I meant I think the term "LHP" is irrelevant.
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My views on LHP
- Thread starter technomage
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I meant I think the term "LHP" is irrelevant.
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Ah. Why is that?
I think it's irrelevant, too. The fighting and debates in this DIR lately show that we can't even agree on what it is. Doesn't matter to me, anyway. I'm a Satanist, first and foremost, and I have my own views on that. Satanism just got thrown into the LHP menagerie by some occultists that are long dead. It doesn't matter really matter anymore, imo.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
LHP means what it has always meant, since thousands of years ago when it was coined. That some modern 'would be's' cant coherently justify it's usage vis a vis the incoherent mess they might be calling 'satanism' or 'luciferianism' or <insert ism here> is neither here nor there.
It's more a subculture now. Umbrella labels don't really work. Like I can say I'm a archetypal Luciferian and it means something. We prove that the LHP label has and unstable meaning and the interpretations can vary drastically.
These days, I think the LHP label is often a sign of arrogance, immaturity, self delusion, etc - ideas I do not respect except handled certain ways. We have members here alone - and thousands in the world - who belong to orders claiming to be LHP yet hold you to others' standards (self delusion). We have the nobodies who live off government funds, try to be goth, and label themselves LHP for fear induction or ego boost. Others simply want to shock and frighten. These are not socially evolved individuals, they are an immature reaction to society rather than a new force of change. Yet they fall into LHP same as you, Iti, myself, twig, infinitum, Scotty, etc. I say BS.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
So because some people came along and misunderstood the definition of LHP, that somehow invalidates the actual definition?
The LHP is what it is; shattering duality through nastika/heterodox practice. Vama='to the left' Chara='path or course.'
Philosophies evolve. That's not to say you can't hold onto dark age (/ high school) ideologies of heterodoxy as some form of enlightenment, but it has no real depth.
Satans_Serrated_Edge
Deicidal
If you say so.
If you think using LHP as some catch all identity marker, with no distinguishing substance or praxis unto itself has more "real depth" than a tradition that has been practiced in some form or other for a score of centuries, that is your right.
People believe all sorts of weird things.
If you think using LHP as some catch all identity marker, with no distinguishing substance or praxis unto itself has more "real depth" than a tradition that has been practiced in some form or other for a score of centuries, that is your right.
People believe all sorts of weird things.
I don't, which is why I said the term has becomre pointless.