/lit/ - Literature

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I’d say it’s more like, the union of what seemed like two things was always meant to be one thing. Same goes the other way. Played in sequence it looks like cause and effect, played in rewind it looks like destiny. You have to get rid of the idea of synthesis, Hegel may has seen it as a stepping stone and therefore useful, but there’s an inherent void of manifest destiny, which is really what Hegel is in about, hence the Phoenix reference. It’s not that x is not-x, but that they belong to each other, they define each other. The other is what it is by direct reference to the other. Epicurus says learning how to live means learning how to die. Birth and death seem contradictory but this is meant, a Hegelian would say destined, to be overcome. Because they are reference to one and the same thing to each other

My mother in law takes "conference calls" everynight for her work. I recently found out that what she does is talk to people who think they are possessed by demons. She apparently performs exorcism and is a go-to person in matters of "Spirtual Warfare". She breaks "bonds" that are placed because of "ancestral sin" by demonic spirits. For example, Jezebel is a demonic female spirit who posses many females and she has recently been blaming things going wrong on her and the devil. She used to work for IBM so she is very buisness oriented about it. She will take verses from the bible and sort of concoct semantic spells- she is very formulaic about it. I just wanna say... What the fuck. Has anybody else experienced this? How do/did you deal with it?

I guess this corresponds with literature because of the bible- but also psychology- is she psychotic?- and logic- Can I expect anything from a person who is so blatantly illogical.

She is a great grandma, she took care of me when I was going through really bad times and I do have lots of love for the woman- but... What-the-fuck