It's a lost of Self, a submission to something higher. This is right hand path, as far as I understand the term.
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Gonna "sell" my soul to Satan
- Thread starter Kapalika
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It's a lost of Self, a submission to something higher. This is right hand path, as far as I understand the term.
Luciferi Baphomet
Lucifer, is my Liberator
Satanism is about freedom.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
There was a time I saw it in a similar vein. I argued extensively that any sort of theism or belief precluded the LHP. That was before I had a hard look at its roots.
For me, submission to some power, whether church or state, is heresy against myself, as faith belief is a sort of intellectual treason. Yet, the LHP is only a prong in my approach rather than the whole. Once I realized that, and separated the bits of my world view that were LHP from those that were not(even while maintaining them as a synchronous whole) I came to understand the nature and simplicity of the tool that is the LHP.
That is, it doesn't deal with cosmology or belief until DOING personal nastika, getting down with your own devil's as it were, shapes that cosmology or belief. I had been putting the cart before the horse.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
Here's a thought; where is the line for freedom? How much is too much?
Does freedom end before or after one freely chooses to bow down before something or worship and believe in unseen forces?
Is that one choice too many?
These are of course rhetorical questions, but feel free to answer them if you want
Here's a thought; where is the line for freedom? How much is too much?
Does freedom end before or after one freely chooses to bow down before something or worship and believe in unseen forces?
Is that one choice too many?
These are of course rhetorical questions, but feel free to answer them if you want
Hm, I'd say that freely worshiping is not the same as "selling your soul." It's an individual choice as opposed to a destruction of Self.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
What is "freedom" anyways?Here's a thought; where is the line for freedom? How much is too much?
Does freedom end before or after one freely chooses to bow down before something or worship and believe in unseen forces?
Is that one choice too many?
These are of course rhetorical questions, but feel free to answer them if you want
VioletVortex
Well-Known Member
The Left Hand Path is a path of individualism and NOT being the property of some greater entity.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
Wait? Aren't you the guy that thinks it's called 'left hand path' because of left handed people?
You should be speaking in questions and listening intently, not speaking in statements.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
A convincing illusion made so by our perception of the sequential nature of events. That is, we can read what has been but not will be. The mysterious nature of the latter makes it seem as though we are 'choosing'.
In reality, the entire concept of freewill necessitates a sort of magical X factor that allows us to step outside of the chain of causality that allows us to make predictions(the backbone of our sciences).
I find it unlikely that we are somehow a universal exception.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
And if you freely choose to destroy yourself?
I see "selling your soul in exchange for freedom and/or power" to be the same thing as "self" destruction.
Do you want to be free from feeling bad due to your pesky conscience? Well, you can destroy your conscience, that part of you that is unique to you as an individual that helps you to discern and make judgements, by doing those very things that make you feel bad! If you do enough of these things, your conscience will die from assault and battery! You won't have to worry about that pesky thing that is unique to you as an individual anymore!
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
Or, you may, in the shedding a lifetime of conditioning bit by bit through exercising these 'nastika', discover 'that pesky thing'.
Luciferi Baphomet
Lucifer, is my Liberator
Here's a thought; where is the line for freedom? How much is too much?
Does freedom end before or after one freely chooses to bow down before something or worship and believe in unseen forces?
Is that one choice too many?
These are of course rhetorical questions, but feel free to answer them if you want
The fact that you ask that shows that you have a fear of freedom - a fear of what you might do with it. That's exactly what god wants you to have. It's a way to keep you under his dominion and authority. If you can cast of those shackles, you will find that there is nothing to fear in relation to freedom.
I prefer antinomianism, myself.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
Apparently you don't know what a rhetorical question is. Whoosh, right over top.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
To what?I prefer antinomianism, myself.
Destroying ones conscience.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
I prefer feather pillows to Ford trucks.
The above makes exactly the same amount of sense as what you said.
Are you confusing conscience with conscious?