David Eire
New
Gnostics are the universal rebels.
Their myths express a recoil from and rejection of life on Earth.
They regard human incarnation as unjust bondage and imprisonment; and life in the physical universe as contemptible.
I can empathise with their point of view, but I cannot sympathise with it.
I empathise because I know the immense suffering and injustice of the human world.
I cannot sympathise because I know the vast majority of human suffering is entirely human caused.
In my world view human bondage and suffering in this world are predominantly caused by human ignorance and evil.
Half the planet lives on a few dollars a day; while 65 super rich individuals possess the same amount of wealth as that poorer half of the population.
And people still ignorantly cling to the absurd myths of the unregulated free market pursuit of private profit as being the best distributor of resources!
There is absolutely no rational or moral reason for most human suffering in this world.
There are only irrational and immoral reasons.
The enemy of humanity is not any demiurge; it is human ignorance and evil.
For instance the nemesis in the Snowpiercer movie is a human being – an oligarch; not a god
The loco-slavery system they live in is a human construction
And the world they are in is a human destroyed world; destroyed by the free market pursuit of private profit
(Our real world is currently free marketeering its way towards a biospheric crisis which may destroy our civilisation)
The people in that bizarre fictional world (as in our real world) are each other's tormentors.
Gnosticism is also elitist. If you read up on it a bit you will come across many casual references to how certain souls or individuals are of some higher origin and nature that makes them inherently gnostic and superior to the rabble in the prison yard….or at the back of the train?
Their myths express a recoil from and rejection of life on Earth.
They regard human incarnation as unjust bondage and imprisonment; and life in the physical universe as contemptible.
I can empathise with their point of view, but I cannot sympathise with it.
I empathise because I know the immense suffering and injustice of the human world.
I cannot sympathise because I know the vast majority of human suffering is entirely human caused.
In my world view human bondage and suffering in this world are predominantly caused by human ignorance and evil.
Half the planet lives on a few dollars a day; while 65 super rich individuals possess the same amount of wealth as that poorer half of the population.
And people still ignorantly cling to the absurd myths of the unregulated free market pursuit of private profit as being the best distributor of resources!
There is absolutely no rational or moral reason for most human suffering in this world.
There are only irrational and immoral reasons.
The enemy of humanity is not any demiurge; it is human ignorance and evil.
For instance the nemesis in the Snowpiercer movie is a human being – an oligarch; not a god
The loco-slavery system they live in is a human construction
And the world they are in is a human destroyed world; destroyed by the free market pursuit of private profit
(Our real world is currently free marketeering its way towards a biospheric crisis which may destroy our civilisation)
The people in that bizarre fictional world (as in our real world) are each other's tormentors.
Gnosticism is also elitist. If you read up on it a bit you will come across many casual references to how certain souls or individuals are of some higher origin and nature that makes them inherently gnostic and superior to the rabble in the prison yard….or at the back of the train?