An Alien's Angst on Nostr: atural rights are not natural. They actually are entirely unnatural. They are not ...
atural rights are not natural. They actually are entirely unnatural. They are not written on anyone's hearts, but a few. They are culturally engrained in the minds of many Americans but, to those who have not been raised in this culture, the idea of others having rights to do things they do not like (and live happily ever after) is usually laughable. It is laughable even to you, though you dress it as religious piety. Rather than respect Selves' ownership of their bodies and thereafter, you long for the days they are somehow ceased from living this out under the premise that "God" really owns their existence.
Individualism and Self-determination are denied in this world - ability to live these out is determined either by fate or violence. Wars and, sometimes, individual violence are required to continually reinforce these things ahead of the natural norm, which is group ethic - individuals as members of and owned by an unchosen group. All Christians have done is expand the group to "all humans," replace in-group duty with altruism, and made the group authority "God." But, it's still collectivism - others above the Self - all the way down.
If you belong to a puppetmaster in the sky and it obligates to you to altruism, to a role, to service, or to a life path in any capacity "or else," then your Rights of The Self (or "natural rights" - they are only called this for political reasons) are denied on a horizontal level. If your rights can be denied by the supposed creator of the universe, then you don't have rights. If you believe in "God's law" on earth, then it has historically been a human - horizontal - doing the punishing. And sure, it might not want a human doing the retaliation, but there really isn't a difference between "God" annihilating you and you being killed be a human, or even "God" giving your house away and a human running you out of it.
Lack of Self-determination on the vertical plane is a lack of Self-determination on the horizontal plane which is exactly how that's played out in countless #biblical stories. That's even how it plays out ontologically - if it decides your race, your sex, your faculties, etc..., then it has determined your horizontal trajectory before your life even begins.
Even in your #Earth 2.0, this entity's tastes do not change. This is just where the real #Communism begins. You will work, but it will be for nothing but "the smiles on their faces." You will want for nothing, but that's only because you'll only want to see others "be happy." You will be in your roles, "fellowshiping" the way it wants you to; breeding, chattering, playing in the dirt, and living in huts/cabins rather than doing anything of value. You will not get to create, to design, to order, to manage, or do any of the things that a Self longs for other than in infantile terms. There will be no *real* choice making and no desires for anything but the above. If you do not like this but it still likes you, then you will be lobotomized so that you do like it.
There is only a very limited set of "interests" that are allowed to be pursued or even had here. The flowery promises always have a catch with the #Demiurge.
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"Gnosticism does not teach the supremacy of each individual self, but of the One primordial Self from whom we all were alienated by becoming individuals in the first place; shards of divinity scattered into the many, and thus they call us to remember that "we together are God" and so we must be One again--by becoming Communist."
Wrong.
The #Alien #God - the Primordial Self, as you call it - is the source of Self-Consciousness. We are not alienated by becoming individuals - this is New Age, Catholicized "gnosticism" that you find on reddit. The truth is that the very process of #emanation IS #individuation - or we could even think of it as identification. We are its living "thoughts" or introspections identified. This is made very clear in the #Gnostic cosmogonies.
We are Selves purposely individuated out of the Alien God - Self-consciousness begetting Self-consciousnesses.
Think of it like a being looking in the #mirror, only this kind of is entity is so full of is-ness and potentiality, that it's reflection comes alive on the opposite side. The two beings then engage, exploring the depths of themSelf and uncovering new facets and angles in the living reflections they generate thereafter...
That is the relationship between the Alien God - this potentiality pit - and #Barbelo. All of the other emanations come from the Barbelo ideating and requesting to have these different angles/images of the Alien God (which are self-conscious by inherited nature) reflected over. Not one is to be suppressed. All are to be seen and fully expressed in their own right. Yet, none of these emanations are the Alien God in totality.
The #Pleroma is only the totality of the Alien God's reflection. It does NOT include the ineffable entity itself. The mirror is still there and all emanations are on one side, while the Alien God is on the other. One does not become "part" of the #AlienGod, one re-takes its place in the reflection - one is no longer a missing or vandalized piece. That is The #Fullness.
The Fullness (re: emanation/individuation) is to expand in perpetuity, but we will always be alienated from the *Alien* God. Our role is not to "be" it, but to know and reflect it.
Our estrangement from it comes in being localized, cast, and therefore delimited in matter. We have been idolatrized. We cannot fully reflect our unique essence of the Alien God from this position - we cannot fully Self-actualize. Think of the result as a piece of mirror being missing and that place not showing. A scattered spark is no longer a part of the reflection and thus, no longer a part of the full image. It is reflecting something else.
Matter was never an explicit part of the image. Rather than in the Pleroma - or The Fullness, matter is in the Kenoma - or The Deficiency. This is not to say that matter is no part or an impossible reflection of the Alien God, but the manner in which it has come about and is being related to is perverse - it is a distortion at best.
I have no criticism against the existence of a civil society or private property rights. I am against perpetuating of wrong interpretations of Gnosticism.
Individualism and Self-determination are denied in this world - ability to live these out is determined either by fate or violence. Wars and, sometimes, individual violence are required to continually reinforce these things ahead of the natural norm, which is group ethic - individuals as members of and owned by an unchosen group. All Christians have done is expand the group to "all humans," replace in-group duty with altruism, and made the group authority "God." But, it's still collectivism - others above the Self - all the way down.
If you belong to a puppetmaster in the sky and it obligates to you to altruism, to a role, to service, or to a life path in any capacity "or else," then your Rights of The Self (or "natural rights" - they are only called this for political reasons) are denied on a horizontal level. If your rights can be denied by the supposed creator of the universe, then you don't have rights. If you believe in "God's law" on earth, then it has historically been a human - horizontal - doing the punishing. And sure, it might not want a human doing the retaliation, but there really isn't a difference between "God" annihilating you and you being killed be a human, or even "God" giving your house away and a human running you out of it.
Lack of Self-determination on the vertical plane is a lack of Self-determination on the horizontal plane which is exactly how that's played out in countless #biblical stories. That's even how it plays out ontologically - if it decides your race, your sex, your faculties, etc..., then it has determined your horizontal trajectory before your life even begins.
Even in your #Earth 2.0, this entity's tastes do not change. This is just where the real #Communism begins. You will work, but it will be for nothing but "the smiles on their faces." You will want for nothing, but that's only because you'll only want to see others "be happy." You will be in your roles, "fellowshiping" the way it wants you to; breeding, chattering, playing in the dirt, and living in huts/cabins rather than doing anything of value. You will not get to create, to design, to order, to manage, or do any of the things that a Self longs for other than in infantile terms. There will be no *real* choice making and no desires for anything but the above. If you do not like this but it still likes you, then you will be lobotomized so that you do like it.
There is only a very limited set of "interests" that are allowed to be pursued or even had here. The flowery promises always have a catch with the #Demiurge.
----
"Gnosticism does not teach the supremacy of each individual self, but of the One primordial Self from whom we all were alienated by becoming individuals in the first place; shards of divinity scattered into the many, and thus they call us to remember that "we together are God" and so we must be One again--by becoming Communist."
Wrong.
The #Alien #God - the Primordial Self, as you call it - is the source of Self-Consciousness. We are not alienated by becoming individuals - this is New Age, Catholicized "gnosticism" that you find on reddit. The truth is that the very process of #emanation IS #individuation - or we could even think of it as identification. We are its living "thoughts" or introspections identified. This is made very clear in the #Gnostic cosmogonies.
We are Selves purposely individuated out of the Alien God - Self-consciousness begetting Self-consciousnesses.
Think of it like a being looking in the #mirror, only this kind of is entity is so full of is-ness and potentiality, that it's reflection comes alive on the opposite side. The two beings then engage, exploring the depths of themSelf and uncovering new facets and angles in the living reflections they generate thereafter...
That is the relationship between the Alien God - this potentiality pit - and #Barbelo. All of the other emanations come from the Barbelo ideating and requesting to have these different angles/images of the Alien God (which are self-conscious by inherited nature) reflected over. Not one is to be suppressed. All are to be seen and fully expressed in their own right. Yet, none of these emanations are the Alien God in totality.
The #Pleroma is only the totality of the Alien God's reflection. It does NOT include the ineffable entity itself. The mirror is still there and all emanations are on one side, while the Alien God is on the other. One does not become "part" of the #AlienGod, one re-takes its place in the reflection - one is no longer a missing or vandalized piece. That is The #Fullness.
The Fullness (re: emanation/individuation) is to expand in perpetuity, but we will always be alienated from the *Alien* God. Our role is not to "be" it, but to know and reflect it.
Our estrangement from it comes in being localized, cast, and therefore delimited in matter. We have been idolatrized. We cannot fully reflect our unique essence of the Alien God from this position - we cannot fully Self-actualize. Think of the result as a piece of mirror being missing and that place not showing. A scattered spark is no longer a part of the reflection and thus, no longer a part of the full image. It is reflecting something else.
Matter was never an explicit part of the image. Rather than in the Pleroma - or The Fullness, matter is in the Kenoma - or The Deficiency. This is not to say that matter is no part or an impossible reflection of the Alien God, but the manner in which it has come about and is being related to is perverse - it is a distortion at best.
I have no criticism against the existence of a civil society or private property rights. I am against perpetuating of wrong interpretations of Gnosticism.