Message from @SUPER MALE VITALITY™

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2019-04-04 01:51:02 UTC  

I just ate an entire bag of carrots

2019-04-04 03:13:27 UTC  

I've heard the term gnosticism but never understood it, isn't effectively spirituality, like the new age shit

2019-04-04 03:15:14 UTC  

possibly in some contexts, but this guy was legitimately talking about how the demiurge made this material world and that's why it's flawed, and crying that the orthodoxy suppressed them and tried to get rid of their texts

2019-04-04 03:15:34 UTC  

oh, so he is actually retarded

2019-04-04 03:23:18 UTC  

Yes, but also I pity him. He was raised Catholic, but evidently not taught well enough to stick with it, so he said he was actually drifting into agnosticism before an uncle died and he found out that the uncle had secretly been a gnostic for many years. I guess something in it appealed to him. Like the view of a fallen world because it was administered by a flawed emanation of God somehow made more sense than real Christian theodicy.

2019-04-04 03:23:53 UTC  

I pity the part where he didn't learn the answers to his doubts from a legitimate source

2019-04-04 03:26:07 UTC  

I feel somewhat bad now

2019-04-04 03:59:47 UTC  

I think most of gnosticism today is Japan's fault tbh

2019-04-04 04:00:30 UTC  

like, it's always been around, but Japan's views towards Christian tradition are fascinating

2019-04-04 04:01:29 UTC  

They are very much academically fascinated by it, so all kinds of obscure mysticism leaks into their pop culture

2019-04-04 04:01:58 UTC  

and then you end up with shows like Evangelion, which admittedly only uses Gnosticism as an aesthetic

2019-04-04 04:02:18 UTC  

but then people start copying

2019-04-04 04:02:44 UTC  

and then that stuff bleeds into US and therefore world culture through weeaboos in hollywood

2019-04-04 04:03:14 UTC  

and you end up with shows that edgy retarded teenage girls base their made up personal cults on like Supernatural

2019-04-04 04:04:28 UTC  

and then that mixes into popular discourse as "lost knowledge" when really it's been dismissed for over a thousand years as herresy and nonsense

2019-04-04 04:04:46 UTC  

Yeah. The popularity of "witches" and satanism among edgy girls has to be one of the most irritating things on the internet

2019-04-04 04:05:28 UTC  

That's been a thing since the 60s though, when the new age movement legitimized all the late spiritualists of the 50s

2019-04-04 04:06:22 UTC  

the gnostic streak is fairly new, at least removed from early 20th century spiritualism and its impact on stuff like Wicca

2019-04-04 04:07:28 UTC  

the whole wicca and witch thing is depressing to see, my younger sister who was raised as a Catholic has taken a liking to wicca and "practices" it, it upsets me sometimes to see that she rejects the beauty of God's gifts for heresy

2019-04-04 04:07:45 UTC  

It's really just gross to me tbh

2019-04-04 04:08:00 UTC  

like, I deeply appreciate the beauty of nature and all

2019-04-04 04:08:32 UTC  

but it's beautiful like an abstract form of poetry proclaiming the greatness of its Creator

2019-04-04 04:08:46 UTC  

not an object worthy of worship itself

2019-04-04 04:09:15 UTC  

Nature has never done good to man, it is cruel and unforgiving because it is imperfect as this earth

2019-04-04 04:09:46 UTC  

God makes the good in it manifest

2019-04-04 04:10:05 UTC  

when it is explained to me by said sister it just sounds like shamanism with a different name

2019-04-04 04:10:52 UTC  

That's basically what it is. It's an amalgam of random paganisms from around the world, with heavy influences by germanic paganism especially

2019-04-04 04:12:41 UTC  

A lot of emphasis on "energy" in the new age sense, be it "magic" or "positivity" or whatever the preferred buzzword is, along with miraculous acts either fabricated or "that come at a cost" (demonic).

2019-04-04 04:14:17 UTC  

I've yet to meet a witch actually capable, but hell Pharoh's sorcerers performed magic against Moses (weak though it was), I don't put anything past the evil of this world acting outside the light of Christ...

2019-04-04 04:15:30 UTC  

My hope is that one day we're able to bring her back to God but idk if it'll happen cause it's gotten it's claws around her

2019-04-04 04:15:57 UTC  

prayer my dude, and don't ever stop having conversations with her

2019-04-04 04:16:34 UTC  

try to find the holes in it; the devil is a liar, and a good one, but not a perfect one

2019-04-04 04:18:37 UTC  

let her explain why she believes, give her a chance to get to the heart of it, then in love and gentleness bring up the failure it is in Christ. Polemics don't much help the lost, and while some vessels are made for destruction, Christ does not abandon the sheep of his fold.

2019-04-04 04:19:02 UTC  

It just takes a gentle hand to guide them back sometimes

2019-04-04 07:39:38 UTC  

Brexit: MPs back delay bill by one vote

http://flip.it/Shc5pF

2019-04-04 07:39:48 UTC  

For fuck's sake.

2019-04-04 08:55:23 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/435520935647248414/563285480393801741/Screenshot_20190404-115417_Chrome.jpg

2019-04-04 08:55:25 UTC  

Big hmm

2019-04-04 09:07:37 UTC  

Hang on, hang on.

2019-04-04 09:07:45 UTC  

Is he a comedian turned politician?

2019-04-04 09:08:01 UTC  

Or is this some sort of show they're advertising?