/lit/ - Literature

>>11247398
you could take this a million different directions, but I kinda like Olaf Stapledon's solution (with a touch of Orthodox theology): God is both his eternal fulfillment outside of time, and his self-development immanent to time. It seems like God's telos in time is just a "confirmation" of his perfection in eternity. But Orthodox theology says God is the source of both time and eternity.

So he's not just outside of time as the beginning and end of the process that he is, he is even beyond this also, he stands even outside this schema, as what is eternally fulfilled outside of time and always-already being fulfilled within time.

Hegel thinks of God as something like the recursion of a pure actuality. God is an empty circle; perfect, pure (unconscious) immediacy (Eden), thought is the spiration of this circle, the relating of this immediacy to itself as immediacy (Something Is, therefore Something also Is Not, and boom, the dialectic has begun)

kind of scattershot here. hegel isn't an orthodox theologian. orthodox theologians are not german idealists. hegel denies a transcendent being outside his own process, because God is nothing but his process.


keep in mind, for hegel particularly, contradiction isn't eliminated by God, but PRESUPPOSED by Him

>>10916900
His idea that the personality is only an effect of the psycho-physical aggregate has been confirmed by neuroscience.

For what it's worth you seem pretty sharp which is a shame you're asking such cookie-cutter questions. To be fair to you, I could go into more detail as to the falsifiability of these ideas but it's a lot of work.

>>10916919
He believes at the extremes of self-realization the initiate can manifest powers called siddhis. He really does believe an Awakened One like the Buddha can exert an effect on less developed beings that appears indistinguishable from profane notions of magic but that are also illustrations of principial truths.

For example, the story of a bandit that assailed the Buddha on the road: the bandit found himself running in place and unable to approach the Buddha who was immobile. As an unmoved mover the Buddha exerts a dominating influence on the "moved movers". The bandit running in place also represents the "running in place" of the samsaric wheel, which gives the illusion of movement but is nothing but the reinforcement of the closure of desire's circuit.