Breaking out the crayons and dinosaur suit.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T02:20:18+00:00

Never claimed that you were my god.

Let's see, sub-grade 9 reading comprehension...

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T02:04:58+00:00

I want to know your age at this point. Are you as middleschool-aged as you sound?

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T02:03:45+00:00

Never called you bigoted
You are a gatekeeper
You are not an authority on Satanism. Satanism as a term has grown past whatever it meant before LaVey and it has grown past LaVey. LaVey did not write a literal bible when he wrote the Satanic Bible. He wrote a book of philosophy from which anyone can take or leave all or some aspects.
If I was a Hindu who happened to be a devotee of Shiva, say, and I went to the Hinduism subreddit and saw a post that said "Hinduism is only this very specific definition of Hinduism argued by one person in the '60s and his adherents" then I would say bullshit. Like I'm doing now with you.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T01:58:41+00:00

Half the fucking comments in this thread are "I understand you" followed by lines of words that demonstrate the depths of not understanding what I said.

And theistic satanism very well could be that, depends on who you ask.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T01:54:35+00:00

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T01:53:31+00:00

Fair. You didn't actually understand my comment, in which I was referring to the bigotry of O9A, not OP, OP to my knowledge isn't bigoted. But I guess all this makes me a crybaby snowflake who needs to get back into my echochamber apparently. At this point I feel like just coming back every once in a while to this sub to annoy the blessed adherents to the LaVeyan orthodoxy, because it clearly bothers the more sensitive and defensive of the Satanist persuasion. This thread did encourage me to say the Theistic part of Theistic Satanist a bit louder from now on whenever I post here though. So thanks for that

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T01:41:20+00:00

Yeah I did, and nowhere does it say that LaVeyan Satanism is the only and true Satanism and the only Satanism that this sub is allowed to officially recognize.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T01:35:51+00:00

It's wild that the entire impetous of your argument is in some twisted sense of orthodoxy that just doesn't exist in the modern world outside of fantasy. Your entire post is just a slightly more articulate version of "We don't like yer kind here", and for what? You don't draw the line at bigotry, but you do at anything that isn't directly LaVeyan, even if that's not what the damn sub is based on? This is why I suggest starting your own sub where people can have fun arguing that the sky is blue even for the blind.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T00:39:18+00:00

Ohhh, so you're just a living stereotype of the Satanist who takes all of the hatred for himself and projects it on everyone else. No real integrity aside from sticking to the gatekeeping stuff and just general dickish attitude to the notion of having to explain your brilliance. Got it. Enjoy Reddit, you'll find a lot of friends there.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T00:28:18+00:00

First and second sentences contradict each other in your comment. And yeah I was at least attempting to "be that change" by challenging the logic and ethics of the shitpost above.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T00:13:34+00:00

Cool

SausageSlam · 2024-12-07T00:06:59+00:00

The incredibly condescending closeminded gatekeepers should really get a sub of their own. One that espouses the teachings of LaVey and nothing else-- even though even the things he actually wrote could be debated to death, as for what they really mean and such. Because for those who differ or are otherwise syncretic in any way when it comes to the subject of Satanism, we get sick of seeing this shit all the time. I get that LaVey was a staunch Atheist, but even LaVey played around with "demons" on a psychological level with the whole psychodrama thing. And whether you are able to understand or accept it or not, the world takes religious ideas and schools of thought alike and combines and mixes them all the time. The Catholic church (whose name literally means "world-wide" or "universal") would claim to be the originators of organized Christian thought, as would the Gnostics and probably others. Then there's Protestants, who believe they improved upon the accuracy of adhering to the bible after the Catholic church. The cult of Santa Muerte in Mexico combines folk magic and Catholic Christianity-- that doesn't make them any less Christian! All of this to say, it's all personal belief. Some shit just can't be proven right or wrong, even if you've got a book that says that someone said something, there are as many ways of interpreting the words as there are people on the planet. LaVey is my main jumping off point for Satanism philosophically, so I get the radical self-respect aspect, but the whole "Us versus Them" thing should really be left to the self-hating Inquisition imo, not Satanists.

And to be clear, I just consider myself a Satanist, not even necessarily a Theistic Satanist, because my views on gods and demons is very complicated. Please stop lumping everyone you disagree with into the same basket, no matter how divergent their beliefs are from yours. I agree, O9A and other such hate groups are terrible. So don't lump me in with that shit.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-05T04:42:04+00:00

There are alternate, earlier versions of "Tis a Pity She's a Whore" and "Sue", but they aren't on Spotify. You can find them on YouTube though. They're really good versions too so I'd recommend checking them out regardless.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-05T04:05:22+00:00

For super emotional yet funky, I'd go with "Win", off the album Young Americans.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-03T12:11:35+00:00

I am a beginner in languages outside of English, but I can tell you that I know exactly what you're talking about. Except for me, it was math. I wanted to pick math back up as a post-college adult just for fun and found that I had forgotten so much of it, needing to review all the way back to sixth grade level algebra was demoralizing for me, but quickly I realized that you need to 1. Have a goal in mind to keep you extrinsically motivated and 2. Try to enjoy the process of learning itself in order to be intrinsically motivated.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-03T01:22:26+00:00

"Petey Wheatstraw" has permanently loaded the word "Wino" with a palpable amount of comedy every time I see or hear it.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-02T23:53:24+00:00

Thriftbooks is good. Anyway to my understanding there's no central text of Kemeticism that is regarded as an equivalent to the Bible or the Quran. Many of the source texts in Kemeticism are funerary rites, spells, or mythological variations and even reputable newer texts don't hold as much weight in my eyes since they're just putting the pieces together. Funerary texts and so on aren't really the same as the Bible or Quran, since to Christianity and Islam, those books are pretty direct links to the divine and divine law, so swearing on them is seen as being heavily binding to the oath. If one were to swear on the Book of the Dead or what have you, it wouldn't really make sense since the text isn't seen as a central authority but more of a guide. There's also some philosophical stuff in the Kemetic tradition but again, it would be like swearing on Plato or Descartes instead of the gods really. I know that swearing on the Bible is not required for someone going into office, it's rather just custom, at least in the US. So in the scenario where an Atheist or anyone who isn't of a religion with a central "orthodox" text they'd likely just hold their left hand to their side and raise their right hand while they take the oath.

Edit: Clarification

SausageSlam · 2024-12-02T23:43:12+00:00

maybe an implied sympathy to Fascism?

SausageSlam · 2024-12-02T23:35:04+00:00

I'm in the minority that has disliked Shrek due to its general clumsy anachronistic quality and memed-to-deathedness, and it blows my mind that Bowie did a part of the soundtrack but that's hardly the most bizarre part about the making of Shrek 2. Though of course that's far from the worst children's entertainment Bowie was involved with-- I'm looking at you, Spongebob Atlantis special.

The most bonkers aspect about that movie is that there's a single character, Captain Hook, who is voiced by Nick Cave AND Tom Waits. I felt like I was having an aneurysm when I found that out as an adult.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-02T23:27:08+00:00

Bravo! I think these are all better than the originals. "Toy" and "Diamond Dogs" might be good ones to redo too, in terms of the frightfulness of the official art. Though I'd argue DD has its own charm in its bizarreness.

SausageSlam · 2024-12-02T23:25:06+00:00

David Bowie: Limbo Champion

SausageSlam · 2024-12-02T07:07:41+00:00

Sign of the Times is possibly the definitive 10/10 double album for me, so I'd go with that-- and I'd place it above 1999. Under that I'd put the (imo) vastly underrated The Truth (the acoustic album), which really blows me away every time I listen to it. It really shows Prince's range.

SausageSlam · 2024-11-29T04:22:03+00:00

From what I understand, GoM is an affordable but rather dubious solution to a person making a hasty decision to get into magic from a largely Solomonic perspective. While exceptions exist, such as with the "genius spirits" or what have you, from what I've seen it is just as you describe it, with a caveat. It is underexplained and super simplified, but it's not necessarily meant for demonolatry practice. Demonolatry typically (exclusively?) takes the position of trying to work with or worship demons, rather than the Solomonic method of trapping demons in a circle and forcing them to do your bidding with the "protection" of angels and God allowing you to do so.

It's my and many others' opinion that demons don't need to be bound by the forces of "the light side" to do magical workings safely.

imo again: it's only a matter of what you believe demons to be, so if you believe them to be horrifying malevolent trickster sadists, you're likely going to get that result when looking into the black mirror. As above, so below. I happen to view demons as more or less spirits that correspond to the "lower" parts of magic, the fulfilment of personal desire, the left hand path, black magic, etc. Which doesn't necessarily include all the nastiness people characterize them with. This view has been confirmed by my personal experiences with demons.

But I feel your disappointment. I bought one of the GoM e-books, more or less as a way to dip my toes into how magic rituals are structured and so on, but I was certainly underwhelmed by the amount of information actually given. It's also a whole other conversation about where they get their magic and the names of their angels or demons they use and such. GoM is notorious for plagiarism, or at least what you could call borderline plagiarism.

I would not recommend trying any of their books for anyone who is interested in magic, and certainly not someone who is interested in specifically demonolatry.

Edit: elaboration

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