/lit/ - Literature

>>16708445
Gnosticism is the idea that creation is flawed, perhaps even evil, and therefore hostile to all noble spirits.

>>16708446
"Fulfill" can mean "complete", as in, complete and do away with forever, rendering it unnecessary. I'm just not really interested in a gnostic exegesis of the Bible. I think the gnostic temperament transcends Christianity much to the dismay of scholars like Petremont. For example, Mani's creation myth has direct parallels with the Orphic creation myth.

As for your first question, intertestamental Jews are considered the source of "classical" or Sethian gnosticism. it's safe to say whatever gnostic religiosity the Hebrews possessed, it was disseminated through these heretical strains of thought rather than residing anywhere in the orthodoxy.

>>16235760
Truth.

Only a few ways out:

Either we get completely and utterly enslaved by these technological systems, continually adapting for optimization in some type of hype-capitalistic society, or we destroy everything, going back into a pre-industrial society without the modern comforts and trinkets, with us dying a few millennia later due to a random meteorological impact or whatever.

Third option, God is real, and Jesus or whoever else comes and saves us.

Take your pick.

Only a few ways out, either the religions are right and God will save us, or we get enslaved by this technology, or we destroy the technology and eventually go instinct a few thousands/millions years later when a meteor hits the earth or something.

Take your pick.