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PostSubject: θάνατος θάνατος EmptySun Dec 18, 2022 5:04 am

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Thanatos, Evolution of Psyche, The Death Drive:

The common view of Evolution, is of the body and type of animal.  But only a minority of intelligent minds consider that Evolution must also then, directly or indirectly, correspond to the mind & brain of that animal.  Because if the body is 'evolving', changing and adapting to environments over time, then why would its mind not?  It should, and it must, evolve.  So what then is the connection between the evolution of the body, and the evolution of the mind?  My hypothesis is simply this: Evolution of the Mind is quick, Evolution of the Body is slow.  But the two are interlinked.  So despite the will and ability of the mind/brain to Evolve quicker—it is weighted and beholden to the body.  The quickness of the mind must 'wait' for the body to catch-up.  This 'waiting' occurs sexually; because sex and reproduction is the primary vehicle of Evolution and Adaptation.  Sex is the method by which Evolution manifests.  Females seek-out and 'choose' the highest qualities from men.  However this exposition will not go into the depths of Intelligence and its sexual attractiveness or success rate, nor how it corresponds to K-selection theory.

Instead this post will be about the Evolution of the Mind, over time, and its paradigm shifts up to now.


Dasein, Mankind "wakes-up" with a Consciousness he has inherited, yet knows-not what it is, how he got, where it's from, etc.  This is the "Thrown-ness" of the Germanic concept of Dasein.  Consciousness, of the mind/brain, is a 'surprise' to its organism, to its body.  It seems as though a foreign entity, depending on the intellectual capacity of its Subject.  Most of humanity have a simplistic or common form of intelligence/consciousness.  That's not what I'm talking about, although it can be applied to the common.  Consciousness is the locality of a subject's "Experience", of its "Life".  And the human mass quickly interprets his/her subjective consciousness as the extent of life-itself.  This is perhaps the most common error of humanity, for all time, since the birth of this consciousness.  The human body, m/animal, mistakes his own consciousness for 'Life'.  He places Consciousness before Life, when the opposite is almost certainly true.

Life precedes Consciousness.

It is the Biological and Organic basis, the Body, which platforms and lays foundation for the possibility of a Mind & Consciousness.  When Consciousness concentrates strongly in individuals, this is called "Intelligence", and the lesser intellects of the common, quickly rally around its higher intelligence, Representatives, as followers align themselves with a leader.  Thus Intellect is symbolic of a form of leadership....implying a Morality inherent and linked within intellect.  The intelligent mind quickly finds-out, that 'You' are responsible for Yourself.  Nobody is going to hold your hand for long.  Nature, Existence, is brutal.  It is cruel.  And if Intelligence does not unveil itself and spread its roots quickly, then it will be snuffed out.  Thus Intelligent immediately and absolutely returns to its Mortality.  Consciousness and Intellect are first and foremost directed toward itself, toward its survival.

Fear, Anxiety, Horror is the first trigger, the first emotion, which directs the mind/consciousness/brain/intellect.

Thus Intellect, Consciousness, Mind, Brain, are all wrought out of a "death-drive", a confrontation with its Morality, its Existence, its Dasein, its Awakening.  You did not have a Choice to be born, to be wrought, to be awaken....but that's acceptable, because you have a Choice now.  This is what you have truly awakened to: Choice.  Thus Courage is needed along with Intellect.  Intelligence continues to awaken to more darkness, more possibilities, more horrors, thus the more intelligent a person/organism is, the more it sees potential and possibility for its own Annihilation everywhere.  Life is precious, and Existence is not beholden to any single being/becoming/life.


There are many stages that the human mind/brain has developed and evolved, up to this particular point/place in time and history.  I responded in the Creation/Destruction thread, and believe this is another route to the next paradigm.  Mankind must understand that its "Beginnings and Ends" of life, death, revolve around Consciousness, and not "Life-itself".  This is the difference.  And this is another confrontation to this death-drive and nihilistic tendency of mankind, and of life.  When mankind better understands and wrests control over his own Consciousness, then more of mankind can understand the logical errors, the irrationality of Teleology and mass religions.  These mythologies have evolved too, but many become outdated or, have outlived their usefulness.  Consider Abrahamism, which its focal point of Morality, Culture, and Ethics, revolve around this difference of life and of consciousness.  Thus the Abrahamic God "creates" existence, which is a falsity, but rather "creates" the consciousness of men, and Not Life.

Consider then the matter of Creation.  What is being Created?  What is being Destroyed?  A life maybe destroyed.  A body maybe turned to ash.  But does that then negate its Existence.  Does that 'remove' the body from Nature?  No, it obviously does not.  But it does remove the consciousness of the creature.  And that is the basis of its being a 'Creature', its consciousness.

This is why Abrahamics do not consider animals to have 'Souls', or for dehumanized men, to have Souls, or for man or woman to be soulless or spiritless....a deprivation of their Consciousness, a Denial, a rejection of their "kingdom of Heaven", of their proposed, Nihilistic immortality.  Because it is detached from Nature/Reality/Life.


A brief note about the Death-Drive:

The common m/animal, upon waking up with an evolved Consciousness, the core basis of its Inheritance finds itself confronted with insight about life, death, and the horrors between.  The core of its Consciousness is based on Fear.  Thus it needs, immediately, and constantly, Catharsis and Salve to subdue its emotions (Pathology) and quell such anxiety.  The more intelligent/awakened it becomes, the more anxiety comes with it.  Here we see in Humanity, manimals, that there is a strong distinction between those capable of 'enduring' the *insight* of life & death (Mortality, Thanatos) versus those who do not and cannot—in drug addiction.  Alcohol, Pot, Meth, Heroin, and those who do without substance, flock to Ύπνωση, Mass Religion, Abrahamism, Nihilism and all its derivative forms of Occultism/Fanaticism/Fatalism.  This even manifests as "conspiracy theories" or obsessions about aliens, daimons, various nightmares.

Drugs, or Religion, are the primary 'choices' of self-delusion, catharsis for this anxiety, that fuel the major direction of human history.
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PostSubject: Re: θάνατος θάνατος EmptySun Dec 18, 2022 5:31 am

Every night you sleep, so why wake up?

Why require Consciousness, if not to Survive?

Why be awake, if not to battle all the forces which affront you, and trigger your Fears?

What does one awaken to, if not your Mortality, the limitations of your life and all those around you?
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PostSubject: Re: θάνατος θάνατος EmptySun Dec 18, 2022 5:44 am

(Post)Modernity

The comforts of humanity's success led humans to the top of the predator food-chains, immediately into a false sense of Comfort. Mankind believed that he had successfully distanced himself from Nature, and created a Civilization for himself to dwell in. After 100, then 1000, then 10000 years...he finally let his guard down and declared himself 'Separate' from his roots, from his Survivalism. But the Fear did not subside within his brain-stem. He evolved in his mentality a compulsion, an insight, a reflex, conjuring and summoning Dæmons of his ancient past. These appeared in his dreams, his Nightmares, and followed throughout his life. Why? How? He asked his Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psycho-analysts, but none could help him.

Because his very Psyche is, still, planted firmly within it. He evolved a method to survive, convincing him of his Immortality, yet a laden reminder is baked-within, making him unable to let go of his ancient roots, his Ancestry, his Ancestors whispering dark secrets into his conscious mind, igniting the surface of his brain at the quietest hours of the evening.

His Ancestors speak to him, reminding him of the horrors they did *NOT* overcome, the horrors that took them away to Death.


It is not because his, or your, Ancestors hate you nor despise you. These nightmares exist to warn you, to remind you, that no matter how comfortable you become, no matter how you lower your guard, no matter how happy and gay and innocent humanity may become....these are all temporary comforts in Nature.

Because Nature does not Forget, and her memories are infinite, to the very "beginning" of "time".
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PostSubject: Re: θάνατος θάνατος EmptySun Dec 18, 2022 6:09 am

If a mind overcomes all its Fear;
Then it Creates a new one.
This is the basis for all "Creation",
For all Teleology, Beginning and End.
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PostSubject: Re: θάνατος θάνατος EmptySun Dec 18, 2022 6:28 am

When a person refers to whatever is created and destroyed, s/he is demonstrating the limit of his knowledge, the beginning of his ignorance and mythology.
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PostSubject: Re: θάνατος θάνατος EmptySun Dec 18, 2022 11:16 pm

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You either confront your Dæmons while awake,
Or they will confront you while asleep.
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Chaos - mortality - is the foundation of necessity.
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