tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post1018038772722835790..comments2024-03-24T00:16:17.304-07:00Comments on Storming the Ivory Tower: Seer of Light: Ascend (Why Homestuck is a Gnostic Story)Sam Keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00863236889998956170noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-14783769539317687932020-06-17T02:11:53.346-07:002020-06-17T02:11:53.346-07:00Nice post keep sharing such kind of quality Stuff ...Nice post keep sharing such kind of quality Stuff you must visit online games where you find excellent stuff. TO find top account on instagram, please visit site <a href="https://www.desksta.com/" title="instagram viewer" rel="nofollow">instagram viewer</a>Sophie Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09769321133171248409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-1471107348628473452020-06-10T09:53:46.149-07:002020-06-10T09:53:46.149-07:00This article gives the light in which we can obser...This article gives the light in which we can observe the reality. This is very nice one and gives in depth information. Thanks for this nice article.<br />best warm mist humidifierhttps://viewtoptenbest.com/10-room-humidifiers/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-65672317240564263752017-04-19T03:43:43.324-07:002017-04-19T03:43:43.324-07:00The deck is 54-inches wide and is made with robust...The deck is 54-inches wide and is made with robust metal. The Poulan seasoned 960420174 comes with a 10-year belt and deck assurance … examine complete assessment. <a href="http://www.howdoesyourgardenmow.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howdoesyourgardenmow.com/</a><br />rabiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13259392919795068205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-10762482176907637662016-09-22T08:39:15.476-07:002016-09-22T08:39:15.476-07:00Rereading this after the fact.....
Your predictio...Rereading this after the fact.....<br /><br />Your predictions regarding the end of homestuck, when combined with, firstly, the analysis of gnostic themes interwoven consistently over a protracted period of time throughout homestuck, <br /><br />secondly, alongside Andrew Hussie's previous experience working with the story as a means of describing storytelling itself in Problem Sleuth, and<br /><br />thirdly, the actual ending of homestuck<br /><br />Lead me to find it exceedingly hard to believe that gnosticism did not have an explicit role in Hussie's work, and that your analysis is not, for want of a better description, fucking spot on. <br /><br />Amazing.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-79113787845430656132015-07-03T04:31:45.525-07:002015-07-03T04:31:45.525-07:00Your blogs and its stuff are so notable and worthw...Your blogs and its stuff are so notable and worthwhile it can make me return. <a href="http://towerlightshire.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Tower lights hire</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-22677611677362296812015-05-19T23:16:23.779-07:002015-05-19T23:16:23.779-07:00Interesting analysis, but... I'm not so sure a...Interesting analysis, but... I'm not so sure about your use of the lit and critical theory that underpins it. Texts do not mean anything. We create meaning by reading and interpreting them through our own contexts and experiences. We only find meaning in works because of the other experiences that we can use to contextualize them. There is no hidden meaning to be decoded; we read and interpret, based upon the text and our points of reference. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-21428218739365241692014-08-13T14:00:04.409-07:002014-08-13T14:00:04.409-07:00An incredibly interesting article! I almost wish t...An incredibly interesting article! I almost wish this could be revisited in light of more recent plot developments.<br />One thing in particular that stuck out to me was when you pointed out that Caliborn wasn't much of a demiurge, just a destroyer. But since this was written, Caliborn began drawing an in-universe parody of Homestuck called Homosuck, and of course uses its characters to play out his own childish fantasies. This seems to be an almost perfect parallel to Yaltabaoth creating the physical world as a sort of subconscious imitation of the (if you delve into Platonism a bit) "perfect" model.<br />(Note that this came from only a few minutes of very quick research, however, and I may have misinterpreted some of this.)<br /><br />Then there's John using his plot-hopping powers to actually enter Homosuck, which has...some big mythological significance, I'm sure. Not really an Adam metaphor, as John wasn't created by Caliborn, he's an outside being entering Caliborn's flawed universe, similar to Sophia going down into Yaldabaoth's material reality...<br /><br />Gah, I'm not smart enough to figure all this out. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-62212492828295681252014-06-13T18:24:44.716-07:002014-06-13T18:24:44.716-07:00I love this. I never got around to saying that whe...I love this. I never got around to saying that when I first read this but damn, this is great. <br /><br />I don't think that I'll ever be content until I can check off "I have written a book that Sam Keeper talked about in one of these spectacular posts!" from my list now. <br /><br />"I suspect very strongly that Homestuck will end not with just the creation of a new universe, but with the creation of a universe free of the baleful influence of SBURB. A universe where the game is never created.<br /><br />"...Or, you know, the kids could end up creating the universe needed for Caliborn and Calliope's session. Hell, that might be just as likely given the recurring theme of failed creation. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.<br /><br />"But my money is on the idea that the gods of the new world will be establishing a paradise beyond the reach of Skaia's passive malevolence. And we may even speculate that the Dreaming Dead will have a rebirth in this new paradise.<br /><br />"Either way, I think we're going to see plenty more Gnostic nods in the text, and I think what we can take away from them is that SBURB is a game ultimately of transcendence and maturation."<br /><br />I wonder if this is just me going "Hello! I'm here and I exist and I have opinions too! Why is nobody looking at me?" but I wanted to say it anyway since the voice suggesting that is probably not the voice I should be listening to. <br /><br />Anyway...<br /><br />I find myself conflicted on what to expect here. On the one hand I can totally see the kids making a Sburb-less universe. That's... probably where it's going to go. <br /><br />But I'm only saying that because of what I know of the author and how he handles things. Part of me wants to reject that idea out of hand and say that the Fix, so to speak, will simply be destroying Lord English and that the universe they create will have Sburb in it. This is because the theme of growing up, especially with the footnote that the process requires that you confront your mortality, speaks very strongly to me. Also it speaks well to my Inner Existentialist for there to be a series of universes sacrificing worlds here and there within themselves in order to be producing more universes, a process that is ultimately just the universe's method for propagating itself but which, for its inhabitants, has incredible meaning (and yet a meaning that has been granted, not found to be inherent in the system). <br /><br />But more fundamentally my terminal value is complexity more than, say, the happiness of any given number of lives, so I don't see any conflict in the reduction of complexity that a world's destruction presents in return for the possibly incomparable net gain of complexity that is presented by the creation of a whole new universe (even if Sburb destroyed the entire universe, which seems to be a fluke tied to the flawed nature of the specific universes we see in Homestuck, you're still allowing for the perpetual existence of a series of universes rather than waiting for a single universe to die without a successor, and so my only desire there would be to trigger Sburb as close to heat death as possible). <br /><br />So something else I'd like to say, and maybe the only thing that makes this comment worthwhile, is: It's very weird to look at a narrative, see the twists and flavors of it, and know that even if you had started with the same characters in the same setting in the same (at least initial) circumstances, you would still have taken it in a different direction and not because you get your inspiration from a different muse so much as because your value system, heck, your whole stinking paradigm, is different from the author's. Callmesalticidaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13295676800846037056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-84524604817565673792013-12-21T11:48:20.965-08:002013-12-21T11:48:20.965-08:00I know this is completely far in the future, and y...I know this is completely far in the future, and you may have addressed this in the future, but here is something interesting:<br /><br />John Egbert has begun to escape the bonds of SBURB and the Alpha Timeline by placing his hand in a representation of SBURB.<br /><br />This seems somewhat relevant to this article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-22286738467171609012013-08-21T06:06:32.988-07:002013-08-21T06:06:32.988-07:00Gnosticism, particularly in its creation story, ha...Gnosticism, particularly in its creation story, has a lot to do with Orphism and Platonism: the Demiurge comes from these two traditions. Basically, when Christianity spread into Greece it did so by allying/absorbing various Greek pagan traditions, much like it did in Central and Western Europe(for instance, Zeus Monotheism; it isn't an accident our idea of god looks like the Greek idea of Zeus). Gnosticism then is a mixture of Jewish and specifically Christian religious themes with certain of these Greek non-civic religious traditions. The same can be said of Mainline early Christianity too, of course. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-53412016799430018302013-07-23T17:07:06.149-07:002013-07-23T17:07:06.149-07:00Just a small point of note, Jade wasn't shooti...Just a small point of note, Jade wasn't shooting a Bec-shaped fruit, it was a pinata hanging from the tree. Other than that, really insightful article, and no doubt I'll be reading many more!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-89796714736948094352013-02-24T14:32:15.456-08:002013-02-24T14:32:15.456-08:00This is very interesting. ^^ A thought about Karka...This is very interesting. ^^ A thought about Karkat, though- I think there are two Gnostic characters he could embody. Someone who goes forward to create something, but does so lacking avery key component that would allow their creation to be complete and beneficial. Someone who later realizes their error and tries to help their creations as a form of repenting. While he could be a representation of the Demiurge, Karkat could also embody Sophia. <br />Of course, he's about as good at being the Light of Wisdom as he is at being Yaltabaoth- that is to say, not very. He honestly is trying to give the kids knowledge and steer them away from a bad path, but he allows his own anger to keep him from thinking and thus ensures that they won't listen to him. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-21121176596843326862012-12-08T22:15:47.103-08:002012-12-08T22:15:47.103-08:00... also, it occurs to me that the Cherubs form an...... also, it occurs to me that the Cherubs form an interesting parallel with the male-female paired Aeons. It looks like, from Andrew's in-comic conversation with Caliborn, that cherubs are meant to naturally form a more cooperative, symbiotic relationship with their siblings. But Caliborn, like Sophia, is the one who rejected that - he's the one who went off ON HIS OWN, without the compliment of Calliope to keep himself balanced.vacantVisionarynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-62754450688756469182012-12-08T22:05:54.711-08:002012-12-08T22:05:54.711-08:00Dang, that was a really fascinating read!
((You mi...Dang, that was a really fascinating read!<br />((You might want to bring up Calliope's first in-comic conversation with Jane:<br />UU: and while the emerald eye of this storm is fixed in the abyss forever<br />UU: today yoU are poised to escape its scowl once and for all.<br />UU: by skaias gUiding light, yoU may leave behind its tUrning arms of bright coloUrs and mayhem, and secUre peace for yoUr cosmic progeny for all dUration.))vacantVisionarynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-31494411089025476812012-12-04T09:49:03.461-08:002012-12-04T09:49:03.461-08:00The bit about this I enjoy the very most is the id...The bit about this I enjoy the very most is the idea that the Beforan trolls' horrific arrested development is part of a larger commentary on individuation, and not lazy parodic slapstick, which is how it initially felt to me.<br /><br />Caliborn's intermission and the stuff in it about masculine/feminine integration in Cherubs was like a sockful of Jung to the face and fits with the gnostic interpretation very neatly...Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12899113032883452997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-66255096622654037472012-12-04T09:09:24.888-08:002012-12-04T09:09:24.888-08:00I wish I wasn't so dense as to notice these th...I wish I wasn't so dense as to notice these things without having them pointed out to me. :/Wilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04249219373341330543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-25401718961648259262012-12-03T23:07:29.384-08:002012-12-03T23:07:29.384-08:00very awesome, long but goodvery awesome, long but goodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-63630315519505665672012-12-03T22:54:46.230-08:002012-12-03T22:54:46.230-08:00You know, I never thought of Homestuck in such a d...You know, I never thought of Homestuck in such a deep manner. I think I have some more thinking to do now, actually.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-54929635572436076542012-12-03T21:17:21.709-08:002012-12-03T21:17:21.709-08:00that was gloriousthat was gloriousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com