Demiurge used in a sentence

Demiurge in a sentence as a noun

You even get the main villain being the demiurge with Neo as the Gnostic Christ who frees us from the evil God's reign through his death.

For them, the entire creation is a failed attempt by the demiurge to imitate the unknowable world.

More precisely, Gnostics called the demiurge a liar as well as a plagiarizer.

It's much easier to point out that x is currently pointless with concrete code than at the demiurge phase where everything is possible and timelines are ignored.

> earthly suffering is nothing compared to the joy of being in HeavenNow the demiurge is a utility monster.> this is not a foolproof argumentArgument?

"I think that the message is very clear here: somewhere outside of and beyond our universe is an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of hacker-demiurge.

But there doesn't appear to exist any such demiurge in real life; human individuals and insitutions are limited to shifting their own particular micro-level behaviors.

They also would have agreed that the homogenous mixture of the elements was the same as the homogenous "formless and void," "surface of the waters" etc., but they definitely would have disagreed about the demiurge vs God/Satan, and also disagreed about quite a lot of what happened after creation.

The political state is just another micro-level input into the overall pattern; casting it into the role of a demiurge, and charging it with tweaking the parameters of the macro-level social system generally always leads to failures in the form of unattained goals and unintended consequences.

Such religions don't usually distinguish between modern religious concepts of "god", "demigod/angel/demiurge/deva/djinn", and "heroic human": anyone from history could somehow be responsible for any random thing the world does now, no matter if they were just a regular human in their part of the creation narrative.

How is it possible to act singularly with respect to the macro-equilibrium of a system that is by definition the product of intersecting micro-level behaviors?The notion of acting systemically - rather than merely observing the emergent patterns that the system reflects - seems to be almost a kind of creationist mentality: you need to posit some sort of demiurge that is external to the system, and can therefore treat the system as a singular entity that can be manipulated as an engineer would manipulate the overall parameters of a machine he was working on.