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- Prologue -
From the Death And The Dead Thread. Questions by C.
I've decided to make this into an eight part blog, as opposed to cramming everything into one, and also so we don't have to work as hard, or for as long - all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
1. What is a "soul?"
2. What is a soul made from?
3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?
4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.
5. Where is this spiritual realm?
6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?
7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.
8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?
Let the games begin ! Immediately, or in good time - we don't know yet.
The Wall
2. Imagination and fear
3. Lord Xenu galactic something or other.
4. Hopefully delusional abstract thinking.
5. New Jersey
6. Finite, but infinitely annoying.
7. Guidos, psychotic women, and chemical maufacturing.
8. The East Coast needed a joke state.1. A strait line of bullsit in the west, and an ascending loop of bullshit in the East.
2. Imagination and fear
3. Lord Xenu galactic something or other.
4. Hopefully delusiona...See more
2. This is more of a topic of a metaphysical thesis paper. (I couldn't explain it)
3. There are ideas of how, who, and what, but nothing I personally have been convinced of therefore, I will answer with "I don't know".
4. "Spiritual" depends on what religious perspective you are viewing the word from. In my view as a Sinisterist, the spiritual is a reference to that of what makes up another form of existence outside what we currently know based upon the physics of our existence. This is also known as the metaphysical.
5. The spiritual is a separate layer of reality which overlays our physical realm. There are beings which interact there just as we interact here.
6. I cannot accurately answer this question.
7. Again, this is the topic of another paper in the study of the metaphysical. The laws of physics don't apply to the spiritual, therefore to use an understanding of the physical to describe that which isn't physical would be impossible. We would have to set several ground rules, proof basic concepts incapable of further dissection and thus absolute tautologies. These tautologies would have to be agreed to and understood to begin further discussion.
8. No idea. It just is. To investigate into topics like this are not what I would deem worthy of my time. I instead choose to spend my time researching other areas more pertinent to my existence than pulling on this endless thread which will lead towards countless years of study. No thank you.1. The spiritual body of consciousness of the self.
2. This is more of a topic of a metaphysical thesis paper. (I couldn't explain it)
3. There are ideas of how, who, and what, but nothi...See more
First up, philosophical alterity lies at the centre of my worldview – we define ourselves, in distinction to, and against, an Other.
Presupposing a centre such as alterity implies a metaphysical duality right from the outset – a genuinely esoteric worldview is the Other of modern positivism and materialism and the sort of falsifiable, empirical/consensus based rationality which is espoused by contemporary science.
But moreover, it implies yet another metaphysical dualism within which 2 differing types of soul/spirituality (if you want to use that terminology) function. I’ll focus on this type of dualism from this point onwards.
I start out with this position: there is no beginning to reality and nor is there an end to reality, so asking the questions: ‘what or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being and how did this spiritual realm come into being’ is rather silly. There is no start point to being or rather becoming and there is no end point to being or rather becoming. It has always been there and always will be there. Similarly this question: ‘is this spiritual realm finite or infinite’ is pointless to me. This is no limitation in any direction spatially or otherwise, - any realm – whether a realm of the phenomenon or a realm of the noumenon, if you want to use that terminology, is infinite.
But what is the nature of a spiritual realm and what are souls? As per the dualism implied by my position, there are 2 outcomes. First the “Satanic” and then the Other of that Satanic position, the position of “God” if you want to use that terminology.
Satan is the conventional signifier used to name the unconscious or non-conscious subject underlying/constituting/regulating the will to power, in the active and reactive force relations, which make and remake the phenomenal world in a completely immanent way. That subject “Satan” which is underlying/constituting/regulating the phenomenal world through will to power is “spirit” if you want to use that terminology. It is a subject which powers or energizes becoming. A soul, according to this understanding, is “Satan” working in our lives as they progress through this becoming. Our body is the site where this will to power runs through us, animating the force relations which make up our physical existence as living creatures in this world. Moreover, our souls are elements or pieces of this “Satan.” It is the energy specific to the will to power, which we possess, which carves out our particular existence.
On the Other hand, the phenomenal existence of “God” is of a differing order. A subject/object relation is instigated at the highest level of a forthcoming chain of Being between the characterless negation known as the One and its formal reflection, which gives birth to an underlying rational order or logos. This logos is the noumenon of the sensible phenomenon. It is the underlying cause and the ideal eidos of this phenomenal world. This logos is temporal and functional and end driven. It is hence the movement of the rational idea towards a telos – it is hence the Being at the heart of Becoming.
This underlying rational order or logos can be referred to as “spiritual.” It has been claimed that each individual human being possesses a portion of this logos, this eidos, or this rational idea. The soul is a discrete particularization of the rational logos which underlies the world as noumena. Each soul seeks to transcend its physical house and ascend towards union with the One.
In my world “Satan” and “God” constantly fight each other to remake reality in their own image. Such is the position of someone who subscribes to metaphysical alterity.I’ll have a crack at this for a bit of fun. I might mix up the order in which I answer these questions though. And keep this in mind: these conclusions are mine and mine only and they are based on a b...See more