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The Gnostic creation story holds that gnosis is revealed knowledge of a true god that lies behind the god of the religions or behind Nature's God. But it sees those things as Nature's God or the god of the religions, your God as a demonic architect or Artisan called the demiurge. It is evil, it is not good because it was born in the sin of wisdom who wanted to create, which wasn't its station. So it alienates man from his true nature, imprisons him in the world, imprisons him in being, imprisons him as a spiritual being in the mundane. Locks him in a mortal body that's going to die, that is made of material that gets sick, and in a world that has fallen in material and is filled with perils and evils and diseases. Gnosis of this truth opens the door in the faith to an escape from the prison. That means when you construct a hyperreality, if you can make it real, you get out of prison. It's how they actually do it. Gnostics, therefore, create and project hyperrealities because they simulate what they think is really real the image of the divine plan.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
“Mr. Rearden,” said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, “if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?” “I . . . don’t know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?” “To shrug.”
The claim that America remains a deeply patriarchal society largely rests on remaining gender disparities. The existence of a “gender wage gap,” for instance, is supposedly supported by the claim that “women make $0.77 for every dollar men make.” But women do not make 77 cents to the dollar of what a man makes doing the same work. Women (on average) earn 77 percent of what men earn in different careers, working fewer hours with less overtime. When one accounts for the disparity in the number of hours worked, the level of occupation, career choices, seniority, length of time in the workplace, and various other factors, the “gender wage gap” all but vanishes.
A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy
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