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Originally posted by metalholic
reply to post by silent thunder
if real satanism that retarded # where they offer real human sacrifices and have big ol sex orgies then no one would really want to be apart of it who would want to join a religion especially in the 70's and be a risk of being a sacrifice that stuff was people who were not by all means considered sane by you or me but like charles manson said the question of insanity is irrelevant just like the question of evil its irrelevant whats evel to you or me might not be to someone else and the fact that you bring up that human sacrifice stuff the mayans and other cultures used to practice it but they wasnt satanists as a matter of fact you cant say that lavey's satanism isnt! and if you did read that book then what should be the number one holiday for a satanist? also what are the last 13 or 19 pages about? what is the name for people who play on peoples sympathy?
Originally posted by silent thunder
Just out of curiosity, is there a more evil "-ism" than Satanism?
Satanism and Luciferianism seem vaguely defiend and there is a lot of overlap depending on who you talk to. Luciferians, for the most part, seem to see Lucifer as an empowering fugure, more like a kind of re-vamped Promethius who brings powers to humans that are supposeldy unfairly withheld by the higher real God. In this, while certianly twisted, they strike me as slightly less sinister than hardcore Satanists, who embrace their object of worship with the full-blown knowledge (i think) that they are entering a pact steeped with evil that will untimately lead to the harvesting of their souls.
But what about beyonf that? Is there an even more evil philosophy? For exmple, I can imagine (however twisted it may seem) a kind of nihilistic and hypotheric "evil-for-evil's sake" philosophy that would go beyond both Satanism and Luciferianism. The former two at least expect some kind of benefit (however rooted in misconception) from their dark devotions: power, money, sex, etc. But what about a hypothetical organization that believed in so such thing and just engaged in random acts of extreme evil and crtuelty simply for the for the raw, momentary sake of doing so, without any expectatim of reward and perhaps even the full, embraced knoweldge that they would fry in hell for all eternity.
Does any such philosophy exist? Because it dos, it strikes me as beyond both Luciferianism and Satanism in terms of raw depravity.
[edit on 1/20/10 by silent thunder]
Originally posted by metalholic
reply to post by TarzanBeta
do you chose ignorance over enlightenment or vice versa?
Originally posted by FeralMonkeyMagic
Originally posted by metalholic
reply to post by TarzanBeta
do you chose ignorance over enlightenment or vice versa?
I think he chooses Salvation over "enlightenment".