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Silenus

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Re: No Salvation
« on: June 10, 2019, 06:52:16 am »
I am very glad that this topic has been brought up here, as it has been something I've been thinking about recently.

Isn't it a great example of the feebleness of mankind, that we cannot seem to escape this feeling of needing to be "saved," or "redeemed?" The very idea that we even NEED TO BE shows me the undercurrent of sorrow and disappointment of this self-conscious species facing it's own nature and instincts. When we look around at others and see our own behavior, our own potential to be the animals that we really are (and so fiercely wish to deny)...

But really, what needs to be saved? What is there to redeem? And why? These are purely religious feelings. It lacks the bitter honesty of recognizing that we are exactly what we are, nothing of which is contrary to nature (for better or worse).

Technology will not do it, neither politics nor the priests or even philosophy for that matter. School and work may try it's damndest to supress these emotions and passions and replace them with rigorous models of "good, civilized behavior," but the "beast" in all of us shows face at some point.

Maybe the issue is the fact that we are trapped in these never-ending cycles of self-hatred and loathing of a purely religious type, instead of knowing and admitting the brute facts of our irritable animality and "facing the music." I can't say for sure, it is something I have been working out.
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"And the strict master Death bids them dance."