From: dart@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dartanyan the Witchling)
Subject: Re: Self?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:07:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.201341.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> rtsumn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.123045.6593@iscsvax.uni.edu>, marshall1198@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
>> It appears that even after a time of getting going with this newsgroup, there
>> are still no satanists on it.

	Yes there are.  You just don't know what one is.

>
>Me! Mememememe!
>
>Most of the people here aren't even Satanists, but of the few who are, the ones
>who actually *believe* are less likely to post, being afraid of recriminations.
>I am one of the vocal exceptions.

	We claim no responsibility for the absurdness of this individual.
	The enlightened ones merely keep him as a plaything.

>
>> Just nasty atheists.  If you worship yourself

	No, I am a nice semitheist.  I do not know whether there is a god of any
sort or not.  I can not see any proof that there is any sort of divinity,
nor can I see proof that there is not any sort of divinity.
	Therefore, deity sort of exists right next to Schroedinger's semi-dead
cat.

>> (the opposite of the Christian denial of yourself), I would agree that it is
>> "of the devil", but clearly not real satanism.

	No, you have it wrong again.  I do not know why I should lower myself
to explain this to you, but the enlightened ones, me and my ex-dog, have decided
that now is a good time for PR.
	We do not worship ourselves, nor do we deny ourselves.  We control our-
selves.  That means such not based on anyone elses definition of what we should do
while controlling ourselves.  We believe that the only appropriate government for
a planet with a population of 6,000,000,000 people is 6,000,000,000 autarchies
each with a population of 1 (including the king or queen -- this means themselves)
and no capabilities to impose laws on other governments or to invade foreign 
territory (other peoples minds).  This could quite possibly be interesting if 
someone tried to charge a store a tarriff when they attempted to sell to them, but
until such things get that odd, we are still trapped in an alcohol soft middle age
of societal growth -- far from the actual adulthood most people never reach.
	Consider this: Who tells you what to do?  Who controls you?  Now... who
do you control?  I mean, really control?
	Most people can name some person or organization that controls them, but 
can name no one they control.
	I can name one person who controls me: me.  I can name one person I control:
me.  Thus, not only am I subject to no outside control, I also have the benefit of
getting to control myself.
	I am my own person and content in that.  Here, on Earth, not out in space
on an imaginary heavenly cloud strumming a harp of gold in a place where gold is so
profuse that it paves the streets but greed is a dedly sin (get that.)
	My kingdom now, content, on Earth, as xtians dream of being in heaven and
were there such a place, would not be so.

	It's funny, I have talked to many xtians that have wondered, from time to 
time, if they are already in hell, and part of the torture is not being able to
hear directly from their god(s).
	If, then, I am "damned to hell" as proselytizers would have me believe,
perhaps those wondering xtians are right, and I truly am evil, which would explain
why I am happy here and they are not.

	Aside from musings...

>What is this "of the devil"? Are you an xian type?

	No, just a mehum.

	Didn't the Queen Bitch my Ex-Dog tell you to dance?
	Dog say dance, yoU DANCE for Dog!   <whipcrack>

			
						dodger
						Sean Cannon


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