming-god. And they both find out there is a possibility of a true god.
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@PervertGuide Lain is bad, like the showrunners obviously rewrote the plot trajectory every episode. There is no coherent message you can drag out of it that isn’t expressed more coherently in the media that inspired it/that it plagiarized
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Lain is anti-Land. Land wants to bargain-with-and-outwit the demiurge (Eiri), in the style of Angloid daemonic platonism, to de-texturize what can with some banality be called psychic space.
Lain is hunting the demiurge & grasps that the cost is soul-death/paranatural doubling.
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@MesmericMonad thank you evangelical Mrs. Thatcher for your individualism. I’m group to trade you for that with the inevitably theoretical form of self-reproducing group complicity
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@PervertGuide Like u can keep displacing responsibility by referring to some "Other" or a supposed gnosticism or whatever. But at the end of the day, genocidal pedophiles are making these terrible decisions dooming the world. If you cant account for that, youre just talking nonsense.
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@MesmericMonad What do you mean ‘projection’? It’s what he wants? That’s either tautological or misleading. Is your response to gnostic outbreak, that it’s a psychological problem? It’s a surplus of modern sociality, which Land makes theurgical claims on. No agent thinks in psychological terms
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@PervertGuide If he's the one doing the pulling then it really is just projection of insecurity and abandonment of responsibility. Which is more blatantly pathetic than how it's usually portrayed (something something, off the rails, something something).
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@MesmericMonad ‘Specific people do specific things’ is just naive aristotleanism. The future isn’t a sheer effect of distributed causes because IT DOESNT EXIST. It’s inexistence has to be concentrated in what you call ‘choice of the Other’ has that this choice per se just is the Other
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@MesmericMonad and that’s my point. The future doesn’t pull us. But that’s not even Land’s position either. He is doing theurgy of the Other’s body (=absolute locus of valuation). He believes he’s the one doing the pulling. The issue is that the ‘causality’ of the future IS concentrated
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@MesmericMonad Future events do not ‘come to unfold’, the only thing that ‘unfolds’ is the present since the present is relatively discontinuous with itself. But the future is absolutely discontinuous with the present. You need both absolute and relative discontinuity to even think the future.
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@PervertGuide Anyway, I haven't drank any of this kool-aid anyway. Everything I see about Land just suggests misapprehension of how future events come to unfold. And comes off as a projection of insecurity and lack of responsibility
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@MesmericMonad If you’re dealing with just a plurality of others, you don’t have an Other. It’s both. This is reciprocity of the one and many. Absolute unary Otherness marks out a threshold irreducible to choice. The propagation of the Lains are essentially breadcrumbs to draw out the False One
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@PervertGuide Seems like there are many possible "Others" and its up to the present moment to decide which one. So kinda seems like a projection of inner desire for a specific future. Or worse, abandonment of responsibility to focus on the now.
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The dream continues after waking
dead, again@mothmortem
“he cries after sex” there is no “after” sex. it’s all sex, the before, the after, and especially the crying
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@MesmericMonad Land is a summoner of the Other’s body, which really is the esoteric dimension of Gooning. Lain hunts the Other’s body, which requires some kind of alchemical (paranatural) effect, but not ON the soul but AGAINST the soul
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@MesmericMonad Of course there isn’t, that’s not the point. “There is no big Other,” but “the Other has a body.” It does not existence yet has a body. The unavoidable implication that the internet is has a creator is functionalized in the search for the Other’s body that defines internet-being
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Arianism says that the Son is God’s best and only imaginary friend. To *us*, he is not imaginary, since he is God’s imaginary friend, and also a God. But to God he cannot be a God—he is paradivine, a shadow. Here is the heretical beginning of Christian theology of the parasocial
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Tragically i think my "objet a" in regards to philosophy is what i *don't* understand in a thinker, so they lose their shine the more i understand them
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