What is your take on gnosticism ?

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It's like solipsism. How would you disprove it? How would you argue that there is a world outside the individual if all the evidence you give is part of the very world they deny exists?

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You can't prove beliefs. This dilemma is as old as logic itself. Pascal went very, very desperate and depressive over it, but "found" something relatively plausible anyway.

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You can't always prove them but you can rationally argue for them. Some beliefs are well founded and other beliefs aren't.

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Nowadays, every "non-productive" time spent has to follow economic considerations. That is why developing a real understanding for ethic rationales (e.g.) went out of focus for a lot of people.

Imho this is the reason why Gnosticism was "simplified" to the Classical Christian Religion the same as Hinduism with its endless facets was "simplified" to Buddhism. To shorten the time needed for a basic understanding of it.