03.23.11

The ‘will’ of ‘god’???

Posted in General at 1:23 pm by nemo

Japan’s Earthquake and the Will of God
I was a little unfair to this post, whose author cleverly quotes a non-Xtian as the source of the idea of god behind the earthquakes, so let the author be quoted here:

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth’s tectonic plates — a process driven by the earth’s need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

Nevertheless, Xtians (and no doubt Moslems) should be advised of their slovenly theologies that have made atheism a healing agent for so many who are literally sick of the god-gibberish that is a daily constant of the Xtian asshole.
This kind of problem was clearly foreseen by the now lost agents behind the prophets, whoever they were, who issued a warning in the utterance of ‘god’ names, restricting reference to an IHVH glyph (I am sure this isn’t quite the history, so what was it?)
Monotheists saw the total mess that polytheism had created and wished to move beyond that. But the idea of one god was vulnerable to the same old difficulties, just that the pantheon now had only one divinity (a male god??). The same problem reinvented itself and the result is the vulgar theism we have inherited from the Axial Age.
Atheism is not the answer, necessarily. But we should restudy the deeper realization of the first monotheists (who probably were not monotheists in our sense) that using the ‘name of god’ was itself anti-sacred. Well, maybe, but their basic point is clear. The problem, as here, is that the idea of ‘will’ has lost its meaning (or never really had one), somethhing we have discussed here a lot, via the work of J.G. Bennett and Schopenhauer. The question of ‘will’ is complex, and it is useful (for Xtians too) to learn some discipline for the word by studying an atheist like Schopenhauer. The writer Bennett added another twist to this by explicating an ancient Samkhya scheme in terms of the ‘will’. There the progression of laws, 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48…. in the triads of the will, an ancient ancient scheme far predating Biblical thinking, reminds us that ‘god’ (never referenced in the atheist Samkhya but implicit in the cascade of will) stands beyond what god should be, the source triad of the Samkhya progression. But that source triad is so vast, so remote, so unknowable, and still in the manifest world, therefore not ‘real’ god, that any reference to ‘it’ “that’ ‘somewho’ is immediately misleading.
I should mention swiftly that i have lost my faith in Samkhya, a fortunate event, and yet even so, as an ancient ancient we know not what from greater (Jain or Shaivite) antiquity it yields a form of metaphysical doodling that is superior to the muddle of Occidental monotheists. Some trace of this kind of idea remains in early Xtianity, and certainly in Islam, but the real sense of the term ‘will’, as Schopenhauer will aggressively remind you, requires a philosophic discipline on the level of transcendental idealism, not a simple subject.
So the Xtian garbage talk about ‘god’ is by comparison a vulgar form of degeneration, a kind of enduring paganism dressed up as monotheism.
God is nowhere to be found, by the rules of Samkhya, yet is by no paradox everywhere in all manifestations of the will (which pace Schopenhauer inclues their distant materialized descendants, the laws of physics).
That is the useful insight of Samkhya, which dispenses with reference to ‘god’, but which shows its essence meaning (maybe) in a better way.
In any case, the Christian trinity, btw, is a cultural diffusion from Samkhya, in a wiseacring by Xtian retards into a form totally at variance with the original, the ‘father, son, spirit’ triad, a bogus new mythology created from the rumors of Samkhya passing into Occidental antiquity.

The real point is that the highest triad is still not ‘god’, and unknowable to us. It could have no connection with weather events on a lonely planet called Earth, parsecs from nowhere.

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