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An Alien's Angst
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21st Century Gnostic blogger, Ancap, and advocate for *The* Future.

Breeding isn't creation. It's perpetuation of the demiurgy.

True creation is design. True procreation is eugenic selection.

Why are so many people reading this all of the sudden?

What happened to Charlie Kirk today is why I frame things the way I do.

Kirk was very tame, only a mildly critical voice and ultimately still a member of the very paradigm that killed him. But, he was tolerable and could be reasoned with.

What response can we, those few who rail against said paradigm entirely, expect?

I'll throw out some words of well-wishing, in the place of dissidents: stay smart, stay watchful, get together.

This is excellent. Thank you for writing this up. It looks like you've gone inactive on nostr, but if you ever return, you'll have at least me as a reader.

I found this note after half-jokingly adding "pleroma" as a hashtag on something, then being curious what else might be published under it - then I found an argument between you and someone I'd already blocked - a guy that thinks he's representing Christianity by attacking everything he doesn't understand and making ridiculous assumptions. I'm so glad I blocked that guy... And, that was the guy that initially caused me to start investigating Gnosticism, because he tried insulting me by calling me a gnostic. Before, I had basically viewed Gnosticism as a weird version of Christianity.

It turns out, Christianity is the weird version of Gnosticism. And as more Christians said more rude things to me - one time I got screamed at by two guys in a Bible study, and I'm really not sure what set them off - as incidents kept happening, I looked more and more into what went wrong in the early church, and that led me to gnostic stuff.

I wouldn't say I'm a "gnostic" - that can mean anything - but I'm more open to what they have to say than what the abusive Christians are saying.

If you ever come back to nostr, I'd like to know more about Gnosticism before Christianity. My best guess right now would be some kind of Ptolemaic Hermeticism, but you said explicitly that it isn't hermetic.

Anyways, good read, glad I found this.

Hi nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndamx2un9d9nkutnpwpcz7qpq2h6h8dj3ale4rk6hkpsp6gcz9kx9xtucyhd3pftn86lnn0j25gdslv72w4 , I log in here every once in a while. Glad you liked my post and it's good to see Primal's still plugging on. I'm more active on Substack (https://analiensangst.substack.com/) and my posts there are more refined because I improve them over time.

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When I was growing up in middle school and high school, I had a next door neighbor trailer park friend named Jordan, who is quite a character and has showed up in detail in some of my long-form Nostr posts from a while ago. He ran a series of sand-pit fights in his backyard that I participated in.

Sadly, he had the most broken and crazy home, like him and his younger sister were often alone and figuring out life for themselves, with their mom coming back like every other day barely, but Jordan was so charismatic and funny and smart that I hung out with him and his sister a lot at home and at the bus stop. Their trailer was an absolute mess, but it had a chaotic warmth to it from the people there. Jordan basically ran the place. When his absentee single mother came home from time to time after work and whatever else she was up to, she'd be like, "Oh Lyn, hi! I've been out today due to motorcycle lessons. (???) Do you want a bagel? I've got bagels. Jordan, you should be more like Lyn, she's polite. She always says thank you. Stay as long as you want Lyn, sorry for the mess." And I'd be like, "uhmm, thanks!"

Jordan, who was two years older than me, taught me to play Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, and got me into anime via Trigun and Cowboy Beebop; all sorts of nerd stuff at a time when I was kind of otherwise aimless. I was living alone with my 60+ year old single father at the time.

We then became a funny duo as teenagers; him as the charismatic outlandish guy who usually got into trouble, taught me all sorts of nerd stuff, got his girlfriend pregnant at age18 and started a family with her, barely got out of high school, and me as the total opposite introverted bookish polite one next door that would play Magic the Gathering or Dungeons and Dragons with his friends group, and that he'd trick his friends into fighting in his sand pit as a joke since they didn't know what they were getting into, but that was like clean as a whistle in terms of schoolwork and relationships.

Anyway, the point of this rambling post is that I first watched Fight Club in the best possible setting. I went over to Jordan's house one evening, and we started watching it. But then his mother called him and said to come to help with some shit she was dealing with, so he was like, "hey I got to go Lyn, but you can keep watching it, no problem." So I was there at night, in his messy trailer alone (???), watching Fight Club. The place was a mess, I felt weird that I was the only one in their home despite not living there, and Jordan was basically a more benign equivalent of Tyler Durden. So actually the movie hit a bit harder because I was both enjoying it but also constantly on edge because I was in a weird environment that didn't quite feel right, and yet felt oddly on-brand for the movie.

Can't really replicate that. And it's burned into my memory better than most movies.

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I still haven't seen Fight Club 😭 and I've been trying for the last month, but it's on Hulu.

They always frame the good ending as the bad ending and vice versa.

When it comes to #tech, you want a world that looks a lot more like #Cyberpunk2077 than any world presented as #utopian.

Strange and insane ideas about the "evil" of #technology and #AI abound.

But, these things are almost inherently good. The only evil comes from the disgusting visions of the people monopolizing them.

Those in power at tech companies and in #government have a horrific, #utopian vision where all economically valuable labor is outsourced to AI (that's literally OpenAI's mission statement). It annihilates socio-economic mobility and any kind of human-driven advancement, so you can "own nothing and be happy" as the status quo, as well as your #economic status, is frozen in time.

This is not a vision where humans work together with AI as an enhancer of abilities. It is a vision where AI replaces humans, makes human thought obsolete, and primitivizes us.

To be frank, it's a return to the Garden of Eden, which #communism and #socialism have always had as their end. Their proponents just don't believe "God" exists to bring it about and so take it upon themselves as catholicized Atheists.

But, the Garden of Eden is inherently undesirable. It's a place where humans lack agency and suffer from ignorance due to low #IQ until they eat *meat* which allows them to develop larger, better connected brains (activating the potential for Gnosis). Until then, they existed as worthless apes, subject to fate, and puppeteering. Living in the #dirt as instruments of some idiot god, "fellowshipping" -- or "validating" each other as the woke phrase it.

This use of technology to utopian ends is a subversive, anti-technological usage. It is anti-knowledge, anti-Self-expression, and anti-Gnostic.

But, this kind of thing is to be expected. Selves -- spiritual/intellectual entities are in a battle with demiurgic forces -- other spiritual/intellectual entities -- and due to their nature, spirits must deal with opposing spirits through trickery and symbolism. Attacks and defenses are in the forms of narrative, framing, and intellectual slights of hand.

Gnosticism has nothing to do with egalitarianism. It is inherently hierarchical and also has nothing to do with feminism.

Who, in real life, popularized these things? Catholics. You don't even have to try to see this - it is evident and unhidden when you look at the history of ideas.

This Gnosticism = Leftism thing is so far off the mark as to be objectively wrong in literally every sense. This train of "thought" is for humans that lack pattern recognition and can just be told whatever by any supposedly "masculine" authority figure.

It is completely devoid of all critical thinking and defending this point of view requires referring to some other guy's not even sensical narrative because of it.

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A podcast on cyberpunk and Gnosticism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRZ9xHDpMHU

(Talking Cyberpunk Films: A Top 10 | Miguel Conner)

#filmstr #kino #movies #cyberpunk #films

Love Miguel. He gets a lot right (or, his guests do) and he gets a lot wrong.

The female body is a prison. It should not exist in its current form.

Do people want to peacefully exist?

I think people want to build communities of the likeminded so that they can be comfortable and enjoy their existence, and they also want perpetuate their worldview - which is the entire point of having children.

We pretend that it is not for the sake of "peace," but really this peace is built upon the undertones of domination.

The solution? Genuine separation for genuine peace. Groups need to have their own spaces. Introducing rival value systems into a group territory and forcing resources and space to be shared between groups with competing worldviews just puts everybody in hostility mode.

Cool. It's fun to watch the follower count up, but also disappointing. Idk why I'm a bot magnet now.

Sup nostr:npub1km2u8yh92afnu9303w56yk8s0xr70nghf7slvqcqefet9w8quw5slhd9z3 The past few times I've said something, I've gotten a slew of bots following me throughout the rest of the day. Have you experienced something similar?

This misrepresents my argument and Christian theism as well.

Speaking "on the horizontal plane" means that, in dealings between man and man, God (the highest authority) has given me life and no one else (being of lesser authority than the giver) has the right to take it away. The basis of morality is the moral law of God--which presupposes both individuality as well as private property. The idea of civil rights and liberties are simply the flip side of all the "thou shalt nots" in the 'second table' of the law. This is simply the natural law that is written on our hearts (some call it 'conscience'), and revealed even more clearly in the 10 Commandments. It's precisely because our rights come from a higher authority that no one of lower authority can lawfully take them away.

Yes, "on the vertical plane" all are dependent on God for their very existence (would you claim absolute self-reliance? how are you keeping the sun in its course?), and it is true we have no rights before him--although we can (and do) plead his promises. And, our interests DO matter greatly: Christ came "that we may have life, and have it more abundantly." Psalm 16:11 reads, "In his presence is fullness of joy; at his right hand are pleasures forevermore." Further, classical Protestant teaching is that "The chief and highest end of man is to glorify God *and fully to enjoy him* forever." His glory; our joy.

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. Rothbard was relentless on this principle, so was Voegelin. (For an excellent survey read Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought--he does not shy away from the crucial part that religion has played. It's free online at Mises.org.) It's a worldview ultimately derived from a monist metaphysic - what Peter Jones has called "Oneism," fundamentally incompatible with the "Twoism" of Christianity: Creator and creation.

Before criticizing Christian theism further, I would urge you to gain a better understanding of it. It is not fatalism, there is no 'puppeteering,' nor could it ever be conflated with gnosticism (or Gnosticism either). Read the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger Catechism. You will understand a bit better what we actually believe. Of course, Scripture itself is always the primary source of understanding, and the final arbiter.

But even if you don't understand or agree with our "why" (and yes, it is religious) -- for a civil society to exist, we don't necessarily need to agree on the source of our individual rights, provided we protect them shoulder-to-shoulder against all who would seek to alienate us from them.

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.

We're are reordering. The alt-right will be the new dominant right imo and this wokism will continue to be the dominant left, though it will die down a little.

The right is so vast and varied now. I cannot see the left being open to transhumanism because of the kinds of truths these developments entail acknowledging, but I see it slotting in very easily within various ideologies on the right. Obviously the "religious right" will be against it, but the religious right is also collectivist, so should they even be called right?

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