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If you take that scenario of God's descent and alter to an ordinary situation, what does it change? What are the consequences in philosophy of the blue sky, two plus two, night and day, people breathing, talking, walking...? Aren't we talking about these wonderful and terrifying ordinary things in the same way that we would if talking about God's descent? In constant rearrangement, never satisfied, with always something else to say, some new way to talk about it, with shifting signifiers and meanings, disagreement, followed by agreement and a new disagreement later on. Isn't it the same with everything else?

To some, a God spoken through language is distorted, because a conceptualization of the human mind cannot match God. This is the external God in the skies and the God that is an essence that produces the world (to which we have access and thus, language). But the essence that constitutes the world cannot be a product itself, so it cannot be in the same level of understanding of the physical material world, it is not a world before a world, but a simulatenous all prevailing stimulus that ignites the world in meaning like a lightbulb. This light would be the light of language itself, not the raw matter of the world, but the one that blows life in the nostrils of nothingness to create the world. A relationship of meaning and all the game of authority that comes with it.

TL;DR God is language itself.

That's because you are judging your own writing before and while you do it. You think the only writing worth writing is the good one and that blocks you because you keep struggling to figure out what that means and how to do it without doing it. And the minute you start you're already thinking whether it is worth it or not and where it will lead and so on.

Writing itself is not bad, it's just words on paper (or screen, whatever). What makes you feel awful is the weight you're putting onto these words, as if every sentence you wrote had a responsibility on a finished piece that doesn't even exist yet. You're thinking of failure because you're thinking of success, you are thinking of inability because you're thinking of what you able or not to do.

The way to overcome this is to think that every word you put down is a success in the sense that from all the possible things that run over your head, it is that very little word that got out and succeeded to jump onto the paper. Do not judge that word harshly or before its time. Do not think ahead of a book, learn to write without knowing where it will lead. Practice automatic writing, observation writing, stream of consciousness. It can be much more natural than you'd have imagined, like bleeding as Hemingway puts it, or you could say less dramatically, like breathing out or sweating, letting it flow. At the start you may hate on it very much, because a lot of crap will come out, but after you get a lot of it out, the pearls will begin to appear and you'll be able to do something with them. If you just sit and think on what is worth writing for, nothing will come. Write first, do first, think about what it later. Sometimes a diary entry can become a short story and a short story can become a poem, complete gibberish can become a novel, but you'll only know if you go through the gibberish first and accept it for what it is.

In order to solve an artist's block, you must put things into movement without judgement. A painter can grab a chalk and scratch the paper like a young child. You see one of it and it will suck, nothing to do with that crap. But when he's done with a 100 of them, he, because he is a sensible person, will perceive beauty in it and have new ideas and think of new colors and have other kinds of artistic insights that will fuel his production. That's the very same thing with writing.

If you meet the devil, make him work for you.

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