Does anyone actually know any Satanists or have reliable information about what they do? Everything I've ever heard about them is from a friend-who-told-a-friend-who-told-a-friend, etc.
Satanists, do you fear them or trash them?
by greendawn 40 Replies latest jw friends
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LittleToe
At school I used to hang out with Goths and also had a friend who was a Satanist. He was a really nice guy, whom I used to play Dungeons and Dragons with
I attempt to follow the adage "fear only fear itself", so it would be true to say that I don't fear them. I also try not to judge people, though I do wonder why some choose the left-hand path.
Occultism has far wider scope than that, however.
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Blueblades
Neither.
Blueblades
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funkyderek
LittleToe:
I also try not to judge people, though I do wonder why some choose the left-hand path.
Maybe they read the bible, counted up the number of people killed by YHWH, and the number killed by Satan, and chose the lesser of two evils.
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lonelysheep
Neither....they're no different than anyone else who believes in higher beings/forces.
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lonelysheep
LMAO Funkyderek!!!!!!!!!!
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wanderlustguy
I'd love to see a Satanist that could really do something, or a Bible believer for that matter, as in something I could see or feel besides a feeling of belonging or even foreboding.
However now I know what Satanism really means, there are exceptions, but Satanism is very close to humanism in reality. In a world of opposites, anything other than direct belief in "God" is Satanism.
I went to school with a Satanist, or she thought she was. I liked her a lot and looking back, she just wanted to belong somewhere.
WLG
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ocelot
[quote="parakeet"]Does anyone actually know any Satanists or have reliable information about what they do? Everything I've ever heard about them is from a friend-who-told-a-friend-who-told-a-friend, etc.[/quote]
They seem to vary quite abit, theres the church of satan ones that are more or less athiests and just worship satan as a symbol of rebellion against the churches, they basically believe people should indulge in what ever they want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, they also would like all religions to be taxed as corperations. They believe in no afterlife what so ever.
I stumbled on to a website about another type of satanist that seemed to believe in satan existing, I didn't get around to reading the entire thing but they seemed to roughly believe: Satan intervened in humanities evolution and made humans intellectually equal to the various spirit creatures. Humans interacted with various spirit creatures for some time until Jehovah and his forces decided they wanted to rule and control it all so they created various religions that were intolerant of any interaction with any sort of spirit creature and spread them across the world through military conquest and other things. They say Satan and the others lost the initial battle and jehovah almost enslaved the entire earth with christianity, islam and judaism but he failed to do it completely and in the end they will fade away. They didn't seem to have any really specific beliefs in the after life, I think they said people would be reincarnated until they were ready to go to where ever they were supposed to go.
Im sure theres many other variations of them around, I find it interesting reading about them since I was prohibited from learning about other beliefs as a JW. I havn't seen them suggesting any sort of blood sacrifice anywhere, they usually specifically mention it and attribute it to the bible god and do not support it. You can find the satanic bible on most P2P programs it is made by the first group I described, its somewhat interesting and at the very least kind of funny in parts. -
mkr32208
I fear them a lot LESS than other religions! Historically Satanist Occultist Wicca Witches have killed far fewer people than any other religion!
Very few satanist have started crusades of any moment! Very few Wicca's would go fight in Iraq or the other vietnam! Very few lesbian goddess worshipers are suicide bombers in the middle east, and the list goes on and on...
As to 'powers' well that's just stupid! Do evangelicals in the southern us have 'healing hands' do mystics in Tibet have the power to become animals? Do Haitian Witch doctors have the ability to make 'zombies'? Well yes to that last one but it don't count cause they cheat! The bottom line is that THE SUPERNATURAL POWER OF ANY HUMAN DOES NOT EXIST! Get a grip!
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Narkissos
Never came across Satanists (afaik) in real life... I suspect they must thrive where Christian fundamentalism is strong, inasmuch as they are entirely dependent on Christian imagery.
One theoretical problem of this kind of approach, I guess, is how far you can go with a negative before turning it into a positive, very similar to the one it was supposed to stand against. For instance, reversing common Jewish / Christian negative symbols, such as the talking snake in Eden, was common to several Gnostic groups in early Christianity, but it always boiled down to switching the roles: the snake was the mouthpiece of the true divine (or supra-divine) light, and the "God" who forbid the tree of knowledge was a fake god. At some point "evil" has to be declared "good".