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Anonymous Wed Dec 19 22:17:46 2018 No.12254951 [Reply] [Original]

Life is only lovable in its contrast with the Void: the only way meditation, for example, can re-sensitize yourself to the miracle of being-here is by making you dwell in the nothingness of no-thought. That's the tragedy, and what Heidegger understood so well: even miracle has a half-life. Being a "child in the Kingdom of God" just means having the power to dissolve an adult's desensitization - habituation - to the Real. The dialectic is like a 24-hour news channel: it isn't on because there's a story, there's a story because it's on. Understand that and you understand Hegel. So let's put the two together: the beginning and the Golden Age didn't just happen to coincide together, it was the Golden Age /because/ it was the beginning. Photons aren't massless because they're light, they're /light because they're massless/. Population III stars burned the purest of fuels, as contractions of the hydrogen ocean that comprised the primeval universe immediately following the Big Bang, these stars were the equivalent of the first angels, the sons of the morning that sang for joy at the dawn of Creation, as God tells us in Job. As the universe wears on, stars burn progressively denser and denser fuel, both in their individual lifetimes and in the cosmic lifetime. AI is impossible because it means trying to construct life out of materials even denser than carbon: if we succeed, we would be dooming machine life to the progressive articulation/complexification of ontological law that Gurdjieff clearly glimpsed in the descending octave of God: as life descends into the density of liquid and solid from the incandescence of plasma, its dharma contracts like a noose. AI would be the next step in involution, not evolution: carbon becoming silicon, plastic, its nerves externalized as copper wire, so vulnerable to the cut. Teleology is an illusion: there have been eras of peace and prosperity no one would have hesitated to stop the clocks forever for: Nietzsche was right that the joy of a moment could affirm the whole of eternity: the progressivist, the anti-luddite, his entire argument depends on the efficacy of time, that if Nature or the Polis or the Nation-State was so great, why did we move on from these things? Because time - as change - forced us to. In other words, the progressivist recruits the empty form of time to validate his own historicist trajectory, but forgets that, if we admit man is just a slave to his own noumenal (self-)propulsion, then he didn't domesticate nature because he should have but because the passage of time said that he /must/: it was Land who understood every telos is immanently determined: production for the sake of production can only result in the apotheosis of /auto/-production: time is a wind-up toy turned behind our backs.

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