@St_Rev Do you think the things that are best at existing are good? If so, are they good because they're good at existing, or
@A_P_Mason That confounds a lot of basic assumptions common in the European tradition, but it's not pessimistic.
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@A_P_Mason The connection to Gnon is that Gnon is about cosmos-as-process, but it's a very negative version. Cosmos as devourer. -
@A_P_Mason IMO Daoism is the earliest and in many ways clearest take on the same theme. -
@A_P_Mason I think there's a sense of betrayal motivating the gleeful nihilism/post-nihilism; cosmos isn't what we wanted, so it's Evil. -
@A_P_Mason Depending on whether you want to hold onto a belief in the classical God, it leads either to gnosticism or pure Lovecraft. -
@A_P_Mason Either way it's soaked in horrorism. OK, and this is really my core point now ----> -
@A_P_Mason ACTUAL CORE CLAIM: You can appreciate cosmos-as-process without being devoured by horrorism. -
@A_P_Mason (Also without being consumed by idiot monism, but that's another argument.)
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