>Plotinius: Against Those Who Say That the Maker of the Universe and the Universe Itself Are Evil>Descartes: a perfect being cant have malice>...How did gnosticism even become a thing?
>>18362691I 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
>>18362691Plato 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?
>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