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- From: locklin@titan.ucc.umass.edu ( )
- Subject: Re: Singin' Those Apocalypse Blues
- Keywords: gloom doom magic survival
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- Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:46:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.235213.15588@u.washington.edu> grimoire@byron.u.washington.edu (John Greer) writes:
- >In article <BzFoB1.3yD@acsu.buffalo.edu> oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
- >>
- >>These people you know who are scarfing land, are they doing it
- >>because they also believe in this impending disaster? If so,
- >>could you describe these people in more detail. (I don't know
- >>anyone that like that, so I'm curious.)
- >>
- >>- Peggy -
- >
- >
- >Actually, you quite possibly do know someone like that; a lot of the folks
- >I know who are making preparations of this sort aren't particularly public
- >about it. (There are some interesting similarities between the survival
- >subculture and the magical subculture in this society, possibly having a
- >lot to do with the fact that most people think both groups are stark staring
- >crazy.)
-
- On this note, I have been reading a couple of "Black Flame" magazines lately.
- This particular magickal subculture, the Church of Satan, (much to my suprise
- actually) seems to have a strong "survivallist" bent. A couple of the articles
- dealt with the L.A. riots as a prophecy of things to come. They seem to
- envisage some sort of Ayn Rand style apocalypse of the great unwashed
- pillaging the productive people. Presumably, the satanists would come out ahead
- at the end of such an apocalypse & be masters of a very different "new world
- order"; The Satanic Aeon. It seems to be a rather fertile topic for them;
- many articles dealt indirectly with the idea of an apocalypse by outlining
- some of the aspects of a Satanist run society. One article dealt
- with small vs large caliber handguns and their relative stopping powers
- when used on "drug-crazed sickoes".
-
- Interesting that the "left-hand path" has so much in common with "right-wing"
- politics of the libertarian type (nyuk, nyuk, nyuk).
-
- Another note on this, Kurt Saxon, author of innumerable books on improvised
- weaponry & all around survivalist guru is a preist in the Church of Satan.
- Imagine, I had his book, the "Poor Man's Armorer" for all these years & it was
- written by a _Satanist_. Perhaps it had some subliminal mantra in it that
- sent me in this direction ;).
-
- ye servante of ye great olde ones....
- -Scott
-