[Haunted]

Someone missed something in their Satanic studies....Tsk tsk... LeVey used to head the "church" with a cat named Michael Aquino (no not the army dude- I don't think). They split, because Aquino wanted to go further than LeVey, and he did.

Michael Aquino formed The Temple of Set, which is "Satanic" in the sense that Pagan is pagan (Pagan=anything that isn't Christian... although that's not the technical definition). It's Satanic because it's bad. It takes the philosophy of devoloping personal power and ambition. It also teaches a sort of dark form of Hermetic sorcerey. They devote themselves not so much to the God Set, but to the idea of Set, who in the ancient Egyptian panthean, was the god of the desert, destruction, and things like that. He also, as you know, murdered and dismembered his brother Osirus.

They try to attain this state (?) ideaology(?) of xepher (kepher) which means "coming into being" or "I have come into being." (If any of these folks would have read Kant, they might have the true notion of transcendentalism and realized that someone had already cornered the market there).

@Skoof- Pantheism rules! Ah, but there are two definitions for pantheism 1.The Goddess is in everything (Thus making Her everything, thus Nature) and 2. There's always room for everyone's beliefs, provided they don't try to push them on me and that includes atheism.

Organized religion sucks ass, thus I quit training to become a High Priestess, and am not in a coven.

Believe me, I love to debate religion. I do. However, take it's totally and completely useless whether you're debating with a devout Catholic or a devout Atheist. It's totally useless. Furthermore... look at what's going on right now.

Lets take a lesson from little Witch Heather, let's take our own little beliefs and keep them in our little hearts, and talk about them ONLY among friends (we seem to be doing well here. No one's pulled out an uzi), and when holidays come we keep our little beliefs in the privacy of our own little homes so no one is offended, thus ending religious tension.

Because... Ultimately, it's between the individual and in Whomever or not they believe. For those that don't believe, what did Polonius say to Laertes (pretty sure it was Polonius to Laertes in Hamlet)? "To thine own self be true."




...I'm pretty damn sure P said that to L.... almost positive... doesn't matter, still holds... "To thine own self be true.

There every one is happy. We each have a positive.