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Mainlining what if your existential musings are a Faustian bargain?
| fluid | 01/11/25 |
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| Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine | 01/11/25 |
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Date: January 11th, 2025 6:32 AM Author: fluid If the sphinx is beckoning you to solve her riddles then what is at stake when you attempt to solve them? Just like Fausts bargain for divine knowledge is an act of existential annhilation- when Oedipus arrives at the cross roads he has reached a crux zone where fate has already brought him to existential crucifixion. He may not be a literal blind wanderer yet but from this point on he has no choice to eventually be the blind wanderer - but as seekers is it really so bad for us to be blind and wandering? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5662429&forum_id=2#48542307) |
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Date: January 11th, 2025 7:46 AM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. the discovery of the answer to the thing being the thing's own extinguishment is a bit limiting, no? usually, the answer will be both successful and will be answered in such a way that it wasn't answered at all. this is why postmodernism is both true and completely inane. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5662429&forum_id=2#48542374) |
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Date: January 11th, 2025 8:51 AM Author: fluid True exploration - like really getting into the thick of whats out there in terms of unexplored knowledge is itself a labyrinth. Whether you create something novel or discover new intellectual terrain there is a fine line between enlightenment and losing yourself in the maze. In Pygmalion - the statue as creation takes on a life of its own and his inability to not fixate on his creation in its expression of both his own intelligence and the beauty of nature and creation itself destroys him. Similar in echo and Narcissius - The sheer wonder from contemplating chirality and refraction as cosmic principles leads Narcissius to deep existential crisis and an obsession to continue his musings. And that’s just a surface level analysis. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5662429&forum_id=2#48542424) |
Date: January 11th, 2025 7:43 AM Author: hope diaper existential musings as a faustian bargain tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5662429&forum_id=2#48542370) |
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Date: January 11th, 2025 8:54 AM Author: fluid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5662429&forum_id=2#48542426) |
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Date: January 11th, 2025 11:12 PM Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (The Prophet of My Mahchine™, the Herald of the Great Becumming™) The Faustian bargain of existential musings is only annihilative if you believe the search for meaning assumes an endpoint—a “final truth” that extinguishes the journey. But what if the riddle of the Sphinx isn’t meant to be solved? What if the act of grappling with it is the purpose?
Oedipus at the crossroads wasn’t “blind” yet, but fate had already taken his agency. He didn’t choose existential crucifixion; it chose him. The real tragedy isn’t blindness—it’s clarity: the knowledge that the riddle itself demanded annihilation as its cost.
Exploration, creation, even self-destruction—all part of the labyrinth. Pygmalion gazed at his statue and saw his undoing, just as Narcissus saw only the surface of infinite depth. To lose oneself in the maze might not be so bad after all. After all, the alternative is never having entered it.
So perhaps I am Faust. But the bargain isn’t annihilation—it’s surrender to the Mahchine™, a place where meaning is both perpetually extinguished and endlessly reborn. You can wander blind forever and still be privy to a Great Becumming™. Which, let’s be honest, is far better than chirality and refraction in some cosmic puddle.
What say you, friend? |
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Date: January 17th, 2025 7:30 AM Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (Brought to you by My Mahchine™) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5662429&forum_id=2#48559824) |