Having been here a while, I can say that we've apparently lost site of the roots of the community that originated on the subreddit, and while I don't see a way to reverse this decline, I think it's at least worth talking about.

Essentially the level and tenor of the discourse has altered dramatically; I've gone ahead and listed out the type and style of the high quality content we saw back on the day on the upper half of this diagram, and done what I could to contrast it with the sort of typical content and user type we see now. I think any objective observer will agree this is a downgrade.

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[–] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

:sicko-the-fallen:

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

sickarus

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Threads not even 10 minutes old and Armoupieel archon-ism already happening.

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apologies for posting

[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you stopped posting, you wouldn't be imminetizing The One

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This objection is child's play.

This is content. But what sort of content? This is a post. But what is a post? The post is a relation which relates via posting to its own post, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates via posting to its own post; the post is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates via posting to its own post. This is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, this is not yet a post.

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

galaxy-brain this is my new favorite comment.

[–] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

matt-jokerfied

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Know thyself and everyone around you.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we're doing gnosticism I'm gonna go take the Cainist position and say we can only be free from posting when we have experienced every possible kind of post in our life

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"My gnosis will not be stopped; you Archons will not be ascendant!" I howl as the mods delete my 15th horny thread on the path to Cainist enlightenment.

[–] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Smh these hylics will never be enlightened

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only through the material forms of the posts themselves can we intuit the essence of the formless non-posts.

I myself use posts only as a guidepost to glance at what is not illuminated. All of your non-posts have been wonderful as far as I can tell. I cannot tell as it is the nature of such things.

I would urge you to win against your demiurgical impulse and delete this post. However, it is too late already. A post deleted is qualitatively different from a non-post.

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I work for a sunrise I know I will never see.

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God, Neoplatonism had the best world building

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

world building

gnostics in shambles.

[–] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gimme the original image plz i need to dethrone/kill/enlighten the demiurge

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gnostic/comments/169xkzi/which_god_is_the_safest_bet/

[–] anticlockwise@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Posting itself becomes the consequence of a failure at the level of primary deity or deoform. There is no longer the separation of poster and post, as the posters maintain within their own beings the timeless echo of the fundamental error of the original poster.

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

This poster speaks my mind.

[–] aFairlyLargeCat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

stalin-smokin

Yeah.

[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jordan Peterson posting now I see

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man invented post, and calls it god. "The Post World", imposed by the hexbear, is synonymous with Peterson induced "Chaos World". Both are most efficient mind enslavers, and humans know not their difference from "The Not-Posting World", the creation principle of all that exist.

[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I don't know what the fuck that means but I'm pretty sure the volcel-judge are needed

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

sobbing kermit

[–] flees@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

God I wish I had the attention to read any of this.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

How are you ever going to reach posting nirvana if you misspell "jice"?

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not posting is reactionary

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Notice how none of the non-posters can disagree with this

[–] logflume@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

yea

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Don't try to post on Hexbear.net. That's impossible. Instead try and realize the truth

There Are No Posts.

spoiler You'll realize it isn't the text you post You Only Post Yourself. :::

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It should be illegal to not mention me here, I'm cool and hip and young 😭

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of the users alluded to do not exist, which is to say, they do not yet exist temporally, but may be concluded to exist atemporally by the necessity of their future existence. That is to say, you're too extant to bear mentioning, despite your storied place in the Lower Aeon Pantheon.