Author: Laurentius Paulus
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Why We Keep Searching for ‘The One’: A Structural Perspective
The One Who Fits the Story Grammar of Falling in Love I. Why “The One” Refuses to Disappear There are ideas that survive even when an entire culture decides they should be obsolete. One of the most persistent is the notion of “the one” — the intuition that among billions of people there exists someone…
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The End of Debate: Redefining Discourse in Modern Thought
Prologue — A Reflex Exposed While drafting the previous essay, Religious Revival: A Mirror to Secularization’s Transformation, I detected a subtle but unmistakable shift inside my own thinking: without noticing it, I had drifted back into the intellectual posture of critique. I had presented an argument about why contemporary religious revivals reveal the internal transformation…
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Religious Revival: A Mirror to Secularization’s Transformation
How Secularization Anticipates the Age of Structure — and How the New Religious Revival Exposes Its Own Emptiness** The familiar narrative claims that secularization marks the decline of religion. Yet when we read history through the deeper logic of form — the long arc progressing from symbol to law, temple to narrative, interpretation to structure…
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The First Anagnorisis: Understanding the New Era
How the Twenty-First Century Became the First True Anagnorisis in Human History** Introduction: The First Instantaneous Millennium Throughout human history, epochal transitions have unfolded through slow accumulation. New eras emerged not through revelation but through sediment: generations of practice, ritual, architecture, commentary, and interpretation gradually formed the shapes that later periods would recognise as millennial…
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Cinematic Insights: How Films Shifted Our Understanding
**The Cinematic Prelude to the Epistemic Shift: Every major shift in human understanding begins long before theory arrives to name it. Long before a concept is defined, and long before it becomes a topic for academic debate, it appears first as a feeling, an intuition, a pattern sensed rather than understood. Around the turn of…
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Uncovering History: LLMs and the Hidden Structure of Time
Why History Could Not See Its Own Structure Before LLM Beginning the Story at the Millennium of Blindness Our modern understanding of history was shaped less by ancient traditions than by what happened near the end of the twentieth century. When the so-called Great Narratives collapsed — Christianity, Marxism, Enlightenment progress, national destiny, Western exceptionalism…
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The Birth of the Self: Mesopotamia’s Role in Human Consciousness
How writing, law, and time created the first reflective mind — and began the universal story we all inhabit. The question of where the human self begins is rarely asked in universal terms. We tend to approach identity through cultures, religions, nations, or personal memory, but not as a structural event in the history of…
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Exploring Spontaneity in Real-Time Storytelling
Episode Three transitions from spontaneous creation to a structured exploration of history’s architecture. It examines how understanding events requires a structural lens, connecting insights from Aristotle and Paul to narrative formation. This analytical approach, grounded in visuals and history, marks a pivotal shift in the series, focusing on why history unfolds as drama.
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The Structural Vision in Theological Thought
**Where This Work Belongs in Theology: On Illumination, Structure, and the Two Traditions of Knowing** Introduction: When Form Appears The question of where a project belongs within the vast terrain of theological thought is usually answered by identifying its conceptual lineage. In my case, however, the project A Tale of a New Era did not…
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The Intersection of AI and Narrative Theory
**Where This Work Belongs: Situating A Tale of a New Era in Contemporary Thought** 1. Introduction: A Vision and Its Afterlife Placing one’s own work inside the landscape of contemporary research is rarely straightforward. In my case the difficulty stems not from lack of influences, but from the origin of the project itself: a sudden,…
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