Aimfri
Aimfri t1_j1u86m5 wrote
Reply to comment by bumharmony in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | December 26, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
I can't have a civil discussion with you if you keep attacking half-baked strawmen and not reading anything others say. I haven't even started making a point, I just provided some references as a conversation starter with a very succinct summary, and you already are trying to burn everything around you to the ground. There are inevitable generalisations in a Reddit comment of a few hundred characters. Have you considered they could be just that - simplifications for the sake of brevity - and not fallacies left open for you to play such a childish game of refutation?
Aimfri t1_j1tz6ey wrote
Reply to comment by bumharmony in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | December 26, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
Yeah, you definitely read what I wrote.
Aimfri t1_j1s71an wrote
Reply to comment by Danix2400 in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | December 26, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
You might be interested in what some fans call "metaphysical satanism", which is a kind of gnostic pessimism developed in the works of the band Deathspell Omega. Think Georges Bataille throwing a party with Schopenhauer and Jon Notveid. They take Satan as figuring a cosmic principle of destruction, and then infuse that thought into every aspect of theology and politics. In a manner of speaking, evil is their conclusion, yet not in a monolithic, edgy teenager kind of way.
If you're interested, check out the lyrics to their two most recent albums, The Furnaces of Palingenesia and The Long Defeat.
Aimfri t1_j1ugld6 wrote
Reply to comment by bumharmony in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | December 26, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt
The fact that you pinpointed the words "destruction" and "theology", in a second answer to a short comment that featured them prominently, says otherwise. Reads more like you tried an easy jab and don't feel like owning to it if taken seriously.