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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 second part of Goethe’s quote tells us the stakes of this choice: “If I know how you spend your time,” he said, “then I know what might become of you.”
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
The writers of the 2001 videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, presaged the absurd intellectual environment of the world wide web: “The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate … No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in ‘truth.’ And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
How Individualism Created Our Postmodern Culture
Alexander Blum
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