/lit/ - Literature

Yes, but not literally.

>>18783141
>janny either loses "job" or must degrade himself
We have him boys, a real Burdian's Janny in the wild.

>>18647329
>tfw can manipulate causality with precision shitposting

The Nag Hammadi Library

>>18447991
They don't expect them to, it was always meant for a spiritual elite.

It's precisely because "beauty is beauty", that beauty is ontologically dependent on evil but "conceptually" independent of it that this place IS so evil, in other words, it's because both beauty is just as findable as evil that the existence of evil is prolonged for the production of beauty... and anyways, the Manichaeans had an answer to that with their idea of the Age of Mixture. And they had poems celebrating the springtime, so the gnostic demonization of nature is kind of a stereotype

Some gnostics were ascetics, some not. The difference between this and LHP is that it's a separation performed for a hidden God of Light, not the Demiurge by another name

>>17770288
absolutely ultrabased

>>16214313
but there's no locus of invention, a place where that invention is localized and can be pointed to, everyone is just displacing the Other as the guarantor of meaning onto the next guy, and the next. it is everywhere and nowhere, hence it is the most pervasive illusion. it's a magic trick founded on nothingness, that is, it appears real just because it is nothing.

language negates the "pleroma" of childhood, retroactively idealized as the lost paradise (or projected into the future as the utopia-to-come). the gnostic move here as the author describes it as the negation of this negation by a turning-back performed AFTER your entrance into the symbolic order.

yes.

>>16109973
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

>>15793276

The only reason my suggestions would offend you is if you were a nigger or a Jew. In such a case, I don't care what you think. Q.E.D.

Space is a pure form of intuition AND a property of things in themselves.