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Since the relationship between hope and despair is dialectical, how do you live as a person who is in the throws of the final stage of despair? I know the night of faith is the only solution here, but the thing about the knight of faith is that it's humanly impossible to be one, and yes I also understand that the impossibility of it is the whole point and makes it possible dialectically speaking etc, but nevertheless I can never really get there. Or rather I can never get there and have the mentality that will allow me to say 'I'm finally here,' instead some kind of transfigured will and understanding is necessary so that one never really gets that 'Aha!' moment.
My problem is, I want that 'Aha!' moment, I want to have my cake and eat it too and that's the only way I can be myself. Pretty ironic then that this desire, by surpassing the knight of faith, ends up at the knight of faith as such. And so I am still just somebody in despair never to be my self.
How do I escape this nightmare? I have faith, I have understanding, I have despair. But how do you progress forward if God requires you to forfeit the very things that are going to save you? How can a person ever be happy again if he is perpetually flopping around in this dialectical klein bottle like a fish without water?
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get out more, you sound close to schizo territory. get a therapist if you have the cash.
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Remember to sage and report non-literature threads.
It's 'throes', by the way.
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>>9621420
>in the throws
Now I'm in despair
Also, you're a shallow thinker. I knew that just looking at your anime pic
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>>9621433
That's clearly not a solution though. That's forgetting the self. At the end of the day those who aren't in despair either forgot themselves via distraction or lost themselves via fantasy.
I'm also aware that there is not really any such thing as nature and by extension no such thing as the self, but I think those who say this are basing it on the fact that it is not actually possible to become oneself, rather than there being no measure of selfhood whatsoever. As a Christian of course the measure of selfhood is God, zizek on the other hand is in his post-Christian hubbub and really just serves as another example of what I am talking about.
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>>9621437
How do I know you don't just think I'm a shallow thinker because you're a shallow thinker?
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>>9621420
>When you play too much Danganronpa
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>>9621420
Well I'm in a similar situation, OP.
Feel like shit but if I give myself up completely to something I lose the me I want to keep.
I'd recommend the infinity christian board tho.
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>>9621420
wait, what does dialectical mean?
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>>9622621
It means the one is expressed through the other.
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>>9622651
Which is an issue why
t. Brainlet
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>>9622682
Because as long as you are not your self you are in despair. And as long as you're human you're not yet a self, rather perpetually in the process of becoming a self.
Since happiness can be from ignorance, the goal in life is not happiness but rather salvation or beatitude. Every person's beatitude lies in being his self, but to be his self he first has to want to be his self, and then he has to be aware that he wants to be his self, and then he has to be aware that he cannot be his self, and then he has to be aware that he is in despair over this, and then he has to pull his self out of that despair like some kind of mad magician.
You reap what you sow, and to reap your own soul you have to sow your own soul. Others sow worldly things and thereby reap worldly things, they'll never get their soul, they'll never be themselves, they'll never be saved, rather manacled to the despair they never knew they were in.
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>>9621940
>ywn be a member of Ultimate Despair
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