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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
The historian Shelby Foote observed that “power doesn’t so much corrupt; that’s too simple. It fragments, closes options, mesmerizes.” That’s what ego does. It clouds the mind precisely when it needs to be clear. Sobriety is a counterbalance, a hangover cure—or better, a prevention method.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
Cooks Aktivisten »löschen« jetzt aus ihrer Erhebung 66 Prozent der »neutralen Studien« heraus, diese gehen fortan nicht mehr in die Bewertung ein. Unter den verbliebenen 4014 Beiträgen finden sie plötzlich nur noch 118 Positionen, die sich explizit gegen die These des anthropogenen Klimawandels stellen. Et voilà: Die »Einigkeit von 97 Prozent aller Wissenschaftler« pro anthropogener Klimakrise wurde bewiesen.
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
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