RE: If you lived in Jesus' day, how would you of responded?
March 11, 2014 at 12:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2014 at 1:11 am by Whateverist.)
I'm afraid I'm too ignorant of what gnosticism entails. I'm just used to thinking of it as the opposite of agnostic. I'm definitely agnostic about gods, totally apatheist about any literal 'gods' but interested enough in making sense of the phenomenon itself.
Ooh. I looked it up. I see what you mean but I'm totally down with earthly pleasures. I don't think any 'demiurges' created a damn thing. Not real fond of poverty or doing without. Abstinence .. no way!
But I do think there are truths you can only make your own by directly experiencing them yourself. Nothing that would help you plan a trip to the moon or cure cancer mind you. Nothing worth debating either. But knowing yourself is also something desirable and certainly preferable to choosing a creed off the rack.
Ooh. I looked it up. I see what you mean but I'm totally down with earthly pleasures. I don't think any 'demiurges' created a damn thing. Not real fond of poverty or doing without. Abstinence .. no way!
But I do think there are truths you can only make your own by directly experiencing them yourself. Nothing that would help you plan a trip to the moon or cure cancer mind you. Nothing worth debating either. But knowing yourself is also something desirable and certainly preferable to choosing a creed off the rack.
