your heart and soul is not a "real nigga." for the "real nigga" in you, by all means, take example from all the heroes of history. but for you heart and soul, the men of myths who are with god are the necessary guides. this is neither dialectic (i personally despise hegel with a passion) nor sophistic (i hate them, too). i'm talking mystic here...we need archetypes that speak back-and-forth with our felt-spirit. i need a model that can speak to me of theosis and lead me to god, not just one that can counsel me to worldly success however glorious. for me, see prev. thread, odysseus (after apollo and faust, as conceptual "spirits") represents a new paradigm to follow on our struggle from animal to god/godhood/theosis. so, i don't think we disagree, but may be focusing on differnet things.
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