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>>2785282

I'm laughing so hard. This is better than the revolution of 1917

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>>2724248

That's exactly what Gnosticism teaches. The thing many people think is the true God is in fact the demiurge, which IS imperfect and DID create us, thus making an imperfect world. However, a part of the true God IS within us, as it is within everything. We must seek to discriminate what is imperfect within us and seek out the part of us that is truly God.

Gnosticism is incredibly flexible though, and it gives no routine you have to subscribe to to seek out this God. At its basis it teaches to seek out knowledge and find for yourself the true God. For this reason I also think Gnosticism can be easily applied to cultural backgrounds a person might have, allowing them to stay Protestant or Catholic or Orthodox (and I'd say that Gnosticism can even be applied to outside-Christianity, allowing Jews or Muslims to bring Gnostic views into their theology).

So, at its basis, Gnosticism merely teaches to face the imperfection of our world head-on, to not delude yourself in thinking this is the end-all power of God, and to seek out the very essence in EVERYTHING that holds the true God.

So it's a fucking AWESOME idea.

>>2230933

God yeah, you want to talk about crack for a kid's brain.

> day of the Scholastic book fair
> shake my parents down for money
> buy nothing but Animorphs books
> mfw dem flipbook pictures in the corner

So, /lit/, I'm in an AP English class my senior year of High School, and my teacher is a total cunt. She presents us with questions that are utterly subjective, and she tells us "I don't want you to choose whether or not you think something is right. You don't disagree, you right an essay assuming what I say is right."

Does this sound...wrong to anyone else? I mean, we're here to interpret text, not get fed every fucking thing you think is symbolic in a shit book.

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NPR Three-Minute Fiction Round five

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Writers of /lit/, let have some fun.

Let do and old creative writing activity, where we write a story one sentence at a time. I'll start:

Horatio and Travis walked into the bar that night.