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>Plotinius: Against Those Who Say That the Maker of the Universe and the Universe Itself Are Evil
>Descartes: a perfect being cant have malice
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How did gnosticism even become a thing?
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>>18362691
I was reading my Penguin Classics translation of The Enneads, on the bus, I accidentally dropped the book while getting up and an African-American teenager sitting on the row behind yelled
>Dis nigga reading Plotinus
Everyone laughed
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>>18362691
Plato said that the Demiurge was all good but matter itself is imperfect so the world is imperfect.
Gnostics asked, why would the Demiurge make a world that it must have known would be imperfect?
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>gnosticism bad because the world isn't controlled by the elite pedophile epstein cult of satanists that persecute me because Satan runs the show.
Bravissimo



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