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>>11457138
>self -destructive attempt to become God, or more conservatively, a self-destructive attempt to escspe one’s own contingency, the very principle by which one is at all.

Suggesting the eastern doctrines are self-destructive is a sign of fundamentally misunderstanding them, the only thing destroyed is ignorance. Also the contingency is not the principle by which one is all, rather the opposite actually. The non-contingent is that in which there is unity.

>He gives us the metaphysical tools to see that creaturely being, even if it does not approach the fullness of the One, nevertheless truly is, and is therefore good.

I sense Christian theology underlying your post tbqh. It's not a question of good or bad. Any possible sense in which conventional existence could be considered 'good' is nil in relation to the Absolute, which is reality.

> since apart from divine intervention man has no option but to be such a paradox.

Or you know... He could just fully realize and actualize the truth and be liberated.

>>11208562
An an exception. And they usually don't. But still, they learn their math from books about math written in the past few decades. Not directly from Gauss and Fermat.