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| Did you know Thomas Ligotti published a book in 2012 which purports human consciousness is a mistake of nature? | |
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| A mistake of nature? What in bloody hell can that possibly mean? | |
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| It means that nature evolved a consciousness in humans which is malignantly self aware; thus separating human consciousness from nature in a way that makes us dangerous to all life on the planet. | |
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| But isn't it God who made human consciousness from nature, so people would use their self-awarness to raise all of nature above the law of "tooth and claw" through divine love? | |
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| And yet, though we assign a Causeless First Cause as the source of our alleged Divinely Created Consciousness, we ourselves are the source of endless suffering for ourselves and the entire planet. | |
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| It is interesting to consider that all the great religions, if followed precisely, lead eventually to the annihilation of the self and to ideas of a timeless reality beyond self conception. | |
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