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It was declared a heresy by the proto-orthodox church and crushed, no?

>>17208924
>unlike Buddhism in the east
The east was not dominated by intoxicating jewish religions that remove all trace of native thought.

>>17208924
Too esoteric. A tradition can't catch on if nobody wants to teach it to you.

>>17208924
Because it was debunked

>>17208924
It's elitist and only appeals to autistic retards

>>17210786
Elitism is good

>>17208924
Because the Catholic Chruch genocided the Gnostics. Look up the "Albigensian Crusade."

It was hotly popular, but since it didn’t favor authoritarian structures it got crushed by the church

>>17208937
This. It's hard for anything to "catch on" when a bunch of frothing retards will burn you alive for it.

>>17210797
Ok Satanist

>>17210786
>not elite
Sucks to be you.

>>17210832
It was never very popular with the common people. It only appeals to you because it seems exotic and mystical.

>>17210879
Christians call everything they don’t like “satanist” even though the only people who actually call themselves satanist are retard edgy LARPers, and often those who they are calling satanists, also oppose “””””satanism””””” (whatever the hell that is)

>>17208924
Because it's nonsensical. Like most things nonsensical and poorly understood, it's quite popular as an intellectual fashion accessory, as you can see from this thread.

>>17210879
lmao

>>17210823
Those were the Cathars, dumbass.

why would a tradition that has nothing but contempt for authoritarian power structures be crushed by those structures? it truly is a mystery.

>>17210882
>mani's empire stretched from the fringes of china to rome
>valentinus was allegedly going to be elected bishop of Rome
>marcion's proto-church lit a fire under the ass of the proto-orthodoxy

why do I come to this board? you're all undergrads still working through hooked on phonics.

>it's a heresy opposed by True Christianity™!
Same fucking shit dude. It's just a matter of which characters from the Jewbook are assigned which roles. Either way the world is evil, your true self is something immaterial, you seek liberation from this awful flesh, etc. In other words SLAVE MORALITY.

>>17208924
Too based and redpilled.
Remember, most people are hylics a.k.a NPCs. Of course they would never be able to comprehend Gnosticism, they cannot comprehend the mystical at all.

>>17210902
your whole fucking life is a fashion accessory for the elites you fucking toad laffo

>>17210911
>mani
Teachings so weak they withered and died in a few generations
>valentinus
Autistic retard who appealed to a few autistic retard. By the will of the majority his teachings were laughed at and trampled out
Seriously bro, read a book.

>>17210919
Christianity believes the body is just as holy as the soul retard

>>17210934
lol stupid faggot ass zoomer

>>17210920
cope

the rabble is YOU

Gnostics are trannys
Trannys hate their bodies and want to deny material reality by believing they are trapped in body-coffins.
Gnostics believe the same
Both will be dealt with on the day of judgement

>>17210943
Yeah all those hairshirts and self-flagellations show a real love for the body. Don't forget the fasting and NoFap lmao

>>17210956
retard

>>17210906
Yes, and Cathars believed in a form of Gnosticism.

>>17210961
>fasting bad
How fat are you bro

>>17210956
This

>>17210956

>>17210985
he's right

>>17210973
Fat enough to d o u b l e your bench

>>17210956
Keyed.

>>17211166
Trannyed.

>>17210994
Far right, to be precise.

Cmon guys this is supposed to be the good board

>>17211211
Keyed is the new based, retard.

>>17208924
Too pagan for Christians, too Christian for pagans

>>17210786

>>17210755
BASED Irenaeus poster

>>17210956
There is some truth to this. The same self-hating impluse drives trannies to transhumanism as well. People who hate their body project it out into a worldview where all of matter is evil.

>>17211252
sounds like something a tranny would come up with

>>17208924
It did catch on, subterraneanly, in the form of Alchemy.

>>17211314
Just like a tranny to not like keyed just like they didn’t like based because it was associated with tranny-haters before faggots on twitter and reddit spread based.

>>17210956
At last I see.

>>17211401
Locked and keyed are tranny references to the chastity cuck fetish, tranny

>>17212246
Dilate, tranny.

>>17212265
Your cage is still locked, faggot

a lot of stuff was declared heresy by the church and destroyed. stuff like the nag hammadi for example was stashed away because it was ordered to be destroyed. gnosticism only survived outside the influence of christcucks, who were in a hurry to destroy any and all opposition

It’s too autistic and its followers were too autistic. Gnosticism is reddit-tier transhumanism, I’ve no doubt gnostics were just as insufferable in their time.

>>17208924
>Why did gnosticism fail to catch on in the west, unlike Buddhism in the east?

why are you drawing an equivalence between these things, I don't see one

>>17210956
surprisingly accurate