i don't mean to argue in favor of any particular flavor of theology or spirituality, i'm just questioning the premise that we ought to view the Christ myth as an ultimate form
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well that's a pretty stark conclusion that I don't immediately go to in my analysis though I do recognize it as a possible bad scenario. we both observe that nothing is redeemed. maybe nothing is redeemable? maybe nothing _needs_ to be redeemed?
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Replying to @AlexanderBlum0
how about instead of an eschatology we have an awakening? evolution and change are guaranteed in this world and not particularly our immediate concern. what if we wake up to our own responsibility to make the world a better place in our own time with the means we have?
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yes, the presence of that craving is the source of dissatisfaction (me getting slightly doctrinaire at this point, apologies). we ARE the cosmos on an essential level. our feeling of separateness from it is in many ways adaptive but psychologically distressing none-the-less.
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I've come to view this as a false dichotomy and one day I hope to know what words to use to communicate the insight properly. I fear it escapes me at the moment or else you'd be subjected to much too much of my word salad.
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Replying to @danlistensto
that said I think we get a lot of good output from useful fictions, at the cost of also potentially adopting harmful fictions (in fact there's quite a lot of that). this is why I prefer to talk about myths rather than faith or doctrine.
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transmissions about *reality* (not another reality, if its real its real.) yeah, that's on target but lets extend reality to include the psychical and mythical aspects of the human experience as first class objects.
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