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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Veritas]
#5739107 - 06/11/06 06:46 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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satanism is just another philosophy of the carnal mind, it makes sense to the carnal mind and won't help you rise above the carnal mind. if you believe the carnal mind is all there is, then satanism may sound very reasonable to you.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
#5739111 - 06/11/06 06:48 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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spud said: The claim that victims of conspiracy or sacrifice is a sign of either weakness or stupidity is just absurd.
I can list numerous prodigies who have been the victim of conspiracy, and have paid the price of their life for it.
They are prodigies in the humanistic worldview, but from evolutionary point of view they are idiots for not using their talent for their own gain instead of helping the competition.
There is no evolutionary point of view. There is no intent with evolution. Evolution is random, it has no intent. There is no right. There is no wrong. You are personifying a completely inanimate, unconscious event. Same fallacy as those who try to argue Social Darwinism. There is no systematic point of reference.
yes, evolution has no intent, and is random, but the outcome of the struggles shows what kind of behaviour is positive for survival, and what kind is not. Obviously if you get killed or die of hunger, you did something wrong.
not according to timothy leary, he believed evolution had direction and purpose. how can we be certaine evolution is completely random?
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: spud]
#5739113 - 06/11/06 06:49 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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As an atheist, what would one accuse these leaders of doing? Being to successfull in having control over people around them? They have a right to try and enslave others if they have the power, and these have succeded.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: spud]
#5739119 - 06/11/06 06:50 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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This is one imam at one mosque, located in the middle of a country where people can be "disappeared" for disrupting the status quo.
How can you distinguish between peace and paralysis? Thumbs way up for the courage of one man bucking the system, but I find it difficult to believe that the relative "peacefulness" of that region is due to religious conformity.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
#5739128 - 06/11/06 06:52 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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As an atheist, I'd say they are extremely successful, efficient individuals. It was a belief I've held my entire life, being an agnostic.
I no longer doubt the existence of divinity, so needless to say I currently hold a varying view.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Deviate]
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I can list numerous prodigies who have been the victim of conspiracy, and have paid the price of their life for it.
They are prodigies in the humanistic worldview, but from evolutionary point of view they are idiots for not using their talent for their own gain instead of helping the competition.
There is no evolutionary point of view. There is no intent with evolution. Evolution is random, it has no intent. There is no right. There is no wrong. You are personifying a completely inanimate, unconscious event. Same fallacy as those who try to argue Social Darwinism. There is no systematic point of reference.
yes, evolution has no intent, and is random, but the outcome of the struggles shows what kind of behaviour is positive for survival, and what kind is not. Obviously if you get killed or die of hunger, you did something wrong.
not according to timothy leary, he believed evolution had direction and purpose. how can we be certaine evolution is completely random?
Are you suggesting there is an unknown force at work that drives it into a certain direction?
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Deviate]
#5739138 - 06/11/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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not according to timothy leary, he believed evolution had direction and purpose. how can we be certaine evolution is completely random?
One could start by researching more creditable authorities on topic than Leary
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Silversoul]
#5739145 - 06/11/06 06:54 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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But I dare say that the right-hand path has greater potential for good, by virtue of the fact that it inherently involves regard for others.
There you go again.
The left had path has regard for others. It just acknowledges the value of the self.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Icelander]
#5739150 - 06/11/06 06:55 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The left had path has regard for others. It just acknowledges the value of the self.
Sorry, but that is not the left-hand path. The left-hand path is one where self-glorification is the highest goal. One may decide not to interfere with others, but acts of altruism are discouraged.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
#5739192 - 06/11/06 07:07 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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spud said: The claim that victims of conspiracy or sacrifice is a sign of either weakness or stupidity is just absurd.
I can list numerous prodigies who have been the victim of conspiracy, and have paid the price of their life for it.
They are prodigies in the humanistic worldview, but from evolutionary point of view they are idiots for not using their talent for their own gain instead of helping the competition.
There is no evolutionary point of view. There is no intent with evolution. Evolution is random, it has no intent. There is no right. There is no wrong. You are personifying a completely inanimate, unconscious event. Same fallacy as those who try to argue Social Darwinism. There is no systematic point of reference.
yes, evolution has no intent, and is random, but the outcome of the struggles shows what kind of behaviour is positive for survival, and what kind is not. Obviously if you get killed or die of hunger, you did something wrong.
not according to timothy leary, he believed evolution had direction and purpose. how can we be certaine evolution is completely random?
Are you suggesting there is an unknown force at work that drives it into a certain direction?
i'm asking how we know that it has no direction.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Silversoul]
#5739203 - 06/11/06 07:10 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Incorrect. Acts which aid others are not discouraged, but they are performed with full knowledge of the ultimate self-serving nature of any desired act. If your desire is to help others, then service will provide intrinsic rewards.
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Right-Hand Path religions are usually said to share the following properties:
* Belief in a higher power, such as a deity.
* Obedience to the will of the higher power.
* The belief that there is an absolute definition for good and evil that applies to everyone.
* Esoteric belief in the existence of a supernatural mechanism, such as Karma, divine retribution, or Threefold Law, which causes the moral decisions that an individual makes to be reciprocated upon himself.
* The ultimate goal of having the individual consciousness be absorbed into a greater or cosmic whole.
Left-Hand Path religions are usually said to share the following properties:
* The belief that some people can, by attaining spiritual insight, themselves become akin to gods.
* The belief that selfless acts do not exist. Fulfilling one's desire is seen as a selfish act bringing the person satisfaction from accomplishing what they want. Altruism is seen as a myth created by conventional religions.
* An exoteric understanding of concepts such as karma, divine retribution, or Threefold Law, resulting in fluid, rather than strict, codes of morality.
* The belief that the individual self is preeminent, and that all decisions should be made with the goal of cultivating the self (though not the ego).
* The belief that each individual is responsible for his/her own happiness, and that no external force will provide salvation to reward actions which do not advance one's happiness in this life.
* The belief that the forces of the universe can be bent to one's personal will by magical means, and that power gained in such a manner is an aid to enlightenment. * An agnostic view of the existence of deities, or a Platonic view of deities as "first-forms." If deity is perceived as having a consciousness, then all relationships with deity are in the form of a partnership, an alliance which does not require subservience. The prideful deity likes prideful partners.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Deviate]
#5739204 - 06/11/06 07:10 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well obviously it has a direction due to laws of cause and effect, and there is only one way it can end, but it doesn't have to be some kind of climax with ultra smart beings or whatever, it could simply be death of all life
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Silversoul]
#5739205 - 06/11/06 07:11 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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The left had path has regard for others. It just acknowledges the value of the self.
Sorry, but that is not the left-hand path. The left-hand path is one where self-glorification is the highest goal. One may decide not to interfere with others, but acts of altruism are discouraged.
I'd like to see some proof of this please. As far as I know in tantra no act of altruism is discouraged.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Icelander]
#5739223 - 06/11/06 07:17 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Actually, tantra itself may be divided into "right-hand/left-hand" practices:
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Tantra, which in its earliest written form was a distinctly iconoclastic, private, and esoteric practice, evolved into a number of respected, exoteric orders (sampradaya).
It is convenient, although somewhat false, to group the orders into two categories: left-handed and right-handed.
Left-handed tantras (vaama maarg) incorporate five sacraments (pancamakarapuja) of fish, meat, parched grain, wine and sexual intercourse into ritual practice.
Right-handed tantras (dakshin maarg), on the other hand, advocate the visualization of these antinomian practices.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Veritas]
#5739233 - 06/11/06 07:19 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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And as to the question I posted. Is there a difference?
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: OldWoodSpecter]
#5739239 - 06/11/06 07:20 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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OldWoodSpecter said: Well obviously it has a direction due to laws of cause and effect, and there is only one way it can end, but it doesn't have to be some kind of climax with ultra smart beings or whatever, it could simply be death of all life
or it could be utlra smart beings. for instance, timothy leary believed evolution was headed towards advanced levels of consciousness and space migration. he believed we already had future circuits in our brains that were meant to work in a zero gravity environment and that these circuits could be activated by certain drugs or spiritual exercises. obviously he saw evolution as something more than the mere process of natural selection. now i am not saying i agree with this, it's a pretty far out idea. but i think its certainly possible.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Deviate]
#5739247 - 06/11/06 07:23 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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OldWoodSpecter said: Well obviously it has a direction due to laws of cause and effect, and there is only one way it can end, but it doesn't have to be some kind of climax with ultra smart beings or whatever, it could simply be death of all life
or it could be utlra smart beings. for instance, timothy leary believed evolution was headed towards advanced levels of consciousness and space migration. he believed we already had future circuits in our brains that were meant to work in a zero gravity environment and that these circuits could be activated by certain drugs or spiritual exercises. obviously he saw evolution as something more than the mere process of natural selection. now i am not saying i agree with this, it's a pretty far out idea. but i think its certainly possible.
I know what he believed.
What if a meteor fell down and destroyed all life on earth? Then the course of evolution would be death of all life
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Diploid]
#5739254 - 06/11/06 07:26 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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I must argue against those who believe in this "Satanist" view of raping your neighbor and gluttony (which you may call "a birth-right of self-indulgence"). Many of you argue that this ultra-competitive nature is our "true" human nature by the observation of other animals. I just want to say that you are simply wrong. If you look at the most evolved species, it appears that "herd" mentality which incorporates reciprocal altruism is the most beneficial trait. Humans must have incorporated this early on which lead to our tribes and eventual cities. You simply can't have a large and dense society that is based around values held in the first post.
Once human precursors started to tribe up and help the weak survive we may have slowly devolved into our current state. Now in our current state we are much less physically fit for raw combat but our brains have continued to develop and we are very far ahead as far as superiority of the species and their ability to survive. This is evident because the single species of human has spread to virtually every area on this planet, and we do it without much instinct or superior strength. In fact, we can survive anywhere because we work as a team and hold many of the loving values inherent in our most popular religions.
In a society where the majority of inhabitants followed this "Satanist" view point there would be no time for developing medicine, weapons, or anything beyond the basic need to defend and offend everyone around you. What incentive would you have to create medicine if you were not sick?
I am sure throughout history this "Satanist" world view has leaked into a few minds but the reason why it isn't a very popular religion/philosophy is because it is weak. It has been proven through survival of the fittest to hold inferior societal beliefs than those of love and altruism. That's why there are so many more Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Islamics, and other religions that believe in spreading less self-centered values. It is not because these people are herded mindlessly, it is because this type of behavior is more conducive to societal advancement and thus a more deeply-rooted belief in many of our cultures and even in our brain.
Go against the grain as a Satanist and you will continually, naturally, and slowly be pulled apart from the the rest of human advancement here on Earth.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: Icelander]
#5739264 - 06/11/06 07:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Both "paths" in Tantra practice have the same destination: enlightenment. There is no tradition in Tantra which advises practitioners to refrain from serving others.
As to the more general Left-hand Path, a practitioner would help others if it fulfilled their natural desire for service. They would not do so out of a sense of obligation or a desire to be holy.
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Re: Satanism - Mostly Makes Sense To Me [Re: FreedomFight]
#5739271 - 06/11/06 07:29 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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FreedomFight said: Many of you argue that this ultra-competitive nature is our "true" human nature by the observation of other animals.
I'm not, I'm just playing a devils advocate and trying to show how nasty darvinism is so that people know what they are getting onvolved in
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