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Konkvistador comments on Politics Discussion Thread January 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2013 05:50:54PM 1 point [-]

Let alone how this applies to the Dickian Gnosticism we talked about just a few days ago!

Okay, this joke's totally on you! Dick (and some earlier Gnostics) essentially made the very same suggestion on metaphysical knowledge that I entertain here about social knowledge; it's an unknown known that most people already happen to possess, but which must be brought to the forefront of consciousness via a revelation event he called "Anamnesis".

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2013 05:52:43PM *  1 point [-]

Actually you are right, here I was doing the pattern matching.

I think this is because how I see Gnostic like beliefs working out in the world. Humans being social will tend to share them and such movements spiritual or otherwise consist in a large part of an enlightened guru with special gnosis telling you what you have "forgotten" and must learn relearn.