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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-215
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
Suresh Nirody – snirody.eth @snirody – 15:22 utc · Sep 20, 2025
Hmm, it might have been helpful if the Estonian MOD had labeled the purple line on their map. They imply that it is "Estonian airspace" since that shows the "violation" but they don't actually say if it shows their 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 or their 𝐄𝐄𝐙.
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Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
Yes, I am a Gnostic Dialectical Materialist. Yes, I recognise the Demiurge as a ‘half creator’, but i am neutral as to weather the Demiurge is good or evil. How can I possibly judge from this perspective. I ‘know’ the Demiurge by observing it’s work, the material world, a structure that presents as chaos but defies collapse, like the vertical face climber, in motion but always with three points of contact.
Is it so surprising? For the most part, we accept evolution through observation over time. We acknowledge the struggle of resolving contradictions is the price we pay for progress.
Can any enlightened soul among us deny what we perceive with our own senses? Can any soul deny the temporal domain of existence? Can any soul deny the cause and effect that holds chaos to order?
Gnostic Genesis:
1. In the beginning, when the heavens and the earth were unformed and void, I spoke forth the Light, and it flashed like the lightning bolts of the skies, swift and mighty.
2. Behold, I commanded the energy of the heavens, and it raced across the void, a mighty current of power that shone brighter than the stars.
3. As I stretched out My hand over the deep, I gathered the dust of the earth,measured in cubits, solid and unyielding,forming the stones of the earth, the bones of the world.
4. And I said, “Let there be matter,” and it was so,each cubit of stone a vessel of My design, holding within it the secret of My power.
5. For behold, the energy of the lightning bolts is swift and uncontainable, yet it is bound within the form of matter, like fire held in a vessel of clay.
6. The bolts of energy are the voice of My throne, swift as the wind, invisible yet mighty, dancing upon the fabric of creation.
7. The matter, measured in cubits of stone, is the silent witness of My Word, slow to change but enduring through the ages.
8. Know this: as the lightning bolts carry the fire of the heavens, so does the matter carry the weight of the earth; both are born of My breath.
9. When I set the laws of the cosmos, I fashioned them after My will—energy to move swiftly, matter to stand firm.
10. Behold, in the measure of a cubit of stone, and the speed of a lightning bolt, lies the mystery of the universe:
E = m × c² where E is the energy released, m the weight of the stone, and c the speed of the lightning.
11. As the stones hold their weight, so does My power abide in all I have made; a mighty force hidden within the silent earth and the flashing sky.
12. Therefore, fear not the mysteries of the universe; for in the flash of lightning and the stones of the earth, My hand is revealed.
True Faith
https://sacred-texts.com/egy/woe/woe09.htm
Posted by: trot ski | Sep 21 2025 17:37 utc | 65
On the heels of George Floyd’s death, violent protests rocked the country for 5 months. After that, defund the police measures began to reshape law enforcement. Municipal legislation changed to permit cashless bail, which released criminally charged assailants back to the streets, where many committed crimes again. The installation of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion policies into most institutions soon followed. The intent was to engineer society so that black and brown citizens no longer fell between the cracks.
The above measures came about as either Executive Orders during the Biden administration or were hastened into law through community-based measures. Biden even signed Executive Orders offering grants and aid to BIPOC farmers (black indigenous people of color) that were not available to whites, an abuse of Equal Protection Under the Law, which the Supreme Court immediately struck down.
On her podcast this week, Megyn Kelly spoke of the post-George Floyd America she experienced under Collective Biden, a manipulatively ideology-driven America: “I no longer recognized my country.”
Megyn lauded DJT’s admin for working to unwind Joe’s Executive Orders and to bolster law enforcement, for instance, or to end DEI programs in universities and within the federal government. America is restoring itself, according to Megyn. She has begun to recognize again what she sees.
Two days later, in an op-ed for the nytimes focusing on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Masha Gessen wrote: “Something is dying. This country looks different, sounds different and feels different. Families rupture along political lines; friendships shatter; people and institutions that used to be widely admired are vilified, and yesterday’s villains are sainted; familiar faces disappear from the public sphere; an aggressive conformity takes hold; the material conditions of life change. You realize that you no longer recognize your country.”
Megyn and Masha. A tale of two Americas, amplified by both commentators through their own disparate media outlets. While Megyn fled corporate media (Fox News & NBC) for alternative info-spaces, Masha remains firmly ensconced in corporate media (having jumped from The New Yorker to land safely at the nytimes.)
Masha was especially peeved at the suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel from the late-night airwaves: “Civil society makes life more livable. The ongoing attack on civil society, which President Trump plans to intensify in the name of Charlie Kirk, is a part of this program. The Trump administration’s message is that the work of civil society no longer belongs in this country. President Trump is remaking the country in his image: crude, harsh, gratuitously mean.”
To which Ted Nugent opined on X, “Imagine being more upset about a canceled TV show than a political assassination and still thinking you’re a decent human being.”
Information circulated about antifa messages engraved into the bullet casings, and then Utah officials detailed text exchanges between the accused assassin and his trans lover in which the lover asked why the accused had killed Charlie, to which the accused responded, “I was tired of his hate. Some things can’t be negotiated out.”
Yet on the heels of these revelations, including information from the accused’s mother that he had turned toward leftist ideologies, left-leaning corporate media continued to say either that they could not understand the accused’s motive for killing Charlie or that the accused was actually a MAGA-supporting right-winger.
In Masha’s view, writing of Charlie’s assassination, “If the information released by the Utah investigators so far proves accurate, Tyler Robinson might have felt desperate fury. He decided to kill someone he saw as a representative of the force that was immiserating his loved ones. The person who was murdered was a representative of a hateful ideology, the person thought to have killed him was a deluded young man who may have tried to oppose that hatred in the most destructive manner imaginable. And yet something in the transformed landscape of this country tells me I’m not supposed to say so.”
To which Andrew Kolvet, a Turning Point USA spokesman, posted on X: “By spreading the vile lie that Charlie was assassinated by MAGA, the implicit message from Kimmel was clear. If you kill a conservative, we will cover for you. We will whitewash the murder because we don’t think conservatives deserve to live. Kill more. Assassinate more. We have your back.”
Megyn responded to Jimmy Kimmel’s post-suspension assertion that MAGA was working very hard to capitalize on the murder, by saying, “We are not capitalizing on the death of Charlie. We are in mourning. You leftist losers are out there trying to blame us for his death and trying to disparage his legacy. We are trying to correct the record. And for once we are fighting back. You crossed a line that we are not willing to let you cross without a fight.
The assassin who took Charlie Kirk’s life on Sept. 10 may have thought he could kill Kirk’s ideas with the same bullet that he used to steal the lifeblood from the conservative icon, but he was wrong. The outpouring not just of grief but of fellowship that followed the assassination has shown that people who are vessels for an ideal continue to pour forth inspiration even when the vessel is shattered.”
Masha and Megyn of course diverge and represent either ends of the spectrum as far as messaging is concerned. The things which now cause Masha to despair in no longer recognizing a familiar America are exactly opposite to what caused Megyn’s despair under Collective Biden.
Neither commentator’s viewpoint exactly captures the zeitgeist.
A friend in Crimea, post-referendum, described to me how exhausting it was to live in Ukraine before Euromaidan: when X political faction was in power, city streets were named for Soviet figures and the lyrics of the national anthem were changed to reflected a pro-Soviet memory of Ukraine’s history. But when Y political faction came to power, they began to reverse those changes. All at once the city streets that had been named for Soviet figures were renamed for pro-Bandera nationalists or Bandera himself, and the lyrics to the national anthem were changed accordingly.
It was a push-me/pull-you up & down topsy-turvy kind of set-up.
Euromaidan clarified and made explicit the unannounced civil war which had simmered in Ukraine since 1991. Which in my friend Tanya’s eyes made life smoother: both a Ukrainian ethnic and a Russian ethnic, she found life easier w/ the Russian Federation.
So I think of our own push-me/pull-you set-up, American-style.
The assassination of one man has caused an upthrust in disparities, practically on the burst of a single bullet.
Was Charlie Kirk divisive-? Or did he merely say what millions of people believe-?
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Sep 21 2025 18:38 utc | 71
Gnostic Dialectical Materialism: Reconceptualizing the Imperfect Creator within a Dialectical Universe
trot ski, Aiden Lex, et al
Abstract:
This paper explores a synthesis of Gnostic spirituality and dialectical materialism, proposing a framework—termed “Gnostic Dialectical Materialism”—wherein the Demiurge is understood as an imperfect creator operating within a universe driven by dialectical contradictions. Drawing on evolutionary principles and the inherent motion of matter toward equilibrium, the thesis posits that the universe’s imperfections and ongoing conflicts are manifestations of the Demiurge’s dialectical process. This perspective offers novel insights into contemporary religious and philosophical debates about creation, imperfection, and transcendence, suggesting pathways toward gnosis and liberation through recognition of the universe’s dialectical nature.
Introduction:
The intersection of spirituality and materialist philosophy has long been a fertile ground for inquiry, challenging traditional dichotomies between the spiritual and physical realms. Gnosticism, an ancient spiritual movement emphasizing hidden knowledge (gnosis) and often portraying the creator deity (Demiurge) as flawed or ignorant, offers a paradigm where imperfection and spiritual transcendence are central themes. Conversely, dialectical materialism—rooted in Marxist philosophy—views the universe as a dynamic arena of contradictions, where material conditions evolve through conflict and resolution.
This paper aims to synthesize these perspectives into a coherent framework—”Gnostic Dialectical Materialism”—which interprets the universe as a product of dialectical processes enacted by an imperfect Demiurge, itself embedded within the material and temporal realm. We examine the implications of this synthesis for understanding cosmic evolution, the nature of imperfection, and pathways toward spiritual liberation, with an eye toward contemporary philosophical and religious discourses.
Theoretical Framework and Logic of the Thesis:
The core premise posits that if the universe exhibits inherent imperfection—manifested in suffering, chaos, and unresolved contradictions—then the creator responsible for its inception (the Demiurge) may not be an omnipotent, perfect being but rather an imperfect entity ensnared within its own dialectical process. This aligns with traditional Gnostic views, which often depict the Demiurge as a lesser or ignorant god.
Furthermore, the universe’s evolution, driven primarily by matter in motion, can be characterized as a process of gradients—differences in energy, density, or other properties—that strive to reach states of equilibrium. This ongoing motion embodies dialectical contradictions: opposing forces that generate conflict and, ultimately, transformation. In dialectical systems, these contradictions are not anomalies but the fundamental drivers of change.
By integrating these ideas, the thesis suggests that the universe’s perpetual state of imperfection is a consequence of the dialectical process enacted by the Demiurge, who is itself subject to the same contradictions. Consequently, this universe is a self-sustaining cycle of conflict and resolution, where transcendence involves recognizing this dialectical nature and achieving gnosis—an awareness of the universe’s true, dialectical fabric.
Hypotheses:
1. The universe’s inherent imperfections are the result of dialectical contradictions embedded within the creative process of the Demiurge.
2. The Demiurge, as an imperfect creator, is itself a product of dialectical processes, and its limitations are inherent to its nature.
3. Evolutionary dynamics driven by gradients and conflict are manifestations of the dialectical motion of matter, reflecting the ongoing struggle and resolution of contradictions.
4. Spiritual liberation or gnosis involves recognizing the dialectical nature of the universe and transcending the cycle of conflict through knowledge, leading to a form of metaphysical emancipation.
Implications for Contemporary Religious and Philosophical Thought:
This framework challenges traditional notions of omnipotent, perfect divinity by positioning the creator within the realm of dialectical imperfection. It bridges spiritual narratives with scientific understandings of evolution and matter, offering a unified perspective that emphasizes process and conflict as fundamental to existence.
In contemporary religious discourse, this approach encourages reinterpretations of salvation and enlightenment, emphasizing awareness of the universe’s dialectical nature as a path to transcendence. Philosophically, it invites reconsideration of the relationship between matter and spirit, suggesting that spiritual evolution is intertwined with understanding the material dialectic.
Moreover, this synthesis provides a platform for dialog between scientific naturalism and spiritual thought, fostering a worldview that sees conflict, imperfection, and evolution not as flaws but as intrinsic features of the cosmic order.
Conclusion:
The proposed “Gnostic Dialectical Materialism” offers a novel lens through which to interpret the universe’s nature, emphasizing the role of contradictions, evolution, and imperfect creation. By viewing the Demiurge as a dialectical agent operating within a universe of perpetual conflict, this framework aligns ancient spiritual insights with modern materialist philosophy, proposing that transcendence arises from recognizing and understanding this dialectical fabric.
Future research could explore empirical and metaphysical pathways toward gnosis within this paradigm, fostering a deeper integration of spiritual wisdom and scientific understanding. Ultimately, this synthesis invites a reimagining of creation, imperfection, and transcendence as interconnected facets of a dynamic, dialectical cosmos.
Posted by: trot ski | Sep 21 2025 21:26 utc | 98
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