Very rough, very early outline of upcoming issues in the Argument from Beauty series (personal notes made via a mindmap)

• Rational analysis allows for indifferent creators, but one way is driven by fear, and the other by courage to believe in the beautiful

• No beauty without suffering
  • Micro suffering, like working in an office
    • Armchair philosophy or theology vs trench philosophy or theology
  • No empathy without suffering
• What would Jung say about The Beautiful
  • The whole field of aesthetics
  • What did Plato say about the beautiful
    • Platonic aesthetics
• Choosing what you believe
  • The ubermensch
  • Scripture as a divine evolutionary rorschach test
    • A lot of scripture and life to support this
  • Haireo heresy
• The beautiful is also the good, the truth, the life, and Love itself
  • God is: the logos, Agape, a burning fire, what else? Also the many Jewish names for god
    • Fascinating that Bible doesn’t say Jesus is God. Back to the element of personal choice and haireo heresy
    • Burning fire as metaphor or as panentheistic. Cf gnostic gospels with Jesus saying panentheistic things about himself. Also eat my flesh and drink my blood
    • Does the Greek also say love is God?
  • Eternal life is a quality of life that transcends what we think of as life
  • Aletheia is unforgettable because it is beautiful
• The fundamental problem of philosophy
  • The need for other sources of knowledge (emotion/intuition/BEAUTY)
  • In light of relativism, but distinguished from relativism
• Mentions of beauty in scripture
• The opposite of beautiful
  • Beauty wealth success
  • Our cultural obsession with beauty
  • So what is truly unbeautiful?
    • Indifference
      • Beauty is a passion
        • People seek meaning, experience of being alive, or is it all beauty we’re after?
        • Empiricism and rationalism take passion out of knowledge
        • Nihilism.. Removing the beauty from the cosmos
        • Christians take passion out of love
  • Humble
  • Jesus was not physically beautiful
  • Buddha is a shit stick
• The philology of beauty
• Whatever is lovely, think on these things
  • Corinthians love verse as meditation on the beautiful
  • How little we meditate on beauty that isn’t skin deep
• Love as the glue of the universe
  • The unforgivable sin
    • Unforgiveness as unforgivable
      • On the surface, blasphemy seems less grave Than torturing someone to death, for example
      • Forgiveness comes from seeing the good
        • Love doesn’t take evil into account
  • Beauty as the connecting or ordering principle in cosmos
    • Logos as connecting ordering principle
      • When meaning becomes desire in the Buddhist sense
        • Our purpose driven life obsession doesn’t seem biblical
      • Meaning, beauty, suffering as ultimate subjectives
        • Subjective meaning as haireo
          • As many paths to God as there are subjective beings
      • Logos as story or meaning
    • Most beautiful arrangement per heraclitus
• Idolatry
  • A life purpose
  • Everything Pursuit but perfect love/beauty
    • The beauty in the love of Mary magdelines TWO annointings
      • Jesus wagered his life on his conviction that love conquers death
    • Only those conquer death
    • Only those are separate from egoic construed self
  • Romantic love
  • Beauty you can see eidol
• Beauty, like love, conquers the good/evil duality
  • God created, then “saw” that it was good
    • Goodness, beauty, completion, perfection, bride,
      • The finished work
        • The ache of the unfinished
          • Longing
          • Gestation
          • Labor pains
• Eye of the beholder and:
  • beauty and suffering as most objective things there are
• Biblical theology can go either way, but only one way is beautiful
• Love is the only thing that makes things beautiful
  • If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to me
  • Sans love, all is grotesque
  • The innocence and purity seen in pets/animals in contrast to humans (think sneebles and phoebe), combined with realization that it is because of love; otherwise, they are grotesque
• Faith, the substance of things not seen. The evidence of things hoped for

• God is the only thing there is… Thus, the restoration of all back into god
  • The passion of a God who:
    • Weeps because the people were like sheep without a Shephard
      • Pursues beings across eons to rescue them from samsara… Their eons of suffering… Of being alone
        • Death being mercy to beings who have no rest, who ruin their souls, who need a new start.. A new morning/day
          • Like sleep is mercy from the day’s weariness
        • Song of Solomon
      • Expedient/skillfull means. Upaya
      • Hangs naked on a cross asking only for the forgiveness of those who know not what they do (also, beautiful) … Perish lack of knowledge
      • The people perish for lack of knowledge
• Upside Down
  • Spiritual economics of scarcity
    • Scarcity is manmade
      • Economics of scarcity is perpetuated by the economists of rational self interest
        • Self interest is death
      • Man is not rational
        • The.commodification of reason
        • The repression of depth psychology (yes, irony)
        • The pathologizing of emotion
        • Rational self interest and scarcity are like holding only to classical physics when we’re in the cusp of post quantum physics
      • Man is to blame for spiritual scarcity
      • Nature has scarcity, but man is made to conquer it
  • Twitter follow ratio (Twitter rewards people for having “followers” whom they do not follow back. In other words, it rewards the having of “followers”, rather than “friends” or “connections”)
• Finished Work
• ETTMT (Pragmatic, but:

By their fruit you will know them) text the spirits.. You know not of what spirit you are