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Theology is God
The Birth of Spirit from Agency
Incarnate Freedom progressively conscious of itself as such.
All is vanity: nothing is truly Cool but this realization itself.
Only the damned are grand.

http://theologyisgod.blogspot.com/2017/05/influences.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fichte/comments/6amj8l/the_birth_of_spirit_from_agency_a_creative/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fichte/comments/6bk1nz/egoism_in_fichte/

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In: What are we trying to accomplish, really? Inauthentic decisions, and the like  — view comment
Precisely. To live is to be "guilty." A world without exploitation is a world with defecation (an impossible dream, life being what it is.) And of cou...
June 18, 2017 at 17:41
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I don't think we are taught this explicitly, but I do think we learn this by imitation. Science is explicitly objective and metaphysics and religion a...
June 15, 2017 at 02:00
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
Where are your memories when you are not remembering them? To me it's pretty clear that we know far more than we can be conscious of at any particular...
June 15, 2017 at 01:33
In: What are we trying to accomplish, really? Inauthentic decisions, and the like  — view comment
I think it should be noted that "it's all just ripples in the nothingness, dude" was my voicing of a position that I was criticizing and not my own po...
June 15, 2017 at 01:20
In: Why are we all so biased?  — view comment
I like the graffiti metaphor. Sure, we might get lucky and have a rewarding interaction. But perhaps we mostly just want to scratch our version of eve...
June 14, 2017 at 22:44
In: Everything and nothing  — view comment
True. It's a hard trick to pull off. Usually the being-and-nothing talk translates into platitude or absurdity.
June 14, 2017 at 22:31
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I suppose I'd ask why you couldn't make yourself believe. According to my prejudice or theory, this is just your attachment to intellectual honesty ov...
June 14, 2017 at 22:29
In: What are we trying to accomplish, really? Inauthentic decisions, and the like  — view comment
Call me evil, but I just stopped bothering to pretend that I was looking for a solution for other people's problems. Maybe I'd feel guiltier (and mayb...
June 14, 2017 at 22:11
In: What are we trying to accomplish, really? Inauthentic decisions, and the like  — view comment
Some people are strong and others weak. Some of the weak talk as if they are strong and some of the strong conceal their strength strategically among ...
June 14, 2017 at 21:55
In: Everything and nothing  — view comment
Do these words really correspond to some kind of fixed metaphysical entities about which we can attain certain and/or useful knowledge? In my view, th...
June 14, 2017 at 02:14
In: What are we trying to accomplish, really? Inauthentic decisions, and the like  — view comment
I don't think it's a "we" issue at heart. Most of the time I am glad to have been born. My consciousness of my freedom and my value-for-myself emerged...
June 14, 2017 at 02:09
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
A simple example is that some people just will believe in God and others just will not. Occasionally we do shift our views suddenly, but as a general ...
June 14, 2017 at 01:41
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I agree. Of course I'm a big fan of Hegel, and I think he's roughly right. Of course technology now makes it possible for humanity to cut short its ow...
June 14, 2017 at 01:15
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
By 'investment' I'm trying to stress that we don't enter a discussion without prejudices. These prejudices might even be said to constitute our intell...
June 14, 2017 at 00:45
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
This continues the thought of the above post but replies to no one in particular. The reasonable relativist is conscious that basic pre-rational inves...
June 11, 2017 at 01:15
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
Right. For me there can be no god that isn't anthropomorphic. If there was such a god, we couldn't make sense of it. We'd have no motive to worship or...
June 11, 2017 at 00:50
In: How I found God  — view comment
But "blue" and "pizza" won't work as substitutes. First we think we do understand the joy of pizza more or less like everyone else. It's not controver...
June 06, 2017 at 21:53
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I would describe a process of "mind" becoming conscious of its own creation of its apparent masters. In earlier stages of this process, mind experienc...
June 06, 2017 at 21:40
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I think we actually agree more than disagree. Non-silly nihilism is made possible by (almost) "everything being so grounded." I like "all is vanity." ...
June 06, 2017 at 21:29
In: The perfection of the gods  — view comment
The truths become myths as their truth is denied. "These stories of sinful, ridiculous gods are lies! The truth is that gods are morally perfect. "
June 06, 2017 at 04:47
In: How I found God  — view comment
Hi. I believe that you've experienced something, but why assume that this experience is universally accessible and also that others' experiences label...
June 06, 2017 at 04:44
In: Does "Science" refer to anything? Is it useful?  — view comment
I agree that the word is often abused, but is it possible that you are tilting against windmills? This is maybe just my bad habit, but I tend to check...
June 06, 2017 at 04:30
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I think I can guess what you mean, but consider the OP: "Nihilism (I define here): the belief and attitude that ultimately nothing matters, nothing ha...
June 06, 2017 at 04:18
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
I have no objection to the edifying intention of this passage, but the moments are by definition not permanent. We are also anticipating and rememberi...
June 06, 2017 at 03:52
In: Relativism and nihilism  — view comment
Hi. I would stress ultimate here. A nihilist perhaps reasons (1) that he will die and (2) the human species will become extinct. My personal death arg...
June 03, 2017 at 22:03
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