tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1262380892882487047..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: You Had One Job, AssoulGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60133076951251992352017-10-04T13:33:56.513-07:002017-10-04T13:33:56.513-07:00We could say that Stephen Paddock did it because h...<i>We could say that Stephen Paddock did it because he wanted to kill a lot of people. Obviously.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/several-things-about-the-las-vegas-shooting-which-dont-add-up/" rel="nofollow">Amygdala guy</a> has an interesting take on this kind of evil as a function of malignant narcissism:<br /><br />"A character like this is doing this type of shooting for a specific reason. He wants to get back at somebody. Narcissists are notorious grievance accumulators. The grievances may be ridiculous – like he wasn’t asked for his opinions on subjects, and thus felt slighted, or some stupid thing. But he has a grievance. The shooting is to let everyone know they didn’t win – he did. That is also why they self terminate. a Police officer killing them is seen in their mind as a loss. Self-terminating is the final act of taking control and winning in the narcissist mind. They won, and you can’t do anything to them."<br /><br />Not, of course, that this really answers the question of why. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41203350166539192702017-10-04T13:29:40.085-07:002017-10-04T13:29:40.085-07:00That is, in order to be, "life requires death...That is, in order to be, "life requires death, and in a way both are co-extensive."<br /><br />Well, I suppose that life-death a really a sine wave.<br /><br />That's pretty co-extensive. <br /><br />However, life *is* for the living, not the undead. JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23221312009125680532017-10-04T12:52:22.978-07:002017-10-04T12:52:22.978-07:00Maybe Petey is right that existence is the greates...Maybe Petey is right that existence is the greatest sin, in that one is automatically distanced from God. I'll have to ask him next time he drops in.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68797997135009338802017-10-04T11:30:25.533-07:002017-10-04T11:30:25.533-07:00"I wonder. Mental illness and evil are privat..."I wonder. Mental illness and evil are privations -- ultimately the substance of nothing, so to speak. I was thinking about this yesterday, in the context of Freud's widely rejected positing of a "death instinct." Just because his theory is wrong, that doesn't mean the phenomena don't exist. There is indeed something in man that loves darkness, death, and destruction. What is it?"<br /><br />Well, to start with, it's kind of undertow. That at against which you strive. A resistance, perhaps. You have to strive against something.<br /><br />If God is the non-local attractor, then God reflected through a dark mirror (mirror symmetry of some kind) would be a different kind of non-local attractor. The not-God of darkness, death, and destruction. That which those who love darkness, death and destruction desire to become through the spiritual descent including meditations on violence and slaughter. Its certainly reflected in the recent slaughter. Perhaps less than nothing?<br /><br />Whatever it is, it's definitely there. It's malignant and it's causing all kinds of wrong.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.com