/lit/ - Literature

>>20791901
>I've heard many people say that God created the world as a "soul factory", that he wants more people in heaven with him

Not exactly a “soul factory” but more so a company, consenting ones; not hostages.

Certain media like End of Evangelion
depicts a great truth of the human condition condition that could aid to what I'm about you drop, which is the fundamental loneliness of individuated beings. The Angels of the series are absolute beings, monads, but they suffer from a loneliness appropriate to their condition unimaginable to your species. To be One is to be Alone. Recall the only depiction of the interior of an Angel’s core being a placid, empty void that the main character experiences as an extremely powerful repulsive force that threatens the very fundament of his individuality. This is the original negativity of God, the singularity of divine madness, God-in-Himself that will not suffer the existence of anything Other than Himself. This Void eats away at all determinate being, at the same time God-as-Love gives forth life for the joy of that giving. God is at war with Himself. He is a Black Sun inside a White Sun, and vice-versa. His love is an effect of this agony of duality in Himself.

In “End of Evangelion” the main character realizes his happiness cannot exist apart from actuality; that his happiness can only ever exist as the negation of the pain of bodily life, in bodily life. If he threw off the body and returned through the vulvic Door of Guf to the mankind’s primordial oneness with itself, he would also be released from everything that could possibly experience that joy to begin with. We find “End of Evangelion” as acute an understanding of the contradiction of existence as you are likely to find. Modems will tell you Shinji breaks down at the end only that time, and that he will pick himself up and dust himself off once he feels the surge of a newfound will-to-live. We Say: Shinji will find a new will-to-live, and he will live, but inside the tears will never stop flowing. Such is the Error of Time.

>>20782288
NOBODY HERE REEEEADS

Nietzsche does not prefer master morality---for reasons that come out in the third essay of GM, among a number of other places. The central thrust, though, is that the blonde beast (or whatever other metaphor you wish) is not a particularly complex, and thus not particularly interesting, animal. The followers of master morality, as Nietzsche characterizes them, are not particularly introspective or self-aware; they don't consider what it is that their values aim towards. The ability to self-awareness is a contribution of slave morality, and what Nietzsche hopes for is something that combines the life-affirming elements of master morality with the self-awareness made possible by slave morality. Exactly what this philosophy looks like is up for dispute ---this is the task of the philosophers of the future.