ok, I admittedly did not read through this entire thread, so rate me :late: or :autism: if you must, and I know this has been touched on, but Chris's references to "during the [implied upcoming] Dimensional merge" have a specific and ominous eschatological sort of feeling-tone to anyone else? It's kind of worrisome TBH, and escalating. like, really, ought we be worried about him donning a track suit and some nondescript Nike sneakers and trying to hitch a ride? because I legit feel like it's something that could happen if he's really put into a corner ("when Barb" or even if sufficiently trolled)
I mean, I think some of this is RP'ing, but if he gets to some serious LARPing, like, trying to transdimentionautistically metastasize himself into Neptuna-Sonichia, then I think we'd have hit a milestone -- although this was someone who over a decade ago spoke to Sonichu during a psychiatric evaluation and Literally Really and For True believes in the power to curse others; to be fair, this is not that far out of the realm of normality, cf. some of the more far-out brands of Charismatic/Pentecostal theology, which, given Chris's general background socioeconomic milieu, he's likely been in contact with. the whole thing actually fucking reeks of a subtext of pente/charismatic/dispo millenarian bullshit when you think about it. hard to tell if he's pre- or post-mil, though tbh.
the latter is not the sort of thing that I'd necessarily think about, but he's explicitly given us indications that he is developing a syncretic autistic theology incorporating ponies, whatever the hell Neptunia is (I still don't understand and don't really want to), his own creations bastardized from Sonic, residual elements of generic denominational Protestantism that informed his upbringing, random other shit (some really, really obscure like the non-canon 'Ghostbusters' cartoon or wherever the hell Jamsta came from, now the MARVEL universes, showing he can pull stuff out of the air and easily add it to his synthesis), plus this whole element of transsexuality/tumblrista LGBTQ identity politics which, and people ignore this, makes a fundamentally ontological proposition that is counter to objective reality, which, being reinforced by that community, could mutually reinforce the disjunction with any outside correlatives that we're already seeing.
so I think we kind of have to see what he's created for himself now as a kind of cult, with him both as leader and as deceived disciple ("Bo and Peep," to continue with my somewhat distressing analogy before, certainly seem to have mutually reinforced one another, pathologically; neither of them was a Jim Jones, and Heaven's Gate was nothing like the People's Temple despite superficially similar modes of exit), a cult with a membership of one, fundamentally gnostic in nature, like many gnostic/docetic cults based on a neo-Platonic worldview it despises reality as such, and posits another reality that is spiritually superior to our own, attainable to those with what Paul calls "ψευδωνύμουγνώσεως" (I Timothy 6:20, i.e. "gnosis, knowledge, acquaintance[≊ a lit. translation of the Gk. term, signifying 'a superior and intimate acquaintance with the particular theological system being described], spiritual 'science' [as IIRC some newer translations have it], etc. ψευδωνύμου = "falsely so called," his point, it's a bunch of bullshit that distracts from genuine spirituality by autistic speculation about hierarchies of angels and divine "emanations" that have no basis in reason, revealed Truth, or Tradition -- this applies to Chris's gnosticism totally: the Sonichus and the ponies and the CPU goddesses, in rough increasing order, are the ascending spiritual entities in his autistic-gnostic mind) ...
gnosticism, anyhow, it's a really ancient cult/heresy both in & out of the Christian church, it was thought up by the G[r]eek neo-Platonists in embryonic form and had fuckhueg influence in the Early Church, a lot of the apostolic and subapostolic literature is concerned with fighting against it, it still manifests itself in various cults today, cf. Scientology, Mormonism, Heaven's Gate as mentioned, I could go on... it forms the basis for a lot of New Age shit, Qaballah, and so on ...
so I think whatever's going on with Chris we do have to understand in theological terms if we are going to come to any understanding of what's going on inside his head. And what's worrying me is his personal eschatology. I don't think I'm paranoid or that it's outrageous to say that it sounds like he's ramping it up in a serious way. given that what he's posting here is essentially theological and eschatological I think we need to take that kind of hermeneutic in analyzing it and not just see it as autistic babbeling...since the curse-me-ya-me-ha's and so on nearly a decade ago, I really believe the man's self-developed cult of one is longstanding, more than we know, and internally self-consistent. As someone who's been following Chris for a long time, and someone who happens to have studied both of these topics in a serious way (not to pull that I have a fucking internet phd card but yes I do know what i'm talking about when I talk about either psychiatry or religion) but I think the language of psychopathology is insufficient to discuss or explain what is going on and we need to think of it in these kinds of terms, especially now.
I am not sure if it is alarmist to say that it is outright worrying, but it is certainly troubling. I will probably catch some flack for this but I think it is something worth examining in some detail later; perhaps a thread is warranted; perhaps I am a gargantuan faggot for posting this in the first place, time will tell.
I worry for Chris though. We cannot deny things are escalating.
