#absolute knowing

[that-whichisnot]

You don’t know

You might understand, but you don’t know.

Understand that 
understanding is relative, while knowing is absolute.

You cannot know until you know ALL there is to know.

At this moment, you have no way of knowing if this is possible.
 So what you are left with is what you’ve observed so far, and what you have NOT observed, but choose to believe anyway.

Understanding is the correlation between your beliefs and observations, which leads you to a perception and a judgement. Understanding is NOT absolute knowing, 
only relative knowing based on your limited perceptions.

Absolute knowing 
supersedes understanding.

This is truer than true.

Absolute knowing supersedes judgement.

Nothing is wrong. Nothing is right. All perceptions are equal, without the conflict that only arises through understanding.

Absolute knowing supersedes perception.

Absolute knowing just is.

We are Space Monkey, and we understand that you do not know what we are talking about.

But we cannot be certain.

Cape Odd, 4/30

[rebecca-comay]

To close the book is to cancel the delay symptomatic of an unresolved gap between knowledge and its object. ..To “sublate” it, to release it to its higher truth, ..from a mere “container”..to the very substance or “filling” of Spirit’s project. ..What is absorbed is already determined as Spirit’s own essence, and thus every bite effectively a self-bite.. But since such suction has effaced the very opposition between inside and outside, what appears from one angle as ingestion or contraction must be viewed with equal cogency as an excretion or expansion whereby spirit “releases” itself towards a zone of untrammelled sensuous immediacy – time and space as “free contingent happening” – which it posits as a determinate negativity to be recuperated as its own other. The “continuing existence” of the outside thus reinstates the subject in its heroic sublimity – a self-possession forged in the act of self-dispossession. Thus the circle closes just where it breaks open: absolute knowing asserts its “supreme freedom and assurance” in its controlled regression to a natural prehistory which it embraces in a kind of..feigned amnesia regulated by the..“as if.” “Spirit has to start afresh as if for it all that preceded were lost and as if it had learned nothing” from past experience. ..“But recollection..of that experience, has preserved it and is the inner being and in fact the higher form of the substance. …” The truth of absolute knowing as recollection is thus the fiction of..an absolute forgetting.

REBECCA COMAY citing HEGEL

[rebecca-comay]

“Spirit has to start afresh as if for it all that preceded were lost and as if it had learned nothing” from past experience (Ibid. §808). Recollection ..of that experience, has preserved it and is the inner being and in fact the higher form of the substance. …” The truth of absolute knowing as recollection is thus ..fiction

REBECCA COMAY citing HEGEL

[rebecca-comay]

the overcoming of the fatal delay that had produced consciousness’s fundamental unconsciousness regarding the significance of its own experiences (..time is the retarding factor that prevents everything being given all at once). ..In a final flashback, absolute knowing suddenly rewinds and fast forwards, Krapplike, through the highlights of its own history

[rebecca-comay]

Absolute Knowing digests what it encounters and secretes what it has assimilated as its own excrescence (Hegel 1970: §808). The subject simultaneously reaps and lays waste to the harvest of its history in a kind of philosophical potlatch or Saturnalia – a moment of kenotic expenditure in which the speculative reversal from loss to gain is in turn reversed. “To know one’s limit is to know how to sacrifice oneself” (Ibid. §807).

REBECCACOMAY

[luxfoks]

Absolute spirit... reveals itself as the concrete and final supreme truth of all being, and which at the end of the development is known as freely externalizing itself, abandoning itself to the shape of an immediate being - opening or unfolding itself into the creation of a world which contains all that fell into the development which preceded that result and which through this reversal of its position relatively to its beginning is transformed into something dependent on the result as principle.

Hegel, The Science of Logic

[tornhalves]

Hegel through a glass darkly

"I aim to show how God, manifest in absolute Spirit, should not be understood as a transcendental figure located in a beyond, but as a concrete entity found within the acts of forgiveness and reconciliation."

Becoming Spirit: Morality in Hegel's Phenomenology and Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly by Magdalena Wisniowska