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Post by Limitless Questions on Jan 22, 2009 21:45:15 GMT -5
Pascal's Wager suggests that it is better for the non-believer to succumb to belief, because we have "less to lose" by doing so. Freethinking gnosis flips that on its head. I ask all gnostics, what have you got to lose, by accepting your mythologies and allegories as just that, exactly what they are? What possible difference does it make, to the experience of your praxis, to acknowledge that the only element responsible for those experiences is the three pounds of meat packed into your skull? It neither negates, nor disengages, the power of the gnostic experience, in and of itself. You may want to turn my argument in on itself, and ask me, what difference it makes, to assign an external source to my practice? It makes a hell of a difference to me, because there is no supported scientific proof that human consciousness does, can, or ever will exist outside the human skull. But what about the Pleroma, you ask? The promised return to the limitless all, after we have passed from this world of forms? All I can do is refer you to 2Pet3:10-13. Peter here is not speaking of a literalized eschaton, I feel, but a personal one. When we die, that's it. All that we are and all that we have is what we have in the here and the now.
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