True Detective – “Scented Meat”

Dante's Inferno

True Detective is a collection of four seasons of police drama, and each season is a new drama and each season comes to a conclusion. The first season aired in 2014, starring Matthew McConaughey (detective Rust Cohle) and Woody Harrelson (detective Marty Hart). It was written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. In episode 8 (the final episode) of the first season, detective Rust Cohle uses the phrase “sentient meat” which was his nihilistic term describing human beings, and detective Marty Hart replies, “what is scented meat?” In the end scene Cohle has an inner epiphany experience and when he describes it to Hart, both understand sentience probably for the first time. This is a masterpiece with brilliant writing, acting and directing.

Enlightenment is the sentient FEELING knowledge certainty contemplation experience I AM THAT! = everything-everywhere-all-at-once.

Among other things, God also is warm to having fun, a bit of entertainment; something other than darkness, stillness, perfect equilibrium, and only one eternal. I know it is anthropomorphic to project upon the divine, for instance, that God could be lonely, and perhaps loneliness is not required, rather divinely simple power of genesis is enough?

In any case dualism within monism makes fun possible for God. S(he) enjoys surprises, and that means as S(he) watches the human drama of life unfold, S(he) does not intervene to force it to go any particular way. S(he) simply watches, while leaving life up to humans to live; that is freewill for human ego consciousness.

Now is the perpetual reconfiguration of life as experienced by every human ego consciousness, and each instant of time as humans experience time, is for the first, last and only time. Now actually has no duration in it, now is a-temporal, independent of time. Human ego consciousness literally creates-manifests time by observing (= looking) at the now gestalt image of our whole physical universe and bestowing meaning upon it (that is freewill). God does not interfere with his creation. Why would he? That would mean he abnegates his gift of freewill to humans to live any life they choose to live. It is ironic that humans blame God for all the pain and suffering humans inflict upon humans. Humans, get a grip!, stop hurting each other. Love one another. That is rather simple, is it not? When I say simple, I certainly do not mean easy.

Physicalists (virtually all physicists) take the most important object, human consciousness, and reduce it, by tautological definition, to be an add-on to physical, an object that emerges from physical particles. They make physical particles the idol they worship, and boldly declare: 1) everything is physical, 2) only physical can explain physical, 3) physical can explain itself, and 4) the whole immaterial category does not exist, and 5) our whole physical universe created itself out of nothing.

What an impoverished monism metaphysics that is, with strictly enforced denial of anything immaterial, the whole immaterial category does not exist, and that necessarily means consciousness does not exist and eternal does not exist. Apparently, they do not even realize that also means all mental abstraction (obviously in the immaterial category, for instance thoughts and sentient feelings) does not exist and that means bye-bye mathematics, all systems of logic, and all systems of knowledge. Physical particles literally replace eternal = Aseity = God as the most fundamental thing! I have the greatest sympathy for physicalists, but respect is harder to manifest, because they are far from being stupid, rather they are profoundly spiritually ignorant.

Respect is harder to manifest because the doctrine of physicalism is so obviously harmful to human beings. For instance, denial of freewill, the fatalism part of physicalism, means Dante’s Inferno is the necessary reality of human existence, for everyone, not just “sinners” but even the most innocent infant. “Abandon all hope ye who enter here!”