{"id":1494,"date":"2015-01-07T01:07:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:00:03","slug":"beneath-the-veil-of-strange-verses-by-jeremiah-l-alberg-2013-3e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Veil of Strange Verses by Jeremiah L. Alberg 2013 3E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secularists do not deny the triune God for nothing.\u00a0 Or do they?<\/p>\n<p>Can Nothing be worshipped (44-46)?<\/p>\n<p>Does not \u201cthe positive form of Nothing\u201d act as both necessity (the point of transcendence, the \u201cobject that brings everyone into relation through mimesis<sup>constrained<\/sup>\u201d, so that everyone imagines that \u201cthey want to sacrifice themselves for Nothing\u201d, because they sense that everyone else holds the same desire) and impossibility (after all, their sacrifice will be for Nothing)?<\/p>\n<p>That is to say: Does the positive form of Nothing act as both transcendence and inevitability?<\/p>\n<p>Any reasonable expert will retort:<\/p>\n<p>Why sacrifice if your sacrifice will be redeemed by Nothing?<\/p>\n<p>The question even applies to manners (47):<\/p>\n<p>Why have good manners when good manners are redeemed by Nothing?<\/p>\n<p>The answer has to be:<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is not nothing.\u00a0 Or rather, \u201cthe positive form of Nothing\u201d is \u201cEverything\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By \u201ceverything\u201d, I point to \u201csome thing capable of stimulating mimesis<sup>constrained<\/sup>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe object that brings us all into relation\u201d is both transcendent and inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secularists do not deny the triune God for nothing.\u00a0 Or do they? 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