>>8154Picrel
Not gonna lie honestly I rather don't like the very essence of this apophatic theology
>>8156Well, John 15 equates us, His people to a vine tree, and in real life, certain branches, which are even fruitful, get cut off as well as the withered ones, just to let more nutrients for oher branches, so they could harden, become wooden, and so their own shoots would appear on them. That's like when Hitler "sacrificed" his personal life, being left childless, so the rest of Germans could have children, more children than the could have had without Hitler (due to all the socio-economic and cultural stresses in the Weimar period). Truly though He sacrificed Himsefl for us. But for the whole tree, it's also truly upright to do the same, that's to say doing everything to help this "vine tree" in its struggle for existence and prosperity. This is what is to carry His cross, if you asked me, it is being altruistic.
What regarding me, I didn't expect this to evolve into a theological dispute, but ok, I have a big sin behind me, not mine, but that of my ancestors. I don't feel like I'm equal to thise "superior", I've felt… something, for a… person, who was of a higher middle class household, ideal, blameless and pure, while I was of a degradated, rather poor at some point, family, and so I believed we were incompatible, as if I was unworthy of. Of her. She reminds me of Monika, or Monika reminds of her, I tend to hate Yuri and despise/neglect Sayori for how I may appear to be similar to them. They aren't something that would be worth of protecting, like, already broken and harmed, and it's more appealing to my inner sense of sentimentality to care so that those who never experienced the pain would never experience it. There's something bright about those people who are generationally good, successful, talented, kind and outgoing, and about how they share this spark of light within them with everyone around. Yes they are like a lamp in darkness. I do admire them, and I don't know if it's really securing them if I am such a lesser, ignominious, base being. It looks to me like my rationally (I mean consciously) derived intentions are in conflict with my inward natural character. Not in the sense of the Protestant Guilt or their conception of the viceful, imperfect human nature or the Original Sin but something even lower, worse, and inferior. Something far more defective, something sub-human. Yes in the literal sense of it.