The Gnostic Temptation

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 61 Why are Gnostic cults so tempting? Why do people get sucked into them? It's not because Gnostics go around telling people they're wrong. It's because they go around telling people they're limited. Your beliefs, maybe in science, spirituality, Christianity, politics, or whatever, aren't wrong; they're low-level. The Gnostics hold themselves out as people who know more about whatever you're into than you do, and they explain their superiority as being "liberated" from the limitations "THEY" (your teachers, pastors, etc.) are placing upon your knowledge. They don't want you to know these secrets, but we do. That's the Gnostic temptation. Host James Lindsay breaks it down in this important episode of New Discourses Bullets, adding an example (https://www.dignityindex.us/index) of how the current Gnostic cults are trying to frame American values as level five out of eight in human dignity. Get James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2023 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #gnosticism

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay and you're listening to new discourses bullets where I take
0:15.4	on one topic from woke Marxism so that we can understand it kind of in like a bullet point
0:19.8	fashion so that we can beat this thing.
0:22.9	And the episode for today, I want to dive into a very kind of abstract thing.
0:28.8	I'm also going to present another one of these scoring indices that they're manipulating
0:35.2	the world with.
0:36.6	But what I want to talk about that's abstract to frame this out is the type of the mechanism
0:43.4	by which nosticism installs itself or persuades people to believe in it.
0:48.8	So you will know that I think that Marxism and woke and queer theory and critical race
0:54.8	theory and all of these are actually modern and postmodern variants of the ancient
1:00.2	gnostic religions.
1:02.0	If you've been following my longer form podcast and some of the bullets, what that means
1:06.7	is in short that they think that the universe or the world is constructed as a prison for
1:11.4	their higher level spirit that they are trapped within that that prison and that someone
1:18.6	or something has arranged the prison to keep them down and doesn't want them to get
1:23.5	out.
1:24.5	The gnostic faiths believe that the god in Genesis, for example, is actually a demon that
1:28.9	jails people in the material world so that they can't be as gods.
1:33.7	And what you are supposed to do is awaken to the true knowledge of how reality really
1:37.8	works.
1:38.8	That's your so-called creator is a demon that traps you in a prison of being so that you
1:44.3	can find your way to secret knowledge, noses, that's the gnostic part that you can use
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