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Thread to discuss ancient concepts and ideas on past Edens. The idea of the demiurge and the "heretical" concepts many early gnostic Jews had of Jesus, Satan etc. are the first things many people think of when the subject of Gnosticism is breached. To me however all that stuff is secondary. The primary focus of Gnostic worldcoew is the Spirit/Soul dichotomy and how it relates to the Universe and the afterlife.
<Gnosticism is not about belief. "Gnosis" is the greek word for knowledge, and the entire endeavor of Gnosticism is to acquire true knowledge, of the Self and where we come from.
In Gnostic texts Jesus doesn't teach you to believe anything, he simply says to examine yourself.
>Protip, anyone who's trying to gatekeep Gnosticism is probably just a Christian (read: circumcised psychopaths who love the demiurge) who doesn't want Gnostics to grow in number.

Psychedelic General
Post stories
Recommendations
Advice insight
And whatever you want as long as it’s on topic
Just keep in mind psychedelics are a tool and people can use tools in all sorts of ways from attaining enlightenment to driving into a tree
And finally not everything is for everyone including psychedelics

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https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-maximum-days-to-pause-windows-update-in-windows-11.9202/
https://windirstat.net/
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Lets Predict the future, by analyzing Mass Psychology

So far we got repeating cycles of chaos and order, the shifting of mass opinion and acceptance.
We want to collect significant soykafs of the past and, what it results to in the future.
What the general public out-ruled in the 70s is now commonly popular, while old fashioned values are despised mostly.

I.e.
Public opinion impact of the Vietnam war, resulting peace movements and general sentiment.
The Ukraine war, and the general shift towards polarization in the public, that means siding with either Russia or the west.
Public opinion about homosexuality back then, and its massive shift towards glorification nowadays.
Periods of darkness and dogma, Periods of enlightenment and liberation

So on, you get the point, we collect what changed and by that maybe are able to predict further changes.
Again, its just to guess and assume, for the fun. Dont eat another. Just throw in contradiction to the past, which differ from previously mainstream dogma.

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movies from the last 5 years that I haven't seen
I liked t-34 (2019) when I watched it some years ago. I looked up the people involved with it but it doesn't seem like they have done anything similar since. I know tank movies are like the russian equivalent of capeshit but still, it was refreshing that it portrayed war more from the perspective of a wagner group or azov battalion nihilist rather than the typical solemn volunteer or unwilling recruit. the protagonists are fighting, having fun, killing nazis, and winning, what else could you ask for?

I just looked up all the directors listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_eccentric_cinema and all I see between 2019-now is either slop or just nonsense, it's garbage, bullshit content made for streaming platforms. I also looked up chinese directors but unfortunately that's a country where the adults are in charge so even the so called propaganda movies are serious and sad (🙁) and kind of preachy in a patriotic superego way

as you can see I'm a very basic and prejudiced person, recommend movies in that time range that I can enjoy

Something that seems to be gaining more popularity lately is sample free vaporwave, or vaporwave which samples original composition as opposed to pre existing music. Besides the common criticisms against it such as; it goes against the very nature of the genre, or defeats the whole purpose, I think it's particularly interesting from a leftist perspective.
Vaporwave started off being made and shared anonymously online by working class people with no regards for copyright infringement. Essentially, it was a big middle finger to the very idea of intellectual property. Then you get into the genre's critique of capitalism, satire of consumerism, and so forth. Anyway, the genre gradually died out, losing its relevance along the way, and around the same time an enigmatic album called "virtua.zip" was released. Meet George Clanton, now multimillionaire record label owner/petit bourgeois hipster, the progenitor of sample free vaporwave. This album challenged the foundations of vaporwave, but also paved the way for the eventual commodification and subsequent recuperation of the genre, the very thing it was critiquing in the first place.
Since vaporwave had been growing increasingly popular, this also meant it was quickly transforming into a marketable product. Pioneering the forefront of this was George Clanton, who quickly rose from a nobody from Virginia into a small-time superstar. He found success in starting one of the first vaporwave record labels, transforming vaporwave into a "brand", as well as hosting the first ever vaporwave music festival (which insisted it was a "safe space" for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folx despite selling out 100$ tickets to white hipsters anyway) among other things. At the same time the genre saw a shift away from its roots towards original composition and a more "experimental" sound, which in turn increased the rate of its commercialization even faster. Fast forward to today and you have vaporwave labels by the hundreds, endless vaporwave "fashion" (including an actual in-store location in LA), and the transition away from a loosely interconnected movement into a DIY "scene". Not to mention vaporwave aesthetics ironically being appropriated by corporations like Facebook and MTV among other things.
Among these sample free vaporwave artists, the majority come from a petit bourgeois background, having access to thousands of dollars worth of instruments, equipment, and gear. As you might guess, there's an air of elitism among them, Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

http://markluskin.blogspot.com/2011/03/from-archive-dark-deco-by-dr-michael.html?m=1
&ltthe Art Deco enthusiast, like the devotee of Expressionism, is by that interest making a statement about the nature of his or her soul. He or she is impatient with surface images, bored with frippery, and drawn by the weird and the outré. Art Deco portrays the human being as one secretly wishes to be: a kind of _Metropolis_ robot[rix] with a dispassionate, cool, and cruel disposition. Art Deco is never warm, cozy, reassuring; it is glacial and impersonal. Those fearful of, dissatisfied with, or contemptuous of human emotions seek in Art Deco a mirror which will show them - and reinforce in them - only the non-human aspects of their souls.

Post pics of your favourite pieces of art deco.
Pic related: Hoover building, A40 (Western Avenue), London, England.

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The ur-reactionary film

From time to time you get these right wing movies such as 300 and Conan the Barbarian which I call "reactionary films", i.e. any movie which is based on some hypermasculine white guy beating back the androgyne, ethnic forces of evil. Conan the Barbarian (1982) is the perfect example of this, the ur-reactionary movie

TLDR: Conan the barbarian (1982 movies) is a 1980s right wing movie, part of the Reagan turn/backlash against the 60s/70s. The witch he encounters and has sex with early through the movie is supposed to represent the evils of "free love", she literally turns into a ghost demon as she orgasms. The whole part where the girls father, the king asks Conan to get his daughter back from Thulsa Doom who is (probably) sexing his daughter. The cultists of Thulsa doom are supposed to be an analogue for hippie-commune 1960s people who tell Conan to "go back to the land" and have flower power shit. Next there's there's the gay snake-priest that tries to seduce Conan but Conan beats him up. The Villain of the movie is an ultra masculine deep voice black man (James Earl Jones as "Thulsa Doom") who has hypnotized a cult full of nubile dancing white girls into a sexualized stupor, sort of combining 1970s anti cult shit with anti hippie stuff. At the end the hippies put out their new age candles and shit and leave, and the girls go back to their fathers. All delivered by an ultramasculine white man (Arnie) to defeat and buckbreak black hypermasculinity (James Earl Jones). Essentially its the artistic reaction to undo the 1960s/70s and everything about it including sexuality, race, etc.

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I: Introduction

Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 epic sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by him and Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard‘s Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role and James Earl Jones, with Sandahl Bergman, Gerry Lopez, Max von Sydow, Mako, Sven-Ole Thorsen, and Ben Davidson.

The film gave Schwarzenegger worldwide recognition, and in the years since its release, it became a cult film, making a lot more money on home video. It spawned a sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984, and a reboot was made in 2011.

A link to quotes from the film can be found here.
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