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- From: radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky)
- Subject: Re: Some views about satanism
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.044211.8540@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:42:11 GMT
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- locklin@titan.ucs.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN) writes:
- > radinsky@spot.Colorado.EDU (Wayne Radinsky) writes:
- >> My friend, you understand perfectly! If a person is killing innocent
- >> people, by killing them you may save lives. What about people who kill
- >> extremely abusive parents? What about those who attempted to kill Hitler?
- >> If they had succeeded, they'd be heros, not killers! What about war? If
- >> we do to war, isn't our killing justified, or not justified, by our
- >> reasons for going to war?
- >
- > *shrug* I have no clearly defined (simplistic) set of moralities. Each
- > situation would have to be individually judged...
-
- A legalist with no laws...
-
- >> My position is even justified by the Bible: read Joshua, where Israel
- >> conquers the Canaan -- killing and pillaging, not just at God's approval,
- >> but at God's command.
- >
- > As far as _this_ goes, it has nothing to do with what I said in the me
- > last set of comments. "God's approval" has nothing to do with what I was
- > speaking of and should never be used as an excuse for anything like
- > genocide.
-
- Well, it might be off the subject, but it =is= what the Bible says. I'm
- totally amazed we have a satanist arguing for legalism. That's supposed to
- be the Christian position (lots of them act that way anyway), or so I
- thought.
-
- > Saying it was "God's will" removes the responsibility of the Khabiru
- > (roughly translated as "Vagrants" in Akkadian & the root of "Hebrew") for
- > their genocidal exploits of the past. Eases their conscience on what they
- > did & gives them licence for all manner of genocidal adventured (which, to
- > a lesser extent, continue today among their genetic and philosophical
- > descendants)
-
- It (non-legalism in general) doesn't relieve anyone of responsibility.
- People break the spirit of the law (that is, the reason why a law was made)
- all the time, even if they don't break the letter of the law. Then
- You have to go back and fill in the loopholes in the laws. Like you say:
-
- > Morality cannot be controlled by legislation in anything approaching a
- > "free" society.
-
- Amen.
-
- >>> I like legalism. Makes life simpler.
- >>
- >> Yeah, too simple. And it backfires, too. The harder you try =not= to
- >> think about sex, or drugs, or someone you hate, the more it gets stuck in
- >> your brain. Close your mind and force all thoughts of sex out of your
- >> mind!
- >
- > Er, what kind of legalism tells one not to think of sex, drugs & etc?
- > (there are laws banning porn & certain sexual behaviors, but none against
- > thought yet)
-
- Thoughts are actually more important than actions. Suppose someone gave you
- a gift. Great, huh? Now suppose their intent was to make you feel indebted
- to them, i.e. to manipulate you in some way. Ah-ha -- same action, different
- thought -- it changes everything.
-
- What kind of legalism tells you not to think of sex? That doesn't matter --
- my point is that trying to stop a thought only makes you think about it
- more. Don't think about purple snakes. Same problem. Or, more practically,
- suppose you are angry at someone. The more you think about it, the angrier
- you will get. And the anger is far more significant than specific actions.
- Suppose you hit him with a baseball bat. His reaction will probably be very
- different if he thinks you did it out of anger or you did it by accident.
-
- > The ones that attempt to dictate action on these topics (like Prostitution
- > laws & prohibition), which are moral/religious laws rather than common
- > good laws, are notorious for their failures and extreme repressiveness.
- > These laws are the ones that are turning our present culture into one
- > based on fear, repression, hate & mistrust.
-
- I agree. The intent of such laws is to control people's =thoughts=. To
- legislate goodness into people's hearts -- which never works.
-
- That's why I don't believe in legalism. It's like trying not to think about
- sex. It just doesn't work.
-
- > Morality cannot be controlled by legislation in anything approaching a
- > "free" society. With any luck, people will begin to realize this in our
- > own culture.
- >
- >> I agree with Paul the apostle, that this kind of legalism leads to
- >> judgement, condemnation, self-hatred, hatred, etc, etc, etc.
- >
- > Paul (who was not an apostle) is the fellow who is primarily responsible
- > for this "legalism" in xtianity. He is the one that emphasised purity of
- > the body & spirit. Shit, Jesus was the one who associated with
- > prostitutes, not Paul.
-
- Paul was not a "disciple", you mean (i.e. he never knew Jesus before he was
- crucified). Although Jesus spoke out against "adultery", Paul had a much
- more anti-sexual attitude. He says "it is better for a man not to touch a
- woman" -- however, I think being married is a much more natural state for
- people to be in. (I'm getting off the subject again)
-
- >> Q. How may I know when the will to a couse of action is
- >> justifiable, or when I am forcing my own personal will which
- >> may lead to inaction which is equally unjustifiable?
- >>
- >> A. By listening within -- there is the answer. For, the
- >> answer to every problem, the answer to know His way, is ever
- >> within -- the answering within to that real desire, that
- >> real purpose which motivates activity in the individual.
- >
- > I prefer to use logic & deductive reasoning rather than listening to
- > hallucinated voices. I think most would agree.
-
- Why don't you prejudge words by their author...
-
- He did not say to listen to hallucinated voices. He is saying each of us has
- an intuitive notion of what our purpose is in this world, and we can
- =choose= whether or not to live it out. Figurtively speaking, we can
- "listen" or not.
-
- In other words, we all know inside whether we are doing what's right or not
- -- and that's why we don't need legalism.
-
- "To thine own heart always be true."
- -- Shakespere
-
- >> These appear at times to become contradictory, of course;
- >> but know -- as the illustration has been used here --
- >> attunement, atonement and at-onement are *one*; just as the
- >> inner self is that portion of the infinite, while the
- >> self-will or personality is ever at war with the infinite
- >> within -- for the lack of what may be called stamina, faith,
- >> patience, or whatnot. Yet each entity, each soul, knows
- >> within when it is in an at-onement.
- >>
- >> -- Edgar Cayce
- >
- > Yah, Edgar Cayce probobly _would_ rather listen to his hallucinations.
- > BTW, I am waiting for atlantis to rise (was supposed to happen in th
- > 1960's & a couple of volcanoes do not count in my book)
-
- Well, the Bimini Wall was discovered within that time frame. (And he didn't
- exactly say Atlantis was going to rise... Although (obviously) he did
- believe it existed).
-
- Cayce has his prophetic blunders. China was supposed to become the "Cradle
- of Christianity" by 1968. Check your history book -- Mao and the Communists
- came in the "Cultural Revolution."
-
- Still, his prophecy of "freedom" in Russia has proven to be remarkably true.
- But more still has to happen... Russia's religious development, guided by
- the US, must become the hope of the world. (But I digress again).
-
- >>> Well then Wayne, what about sex? Should we (xtains) let the Homosexuals
- >>> do their thing if it is of good intent?
- >>
- >> I don't know. The only plausable cause of homosexuality I've ever heard
- >> is the reincarnationist viewpoint: namely, a person incarnates as one
- >> sex, say
- >
- > You call this a plausible cause? Do you have any evidence of
- > reincarnation?
-
- Plausible if you believe in reincarnation, I should have said. And I believe
- I've already discussed what "evidence" I have of reincarnation.
-
- > I'll take the psychological theories as more useful, untill better models
- > are proposed.
-
- What are the psychological theories?
-
- >> and there's also no "why" of quanta, and no "why" of particle-wave
- >> duality, and no "why" of the uncertainty principle, and no "why" it's all
- >> probabilistic, with (apparently) nothing deterministic "behind" the
- >> probabilities.
- >
- > Even if everything was rigorously deterministic, I still say there is no
- > "why" in physics.
-
- I agree. However, the lack of determinism does mytify things a bit...
- don't'cha think? I mean, the location of an electron in an atom ought to be
- determined by =something=, right? But no "something" has ever been found,
- just that it's "more likely" to be in one place than another. Maybe it's
- God, in control of everything after all.
-
- > There are, of course deeper levels of "how," & eventually you get silly
- > questions from asking "how" as well (or perhaps merely unanswered
- > questions).
-
- That was my point... I think we agree on the physics, once the difference in
- interpretation of "human logic" is cleared up.
-
- puppy anxious the,
- \/\/aaaayne
-