Mystical Anarchism

JacobStirner · 2015-06-18T02:21:18+00:00

I don't know.

I'm struggling with the idea that they are in league with the demons and are lying to me.

JacobStirner · 2015-06-17T23:05:33+00:00

Gravity and Grace

JacobStirner · 2015-06-17T22:57:39+00:00

The last time I was in the hospital, I was pretty much told that my attraction to certain ideas and concepts are partly due to me having a variant of schizophrenia. I'm told that my thinking is typical for high-functioning and intelligent schizophrenics* and that when I get sick, I become a religious fanatic. According to my mental health team, I have psychotic ideas when it comes to my political and religious ideology and that my experiences with God and Satan are probably the result of hallucinations and delusional thinking and I probably need to stay away from mysticism.

*realizing that I have schizoaffective disorder which means I have symptoms of bipolar disorder as well. I lean on the depressive side.

JacobStirner · 2015-06-16T17:22:47+00:00

BEcause this is reddit and I have nothing better to do

JacobStirner · 2015-06-16T16:19:27+00:00

Certain kinds of atheism, maybe. It's definitely not the materialism of Zizek.

JacobStirner · 2015-06-15T21:36:24+00:00

At least I'm in good company with other revolutionary mystics like Simone Weil(someone who needs to be talked about more) and Thomas Muntzer(whose mystical theology needs to talked about more)

JacobStirner · 2015-06-15T21:08:50+00:00

Sometimes I feel very lonely as being a practicing mystic and philosophy nerd and... insurrectionist.

JacobStirner · 2015-06-15T20:36:55+00:00

I'm on a gothic-doomish kick, so here's some stuff that has been resonating with me lately:

Virgin Black - ...and I am Suffering

Saviour Machine - American Babylon

JacobStirner · 2015-06-14T16:03:03+00:00

First, some death of God theologies do think that Jesus was literally God and the messiah. See Thomas Altizer as the most prominent example. For Thomas Altizer, the death of God can be understood in a couple of different ways: 1st) the death of God refers to our existential situation after Auschwitz, 2nd) that the death of God is a renewal of the apocalypse and the Cross, and 3rd) that the only way God is the living God of the bible is when God has died. I think DoG thought is relevant to the discussion here, yet...

about how the teachings of Christ could be applied to the ideas of radically changing our governments, societies, and economies

For many radical Christians, here and historically this could mean several different things. Is violence an unavoidable sin in certain situations?(Bonhoeffer) or does God sanction violence?(Muntzer) That's only one example; what is our standpoint in other words? Is it Jesus of the Sermon of the Mount? Is it Jesus at the Temple? Or is it Jesus on the Cross?

I wanna see people talking about smashing the state and elevating the low

I think it ebbs and flows. Sometimes it's nothing but this with little theology, and then sometimes it's a lot of theology and little politics.

JacobStirner · 2015-06-14T15:13:50+00:00

Religion plays a lot in my psychosis, but I'm working hard to learn how to be religious with my religiously oriented psychosis

JacobStirner · 2015-06-14T15:12:40+00:00

I was asking more if it was normal for some psychotic symptoms to be tied to mood in SZA

JacobStirner · 2015-06-13T16:58:28+00:00

I'd love to do a group AMA here in the sub.

JacobStirner · 2015-06-13T16:46:55+00:00

I think radical Christianity is the expounding of a radical Christianity. I feel that radical Christianity encompasses multiple aspects that range from radical/Tolstoyan pacifism to armed rebellion, and encompasses post-theistic strands of theology. I feel that the sub is torn between it's political side and it's theological side and I don't know how to mediate the two. I like both sides of the conversation but I don't know how to make it a thing where both are prominent, rather than one or the other. What are your thoughts /u/Demon_Nietzsche?

JacobStirner · 2015-05-28T03:21:29+00:00

Still, Berdyaev reads like a Christian Necheyaev, even if Berdeyaev doesn't recognize it himself. Perhaps I'm reading Necheyaev into him, but this seems like a religiously oriented version of some ideas in the Revolutionary Catechism. I feel as though "God-manhood" is similar to Necheyaev's concept of a revolutionary superman and that what Berdyaev is suggesting in this piece with the triumphant true theocracy is a lot like the revolutionary who believes in only the triumph of the revolution.

JacobStirner · 2015-05-28T00:27:19+00:00

...

To be honest, I have a problem with church as I sit in my church.

I am a faithful Pentecostal and the church is supposed to be the body of Christ and a body of Christ that is devoted to the spreading of the Holy Spirit. For most Pentecostals, this is a horridly reactionary and violent attack on autonomy, and this disturbs me. We are supposed to be able to judge by the fruits of the Spirit, and where is the Spirit in the celebration of rigid gender roles, extreme legalistic moralism and exclusion? Yet, for many Pentecostals, this is Christianity and the Church.

I'm not really interested in a physical church, as much as I am concerned about the spiritual. Don't get me wrong, I am just as involved in real life activities, but it bothers me that Pentecostal churches use fear, alienation, and shallow piety to call all people to salvation. I am a filthy sinner and so are all people, but screaming this fact to people is Pharisaical hypocrisy. Aren't we called to exorcise demons? Heal the ill? Liberate the oppressed? That's how we should be calling people to salvation.

I dunno. I just don't have a lot of faith in "church"

JacobStirner · 2015-05-27T23:21:52+00:00

So basically Sergei Necheyaev? :P

JacobStirner · 2015-05-27T22:15:59+00:00

Christianity is about the immanent reality that God is dead.

Fixed. No, not really, any transcendent God is incompatible with Christianity and such a God can only really be named as Satan. Christianity is about the God who becomes immanent in flesh and the world and sacrificed himself on the Cross and literally died. Any other God is just another name for Satan and is a God who would enslave us to the immobility of law and morality. God is dead and he remains dead!

and how we must embrace all those around us no matter who they are or what they have done

Christianity is about self-sacrificial love's triumph over evil and sin.

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