The Sublime & Beautiful vs. Reality

This blog is a record of one man's struggle to search for scientific, philosophical, and religious truth in the face of the limitations imposed on him by economics, psychology, and social conditioning; it is the philosophical outworking of everyday life in contrast to ideals and how it could have been.


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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
--Johannes Kepler

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Sunday, April 06, 2008

ORP: PKD & Psychosis description of sin

In "Martian Time Slip" by Philip K. Dick, the protagonist contemplates and in this passage we have, [:

Now I can see what psychosis is: the utter alienation of perception from the objects of the outside world, especially the objects which matter: the warmhearted people there.

And what takes their place?

A dreadful preoccupation with--the endless ebb and flow of one's own self.

The changes emanating from within which affect only the inside world.

It is a splitting apart of the two worlds, inner and outer, so that neither registers on the other.

Both exist, but each goes its own way.

It is the stopping of time. The end of experience, of anything new. Once the person becomes psychotic, nothing ever happens to him again.

This describes the progress of sin as alienation symptomatic of relations within humanity which ultimately progresses to the most consequential broken relationship--eternal separation from God.

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