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Gnostics believe that Satan created 'matter', ie the material world, hence this world is literally a prison created to keep our spirit in bondage and away from God.
we are merely giving names to things, providing interpretations and not really answering anything.
Sorry but your wrong op.
with this statement alone, you've destroyed the rest of your post
Originally posted by TheSubversiveOne
reply to post by dominicus
Sorry but your wrong op.
with this statement alone, you've destroyed the rest of your post
This is the extent of your posts—sweeping assertions with little to no argument. Sometimes it's nice to tell people they are wrong, but if you wish to convince them, it helps to add an argument or two.
we are merely giving names to things, providing interpretations and not really answering anything.
Originally posted by dominicus
Originally posted by TheSubversiveOne
reply to post by dominicus
Sorry but your wrong op.
with this statement alone, you've destroyed the rest of your post
This is the extent of your posts—sweeping assertions with little to no argument. Sometimes it's nice to tell people they are wrong, but if you wish to convince them, it helps to add an argument or two.
DOes it even matter what I say, since you said:
we are merely giving names to things, providing interpretations and not really answering anything.
Then no matter what I say, claim, state, argue .....it's all going to be "names to things, and interpretations," and therefore we reach a dead end with no answers and back to square one. This is the point of the OP, is that everything is pointless and there are no answers and never will be.
On the other hand, I'm saying there is a purpose. We can start with existence and our experience of it. The basic fundamentals. Do you dent existence and your experience of it? Do you exist? Do you experience?
I think your interpretation matters to you, but it doesn't matter to me, much like my interpretation doesn't matter to you.
What you make of things has no bearing on what I make of things.
We experience something and we conceive of what we just experienced from our own perspective, through our own eyes, and built upon our own wealth of what we consider knowledge. Our context is different and thus our fables are different.
But would you disagree that what you make of the universe, how you understand it and attempt to express it, isn't your own interpretation of it?
Would you argue that what you think is fundamental is fundamental to everyone?
To me, it's wrong to suggest that something without purpose or pointless is also without value. I would hold that it's the exact opposite, and that that which is without rhyme or reason is much more valuable than something endowed with what a human thinks is meaning—something contrived, a work of fiction. Because something suits our fancy doesn't mean it has purpose or meaning, it only shows that it is useful to us, or is important to our existence, like dung is to the dung beetle. We of course wouldn't value dung as the beetle does, just as it wouldn't value gold as we do.
I agree that existence is important and valuable to us, but there is nothing that shows existence is a purpose or has a point, or that it is our purpose to exist.
If not Here then Where?..Nowhere?...To feel Nothing?
No Person, Religion or Masonic Knowledge Can Answer 'How' or 'Why' We Are Here