Re: virus: Church of Satan?

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 18:54:48 -0400


Hi,

"Michal Kulczycki" <88802@dawid.uni.wroc.pl> wrote:
> - we find Satan the personification of everything, which was
> (and still is) great, high, wise, clear, natural and was called
> a sin by xtianity and other totalitaristic religions; these are
> for example pride, healthy egoism, honour, indulgence of senses
> et cetera,
<snip>
> Satan for us is the personification of wisdom, perfectness,
> self-developement, freedom, pride, aglohedonism, indulgence,
> courage, honour and Eternal Truth.

Are you familiar with the extropians? How similar are extropianism and
satanism? (or better yet, how are they different?)

EXTROPY: A measure of intelligence, information, energy, life,
experience, diversity, opportunity, and growth. The collection of
forces which oppose entropy. [T.O. Morrow, 1988]

What is aglohedonism? (or more specifically, what does the modifier "aglo"
do to hedonism?)

> - we are elitaristic, we accept natural stratification: the
> leaders and followers, nietzschean 'slaves and masters',

Question: do you think that "leaders and followers" has a genetic basis? (I
do) (from the back of the Seven Kingdoms personal computer game:
(paraphrase) "But the true power of any kingdom was eventually seen to rest
upon the shoulders of the lowly peasants" For those interested in
strategic warfare games, I cannot recommend Seven Kingdoms more highly.)

> We find Life the highest value, this implies respect to every life,
> especially children's and animals' ones, as we perceive them the only
> absolutely natural and sincere beings.

Does this mean that Satanists are vegans? Or that you are hypocrites? :-)

I'm also interested in your view of the Virian Sins and Virtues --
especially Empathy. Does Satanism have anything similar?

And a question for all virions: I'm looking for synonyms of the following
concept, as well as references to places which talk about it:

parallel / lateral / bottom up / emergent / etc.

I'm working (as always) on a theory of religious experience, and have
identified the above concept as basically the heart of the matter. I just
need to find a word with that connotation which I can call the theory.
(yes, Robin, I've thought about "synthesis" as the title, but it doesn't
quite catch what I want. Mostly because I'm not synthesizing anything,
"merely" pointing out that synthesis ("parallel experience" is actually
closer) is the *nature* of the religious experience)

For those curious, I'm interested in Empathy precisely because it is a
parallel experience.

ERiC

btw, I mean parallel as in "at the same time", i.e. parallel as opposed to
serial.