From jasper@insaneoc.com Sun Sep 24 20:53:50 2000
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Subject: Re: 'm a gn*sticist here
From: Jasper Janssen <jasper@insaneoc.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 03:53:50 +0200

jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III) wrote:

>Gnosticism, in both its major flavors, is a belief that the physical
>world that we know and inhabit is fundamentally fucked up.
>One branch is vaguely western, and holds that the material world
>is basically the result of an accident of one sort or another.  This
>sort tends to get some really elaborate and ornate theological baggage
>associated with it, since it has Greek and Christian roots.  You can
>end up with a chain of scores of deities from the "real" God, down to
>the poor, deluded schmuck who isn't aware of those entities above him,
>thinks he's the shit, and created this God-forsaken hell we live in.

So God isn't the Oracle, he's Zadoc.
He's not the BOFH, but the PFY.
He's not Novak, but Erikson.

That would explain a _lot_.


Jasper