War: That which takes place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature. (h/t Tolstoy) Just like the Mother states has a collective and individual manifestation, so does the War state.
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There is an adjacent near enemy that can be called the 'religious' one. Religious builds often fail because they never truly cast "See No Evil". Community is so important that they allow infinite forgiveness as long as it serves the community.
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E.g. a band of brothers united by a religion will forgive each other for *anything*. They never had a strong Yin source that shows them 'See No Evil' so are forced to forgive increasingly violent acts even as they recognize them as evil.
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The near enemy for the rational path is the 'scientific' path. This path never reaches the "See No Evil" b/c it becomes self obsessed with the hierarchy of 'rightness' it creates. Meritocracy is so important that anything is allowed, as long as it's technically 'right'.
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Where scientism and religion both go wrong is that they vandalize their sacred values by emphasizing evil as something to be contained and controlled instead of seen through.
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Religious communities are often ironically dysfunctional just as scientific communities are often just mountains of incestuous credentialism.
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Thought Reference Pointer: Neither Freya nor Baldur were bad or crazy.
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2x2: Pure Spiritual: Perfect Empathy Pure Rational: Perfect Understanding Corrupted Spiritual: Perfect Moral Judgement Corrupted Rational: Perfect Utilitarianism
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