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I have failed. I thought I was ready to face the demiurge and liberate myself, but I was wrong, horribly wrong.
It was a very deep state of meditation and/or unconsciousness where I faced him, the great serpent that was just bone. "Has he deteriorated to this after all this time?" I thought, but still it was too much. When he opened his mouth his teeth had eyes, and their eyes had teeth. His strength even now was irresistible, and I was defeated.
I will die soon.

>let me wipe your memories so you're back at square one when you're reborn and lose all your progress in escaping my prison

>>16580473
When you truly begin to understand what this picture is signifying, everything starts to make a lot more sense.
Oh and watch Dark City (1998)

redpill me on gnosticism

You already know

The Problem of Evil and it's solution

I'm not going to pray to some sadistic "God" that is the cause of all suffering.

It's the truth, it's the only religion that has a coherent and logical idea of G*d, and a satisfying answer to the Problem of Evil. Maybe Buddhism too but I haven't studied their texts yet.

>>13500513
>OP thinks he's more intelligent than Epicurus
>still believes in a benevolent God in the year two thousand fucking nineteen
Www lad

>spend 20 minutes skimming a book about Gnosticism
>realize it's the truth
Who else?

>>13411711
Satan didn't trick Man, God did.
God told Adam and Eve that they would die if they ate the fruit of knowledge, which didn't happen.
Satan told them they would know both good and evil if they ate it, which they did come to know.

God is a narcissistic trickster deity, while Satan is a Prometheus-like figure, both altruistic and wise.

There has been plenty of well-written literature written by polytheists. I don't understand why you feel the need to announce to everyone on a cantonese badger catching image board that you are Christian. But the fact of the matter is Christianity is declining in popularity due to the fact that it can't provide answers for the problems of today. In that sense, Gnosticism can.
t. raised Catholic

>>13339423
What is the relation between Lillith and the Demiurge?

I am beginning to think that gnosticism is more or less true. The details might be different but the beliefs represent an essential and accurate view of reality. Material is a prison and we are overseen by conscious, powerful wardens.

>>13267294
Unlike other religions, Gnosticism's conception of God actually makes sense and it gives a satisfactory answer to the problem of evil

explain the monad -> demiurge concept to a brainlet. how can the monad become self-aware before anything else exists to discern itself from?

>>12948550
God, Satan, Allah, Yahweh, they're all just different names for the same cancerous monstrosity responsible for entrapping us in this hellish material plane and these husks of rotting flesh.

>>12867904
>§5.572 — Every central bank is an amphibian, or a Janus-faced being. Operational pseudo-transcendence requires this. The central bank mediates between the public and private aspects of the economy – and even defines the distinction between the two – drawing upon the institutional axiom that aggregate confidence in private commerce is a legitimate, and inevitable, target of public policy concern. Trust, in its distributed economic manifestation, is taken as the object of a mass social technology. The great macroeconomic conception occurs, pre-programming much of what then follows. The critical point is the recognition that money issuance is a policy tool, precisely insofar as it is a channel of public communications. It is no longer that money merely bears a message, in the manner of a minted coin adorned with various politically significant inscriptions. A Federal Reserve note still carries such signs, but their seriousness is entirely eroded. Money-making, as such, is now the message. Aggregate liquidity management is no sooner adopted as an administrative responsibility than it flattens upon its own public enunciations. Signal and substance are one. A teleological transition occurs here, that might easily be missed...

>This is already to say that irrespective of its intentions, or self-comprehension, the central bank inherits responsibilities that are strictly magical.[13] Vivid ‘materialization’ of the impossible – i.e. of free risk relief – is its central obligation. It is not only illusionism that is at work here, then, but medicine, or therapy, in accordance with the archaic role of the witch-doctor. The public utterances of the central bank are a mass psychological talking cure, but inverted from an exercise of attention into an incantation, and thus a spell, or placebo. We hear in these words the technical ideal of the confidence trick, in its super-legal and pseudo-metaphysical configuration. Practical efficacy is tacit. Like credit money itself, the truth of the central bank statement is created – ab nihilo – in being believed. The reality is ideally exhausted by the phenomenon. It is what it is thought to be, and no more. Confidence, in the end, has no ulterior derivation. It is miraculous.[14] Half a millennium of demystification has led to this, clearing the stage for business-suited new magicians. The performance is underway. A tranquillized collective economic sphere is to be conjured into existence. As it entered its advanced maturity, The Great Moderation named it well. The Great Moderator – Mighty Macro – is a more valuable name still, for the One at the End who Looks Both Ways to Make Peace. That’s the Magician-God in the Bitcoin cross-hairs.

i didn't expect to be posting Demiurges today but here we are