/lit/ - Literature

>>13268876
>he hasn't studied Kabbalah extensively
Imagine leading such a pitiful existence

>>13054128
You need to analyze it from a Judeo-Kabbalistic perspective

>>11483641
>Worst thing I have ever done was to read Hamlet after it.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not that's weird

>>11482813
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>>11372688
>It's not even that original or deep.

this is what pseuds like to tell themselves

eva has more going for it than the majority of live-action shows out there today

the self that wants to be released from the pain and confusion of human relationships finds this release only at the cost of its own selfhood: this is the catch-22 Shinji confronts and accepts in the Instrumentality.

shinji is not wounded, he is his wound. the only way to escape the pain of being a self is to escape the self that is in pain, that IS pain. suffering is not a bug of embodiment, it's a feature. ontological differentiation guarantees the existence of suffering itself, hegel says the Fall is fundamentally the fall into differentiation/multiplicity, and hence the possibility of evil.

but there are degrees of differentiation. the series presents this as a dichotomy between Angels and Humans/Lilim, between the loneliness of the absolute self and the loneliness of crowds.

angels are monadic beings, absolutely self-determining (an angel in embryo grows into the form that reflects its desire, it is not bound by facticity), they have their principle of conditioning inside themselves (the S2 engines), the sole members of their species (hence the power of their AT fields), and yet for that are terrible lonely, desolate beings. the boundaries between humans are weaker but this doesn't actually alleviate their condition.

the series is, in a way, a metaphor for the Great Work, the reconciliation of selfhood/individuality with the other/the mass. the point with infinite space. Angels are points: in Rebuild 3.0 we get a glimpse inside Zeruel's core, it is a totally silent void that exerts an extremely powerful repulsive force on any who try and enter (namely, Shinji), because angels are beings of pure negativity in the Schellingian sense, the self utterly absorbed in-itself that will not tolerate anything outside this solipsistic self-absorption - which is why see Shinji begins to distingrate as soon as he pierces through into the core.

the only relief from this vise-grip is a return to the 0, Instrumentality, the Ground or Brahman where "you are everywhere and nowhere". like I always say, the series is about conquering the will-to-nothingness in oneself and accepting the pain and ambiguity inherent to existence. any pining for consolation in the Beyond is really just the pining for the nothingness of the void.

gendo and SEELE are damaged, disillusioned old men who'd rather sweep all the pieces off the board in a fit of despondent rage than brush themselves off and try again. it's on Shinji as the Third Child to overcome in himself the pain that has consumed his father.

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>>11247759
you sound fine. you know what? this is EXACTLY the issue driving all of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I mean first of all there'll be no "you" to experience the void as barren, empty, unstimulating, because what "you" are IS that void. but because you are that nothing, eventually it'll collapse into something, because it can, because it's Nothing and Nothing has no ruleset. And then when you're born you crave that Edenic unity with the primal womb again... and on the wheel turns. The fundamental tragedy of existence as Schelling says.

We all crave the ground as a release from life but the ground kills everything in us that had any reason to crave it in the first place.

>>11247779
Boehme says Hell and Heaven are not places you go to, but just the full revelation of your inner condition upon death. he also thought every beautiful thing in this world was the literal kingdom of heaven manifesting in the mortal plane

In Orthodox theology, Hell is just the rejection of God's light (the holy void "before" Being), Heaven is its full acceptance. Mysticism is fundamentally a love of the devourer. All things eat in this universe, the void eats the universe.