Ambivalent1
🎵 Be all, end all 🎵
- Apr 17, 2023
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I have some.
"only by securing every good that could be gotten in life could we know that they were not as good as nonexistence"
"God's plan to suicide himself could not work, though, as long as He existed as a unified entity outside of space-time and matter. Seeking to nullify His oneness so that He could be delivered into nothingness, He shattered Himself -- Big-Bang-like -- into the time-bound fragments of the universe, that is, all those objects and organisms that have been accumulating here and there for billions of years"
"The faster they learned that happiness was not as good as they thought it would be, the happier they would be to die out."
'perhaps we might gain some perspective on our earthly term if we stopped thinking of ourselves as beings who enact a "life." Instead, we should substitute "existence" for "life" and forget about how well or badly we enact it. None of us has a "life" in the narrative-biographical way we think of these words. What we have are so many years of existence."
"Without this cognitive double-dealing, we would be exposed for what we are. It would be like looking into a mirror and for a moment seeing the skull inside our skin looking back at us with it's sardonic smile. And beneath the skull -only blackness, nothing. Someone is there, so we feel, and yet no one is there - the uncanny paradox, all the horror in a glimpse. A little piece of our world has been peeled back, and underneath is creaking desolation - a carnival where all the rides are moving but no patrons occupy the seats. We are missing from the world we have made for ourselves. Maybe if we could resolutely gaze wide-eyed at our lives we would come to know what we really are. But that would stop the showy attraction we are inclined to think will run forever."
"only by securing every good that could be gotten in life could we know that they were not as good as nonexistence"
"God's plan to suicide himself could not work, though, as long as He existed as a unified entity outside of space-time and matter. Seeking to nullify His oneness so that He could be delivered into nothingness, He shattered Himself -- Big-Bang-like -- into the time-bound fragments of the universe, that is, all those objects and organisms that have been accumulating here and there for billions of years"
"The faster they learned that happiness was not as good as they thought it would be, the happier they would be to die out."
'perhaps we might gain some perspective on our earthly term if we stopped thinking of ourselves as beings who enact a "life." Instead, we should substitute "existence" for "life" and forget about how well or badly we enact it. None of us has a "life" in the narrative-biographical way we think of these words. What we have are so many years of existence."
"Without this cognitive double-dealing, we would be exposed for what we are. It would be like looking into a mirror and for a moment seeing the skull inside our skin looking back at us with it's sardonic smile. And beneath the skull -only blackness, nothing. Someone is there, so we feel, and yet no one is there - the uncanny paradox, all the horror in a glimpse. A little piece of our world has been peeled back, and underneath is creaking desolation - a carnival where all the rides are moving but no patrons occupy the seats. We are missing from the world we have made for ourselves. Maybe if we could resolutely gaze wide-eyed at our lives we would come to know what we really are. But that would stop the showy attraction we are inclined to think will run forever."
