Oh, But We Must

"I think this is part of the class, perhaps even the most fundamental lesson. We have to make a kind of Kirkegaardean leap of faith and just believe, fervently, that the TA's are receiving our questions and take their silence as an answer - the model of a fideist system of faith-based 'reciprocity'. To assume that a TA has the time or means to address you individually is to mistake the way a TA operates within the metaphysical cyber world - the very notion of trying to utilize reason to understand this is absurd. However, in an interesting reversal of the religious transcorporeal telos, we are moving from a more speculative cybernetic, properly metaphysical existence, to an organic in-person exam. We don't know the nature of the exam, only that it awaits all of us, alike, with an almost sublime and benign indifference."

- posted this evening in an online philosophy of religion course by one Michael Saunders