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The Symbolic World

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Self Sacrifice Is at the Origin of the Unity of the World

I've been thinking about that a lot in terms of trying to understand how we also categorize things. Even as a secular materialist it's like why did that story become the backbone of Western thinking? I'm just trying to help understand that there's a need for idiosyncrasy to be sacrificed towards the whole and that is how things actually cochlear into one so self sacrifice is at the origin of the unity in things. After Christ after the story of Christ the sacrificial system ends pretty much everywhere because he's revealing a different mode of sacrifice which is actually more primordial to how things work, says David Perry.

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