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I personally find it to be at fault just as much as say, Christianity, in that it's merely supporting the opposite extreme of the religious spectrum.

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CaptainH13 said:
Please tell me your not talking about theistic satanist? Those fuckers are some of the wackiest people I've ever meet.

From my experience with Levian Satanism, Anton really could have hit a home run,but begin himself,being so fanciful and wondrous beyond reality and all the other shortcomings he had, that went into his work, he struck out in the end. If He was more blunt and less theatrical i would have subscribed to it much more,even if he does explain the theatrics. There's Tons of concrete sound theories,but just too much nonsense and fantasy for the sake of it.


I will say I'm very happy with Peter Gilmore.

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Viveka said:
Subverts Christianity? It seems to me that it feeds energy into the surface drama of Christianity, which is the level most religious people operate at, thusly increasing the influence of Christianity overall.

Just more bullshit, self-limiting dogma.

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This is the fallacy inherent in hedonism—in any variant of ethical hedonism, personal or social, individual or collective. “Happiness” can properly be the purpose of ethics, but not the standard. The task of ethics is to define man’s proper code of values and thus to give him the means of achieving happiness. To declare, as the ethical hedonists do, that “the proper value is whatever gives you pleasure” is to declare that “the proper value is whatever you happen to value”—which is an act of intellectual and philosophical abdication, an act which merely proclaims the futility of ethics and invites all men to play it deuces wild.

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This is the fallacy inherent in hedonism—in any variant of ethical hedonism, personal or social, individual or collective. “Happiness” can properly be the purpose of ethics, but not the standard. The task of ethics is to define man’s proper code of values and thus to give him the means of achieving happiness. To declare, as the ethical hedonists do, that “the proper value is whatever gives you pleasure” is to declare that “the proper value is whatever you happen to value”—which is an act of intellectual and philosophical abdication, an act which merely proclaims the futility of ethics and invites all men to play it deuces wild.

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Boots said:
Warning: these are generalized statements.

I think LaVeyan Satanism is a very interesting concept. Definitely so when you consider its ties with nihilism. he only problem I see is that Satanism seems to have a much more negative light as opposed to nihilism. While a nihilist doesn't care about God, a Satanist thinks it's something specifically to rebel against. On the other hand, Theistic Satanists (Luciferians) are no better than any other religion that believes in a mystical being.

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