I am Wiccan and have no desire to convert to Satanism. However, I have come to the Theistic Satanism DIR with a question: How does one work with one's demons? I exorised and banished most of mine, and I don't know what to do with the rest of them. Fear seems to keep them in line. How do you...
(see: my Hyperapotheosis thread in the Theists forum. I put in the wrong forum, and would rather not duplicate it here, even if I could. Thread in question attempts an explanation of th origins of monotheism.)
"24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, It is only by Beelzebub,d the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.
25Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not...
"Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel."
I assert that it was not Satan's involvement in the aforementioned census that resulted resulted in his being named as the cause of David's actions, but, rather, the fact that the the historian who wrote Chronicles...
I believe that "God" is unceasingly the source of all existence, that is to say, of a inherently harmonious existence, as there is no conflict within the mind or being of "God".
I believe that "God" is perfect conciousness, a cosmic entity with whom communion is, ideally, to be sought and...
Magic |maj-ic|
the practic of effecting a desired result via the use of ritual and/or incantation;
the practice of magic often invokes the name, favor and/or power of a
supernatural being
According to the definition above, do Christians practice magic? Yes, they do...
Is feasible a panentheistic reality that, at the fundamental level, exists by means of physical laws? I stronly think it is, but that may merely be my opinion for the time being, which is why I am posting this.
I have been a panentheist long before I knew what it was called. I have also...
Just how would you, personally, react to your being forced, by (a) hostile sentient organism(s), to watch, from a distance, the artificial detonation of earth?
Basically, I am a material panentheist who worships one personal, neuter God who is the sentient superstructure of the multiverse. All gravitational events in this universe alter the gravitational contant in the divine superstructure, rendering God omniperceptive, while gravitational events in...
Some time ago, I wrestled with the questions of cyclical vs. linear time and of the multiverse vs. God as creator. I tentatively believe that I might have come up with a system that reconciles all of those views. My line of reasoning is as follows:
Why should an infitely old personal God...
A physics theory which I thought up is basically general relativity, but with a twist: instead of 4D spacetime, it has 7D spacetime. What you have in the geometry is 1 dimension of time and two intelocking, but non-merging, sets of 3 spatial dimensions. In both spatial sets, there is...
I am writing a series of novels of Apocalyptic fiction that will intertwine the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic eschatologies, all three of which will appear to be fullfilled in the eyes of the adherents of the three religions. I, the writer, will avoid bias towards any of the the three. The...
I am writing a series of novels of Apocalyptic fiction that will intertwine the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic eschatologies, all three of which will appear to be fullfilled in the eyes of the adherents of the three religions. I, the writer, will avoid bias towards any of the the three. The...
IMHO, if you believe in in the speciation of humans, or in the out- of-Africa theory, yet consider yourself to be a Jew or Christian, then you obviously don't believe the Torah or Pentatetch to be divinely inspired or authourative.
"made Elohim, of one man, every tribe and language and people...
That pre-Tower of Babel humanity was The White Man, is supremely racist! (I'm white, in case you were wondering.)
"Caucasian-ness" of Adam and his family, as well of Noah and his family, is the concoction of naive, white artists.
In a Colosseum-style fight to the death that duplicates the combatants' natural environment who would win, Ursus horriblus (grizzly bear) or Erectopithecus ameriborealis gigantus (Sasquatch)?
Given that you are operating within all legal perimeters, and that you are capable of proving that Sasquatches exist in a way that silences all skeptics, what do you do?
This debate is a "flesh-and-blood" discussion; posts claiming or implying that Sasquatches are supernatural or interdimensional, have ESP, can camoflage themselves like chameleons, can teleport themselves, are ABEs, and/or are E.T.s, are not allowed here. (If you want to debate whether...