In Peter zapffe's "The Last Messahiah" we witness the drammatic collision between consciousness and being.
Consciousness witnesses absolute
meaningless and futility of being.
"Despite his new eyes, man was still rooted in matter, his soul spun into it and subordinated to its blind laws. And yet he could see matter as a stranger, compare himself to all phenomena, see through and locate his vital processes. He comes to nature as an unbidden guest, in vain extending his arms to beg conciliation with his maker".
What consciousness witnesses in a being is the total lack of meaning. Therefore consciosness points at the void in a being left by lacking meaning that consciosness witnesses as the wound "as a breach in the very unity of life"( P.Zapffe).
Zapffe calls it a paradox, thinking that consciousness had appeared from nature like a flower from the soil only to be left alone contemplating cold indifferent and meaningless cosmos around.
Consciousness is transcendental. Meaning of consciousness can not be revealed through scientific explanation of its essence because consciousness can not be at one with object of its perseption ( consciousness percieves its object but never itself) nor meaning of highly developed conciousness can be explained from the point of view of evolutional adaptation because consciousness is maladaptive in its advanced phase as it is shown in the Zapffe's work. But Zapffe thinks that nature simply" overshot its target" by creating susplus of consciousness.
Consciosness has nostalgy for realm of meaning that is not present here where we exist. And we can not even imagine meaningfull existence because even the happiest existence is "malignantly useless" as T.Ligotti points out. Eternal realm of happiness would be as meaningless as existence of animals of short life span who live in piecfull ignorance and therefore knows not death but only furtive presence of effemeral sensation.
Therefore the possible realm of meaning never can be present in a being , wich means that meaning can be thought as something that transcends to the realm of unknown , of wich we have only nostalgy, but that we can not even imagine.
Perhapse the good example of our situation can be well illustrated by mirror test with animals, lions for example. Lions aproach to a mirror and see their reflection. They start to search reflected lions behind the mirror, but find nothing. They understand that something odd is happening but they dont know what exaclty is going on. Probably the same is going on with our consciousness witnessing a being; we percieve some breach in our existence, we witness a paradox, the gap between a being and consciousness but we dont see clearly the source of it. Probably there is something that avoids our comprehantion. Some invisible "mirror" that stand before us.
But the logical consequencess are clear , the only one possible meaning of our existence can be given in pursuit of the treshhold , - the perception of the void right inside of a being left by something that is not here, but somewhere else, in the realm of transcendence. This is something of whose abscence we were given capacity to crave for. As Thomas Ligortti put it " The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world".
And this is not a speculation, this is reality that we face everyday, ontologicaly we crave for something that is not of this world. We have only this wound in our consciousness, that desperately returns to the treshhold of the ultimate revelation. A human ontologicaly, by virtue of consciousness, desires meaning that is out of the world, and that can not even be imagined, or given in intuition.
In order to sattiate this craving comes the revelation of moniteism, that subordinate people in the act of submituion to forse of wich we have no any clue. In a monoteism this forse is unimaginable, the forse is out of even any intutuion, it is not present here in any possible form, but it is present as the wound in our consciousness.
The meaning of monoteism is to mobilze human existence around of this treshhold, to reorginize all human resourses , moral and societal, around the spot of transcendence, for gathering an army against earthly existence, and those who propagate earthly values of meaningless unjust and ugly world of being that exploits and sucks, that belongs to the totality of being that moniteism calls Eblis or Satan.
Before people understood meaning of revelation of moniteism intutively , but now we can witness what the meaning of revelation of monoteistic religions has always been.
Now we see from the point of conseptual view that revelation as the presence of the transcendental treshold is what is the necessary for human nature. This is the root of our existence. And this voice of transcendence demands complete rebuilding of all the society, all the way of life in evert aspect around the spot of transcendental treshhold in order to prepare destruction of all life on Earth as the realisation of eschatological intention of monoteism.
Consciousness witnesses absolute
meaningless and futility of being.
"Despite his new eyes, man was still rooted in matter, his soul spun into it and subordinated to its blind laws. And yet he could see matter as a stranger, compare himself to all phenomena, see through and locate his vital processes. He comes to nature as an unbidden guest, in vain extending his arms to beg conciliation with his maker".
What consciousness witnesses in a being is the total lack of meaning. Therefore consciosness points at the void in a being left by lacking meaning that consciosness witnesses as the wound "as a breach in the very unity of life"( P.Zapffe).
Zapffe calls it a paradox, thinking that consciousness had appeared from nature like a flower from the soil only to be left alone contemplating cold indifferent and meaningless cosmos around.
Consciousness is transcendental. Meaning of consciousness can not be revealed through scientific explanation of its essence because consciousness can not be at one with object of its perseption ( consciousness percieves its object but never itself) nor meaning of highly developed conciousness can be explained from the point of view of evolutional adaptation because consciousness is maladaptive in its advanced phase as it is shown in the Zapffe's work. But Zapffe thinks that nature simply" overshot its target" by creating susplus of consciousness.
Consciosness has nostalgy for realm of meaning that is not present here where we exist. And we can not even imagine meaningfull existence because even the happiest existence is "malignantly useless" as T.Ligotti points out. Eternal realm of happiness would be as meaningless as existence of animals of short life span who live in piecfull ignorance and therefore knows not death but only furtive presence of effemeral sensation.
Therefore the possible realm of meaning never can be present in a being , wich means that meaning can be thought as something that transcends to the realm of unknown , of wich we have only nostalgy, but that we can not even imagine.
Perhapse the good example of our situation can be well illustrated by mirror test with animals, lions for example. Lions aproach to a mirror and see their reflection. They start to search reflected lions behind the mirror, but find nothing. They understand that something odd is happening but they dont know what exaclty is going on. Probably the same is going on with our consciousness witnessing a being; we percieve some breach in our existence, we witness a paradox, the gap between a being and consciousness but we dont see clearly the source of it. Probably there is something that avoids our comprehantion. Some invisible "mirror" that stand before us.
But the logical consequencess are clear , the only one possible meaning of our existence can be given in pursuit of the treshhold , - the perception of the void right inside of a being left by something that is not here, but somewhere else, in the realm of transcendence. This is something of whose abscence we were given capacity to crave for. As Thomas Ligortti put it " The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world".
And this is not a speculation, this is reality that we face everyday, ontologicaly we crave for something that is not of this world. We have only this wound in our consciousness, that desperately returns to the treshhold of the ultimate revelation. A human ontologicaly, by virtue of consciousness, desires meaning that is out of the world, and that can not even be imagined, or given in intuition.
In order to sattiate this craving comes the revelation of moniteism, that subordinate people in the act of submituion to forse of wich we have no any clue. In a monoteism this forse is unimaginable, the forse is out of even any intutuion, it is not present here in any possible form, but it is present as the wound in our consciousness.
The meaning of monoteism is to mobilze human existence around of this treshhold, to reorginize all human resourses , moral and societal, around the spot of transcendence, for gathering an army against earthly existence, and those who propagate earthly values of meaningless unjust and ugly world of being that exploits and sucks, that belongs to the totality of being that moniteism calls Eblis or Satan.
Before people understood meaning of revelation of moniteism intutively , but now we can witness what the meaning of revelation of monoteistic religions has always been.
Now we see from the point of conseptual view that revelation as the presence of the transcendental treshold is what is the necessary for human nature. This is the root of our existence. And this voice of transcendence demands complete rebuilding of all the society, all the way of life in evert aspect around the spot of transcendental treshhold in order to prepare destruction of all life on Earth as the realisation of eschatological intention of monoteism.
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