sin
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April 24th, 2026
- comments from Chloe on sin etc
- 3 human predicaments
- estrangement / alienation
- lack of purpose, sense of "what's the point?"
- as a result of those two, acting in self-preservation = sin
- salvation is freedom from living from anxiety - somatic
- binary
- makes sense to Jess re multistability, but not the implied unidimensionality
- X is a drug addict, and not someone who has ever chosen life / the good
- "and she has never made the choice"
- she's not ever made the choice, or say yes
- C > love-first metaphysics
- vs safety of physics-first metaphysics
- (thinking about... supercooperation cluster, Stuart Kauffman, and vaguely the David Temple one... cosmoerotic humanism? vaguely)
- God as trinity = lover, beloved, love-itself
- (as a reason to not just say "love")
- AC > saying "Divine Love" rather than "God"
- god-as-being - there won't ever be a supreme being, so
- Entering the Orthodox Church > "god is a person, because god has love"
- (not a unity or a "higher power")
- all that we do in participation is eternal, and all else will pass away
- AC > yes but against the all-ness
- "lord of the rings theology" - first two chapters of silmarillion
- (very much thinking about the bit from Entering the Orthodox Church)
- (looool I wrote Entering the Heart of the Orthodox Church 😂)
- beliefs
- participation is inherently invitational
- it is only by fully trusting in this divine love conspiracy, [...]
- "redemption" => "more learning"
- "we're alive and we get to make mistakes"
November 28th, 2023
Michael "Valentine" Smith call - original spin › MS > tough love is category error › for your own good
- believing in sin
- there's a flaw in you - this graspiness - and you cannot have what you want until you purify yourself of this sin