Benjamin Cain
Apr 21, 2022

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Hmm. The problem I see is that nature's monstrous impersonality means it has no will or intelligence. It doesn't play favourites or issue verdicts. It does select us for various effects, as with the law of oligarchy. But the analogy between nature and a court martial is implicitly theistic.

The kind of pantheism I'm talking about, at least, is cosmicist, meaning the "tribunal" in question is so alien that it's perfectly humiliating from a human standpoint: our analogies and intuitions are left hanging. It's a question of fathoming the inner workings of a true monster, as in a virus or a zombie whose abominable state of living-death confounds our social mentality.

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Benjamin Cain
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