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Anonymous Thu Sep 12 15:39:40 2019 No.13805287 [Reply] [Original]

Why don't Gnostics just kill themselves if the material world is so bad?
t. Plotinus

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 15:45:06 2019 No.13805315 >>13805287 because they are edgy weakling, who don't actually believe in their theology.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !mxvabIoSIE Thu Sep 12 15:46:21 2019 No.13805325 >>13805315 >the martyrs didn’t actually believe in the theology You sniveling swine

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 15:51:04 2019 No.13805351 Because they believe they will reincarnate into the material world again, devoid of memories of their previous life's experiences.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 15:53:17 2019 No.13805359 >>13805325 Which martyrs Gnostics had no martyrs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 15:59:43 2019 No.13805394 >>13805351 so why not kill themselves if their life sucks and betting for a slightly better one?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 16:01:51 2019 No.13805409 >>13805287 Because Gnostics were multiple different ideologies that set apart from each other in many ways, not just one thing. There is no such thing as a single Gnosticism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 16:02:56 2019 No.13805418 File: 1.39 MB, 1515x1680, Crusade Cathar.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13805359 Yeah right.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 17:12:08 2019 No.13805759 >>13805287 >kill yourself >return with erased memory whats the benefit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 17:17:15 2019 No.13805778 >>13805394 what if I get a worse life?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 17:46:40 2019 No.13805899 >>13805759 You don't feel cringy when you remember your failures with women in high school before sleep.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 17:50:56 2019 No.13805918 >>13805287 A truly awful question.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 17:58:44 2019 No.13805966 >>13805899 >being this entitled yikes

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 18:05:54 2019 No.13806005 >>13805918 A truly awful response.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 18:11:09 2019 No.13806028 how do I into Gnosticism? >also I have to take Plato literally, yes? like his tales of Gods, Suns and demiurges?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 12 19:03:18 2019 No.13806208 >>13805287 I think they're all dead already.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 00:58:08 2019 No.13807332 >>13805394 because they will just reincarnate until they reach 'gnosis'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 01:03:44 2019 No.13807346 >>13805918 It was good enough to shut up the Gnostics for a long time back in the day

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 01:06:07 2019 No.13807354 Why doesn't God just do the rapture right now if the world is so shit?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 01:16:48 2019 No.13807391 >>13805287 Because they aren't stoics. They were brave enough to defy their assigned lot and recognize it for what it is

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 01:18:41 2019 No.13807398 >>13805287 Didn't Plotinus say matter was evil?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 01:26:19 2019 No.13807426 >>13807398 maybe in a negative sense, but it's not like a source of evil as the gnostics say

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 01:59:52 2019 No.13807517 File: 332 KB, 800x800, i7u6c3ih.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13805287 >neopl*tonists >not leibverächter as well

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 02:05:25 2019 No.13807537 >>13807398 It's evil in the sense of being the ultimate representation of our ignorance, not really in a truly moral sense though. Some groups of Gnostics viewed it in that regard as well

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 02:17:03 2019 No.13807561 If you kill yourself you just get kicked back into a new meat prison, so it's a futile gesture. Plus, if people care about you, which some to some degree certainly do, you're only increasing the suffering of those people by taking your own life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 07:40:19 2019 No.13808457 >>13805418 Cathars did everything wrong. Literally asking for it, and I don't mean their doctrines. How is it possi le to fuck up politically this badly? What happened in waco is more martyr like than the cathars.