This was so incredibly interesting. Thank you. Frankenstein is currently my favorite book for how it illustrates fear's manifestation of evil.

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Love Frankenstein!

I’ve thought that for evil to exist three things must first exist: an ultimate standard by which a person SHOULD live by, an UNDERSTANDING of that standard and the ABILITY to choose otherwise. I think if you take any one of these away, evil is not present. Take the standard away and you’re left with only preference. Take the understanding away and you’re left with ignorance, and take the ability away and you are left with mindless machines. Just found your channel and I’m loving it! I’m finishing up All The Pretty Horses for the first time and will be starting The Crossing soon!

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Great thoughts Daniel! Hope the reading has been going good!

Thanks for the plentiful uploads recently. Been watching the channel for about 6 months now and the videos keep getting better. I really am liking the new DFW videos in addition to your McCarthy uploads. I've always been curious as to what Cormac might have thought about Wallace and his take on fiction, sentamentality, authenticity, and maximalism. I'm not sure if Cormac was a fan, for some reason I feel like he might have dismissed Wallace, but who's to say. Might be a good future video topic if you can dig up anything. Thanks for all the work you do. You definitely keep yourself busy considering I know that you work a day job on top of all this uploading. But I can tell you really enjoy putting this stuff out there. I'm sure its nice to hear apprication every once in a while, and so I want to say thank you. All the best, Kai, from California

@WriteConscious

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! I have a 30 minute video on Wallace and McCarthy on my Cormac McCarthy course!

I really like this part on fear, evil, and love too. Whales and Men is wonderful. Whales and Men spoilers: I was not expecting to come across a reference to John Carpenter’s “The Thing” when I read it.

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Lol!

Thank you for all your work, Ian. Greetings from Poland!

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Greetings from Arizona!

Wow. I agree, we tap into so much when we don't have a strong connection to self...which outside forces try to eradicate

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Yes!

Really stimulating stuff. The Question you ask for “intelligent” Christian’s about evil would require a much longer answer than is practical on you tube comments. However fools rush in: Evil and chaos existed before the creation of the world. Satan (originally a beautiful angel ) used his free will (essential for love to be freely chosen hence possibility of climbing into self created darkness) rebelled against God with a third of the other celestial beings. There was war even in heaven. When God created the heavens and the earth his Spirit brooded of the formless and void chaos. Some theologians speculate that this could have been the spoiled wreckage of previous creations that Satan had spoiled. When creation was finished God saw that it was good. No evil. Although the potential choice of evil was there. Man and woman where created in the garden. They could eat from the tree of life and everything else except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. We know the story. They ate, knew they were naked, felt alienated from God, creation fell into ruin. Murder etc followed. In a sense just like man is the perfect practitioner of war so man is the perfect battleground for evil (Satan). Satan was cursed to feed off the dust of the earth. Who was made from dust? Man. The Christian story is an epic tale Man as a battlefield for good and evil. Satan always seeks to mar and disfigure Gods image in humanity while God strives to raise us up to Himself (Theosis) and bring us to maturity. Ultimately God himself entered the battlefield in the incarnation of Jesus. The Word made flesh. He overcame Satan through the ultimate love of laying down his life to save humanity and rising above sin, death and evil. Sorry if this comes across as a bit shallow and jumbled. Hope it helps a bit.

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5 ай бұрын

Hey, this was a beautiful response and thanks for typing it out. It was very revelatory for me and hit all the most important points. Thank you!

Is evil an addictive thing? I think of the razors edge....

@WriteConscious

6 ай бұрын

Damn Barbara..

Call me a contradictory fool, but I believe in a sort of odd form of ontological evil present in the world, not in a theologian or even common “everyone is awful “ view, but more so… a universal idea of violation if you catch my meaning. Wish I could enter the depths, but alas, my thumbs are small as well as my mind.

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6 ай бұрын

Lol, you have a big brain AJP! Still one of the best videos on this channel is our interview

Psychology is the art of transforming a man into a machine. The Edenic tree is a symbol for the primal unconscious brain of mankind. Waking up also awakens a knowledge of the body, revealed in the shame of nakedness which is the first state of a free man. “I am naked, and I am here”- a body, free, in space and time Consciousness is contained in the brain and body. Aristotle knew this when he said the stomach is the seat of human intellect and the brain merely regulates the temperature of our thoughts. Modern man and the institutions of Science slave for the rational brain: A totalitarian, top-down structure to thought. This explains the totalitarian and slave psychology of the 20th century. The mind can be ignited by chemicals, like an engine, firing off electrical signals like traffic lights that we say are our thoughts. Little do you know that the rules of the road exist only in your mind and it is your hands that articulate the wheel -You are free to steer your mind and body in spite of a world of total rules. You are free when you begin to think with your heart, and act on the heat of gut instinct. Freedom is not a logical position, it is the a priori state of unconscious man, metaphorical man without technology. Free choice is expressed by the body, not the mind. Language is man’s one true, harmonious technology.

@WriteConscious

5 ай бұрын

Yes!