#antideterminism

[ashke-e]

Ok, I hope we don't lost in translation (English is not my native you know...) but...

The fun of free will is that Crowley and Aziraphale have it. Demons and angels, Biblically, they are just executors of will, a bit like Angel!Crowley who "creates" stars, but in fact he gives energy to what someone else designed (canon). Meanwhile, from the very beginning, from Eden, from the scene on the wall, the angel and the demon have free will. Like humanity. They have doubts, even though they shouldn't have. This is their first time. A choice appears before them, of which they do not realize for a very long time (Crowley noticed it earlier, and Aziraphale realized it only during the first Armageddon).

So yes. They chose love and that is the choice of every day. Very beautiful and important, much deeper than ordinary infatuation (falling in love).

(In general, we have far too few words for love. The Greeks dealt with it better, there was friendly love, erotic love and the complete love that God can give to a person. "Agape". Important word.)

When it comes to Christianity, the issue of God, love and free will is devilishly complicated. It is different for Catholics and different for Orthodox Christians, and all branches of Protestantism. Philosophers have been arguing about this for centuries, what a priest/pastor preaches from the pulpit is a terribly simplified distillate of the most frequently remembered formulas from school (what is for everyone is for nobody...).

Meanwhile, the contemporary thought about God's mercy that I encountered and which was closest to me was about choice, about relationship, about enjoying the world and life so as not to harm others (a very much Aziraphale's way of living). About how God is not a fairy who grants wishes or a sinister old man with a long beard who watches you masturbate. God is… well… ineffable, and it sucks to give him human attributes, but ultimately it's about love for the world.

There is also a study (I haven't read it yet) that makes a severe meta-analysis of Good Omens of religiosity and how the book can enrich the spiritual life of a Christian.

Above all, it seems to me that the main idea of ​​the series is antideterminism, which is what you write. Choice™. It doesn't matter who you were born to be, but how you live your life. Do you love.

I think it would be a loss for the Series if Almighty appeared in "human" form and talked to the heroes, or even to her Son. I think that the freedom we have been given is the greatest gift, and Metatron's insistence on the Parousia is a parallel of ossified religious systems that focus on ignoring the time and place we are currently in.

I am very curious about Jesus in a third season. How much hippie he would be.

okay seriously what's up with the whole "god will save everyone" idea? is that a christian thing??? because i don't understand how 'no one has free will and everyone needs god to have a good life' is positive or interesting or anything except boring and honestly pretty fucked up?

what happened to free will and shaping your own life? what happened to god is playing her own game and not talking to any of us?

good omens is satire, do you really think they will just have "god is almighty" as THE solution to everything? because i sure as fuck don't and i don't think neil will go down that road either.

every single time i read about god being the secret key to all problems ever i can't help but think about 'if you don't believe in god you don't have morals' arguments. we are told over and over again that aziraphale's blind faith in the ineffable plan is useless and doesn't actually solve anything—action and deciding what kind of person you want to be do.

crowley and aziraphale did not fall in love because god made them, they CHOSE each other over and over again, despite everything and against all odds, they CHOSE to love.

love is a choice and they made it every single day, god has nothing to do with it.

obligatory side note before people decide it's fine to harass me over this, no this does not mean you can't write or believe what you want, i am not talking about fanfiction, i am talking about canon-related meta theories and s3 speculation thank you.

[art-now-germany]

Zauberhase kobaltblau Wizardrabbit kobaltblue (1 of 10), Eckhard Besuden

This is my first of ten wizardrabbits. The kobaltblue one. It’s a great pleasure to paint paintings, that would be rejected at the first art-market. The protagonists of the first art market are so professional arrogant, they simply walk past my flowers, rabbits and other theme’s without any reception. Such issues are too banal for the first art market. They dedicate their talents to the present trends, refugees for example, and the artists adapt their targets. Daniela Zyman, chiefcurator of the Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary don’t wants “portraits, or artworks for swimming pools or other rooms”, according to her own information she want’s “art, that thinks great, that is in excess of the abovementioned limits” (Kunstforum, 2017, Bd. 244, 2017, S. 126). I don't agree. With this thought system, the art protagonists fail to see, that they are trapped in their own professionality. They are the real decorators of the new culture of representation, they joined with the big collectors. Let politicians think great. Modesty is the ultimate virtue, we learn in our lives. And “art gets poor, if everyone wants to join the market” Francesca Habsburg said. With my banal - easily overlooked - rabbits, I take back my autonomy. Ich habe große Freude daran, Bilder zu malen, die am 1. Kunstmarkt durchfallen. Die Protagonisten am 1. Kunstmarkt sind so professionell überheblich geworden, dass sie an Blumen, Hasen oder Ähnlichem ohne jede Rezeption einfach vorbeigehen. Solche Motive sind dem 1. Kunstmarkt zu banal. Sie widmen sich lieber angesagten Themen, früher war das Identität, heute sind es z.B. die Flüchtlinge und die Künstler passen sich an. Daniela Zyman, Chefkuratorin der Thyssen Bornemisza, Wien möchte nach eigenen Angaben keine Portraits, sie möchte nicht, dass Schwimmbäder oder ähnliche Räume gestaltet werden, sie möchte, dass „Kunst Grenzen überschreitet, dass sie Größe denkt und Größe auch beherrschen kann“ (Kunstforum, 2017, Bd. 244, 2017, S. 126). Ich empfinde nicht so. Mit dieser Denkweise haben die Großen der Kunstszene übersehen, dass sie längst in ihrer Professionalität gefangen sind, sie bemerken gar nicht, dass sie die eigentlichen Dekorateure der neuen Repräsentationskultur sind, die sie zusammen mit den professionellen Sammlern erschaffen haben. Lasst doch Politiker großes Denken. Bescheidenheit ist die letzte Tugend, die wir im Leben lernen sollten. Kunst verarmt, wenn alle nur in den Markt wollen, sagt Francesca Habsburg doch selbst. Mit meinen banalen - gut übersehbaren - Themen hole ich mir als Künstler, meine Autonomie zurück. Zauberhase kobaltblau (1 von 10) (2017) oil on canvas 47.2 x 51.2 inch www.eckhard-besuden.de

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Zauberhase-kobaltblau-Wizardrabbit-kobaltblue-1-of-10/20879/3354752/view

[sapropel]

I don’t want to sound like a bioessentialist OR a traumatized gay ex-Christian BUT I always get like... echoes of strange anti-deterministic arguments in my head when I think about veganism. I don’t want to say these are arguments vegans make but it always plays in a loop in my head about how being vegan and being a “good Christian” have similar threads of, well, antideterminism. And by that I mean, if you were BORN GAY, that means very little, and you should be working against your nature to behave heterosexually to be a good Christian. And if you are an omnivore (which humans are! we have the teeth and the digestive system for it) because you evolved that way, you should be ignoring part of your nature (eating meat or using animal products which is not unique to humans) in order to a more “moral” vegan... AND AGAIN, I definitely don’t think all vegans talk like that, but it definitely creeps around in my skull. The difference here being of course that you only defy nature or emphasize other parts of your nature when we talk about actual morality, but it’s so nearly impossible to talk about the human animal when separate from the moral self because all we are are the human animals creating the form of the moral self. Any moral suppositions we create for ourselves are inextricable from our status as sapient and corporeal and to some degree bound by our biology. And just because it’s on my mind now mind-body dualism AND heaven-earth dualism both still suck ass and I’m glad Plato is dead. This isn’t to say that ignoring certain impulses as a human is necessarily suppressing our biological self or that doing so is BAD--the biological self cannot be taken out of its context that the human is a social animal and has evolved (btw evolution being an imperfect and completely nonpartisan force) to have its functions filled somewhat by others. There is no self without the self. To say the moral self is the biological self unfettered is to be disconnected from your body and the land you live upon. All we can do is take in information and do things with it.

[thehandydandymagicman]

Way to many things to color #antidetermination

[michellelaralin]

A gene is not an autonomous unit. A gene doesn't set the agenda unconditionally. A gene is necessary, but it is not sufficient for the final outcome.

Baroness Greenfield, The Neuroscience of Creativity

[art-now-germany]

Tilda Lindstam, Eckhard Besuden

From time to time I like to make Abstract Portraits. In Tilda'case if have no idea how she is. So I have to consult my Imagination. Tilda Lindstam (2017) oil on wood 19.7 x 19.7 x 1 Inch 50 x 50 x 2cm

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Tilda-Lindstam/20879/3656785/view