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Lolita
The End of Alice
Babyfucker

>>14801569
Math is an invented system of symbolic manipulation.

>>14801594
Kneel before the Emperor, HOLY AND ROMAN

>>14800655
He wanted a demonstration of faith, and her saying what she did demonstrated she believed in him and his Father.

pic totally unrelated.

>>14782496
Women are things not people like you and me.

>>14763691
I had such a crush on Fiona Apple

>>14765413
Most of the Gnostic schools reject the notion of Christ being flesh and also of a bodily resurrection.

>>14768017
It depends, as people have pointed out in this very thread Gnosticism wasn't a singular movement. Some of the sects viewed the Demiurge as downright malevolent.

>>14763179
Do you enjoy cuckold porn OP?

>>14754921
Look at the size of her feet, her cock must be huge

>>14755565
Your mom's diary every year since you were born

>>14756863
Yikes, post consists entirely of green text

>>14753369
I mean part of the problem here is that so much is lost and also Gnosticism isn't a singular movement but rather an umbrella-term, but essentially the early Gnostic schools, much like early Christianity in general, had a decidely Jewish character based on what little we know of them, in particular Gnosticism was influenced heavily by Hellenic Judaism and two things basically led them to this conclusion:

1) First, their reading of Greek Philosophy, particularly the works of Plato and in later iterations of Plotinus

2) After the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple by Titus, the Jews were somewhat understandably, especially in the context of their greater history, disappointed in their God. Many branches of Judaism that appeared around the time began to explore the concept of their being a greater, but more distant God who is the primal source of all, and a lesser but malevolent creator God, who is also the God of the Jews. This largely contributed to Gnostic ideas on the subject.

It also has to do of course with the Gnostic conception of matter as inherently inferior and degenerate, even one might say because of how removed from God it is as being "evil." The Demiurge is the answer to not only the existence of a clearly inferior and evil material world, but also in general to the notion that is often posed in regards to Christianity of "If there is a God, why is there evil?"

>>14754585
Yikes, your posts make me yearn for the days of eugenics

>>14756154
Women are children
Which makes us all pedophiles

>>14752293
Yes I noticed as well

>>14750943
Protestants are just as deluded as Catholics, lmao.

Remember narrow is the gate, do you think Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or Protestantism are the gate? Heh.

Instead of worrying about stupid rituals like praying the rosary, give the money away you would've spent on your idols and rosaries and supporting your priest's cocaine habit and give the money to the poor.

That is if you truly care about pleasing the Father.

>>14750907
If they didn't matter you'd ignore them and not respond to them by making posts

>>14750861
Religion isn't about literacy, it's about direct experience, which is why Catholics and others who spend all their time studying ancient dried up texts to argue some irrelevant and incorrect theological points about the nature of the One and his son Jesus Christ will always in fact be the midwits of the religious world.

>>14750744
Clearly this man is one of the bourgeois and runs some sort of mite company. He knows his company can only supply inferior-grade 21st century mites and so he has become defensive. Meanwhile his company spends 86.2 million R&D every year attempting to extract 2000 year old mite DNA from amber for the purposes of cloning a superior mite, but so far only failures...

>>14750510
Give in to the True Gnostic Faith.

>>14750306
Man has replaced the extasy of faith with soulless materialism.

>>14750229
Well that sounds pretty gay.