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Ecclesiastes seems to inhabit phenomenologically the crucifixion of opposites
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:39 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977433) |
Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:40 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza isnt it just about a depressed jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977438) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:42 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes He’s depressed because everything is Vanity, ephemeral, nothing lasts
He spends the time in the text testing various containers - money, power, sex, etc - finding everything wanting |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:43 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza isn't that lack "fulfilled" later on with the dead, hanging jew (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977444) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:45 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes Bartholomew in his academic exegesis of Ecclesiastes argues that, yes, but I see it as an offloading of the agony of the crucifixion of opposites (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977446) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:46 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza i think every christian in history thinks jesus was the Christ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977447) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:47 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes Sure, my point is that it’s hard to read Ecclesiastes for what it is when one thinks the problems it wrestles with in a very painful way have been superseded
But the problems it deals with are a constant part of being alive |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:48 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza that begs the question of whether you need to read it that way at all, or whether it's an inaccurate and misguided misanthropy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977450) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:48 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes No one else seems to have read it that way, so I think it’s a novel approach
I’ll be writing about it soon |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:51 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant There is nothing new under the sun (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977455) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:54 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977461) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:56 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant You should get a ThM (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977465) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:56 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977467) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 4:57 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes For what purpose? I don’t care to be a professor or academic, I don’t need the rubber stamp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977468) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:01 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant Because you have no idea what you’re talking about (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977476) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:16 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes you're welcome to offer your interpretation, champ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977491) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:24 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza im not following here. what is your interpretation? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977497) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:29 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes thesis of the post will be roughly as follows, although i have some more sources to read first
the oscillation in Ecclesiastes that has puzzled commentators from the rabbinic debates at Jamnia to Bartholomew’s modern analysis is the phenomenological record of someone performing the crucifixion of opposites under a god-image that contains evil but lacks the vocabulary to name what it contains. Each time Qohelet finds a provisional foothold (wisdom is better than folly, enjoyment is a gift, companionship has value) he immediately tests it against the structural reality he has observed and finds it insufficient. The foothold is real but it cannot hold the weight of a condition that admits no permanent resolution. Every available interpretive framework (orthodox Jewish, Christian, secular academic) requires the oscillation to resolve in a direction it never takes: the religious Jewish reader needs it to end in “fear God and keep the commandments", the Christian reader needs it to end in Christ, the secular pessimist reader needs it to be a cry of despair, the academic structuralist catalogs its polar opposites without asking what generates them, but none of these readings can sit still in the oscillation itself. The Abraxian framework can, because it has a name for the structural condition Qohelet is navigating without being able to name. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza this seems like the whole "the only thing that doesn't change is change itself" bit. I'm not sure im following what "abraxis" is. Is that like transgenderism? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977606) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:37 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes abraxas is the term for a god image containing both good and evil, horrifying totality. jung articulated the concept in his seven sermons to the dead and the liber novus, although he ultimately backed away from it in favor of god evolving his consciousness over time through man
if of interest, see here:
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-all-good-god
and here:
https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/the-formal-logic-of-the-crucifixion
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:38 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza isn't "god image" just whatever a person values most highly? On that reading, you're saying you value evil, which is morally repugnant position.
or are you making a different claim that "god" is an objective thing out there which just so happens to be good and evil. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:41 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes as limited, finite beings, we cannot perceive what "god" is. we have an image of what he is which changes over time (and over aeons). during the piscean era the god image generally has been a god of all good, the "privatio boni", where evil was considered a deprivation of god
but the god image doesn't have to be a god figure, its the highest order belief that humans have - it could be capitalism, or communism, or other things. our highest order beliefs are a hinge proposition (wittgenstein term) which presupposes what our thoughts and perceptions even are
there is more about this here: https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/the-god-image-as-regulatory-architecture
for me, my core problem was that my god image - a god as all loving - did not match up with my perception of reality. with an updated god image containing totality, my perception of reality and my god image do no longer clash, which for me makes reality easier to inhabit (although it is still difficult)
this doesn't mean being evil or being a predator, there are structural reasons to avoid that which don't involve fear of punishment in the afterlife |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:47 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza sounds like some kind of psychologized dispensationalism.
but im not following. are you saying "god is evil" or that "my god image is evil."
i think you're saying "the world makes more sense to me if i believe god is evil." which is a weak claim. sense-making isn't a standard of truth afaict
if i had to put a read on this, i'd say you're making a social critique, wherein you don't think what other people call "evil" is really evil. So you construct this elaborate metaphysics to avoid having to hold the position that what you are and what you believe is heterodox.
it seems like the whole jung thing is a detour to justify this to yourself, and there is something more substantive ("evil" to others, but true to you) waiting to happen |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:51 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes no. my argument is that this reality is structured as pairs of opposites, where nothing makes sense except in terms of its opposites - light vs darkness, good vs evil, matter vs spirituality, hot vs cold, up vs down, in vs out, materialism vs ascetic withdrawal, strength vs weakness, etc. there are an infinite number of such pairs. from my perspective, God must contain all pairs of opposites. what christianity does is deny the "evil" pole, which is then suppressed into the unconscious where it leaks out uncontrollably, including onto enemies
if or when one sees reality this way, then the "evil" of the world is not some monstrous denial or rejection of god, it is *contained within a god image of totality itself* - which in many ways is more horrifying than atheism or evil existing as simply free will |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 6:55 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza yeah but again, this is gay metaphysics, social critique, and a moral endorsement of evil. is the whole point you're trying to communicate, "wow im horrified here's why?" are you a performance artist? I don't get it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977648) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 7:00 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes it is not a moral endorsement of evil, for structural reasons though. i'm not going to get into it here, this is already a substhread wasteland, but its addressed directly in part 2 of the collapse of the all good god post linked above
the point of an updated god image is it dramatically increases energy flow and efficiency for those whose god image and perception of reality are not synched. furthermore, as the world continues its descent into neoliberal feudalism hell - which will get much worse - more and more people will cross the threshold where their existing god image will be somatically pressured into duress. this is who the work is directed at |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 7:01 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza ok so you're trying to make a religion. i guess that makes sense. how do you support yourself? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977668) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 7:02 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes i am not trying to make a religion, because living under totality prevents the egregore formation that religion requires
you've thrown out a lot of wrong suppositions about my perspective ITT instead of keeping an open mind and reading things
i support myself with money |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 7:04 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza yeah i mean call it whatever you want but i would call it founding a religion, or a philosophy cult or whatever. doesn't matter. im just wondering if you're making money from the religion or if the religion is a side project (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977680) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:09 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant god is evil because i don't like him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978049) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:11 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vulture_and_the_Little_Girl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978053) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:13 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant i don't like that (staged photo) so god must be evil (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978058) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:14 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes "The photographer, Carter, died by suicide four months after winning the prize." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978060) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:15 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant only an evil god would let this happen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978061) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:12 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza christians have been dealing with this shit forever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978056) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:18 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant if god good why evil happen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978067) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:18 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza 🤔 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978069) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:20 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant i think it's because god is both evil and good at the same time. there is no objective standard for this
when god do evil stuff i sad and when god good i happy |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:20 PM Author: Khaki Spot Prole because you just made those two words up and they don't mean anything (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978071) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:20 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant morality fake...i can do whatever i want...always could.... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978075) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:39 PM Author: exhilarant puppy location the very beginning of Kohelet in hebrew is quite literally a confirmation of the Demiurge or Firstborn Angel creating this realm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977529) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:41 PM Author: Razzmatazz obsidian plaza sounds like a fucking yugioh episode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977530) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:43 PM Author: Splenetic Light Set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977536) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:47 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes he refers to god only as "elohim" throughout, never as "yahweh", because he is referring imo to ein sof, not a tribal lesser god
ecclesiastes is really quite subversive re: authority which is why they had to affix some lame trite conclusion on at the end, its a wonder that rabbinical authorities included it in the official corpus |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:58 PM Author: exhilarant puppy location ein sof is not elohim, elohim is the demiurge aka metatron and samael (and host of other angels (fallen?) rephaim), havayah is the name of god closer to the ein sof
yahweh is somethign else entirely
he uses differnet names throughut it, i wrote this in taht other poast, the haval hevalim thing being teh 6 days of creation under the demiurge/elohim
he's lamenting how sps the elohim creation is |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 5:50 PM Author: Shimmering arrogant rehab If you have a shit life just stay in your lane my brothers, eat your fill, get loaded, sing and dance, YOLO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49977556) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:00 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant you will never kill Augustinianism no matter how much you may want to (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978034) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:06 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes the privatio boni is already kind of dying on its own (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978046) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:10 PM Author: translucent histrionic immigrant maybe but Nietzsche was a fat faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978052) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:02 PM Author: Khaki Spot Prole it is literally just Jews stealing Babylonian wisdom writing that goes back a few thousand years before those sandniggers wandered out of the desert, ljl at attributing a book that contradicts every teaching of judaism or christianity to the fucking jews, it is a much better work than either of those groups could produce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978039) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:05 PM Author: Splenetic Light Set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978043) |
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Date: July 4th, 2026 12:02 AM Author: exhilarant puppy location (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978162) |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:08 PM Author: aphrodisiac cocky useless brakes the scholarly consensus is the text was not written by solomon due to the existence of persian loan-words that only reached judea 500 years after solomon. no one knows who wrote it otherwise
"it is a much better work than either of those groups could produce" i agree with you that it is to me the most resonant book of either the OT or NT |
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Date: July 3rd, 2026 11:10 PM Author: Khaki Spot Prole my understanding is that you can trace a very similar vein of thought throughout a number of laments that go all the way back to Sumer, and obviously almost all of the old testament was written in Babylon so that's the most logical place to steal it from (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5879461&forum_id=2ГѓЖ’#49978050) |