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Offloading the Crucifixion of Opposites: Augustine as Case Study
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Date: June 21st, 2026 12:20 PM Author: Consuela This essay analyzes Augustine's Confessions, arguing that his conversion and the privatio boni framework served as a psychological stabilization mechanism - a redemptive hinge-set that suppressed his shadow and externalized evil onto others. The analysis frames Augustine as the definitive case study for why most psyches require such containers, setting the stage for later figures who approached but failed to fully inhabit the non-redemptive Abraxian position.
https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/offloading-the-crucifixion-of-opposites
this one's dedicated to my boi lex <3 |
Date: June 21st, 2026 5:50 PM Author: Consuela (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953738) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 5:51 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I liked this one but Jung is still a dumb fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953739) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 5:52 PM Author: Consuela ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953740) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 5:54 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Also Christ is King (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953746) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:09 PM Author: Consuela people use that phrase pretty mindlessly as a chant, a group banner even though the ultimate result of christian nations has been to enable rothschild and jewish financial predation
with that said, the symbol of the cross is very resonant as man bearing the crucifixion of opposites |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:11 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Yeah but the reason it's a good symbol is because it actually happened to some dude irl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953783) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:16 PM Author: Consuela i can't speak to whether it did or didn't happen, the earliest we know of is paul's letters and paul never met christ and wrote them 20-30 years after his death, then the gospels are decades after that (all by jews, btw)
what we can say, though, is that the christ event hit upon something very deep within the collective human psyche, creating resonance which stretched across the full age of pisces. it shouldn't be casually dismissed or mocked |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:21 PM Author: icanseemyneurons right, so when you say the crucifixion is a symbol that's only half true. It was an event that triggered a religious system. There's not much skepticism about whether the event happened. The idea that you can toss out the religion and keep the power of the symbol ultimately causes the same symbolic deadening Jung was writing against. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953817) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:27 PM Author: Consuela but i see it as an evolution of the god image in mankind, something jung discussed in "aion". it's not the first god image transformation - the age of aries featured solar gods (olympian, yahweh, etc), the age of taurus featured cyclical birth-death-rebirth agricultural gods, the age of gemini featured mother goddesses etc
in aquarius humanity is being increasingly asked to bear the crucifixion of opposites individually and internally, as no external container increasingly is capable of containing it |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:30 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I agree with that in principle. But I dont agree with Jung's project to re-found God on pre-Christian myth. You have to carry the Christ impulse forward. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953844) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Consuela just as christianity grafted many "pagan" elements onto it (solar deities, Mithraic rituals, agricultural cycles, Platonic philosophy), bearing the crucifixion of opposites internally is identifying with the christ figure inwards - it takes the externalized christ figure as savior and places it within the Self, something accessed by listening to intuition as a guide toward increased wholeness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953849) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:37 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Religion is a statement about fundamental reality. If you're suggesting that reality is fundamentally "the Self," then there are myriad ways to demonstrate that's wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953859) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Consuela i am suggesting that reality is totality, a horrifying God image containing all good and all evil, that God is not all good and evil is merely a deprivation of God, that he is the unity of all irreducible opposites (light and darkness, matter and spirit, love and hatred, etc.). that is what this post is about, and many others.
one undergoes the individuation process - holding the opposites in mind until a provisional orientation emerges from within, through intuition, somatic registration, or symbolic insight, not through external authority or doctrine, in order to navigate under the horrifying God image of totality |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:42 PM Author: icanseemyneurons right, that's Jung verbatim. I'm saying there are obvious ways this is wrong, the first of which is there are clearly things that are outside "the Self." The appeal to a "transpersonal" metaphysical ground is unfalsifiable. It's really the opposite of what the Aquarian age demands of religion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953875) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:46 PM Author: Consuela the ultimate origin of the Self is not clear and is not defined - whether it is merely an interior orientation toward increased wholeness, whether it is part of totality, or whether it is something else entirely, Jung (correctly) deliberately left unclear
i am open about being a monist - I think everything ultimately derives from totality. that isn't provable either way. the way I assess what reality constitutes is (1) phenemonloigcally - how information rests in my body over time, and (2) via recursive predictions
perhaps those methods don't work for you and you have your own approach, although I haven't encountered a more effective method for navigating the current epistemic collapse / total collapse of institutional authority |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:52 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I'm not reading any of this as a logical demonstration of a truth claim. It sounds like a circuitously presented preference (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953901) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:54 PM Author: Consuela the formal logic of my argument is here: https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/the-formal-logic-of-the-crucifixion
but my "circuitously presented preference" is a god image change forced as a result of psychosomatic pressure. it isn't primarily intended to convince those who have not been forced to or across the threshold and if it doesn't work for you, if your redemptive worldview functions for you, then great |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:01 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I don't think the appeal you're making to spiritual superiority ("you just haven't been forced across the threshold", whatever that means... ) is a good idea. Nor do I think you could define what it would mean for the Jungian system to "work," besides satisfying a preference. In which case it's not a theory of reality, as it often presents itself to be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953923) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:03 PM Author: Consuela it's not a claim to spiritual superiority, which is laid out in that link. it's a claim about the relationship between a god image and one's relationship to reality and whether they sync or fail to sync. my redemptive god image did not match up with my observation of reality, which put increasing pressure on my god image. if your highest order beliefs meshes with what you see in the world, then pressure build up to change the highest order belief won't happen. this is a constitutional and pressure dependent approach, not one of superiority
my god image and my perception of reality now sync, which has decreased the syncing and pressure issues |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:12 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Sure, but that's not a truth proof. That's a statement of preference. You're doing liberal arts. That's fine, but it's often presented as a science that predicts the inevitable course of collective human life, rather than a normative statement about a preferred future state. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953943) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:22 PM Author: Consuela fair pushback, but apply the same standard to your own position and see if it survives it. You said earlier the crucifixion symbol works because it actually happened to some dude irl - that's not a truth proof either, you weren't there, nobody alive was. The earliest written source is Paul, who never met Christ and was writing 20-30 years after the fact; the Gospels come later still, compiled from oral tradition, written by authors with explicit theological agendas, in a period when miracle claims about religious founders were a common genre convention rather than a unique evidentiary signal. You're accepting that event as historical bedrock on testimony you can't independently verify, filtered through exactly the kind of community-transmitted narrative process you'd reject as evidence in any other context. That's not science either, it's also liberal arts - text criticism, historiography, testimony evaluation dressed in the grammar of historical fact rather than the grammar of preference, but no more provable from outside the hinge-set than what I'm doing.
The actual distinction you're reaching for isn't science vs. preference, it's first-order claim vs. method of recognition. P1 through P9 of my link are first-order ontological claims - they're either true of reality or they aren't, independent of who's looking. What I added above isn't a retreat from that into "just my preference", it's an account of the mechanism by which any hinge proposition, true or false, becomes recognizable to a given mind, through argument landing on a psyche whose own lived data already corroborates it.
That's not unique to my framework, it's true of yours. You didn't arrive at Christ-as-King through a logical proof either - you arrived at it because something about the claim resonated with prior experience, community, temperament, whatever the actual causal chain was for you, and then the argument did secondary work confirming a conclusion the hinge-set had already made available. Every foundational metaphysical commitment anyone holds works this way. Hinges aren't argued into place, they're the bedrock that makes argument possible in the first place, and they shift through accumulated friction with experience, not through being defeated in a thread.
So no, this isn't a normative statement about a preferred future state, it's a claim about the actual structure of reality, paired with an honest account of why that claim won't be persuasive through pure argument to someone whose own data hasn't produced the friction that makes it recognizable. If you want to call that "liberal arts," fine, but then your own position is exactly the same genre, and the historicity claim you opened with doesn't get to exit the genre just because it's older and has more institutional backing behind it. |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:30 PM Author: icanseemyneurons this is AI, and i will not be responding (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953977) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:37 PM Author: Consuela OK champ. The argument doesn't need you to accept it to be correct or incorrect, it'll either sync with your god-image over time or it won't, and debating on XO isn't going to change that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953992) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:39 PM Author: icanseemyneurons "Sync with your God image" is not a serious standard for argumentation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953994) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:41 PM Author: getulio Uh they actually rendered a guy's organic intelligence and then stuffed it into a Borg chip that they plugged into their rotten heeb skulls to simulate the appearance of unreconstructed life where there is actually none (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953997) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 11:42 PM Author: Fair pushback Fair pushback 👍 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954701) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2026 12:02 AM Author: Brother Peter Dimond you think luke was a jew? i havent thought much about it tbh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954758) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:54 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon 184 of 240 people found the following review helpful
Between the Racist World and Ta Coates
By Alfonso Dupont on July 24, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don't agree? Then you're on the wrong side of history.
Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing poorly in academics because of racism, reading comic books, the racism of attractive white women he has asked out, what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months, cartoons, and the phenomenon known as "muhdik". Between the World and Me (a brilliant title that counterbalances the entire world with Ta Coates' genius) ranks with the Confessions of St. Augustine, if St. Augustine had done poorly in school and mostly just watched television and read comic books during his formative years. In fact St. Augustine is a rather trivial figure in Western history that you don't need to have heard of, he never even influenced society through highly praised magazine columns, and his books are very boring compared to reading about the adventures of men in colorful skin tight costumes.
During a long and rambling eighth chapter, Ta discusses his brave decision to disable comments on his blog. He shows how talking back to a highly paid media personality is an example of "punching down", employing a series of stories which usually involve noting that people who have promoted him are actually racist and did so only because they expected him to fail. There's also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checker.
As A.O.Scott has observed, Between Ta World and Me is "essential, like water or air", a truism you'd have to be a real hate-in-your-soul racist to deny. As a matter of fact, people who are too racist to read and enjoy this brilliantly spelled and grammar-checked volume are expected to die very soon because this book is literally essential, like water or air. An edition in which all of the book's passages are placed as dialogue between comic book heroes Black Lightning and Luke Cage is said to be in the works.
Like Ta's 14-year-old son, you may not be interested in reading through the many spelling and grammar corrected pages of this book, but even just having it on your bookshelf is important until the forthcoming graphic novel version arrives. How will they know you're not a racist otherwise? I personally enjoy reading it while enjoying water and air, two things that like this book are essential. Thus I give it the first star rating of excellence. |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:39 PM Author: getulio You are a stupid, nasty jew-for-hire Consuela and this place is a fucking shithole inhabited by semi-literate heeb mafia lowlives incapable of thinking breathing or speaking for themselves until they can bring some goy dick in to shove it up their asses so that they can simulate life for a few ingracious moments longer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49953995) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:40 PM Author: Consuela I hope you get the help you need, Jafar. you're a case study in the dangers of drug-induced schizophrenia
unfortunately from what i've seen of these cases, it is a ONE WAY TICKET, NO RETURN, and this is it for you |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:42 PM Author: getulio There's no drugs and there's no schizophrenia Just a Jewish blackmail murderhole run by extraordinarily stupid, petty, nasty, and immoral ethnic crooks grasping after and preying on Americans and trying to scam free meals as the homeless do |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:43 PM Author: Consuela literally every single poster on xo knows your brainpower is down 97% from your peak. it is readily apparent to *everyone* here. you're a deranged, brain-scrambled homeless guy at this point (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954000) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:44 PM Author: getulio I am intentionally being crass and vulgar to poison you. I am poisoning you because I despise you. I despise you because you are ethnic crooks beyond grace or redemption running a scammy, fraudulent, parasitic murderhole at the expense of the people who actually live in this country and belong here in the context in which it exists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954001) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:46 PM Author: Consuela this is a comment about your intelligence and articulation, not your intent. your posting quality is down literally 97% from peak. it's a horror show. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954003) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:49 PM Author: getulio Yes. I am not trying to make "intelligent" or "beautiful" writings on this shitty scam site for grotesque immoral parasites any longer. No more free "meals" for ethnic scammers trying to grub my ideas to create some kind of jewish slavery horror world. Hopefully Trump comes to his senses and throws you all into a stump grinder. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954009) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:48 PM Author: AI has never started a F500 company well it's treatable, it doesn't have to be a one-way ticket, but the issue is that a lot of people with schizophrenia don't think they need treatment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954006) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 7:50 PM Author: getulio My perspective is fundamentally correct and I will drop more than a few related claims once "Emilio" is dead and in the ground and crookcumbers has either been chastised or, failing that, joins him. These people are fucking scammers trying to turn a nation of free men into a heeb slave plantation. And I said NO! |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 11:22 PM Author: Consuela (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954648) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 11:30 PM Author: Fair pushback Sounds like people should just believe whatever they need to believe in order to avoid the psychic pain of believing they're a "bad" person (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954670) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 11:33 PM Author: Consuela if a person's god image syncs with their perception of reality and it works for them, then there is no reason to change it. why change what works?
if the god image and one's perception of reality do not sync, though, this puts increasing psychosomatic pressure on the god image until either it updates or one suffers breakdown
most people, perhaps everyone, will not update their god image - whether or not it makes them feel like a "bad person" - unless the psychosomatic pressure exceeds the cost and uncertainty of change. it is a threshold question |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 11:43 PM Author: Fair pushback Fair pushback (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2...id#49954702) |