/lit/ - Literature

>Calvin was right, damnation is metaphysical, not moral: the human species proves not even good works can save a defective self:
I'm tempted to describe this as a deviation, though not an untenable or even tendentious one. This just seems so (again, you've surprised me this way before) heliotheist.
> Kierkegaard: despair is not the failure of the self, but the failure of the self to be a self: only the return of a drop into the ocean: the Pharaoh, like the genius, is the drop that mirrors the expanse, he (re)produces in himself his own constellation sky
Ah, I see. Maybe a little bit too much Tin? He's been an on and off favorite of mine for years.
>Atum (God/CTMU/Logos) is: the Lichtung: an intrinsically self-emergent actuality: the soul, instead, a hand-me-down bootstrap: Atum has monopolized (the intelligibility latent in/of) the Void, anything that emerges afterwards can only emerge into his worldhood.
Yep, this was famously UG's experience of the "natural state." He was a bit more humble about it though, less theological.
I'll get to the second post soon, it'll take longer