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   simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 13:20:00 JST simsa03
   The reason the human beast loves is not to produce offsprings – a typical banality by the instrumental reason – but to sooth our dying. Thus Freud wasn't wrong that love and death are connected, but not in the naïve way he thought they are, as eros and thanatos. Love is not the opposite of death, it is that alleviates dying, that helps the human beast, fatefully conscious, to bear the anguish that comes with the latter.
   
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 08:53:37 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa03 I read "fatefully conscious" as "fatally conscious," a mental erratum I think I'll keep. Love is certainly not the opposite of death; if anything, they're twins. Conjoined twins. Each other's shadow, with no mirror between. Love, with its fraternal shadow is stronger than despair, more to the point, love is stronger than hope. "Love wins," as the slogan has it, but keep the quotes around it, to show its great big fangs. #love #death #despair #hope #lovewins

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 03-Dec-2023 10:00:48 JST simsa03

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     • tinydoctor
     Thinking about your reply I become a bit unsure whether "fatally conscious" isn't the better expression of what I meant... And with love, we agreed that it is not an emotion but a decision. Wonder how that now fits in. Hmm...