Status Updates From Das Heilige

Até esse momento tava suave, mas agora foi o boi com a corda. Seu Otto me perdeu legal nessa parada do excelso e correspondências de sentimento de sagrado, etc. Calma lá meu bom

Beyond mere fear, the Numinous establishes an absolute Category of Value that reveals the human as fundamentally profane. This is not a "moral guilt" over specific actions, but a taint in the very being of ourselves when we encounter the "Supreme Value" of the Holy. Thus atonement is necessary to cover the numen from the impurity within us

We process an ineffable experience using a rational mind through the association of feelings and ideas. Otto uses the example of sexual desire or music and what they trigger in the mind. The experience of those as “more” than ordinary life resemble what we may experience of the Numinous

This chapter explained the other side of the dual nature of the holy. Aside from the numinous being something we are terrified of, we are also equally allured by it.

It is “something more” than what any one word could capture. Its more than grace, more than love, more than bliss. It comforts us and eases our hearts in incomprehensible ways. We are stuptefid by it and that is what draws us to it

Hmm maybe ill start processing this with a sort of framework. Like in philo before haha. Just finished the chapters that we discussed back then so i wont do that for these. But maybe in the next? Maybe…