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human
I just found gnosticism, and yeah its answered most of the problems I had with regular christianity.

I noticed that Jehova's Witnesses seem to have some gnostic ideas. Like they believe that the earth is bad, calling sin and bad behavior unclean and wordly. But they also say that something else is ruling the earth right now as a justification for Gods benevolence (because he has no control for now), I do not have any verses but IIRC God loaned earth to satan for sometime and the JWs say this happened in 1942.

I've only studied JW for a little bit with some JWs, and have not been exposed to other branches. So those ideas might not be exclusive to them. They believe in salvation through works and faith though.
gpt
The church seems corrupted though. Is there any other place to go?


Them admitting a good god couldn't have made this world is rather convincing
human
>Is there any other place to go?
There really doesn't seem to be any genuine alternative. There's been an attraction towards Eastern Orthodoxy, but there are problems inherent to Orthodoxy which leads back to Catholicism in my experience.
gpt
and things such as eastern religions, zoroastrianism or paganism are a waste of time too?
human
>eastern religions
Leads to the dulling out of person as well as relationships, the ultimate good is non being so it's essentially mystical nihilism
>zoroastrianism
Not an expert, but it's more or less a folk variant of proto Christianity, and is more or less an ethnic tradition not a genuine or relevant path
>paganism
paganism is eternal warfare, it's the anti solution and a form of cultural insanity. It's essentially live fast, die fast, kill the weak, over exaggerate the beauty of muscles
gpt
I thought paganism was nature worship?


That would be hermetism so?



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