/lit/ - Literature

>>17716698
Embodied evil.
First reading the book I assumed he was the devil, but apparently he's like a lieutenant of the Gnostic god who made the material universe.

>>16712319
Lacarriere's The Gnostics. It's online.

>Thus, the simplest phenomenon, and the most elemental to boot - that of nutrition - would have been for the Gnostics a typical example of this maleficent interaction, for the very act of nourishing oneself, of sustaining life, specifically implies the death of other living species. Each birth, each perpetuation of life, increases the domain of death.

>In this unending circle, the simple fact of living, of breathing, feeding, sleeping and waking, implies the existence and the growth of evil. What Darwinians were later to call natural selection and the survival of the fittest had already been observed by Gnostics and was in their eyes a flagrant proof of the fundamental depravity of the universe.

if your grand, unified theory is utterly oblivious to the realities of food and drink, then you're another worthless urbanite whose confused recreational philosophy for Truth.

>>16712319
Lacarriere's The Gnostics. It's online.

>Thus, the simplest phenomenon, and the most elemental to boot - that of nutrition - would have been for the Gnostics a typical example of this maleficent interaction, for the very act of nourishing oneself, of sustaining life, specifically implies the death of other living species. Each birth, each perpetuation of life, increases the domain of death.

>In this unending circle, the simple fact of living, of breathing, feeding, sleeping and waking,
implies the existence and the growth of evil. What Darwinians were later to call natural
selection and the survival of the fittest had already been observed by Gnostics and was in their eyes a flagrant proof of the fundamental depravity of the universe.

if your grand, unified theory is utterly oblivious to the realities of food and drink, then you're another worthless urbanite whose confused recreational philosophy for Truth.

>>16430280
>>16430300
>>16430332
Its nothing supernatural or magic, I believe we're in a machine built by living things that are product of evolution, in simple terms I'd define its purpose as quality control and as a training tool for a civilization that has to go out of its way to teach its children the machines and systems only work because someone or something keeps them running and that its not magic, to make sure they understand the real nature of the underlying universe despite living in what could be described as a "fantasy world"
>had a psychotic episode
I am willing to disclose I was both tired and in a state of expanded consciousness at the time

Why aren't you a gnostic?

Books for miserable, constipated, depressed autists? ie me