Oh come on Filan, you can do better than posting silly pictures and juvenile mockeries can't you?Oh, I can do a lot better. Trust me.
Go ahead and engage my lethal mind at any level you like; I think I would enjoy a good sparring match with one whose arrogance is obviously so unmatched by his intellect.I know that "I know you are but what am I?" is considered bad form in a flame war. But dude, rarely have I ever seen a situation where it would be more appropriate. I suppose your mind might be lethal: the ebola virus is lethal and it can only be seen with an electron microscope. But from everything I'm seeing here you are to intellectual pursuits what Stephen Hawking is to tap dancing.
Not everything I write is meant to be taken seriouslyThat's good. Because very little of it is.
(even if the humor is lost on you), but I was dead serious in my condemnation of your wretched, humorless PC guilt-mongering, which in my experience is a luxury only affluent societies built largely by the innovations of dead white guys can afford.OK, I'll bite. Perhaps your lethal and voracious mind can tear itself away from silly cliches like "PC guilt-mongering" and "dead white guys" and answer this question: do you agree or disagree with this statement from yrs. truly?
I think it is worthwhile, when learning about a culture's traditions, to go to representatives of that culture if possible. This offers a deeper and more direct introduction to the spirits, the theology and the magic than one can get from research using secondary or tertiary sources.Feel free to use both sides of the screen explaining your response. And don't hesitate to include links which support your position.
By the way, I recently saw you listed on a list of influential Satanists and you were somewhere around #25, which I find rather baffling since I see little that is Satanic about your writing, ideology or ethos.I am a Satanist insofar as I think The Satanic Bible is a very trenchantly funny book that, like all great comedy, raises a lot of serious and thought-provoking points as well. Anton LaVey was one of the last Great American Curmudgeons, sour SOBs kvetching at witty length about the idiocy surrounding them. I'd compare him to Twain, Bierce and Mencken: I'd even say that Harlan Ellison could be included in that august company as the last miserable survivor. His Church of Satan is a great gag to those of us who are in on it. I realize that some morons - by which I mean you - are unable to get the joke. That only makes it all the funnier to those of us who do.
Besides, I'm sure to move up in the list once Marilyn Manson finds Jesus.
Anyway, this may be my parting shot since engaging in battle with one who has so little respect for his opponent is not a very rewarding use of my time. Good luck and good fighting, and if you're so inclined, hail Satan.When you find a place where people respect you send me a post card. Assuming they have a postal service, that is.
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"I think it is worthwhile, when learning about a culture's traditions, to go to representatives of that culture if possible."
Wow, watering it down much? "Worthwhile" most likely, in the same sense that it would be "worthwhile" to speak with *anyone* else about it, to broaden one's perspective.
You still haven't explained exactly who the "representatives of the culture" are, and why they're chosen by the color of their skin.
"This offers a deeper and more direct introduction to the spirits"
Why? Are the spirits racist too?
"Besides, I'm sure to move up in the list once Marilyn Manson finds Jesus. "
To put it in perspective, Isaac Bonewits was pretty far up the list from you. I'm not sure who put it together.
To be honest I find this whole discussion rather mundane and I'm ready to move on. I will only concede that I used some mundane language and thank you for your correction.
You know what's funny Filan: right after our last little flame war my dog was picked up by the animal control officer and my computer melted down, so I admit that I got a bit spooked at the possibility that you had used some kind of bokor black magic against me. I backed off in primal fear and didn't come back at you, but with the passage of time my courage returned and I came back for round two.
Consider this a test of your power; if more disasters befall me in the next day or two, I will consider it further proof that your Vodoun is indeed mighty and worthy of respect. Furthermore, I will dispatch a team of Black Sun agents to the darkest heart of the Vodoun empire to learn more about these arts, and perhaps attempt to bring them into alliance with the Black Sun Axis (somewhat as described in Wheatley's "Strange Conflict".) What do you think about "Sean the Sith Sorcerer Vampire Vodousant"? Too long?
As far as LaVey goes, I'm quite aware that he's a joke -- but so are all atheists who deny the literal existence of the Dark Forces. The CoS had their day in the Black Sun, but the future of Satanism is theistic, or at least deistic, and much more sinister and old-school. I expect this kind of religion to explode going forward, in anticipation of the imminent arrival of the Apocalypse and the Antichrist.
Finally, if you run out of material please consider doing a post about Stephen Hawking's tap-dancing, because this is a topic I find most interesting…
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