Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Semi OT - and you won't thank me for this - mirrors are seriously weird

SamTherapy opened this issue on Dec 27, 2009 · 81 posts


HeWhoWatches posted Fri, 01 January 2010 at 1:21 PM

Quote - God created the light and Devil made the darkness.
As 95% of the matter in the Universe is dark matter the Universe is ruled by Lucifer.

If anything it's the other way around.  Lucifer means "light-bringer."  Lucifer is actually a heroic figure, and is celebrated in every religion except christianity -- the only ones who celebrate ignorance.  The light-bringer figure is the one who brings fire (that is, power and knowledge) to humanity by stealing it from the gods, and is punished by the gods for doing so.  The Greeks had the titan Prometheus, the First Nations had Coyote, et al.  Humanity, according to Genesis, were created deliberately ignorant and condemned to be Yahweh's contented lapdogs for all eternity until the Serpent convinced them to eat of the Tree of Knowledge.  Interestingly, this isn't why Yahweh cast humanity out of the Garden:

*And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." * [Genesis 3:22 NIV]

In other words, the Serpent convinced humanity to eat of the Tree of Knowledge, and now Yahweh is worried that with this knowledge they may make themselves gods in their own right by becoming immortal and as great as he.  The Serpent is humanity's saviour, and is punished like Prometheus by being cast into the Lake of Fire to burn for all eternity.

(Interestingly, Jesus refers to himself as the "Morningstar," one of Lucifer's titles.  The Gnostic interpretation of the Bible is that Yahweh is actually quite an evil entity, and that he's merely a groundskeeper for the true Creator -- who will one day return and be mighty pissed to discover Yahweh has been populating the Earth with these nasty little human things made in Yahweh's flawed and brutish image.  As support for this the Gnostics note that Genesis uses two different terms for "God": the first creates the heavens and the Earth, while the second -- that is, the "Voice of God" -- goes walking in the Garden.  This second would be Yahweh, the Demi-Urge, and the one against whom Lucifer rebels, saving humanity from him.)