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Mopsus
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« on: February 22, 2017, 06:29:33 PM »

Shouldn't Gnostics be just as disgusted by homosexuality as they are by heterosexuality?
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Mopsus
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2017, 07:47:32 PM »

Shouldn't Gnostics be just as disgusted by homosexuality as they are by heterosexuality?

What a strange thing to say.

What ever gave you the idea that we were disgusted by heterosexuals?

Most of us are just as most in the rank and file are. Why would our own natures disgust us?

We are also not disgusted by gays as they are following their natures just as heterosexuals are.

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DL

If you don't look down on sexuality, then you aren't a real Gnostic.
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Mopsus
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2017, 11:34:18 AM »

Shouldn't Gnostics be just as disgusted by homosexuality as they are by heterosexuality?

What a strange thing to say.

What ever gave you the idea that we were disgusted by heterosexuals?

Most of us are just as most in the rank and file are. Why would our own natures disgust us?

We are also not disgusted by gays as they are following their natures just as heterosexuals are.

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DL

If you don't look down on sexuality, then you aren't a real Gnostic.

I don't know where you are getting such weird ideas.

Link me up.

We embrace our sexuality as that is what keeps the human race from going extinct.

I don't know your drug of choice but switch quickly before you lose all your reasoning ability.

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DL

Real Gnostics look down on sexuality, as a base desire that distracts from transcending the material world.

Perhaps your soul has already moved on to the eternal realm, where Gnosticism means something different from what it means here on Earth.
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Mopsus
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2017, 02:27:58 PM »

Shouldn't Gnostics be just as disgusted by homosexuality as they are by heterosexuality?

What a strange thing to say.

What ever gave you the idea that we were disgusted by heterosexuals?

Most of us are just as most in the rank and file are. Why would our own natures disgust us?

We are also not disgusted by gays as they are following their natures just as heterosexuals are.

Regards
DL

If you don't look down on sexuality, then you aren't a real Gnostic.

I don't know where you are getting such weird ideas.

Link me up.

We embrace our sexuality as that is what keeps the human race from going extinct.

I don't know your drug of choice but switch quickly before you lose all your reasoning ability.

Regards
DL

Real Gnostics look down on sexuality, as a base desire that distracts from transcending the material world.

Perhaps your soul has already moved on to the eternal realm, where Gnosticism means something different from what it means here on Earth.

I see that you have been reading the lie that Gnostic Christians think the physical world to be shunned.

Does this sound that way to you.

Gnostic Christian Jesus said, "If those who attract you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you.
If they say to you, 'It is under the earth,' then the fish of the sea will precede you.
Rather, the Kingdom of God is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
[Those who] become acquainted with [themselves] will find it; [and when you] become acquainted with yourselves, [you will understand that] it is you who are the sons of the living Father.
But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."

As you can see from that quote, if we see God's kingdom all around us and inside of us, we cannot think that the world is anything but evolving perfection. Most just don't see it and live in poverty. Let me try to make you see the world the way I do.

Here is a mind exercise. Tell me what you see when you look around. The bestthat can possibly be or an ugly and imperfect world?

Candide.
"It is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end.”

That means that we live in the best of all possible worlds, given all the conditions at hand. That is an irrefutable statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOGEyBeoBGM&feature=player_embedded

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DL


That's not the point of Gnosticism, and that's not the point of Candide.

Nice song btw
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Mopsus
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2017, 05:32:29 PM »

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That's not the point of Gnosticism, and that's not the point of Candide.

Nice song btw

Denial is hardly a worthy argument on an irrefutable quote.

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DL


So why do you call yourself a Gnostic when you aren't one? Do you think it makes you seem intellectual? Just call yourself a Neoplatonist. There's no shame in that.
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Mopsus
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2017, 01:22:47 PM »

Neo-Platonists are not compelled to fight those evils but Gnostic Christians are.

What? Says who?
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Mopsus
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2017, 05:28:33 PM »

Neo-Platonists are not compelled to fight those evils but Gnostic Christians are.

What? Says who?

Says this Gnostic Christian of course, unless proven wrong.

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DL
And how do you know that this applied to other "Gnostic" Christians?

Ask them when you find them.

You will know them as they will use the term demiurge for Yahweh and Allah.

Not a complimentary tern that.

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DL

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