Would someone please explain the concept of "reach[ing] Heaven[/ascension/apotheosis] through violence"?And thank you!
>>42410499If you become violent enough god says "holy shit that's enough out of you" and puts you in a time out.But it's not heaven you go to.
violence is based but now I’m on a list for saying that. unfortunately it’s impossible to get away with nowadays
>>42410499are we talking eastern or western here?
>>42410499basically if you violently blow yourself up in a crowd of women and children god will give you 72 virgins you can rape for all eternity
>>42410499What is the Tower?The Tower is an ideal, which, in our world of myth and magic, means that it is so real that it becomes dangerous. It is the existence of the True Self within the Universal Self, and is embodied by the fourth constellation, and is guarded by the Thief, the third. The Thief is another metaphorical absolute; in this case, he represents the "taking of the Tower" or, and sometimes more importantly, the "taking" of the Tower's secret.What is the Tower's secret?How to permanently exist beyond duplexity, antithesis, or trouble. This is not an easy concept, I know. Imagine being able to feel with all of your senses the relentless alien terror that is God and your place in it, which is everywhere and therefore nowhere, and realizing that it means the total dissolution of your individuality into boundless being. Imagine that and then still being able to say "I". The "I" is the Tower.What created the Tower?The Wheel created it. The Wheel is the structure of this universe, and it is easiest to see it that way: rim, spokes, hub, and all the spaces within and without. I shall take each in turn.
>>42410499You violate reality so abruptly that it puts you in a state above the gods
>>42410499You fall so deep into Hell that you end up on the other side and pop up in Heaven. Your negative Karma overflows and turns into positive Karma. It isn't about devolving into an animal but totally devoting yourself to action to the point you give up selfishness. You can fight and kill without getting drunk on bloodlust. It's not unlike how a farmer can butcher his cattle without being sadistic or spiraling into grief. Think of why Akuma, Archer, and plenty of other characters in Japanese pop fiction have dark skin and are associated with the colors white, red, and black. They are men who have been through Hell and after being licked by the flames have transformed into something "pure".It's rather noteworthy that Street Fighter never frames Akuma's path of violence as something "evil" or impossible but merely dangerous. He genuinely wants to achieve Nirvana through dueling powerful fighters to the death...but he asks for permission (unless they're evil and have no qualms with dueling others to begin with...Capcom kinda forgot about him killing a whole submarine of officers but ehhh), won't do it if the other person lacks conviction, and understands the sheer weight of what he's doing (the animation has Ryu encounter his massive field of wooden figures, a reference towards a Buddhist story about a murderer being forced to carve figures of every life he's taken before he's executed).There's also the whole gut-brain axis thing, the relationship between the Id and the Superego.
