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Aug 23Liked by Ethical Skeptic ☀

The creator of this piece is brilliant at questioning things of what is possible, and the tests included and bring forth many complex things. Thank you for sharing this post today.

The Creator gave us two bodies: physical and spirit. When the physical body is worn out perhaps through hacking might last a little longer than expected. Every living being experiences a birth and death as it has been alluded to. Yet we continue in the spirit format of energy and vibrations similar to the human body while in existence. The near-death experiences there is something more than life out there and some people may be reincarnated until they get things right in some traditions. While they remember the past life of someone else and confirmed by the living friends and relatives of the events when possible.

The physical body cannot be transformed into a hologram but the spirit aspect highly unlikely. They can try to emulate a person life voice image knowledge but can't transform it something else. The programming is only as good as the human that input the information it may hold bias; dislike perhaps likes and achieve unconditional emotion of love is quite complicated in the dynamics. It may detect the change in the voice of a human if sick or happy. It lacks the soul or heart as expressed in human species. For it exists similar to a corporation in a sense.

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Aug 23Liked by Ethical Skeptic ☀

Wow. That was actually beautiful.

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Aug 23Liked by Ethical Skeptic ☀

I love it! Have you read John Lamb Lash' book Not In His Image? I am a rabid student of his work & translation of the Nag Hammadi texts.

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Aug 23Liked by Ethical Skeptic ☀

It’s a better explanation than we’re in purgatory

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Doesn’t have to be gnostic.

Christianity (specifically Orthodox) fulfills the same explanation.

Take a look at father Seraphim Rose, The Soul after Death.

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Gnosticism cites that the God of Eden is the Demiurge/Enlil/Yahweh/Samael. They are in conflict. The creators of man, did so through malice and selfishness. Not a teaching of captured Christianity (Mithraism) at all.

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Aug 23Liked by Ethical Skeptic ☀

I know what Gnosticism teaches.

I’m saying that an alternate explanation to the gnostic view is equally valid. Namely that we are beings that are more than the sum of our bodies (brains) and that death is not the end but merely a separation of that nonmaterial entity from its material representation.

That said I agree with your conclusion (if I understood it correctly) that a true replica of a human in machine form is not possible. (Which is also explainable by Christianity).

Different belief systems that’s all. Whereas Gnosticism promises that we can be true gods in essence because of the spark of the Devine given by Sophia, Christianity states that we can be gods (in energies) through the word’s incarnation in Jesus.

I have not seen or heard of anyone become god according to the former but have heard of some becoming gods (theosis) according to the latter with miracles (events that break or bend the rules of the material world with no explanations otherwise) performed. Hence, I choose the latter system.

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Aug 23·edited Aug 23Author

I see your focus now, yes. However, any philosophy of duality precludes the 'human replicated fully in machine form.' So they all do that, save for nihilism/monism. It is not a particularly unique claim.

Gnosticism contrasts our state with the artificial essence of our false Gods. That is unique. I am not entirely sure that Christ worshiped the God of Eden.

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