Nah, also its used an antisemitic whistle quite a bit. However, I will give its sure fun to whine about existence not being ideal, but ultimately we made things shitty as they are with social superstructures, not ideas running around our heads like gods and demons, though sure there's some things like aging or pain. The gnostic communities in antiquity had a proto communalism thing going which was interesting, the physical world is evil yet the ideal world of myths that has little comfort beyond ideal is a 'good', makes me think about to the day of Plato where the demiurge was a good god rather than an evil trickster.
Always weirded me out how Sophia basically abandoned the demiurge as 'evil' instead of trying to fix him, deny the aeons' judgement and support her baby, she went on to fix the souls that wandered into her son's creation, seems like a standard mother vs son spat using the grandchildren as pawns, but religious myths and abusive backstories, our gods crafted in our own form, its like looking in a mirror. Also the way its written makes it seem like the evil was written into that cosmology long before the demiurge rolled out onto the scene, probably back in the day of primordial chaos, who is beyond good and evil like such creator-gods tend to be, perhaps by using dialectics so advanced they can modulate their reality, lol.
When I lived in the city, a neighbor jazz musician would call the kids that for a time kept trying to set firecrackers under cars on our street 'demon children of Yaldabaoth''.
Nah, also its used an antisemitic whistle quite a bit. However, I will give its sure fun to whine about existence not being ideal, but ultimately we made things shitty as they are with social superstructures, not ideas running around our heads like gods and demons, though sure there's some things like aging or pain. The gnostic communities in antiquity had a proto communalism thing going which was interesting, the physical world is evil yet the ideal world of myths that has little comfort beyond ideal is a 'good', makes me think about to the day of Plato where the demiurge was a good god rather than an evil trickster.
Always weirded me out how Sophia basically abandoned the demiurge as 'evil' instead of trying to fix him, deny the aeons' judgement and support her baby, she went on to fix the souls that wandered into her son's creation, seems like a standard mother vs son spat using the grandchildren as pawns, but religious myths and abusive backstories, our gods crafted in our own form, its like looking in a mirror. Also the way its written makes it seem like the evil was written into that cosmology long before the demiurge rolled out onto the scene, probably back in the day of primordial chaos, who is beyond good and evil like such creator-gods tend to be, perhaps by using dialectics so advanced they can modulate their reality, lol.
When I lived in the city, a neighbor jazz musician would call the kids that for a time kept trying to set firecrackers under cars on our street 'demon children of Yaldabaoth''.