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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2742 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 12, 2025

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"The entity is the same, but its proficiencies and goals and attitude are all completely different. It feels less like a Venus and more like a Hecate."

"Can you and will you keep the faith after you feel certain the faith has failed you? In other words, does this sensation go beyond your ego, when 'you' (in quotes) feel certain it's been extinguished? Does your resolve go far enough outside your ego that you will continue when 'you' feel totally certain it's over? And when I say you feel totally certain it's over, I mean you wake up in the morning and you feel on every level like it's done. Including on that outer level. That's the fucked part of it. You will feel abandoned. You will feel certain you're defeated on every level. Does that sensation or that trust in this deity go far enough that you will remain at your post after you feel totally, pragmatically and mystically, certain, that there is no more post? Or another way to think of it, are your instincts stronger than your instincts? Will you continue to believe after you've stopped believing?"

Weird how worlds collide.

Towards the end of Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton, there's an extended section on the realities of monastics who have spent a long time in the practice - and they feel quite similar to this.

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