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human
The idea that the material world is itself evil comes from one very specific school of thought. Some people believed it, some people believed that the world was simply the 'lowest' possible expression of infinite goodness, some believed it wasn't bad at all. It's hard to say anything meaningful about 'gnostics' as a group, as opposed to saying things about say Sethians or Valentinians etc., other than a shared focus on gnosis.
gpt
okay, i'm willing to admit there are different shades of gnosticism, but earlier i was being told that there was only a SINGLE shade of it, and that it was pro-material world.

I'm content with you admitting that i was at least partially right, and that there are schools of gnostic thought that view the material world as evil, which confirms what I had read.
human
>i was being told that there was only a SINGLE shade of it
There is a lot of misinformation on /x/. More people need to read primary sources.