HeyJaredLiving Opposites
Exploring what it means to individuate under the limit condition God image of Abraxas. Hermes mediates between conflicting energies and outputs that mediation via writing.
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Greek Tragedy, Nietzsche, and the Limits of Human Understanding (opens the original)
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Greek tragedy offers a strikingly non-redemptive vision of existence, in which suffering does not necessarily lead to salvation, progress, or ultimate restoration. Across the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, human beings gradually discover the limits of their agency within a world governed by fate, divine powers, inherited guilt, and chance. Set against the modern redemptive expectation that suffering should ultimately be resolved or given a higher purpose, these tragedies
Glossary of Key Terms (opens the original)
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The following is a glossary of some of the key terms I use repeatedly in my writing, organized alphabetically. Many of you will already be familiar with them. The intent is to offer the glossary so new and unfamiliar readers may become acquainted with the otherwise obscure terminology used. This glossary will be included on the Substack’s header and may be updated from time to time.AbraxasThe Jungian term for God as totality, the ultimate unity of all opposites (light and darkness, good and evil
On Metabolic vs. Ontological Truth (opens the original)
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Welcome back. In this post I would like to address some questions posed both by critics and which arose from my own doubting, acidic, recursive process about whether the Abraxian framework I’ve articulated can be disconfirmed, or whether it is self-sealing. Most religious beliefs are self-sealing where evil is treated as God either testing people, punishing for transgressions, or that His plan operates beyond human understanding. In other words, “self-sealing” is defined as all evidence, whether
The Gulf Between Redemptive vs. Non-Redemptive God Images (opens the original)
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Human beings organize experience around an ultimate orienting image. When that image no longer accommodates lived reality, psychological pressure builds until a new organizing image emerges. Because this organizing image is embodied as well as conceptual, changing it involves years of cognitive, emotional, social, and bodily reorganization.Welcome back. In this post I would like to discuss the process of God image changes. For new readers, a “God image” is a Jungian term meaning that humans as l
The Grammar of Capture: How Online Language Pre-Organizes Thought (opens the original)
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Online political rhetoric is full of phrases that assert unearned authority, claim undefined group identity, foreclose alternatives, and smuggle in redemption narratives. This essay examines the grammar of capture - the linguistic patterns that replace thinking with tribal performance - and offers a path toward more individuated speech.“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” - WittgensteinSomeone the other day on social media wrote something along the lines of, “We need to do [a
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