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14026083 No.14026083 [Reply] [Original]

So why don't we just stop having children and kill all living things so as to prevent the descent and entrapment of any further soul into matter? and why do we praise the intelligent when they have simply imprisoned more of the intellectual principle and taken it from the good than the dull?

>> No.14026147

>>14026083
That wouldn't necessarily lead to everyone merging back into the One/God/etc since merely dying isn't enough. Maybe we would all just be reborn as aliens on a planet a billion light years away or as microbes on some moon

>> No.14026181

>>14026083
because you have to die on another level than just physically

and if you really care about the sparks imprisoned in matter you wouldn't want to kill and hurt these things since they're here anyway

>> No.14026188

>>14026083
What would stop the universe from generating more sentient beings to fuck with?

>> No.14026269

Because cutting your hands will not solve the problem of having to work with them

>> No.14026523
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14026523

Dunno why Plotinus is your pic.

>> No.14027555

>>14026083
Plotinus scares me. Is he as bad as he appears to be?

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14027671

one day christ will come again. He will lead us to specious suicide, by refusal to reproduce. Not by the sword, but voluntarily. Then we will all exist in heaven, forever, with no more suffering, forever.

>> No.14027696

>>14026083

The whole problem is that human instinct for survival is absolutely irreconcilable with the human intellectual capacity to apprehend the horror of reality. And it makes no difference whether you overcome your instinct, or not: everyone reaches the same one undifferentiated end after a few years, in spite of themselves one way or another.

>> No.14028436

>>14026083
Because the goal of every man should be to shake off the entrapment of matter and achieve henosis with the One. It is a matter of journeying not upwards or downwards but inwards. It is not a mere matter of seeing behind the veil but rather what is already there.

>> No.14029942

This world would not exist if we could not profit from the becoming. What does Plotinus think about the fall or how we came to be in this condition? His colleague origen says the minds grew bored.

https://youtu.be/5D3skhxxkXY

>> No.14030192

>>14027555
All christian theology is derived from him in some sense.

>> No.14030258

>>14026083
>we
Good luck convincing other people that your niche quackery has enough validity to destroy all life

>> No.14030447

>tfw the evidence as of 2011 now points away from a Big Crunch and towards a heat death or Big Rip and all the theories about a cyclical universe and eternal rebirth were wrong, this existence is a one-off, an aberration

>> No.14030451

>>14026523
One of the best memes I've ever seen

>> No.14030493

>>14030447
tf are you talking about?

>> No.14030545

>>14026523

which scripture does the abraxas dialogue come from?

>> No.14031442

>>14030545

It's from Pistis Sophia.