I am home too!

Good for you!
Enjoy!

well bad for me i hope!

just trying to be a smart arse on the whole good/evil bad thing
been a long day!

ahh ok
that just flew right over the top of my head...
I totally missed that..been a long day for me as well..

Well, I thought:

“This is as practical, as daring and as real as you ever whished for in your dreams. This is it.”

Real world does require high standards and sharp vision to turn magic, not a pair of coloured glasses.

HS
october1560

Quote:

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It's like an electric shock to my being ! truth in every line

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I let some of my friends and those close to me read a copy of my satanic bible too and their first reaction is always fear and/or confusion, next is like the quote above... just like I did!

One thing is Dr. La Vey's writing makes you available to practice those things which are stuck only in your dreams or thoughts because of maybe you're afraid in the first place. Expanding your horizon should not be a thing to be afraid of. It is a sin though, a sin that we must do!

My SB is on order. I've been lurking here for days, reading posts. I keep waiting --hoping??-- to read something that will persuade me I'm wasting my time, this is sophmoric, naive, cruel, stupid, whatever. But the more I read, the more I feel compelled to read more. Very, very, very interesting.

Maybe what I hope for in LaVey is permmision? A "note from my parents" to allow me to be me? Or. Maybe what I seek is a peer group?? Others otherwise formerly browbeat into denying who they are, their "lights hidden under bushels" as the xians say so ironically, worried a bit about whether they are crazy, bad or just plain wrong?

Not a crutch. But some confirmation.

Caution is wise in a world filled with knaves and fools. But too much caution and what do we accomplish? So. Here I am. My SB is on order, I've registered here, and it will be interesting to see what happens next.

I hope the SB enlightens, confounds and delivers for me. I guess I hope it allows me to set myself free. So far, after reading pretty mucdh everything available online, it feels like the adverts say: "born to it."

Tell you what, folks. Just reading the stuff you have posted has done some subtle and yet-to-be-fully-processed good things for me.

So. Thank you for letting me lurk. HS to you, and we shall see about me.

>> what I hope for in LaVey is permmision? A "note from my parents" to allow me to be me? <<

You are already looking at it from the wrong perspective. Why do you need Dr. LaVey to grant you permission to be you? If you can't do that for yourself no one can do it for you.

>> I hope the SB enlightens, confounds and delivers for me <<

If it enlightens that can be considered a good thing. If it confounds you, as it does so many, there could be a problem.

Happy reading.

I remember having very conflicting feelings at first; the socially acceptable christian behaviour versus the normal human feelings were at war in my mind.
After a whole day of debating in my head I finally thought "this was what I was thinking all along but was afraid to admit to myself because of years of brainwashing".
After reading it for the second time I made the decision to actively change my life into what I wanted instead of what others expected.
I'm proud of myself and where I am today and all thanks to one man who had the guts to say what he wanted to.
The Satanic Bible is truly the opposite of the bible; it offers true freedom instead of mindless subservience. That understanding, that it is YOU who is in control of your life and not some unknown power, is a huge rush when it first comes to you.

Good point. I did not mean it literally.

In the context of this thread, and of why I am eager to read the SB, and what I expect to find...well, at the very least it is obvious I have substantial expectations.

And in light of the many comments I read here where people express a sense of finding or rediscovering themselves after reading the SB, I don't find it too disturbing or off-track to think about reading Dr. LaVey in terms of a sense of "permission" that it is ok to be who we always knew we were.

Maybe "permission" is the wrong word? We already are who we are, obviously.

But your point is well taken. Thank you.