#199501 - 11/03/06 12:00 PM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: Midorisan]
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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?Damn, that sounds familiar.  I wouldn't say that I was ever "browbeat", but my parents were about as intellectual as you could expect from Southern Baptists. As a child I couldn't identify their circular arguments and logical fallacies, so I thought there must've been something wrong with me that I didn't see things the same way as they did. It wasn't until my teens that I realized that I was able to accomplish more by doing things my own way than by trying to force myself to be like others. By then I figured that if that's what it took for me to get things done, that's how I was going to live. I stopped caring whether or not I was insane and started making something of my life. Three cheers for pragmatism! Although I continue to make jokes alluding to the probability that I'm completely off my rocker, reading The Satanic Bible helped me to realize that compared to most people, I'm actually rather sane. Maybe it'll do the same for you.
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#199502 - 11/03/06 02:36 PM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: Virus9]
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Although I continue to make jokes alluding to the probability that I'm completely off my rocker, reading The Satanic Bible helped me to realize that compared to most people, I'm actually rather sane.
You say 'sociopath' like it's a bad thing. 
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#199503 - 11/08/06 07:11 AM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: Virus9]
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Although I continue to make jokes alluding to the probability that I'm completely off my rocker, reading The Satanic Bible helped me to realize that compared to most people, I'm actually rather sane.
Maybe it'll do the same for you.
Yes, I remember having a very similar realization myself!!!
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#199507 - 11/12/06 06:44 AM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: Virus9]
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I wouldn't say that I was ever "browbeat", but my parents were about as intellectual as you could expect from Southern Baptists.
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As a child I couldn't identify their circular arguments and logical fallacies, so I thought there must've been something wrong with me that I didn't see things the same way as they did.
I suggest this is common to most children. What I mean, is that the vast majority of young and impressionable children in the world must see the logical inconsistency with religious practice. The problem, is that they go along with it, anyway. I should imagine that this is where the born Satanist doesn't follow, doesn't merely accept, doesn't stop cynically questioning that which doesn't make sense.
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Three cheers for pragmatism!
At least!
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Although I continue to make jokes alluding to the probability that I'm completely off my rocker, reading The Satanic Bible helped me to realize that compared to most people, I'm actually rather sane.
I don't mind if I'm insane, look at how many sane people lack any kind of productivity. As the opposite, they can call me whatever they like.
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#199508 - 11/12/06 07:04 AM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: The_Sixth_Circle]
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The problem, is that they go along with it, anyway. I should imagine that this is where the born Satanist doesn't follow, doesn't merely accept, doesn't stop cynically questioning that which doesn't make sense.
That is true. Even in primary school, I hated religion. My primary school was a Christian school, one lunch time I was playing up to the teachers and I decided to baptise myself with blackcurrant juice in front of the entire school. The outrage was tremendous... Needless to say I got detentions...
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#199509 - 11/12/06 09:12 AM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: The_Sixth_Circle]
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Registered: 08/06/06
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Loc: Denmark
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I suggest this is common to most children. What I mean, is that the vast majority of young and impressionable children in the world must see the logical inconsistency with religious practice. The problem, is that they go along with it, anyway. I should imagine that this is where the born Satanist doesn't follow, doesn't merely accept, doesn't stop cynically questioning that which doesn't make sense.
Agreed... And this applies to social acceptance as well. At some point along the way, every child starts asking qoestions about why things are the way they are, what is accaptable and why. It is at that moment somthing happens. One can simply accept the awnsers provided by those aroynd you or keep searching for an alternative awnser. I never seemed to, or wantet to "fit in" just begause everybody else did. If everybody went right, i would try to go left. (and this way you pick up some bruces along the way.) But as a child, its somtimes hard to realise that there´s a different approach to life, then dictated by the status quo. You somtimes need somthing or someone to open your eyes. For me that happened by reading the SB. But at that point i guess that i already had put my learnd tabu´s behind me..
And so i keep on reading and exploring....
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#199510 - 11/12/06 02:03 PM
Re: The Satanic Bible
[Re: bondag]
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Registered: 05/01/06
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I think Magus Peter H. Gilmore best described in his introduction the emotion I felt while reading Dr. LaVey's Satanic Bible. I felt the "evocation of an overwhelming sense of homecoming".
I can describe my reading of the Satanic Bible as reading the thoughts of my own mind. Each concept and principle so familiar.
Nothing has changed about my thoughts after reading the Satanic Bible. The only thing that had changed is that I had come to know a more suitable label to express my thoughts. Before I thought myself to be a realist, but now I know myself to be a Satanist.
Hail Satan!
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