today.

i'm lacking sleep. drinking loads of coffee and reading about theory of religion, while a snow storm is happening outside my window. i absolutely love this.

here is an excerpt from the theory of religion by georges bataille:

The General Weakness of Moral Divinity and the Strength of Evil:
Precisely because awakening is the the meaning of dualism, the inevitable sleep that follows it reintroduces evil as a major force. The flatness to which a dualism without transcendence is limited opens up the mind to the sovereignty of evil which is the unleashing of violence. The sovereignty of good that is implied by the awakening and realized by the sleep of dualism is also a reduction to the order of things that leaves no opening except toward a return to violence. Dull-minded dualism returns to the position prior to the awakening: the malefic world takes on a value much the same as the one it had in the archaic position. It is less important than it was in the sovereignty of a pure violence, which did not have a sense of evil, but the forces of evil never lost their divine value except within the limits of a developed reflection, and their apparently inferior status cannot prevent ordinary humanity from continuing to live under their power.

it goes on..