Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "What is Satanism?" video.

  1. I'm an Agnostic Satanist: I am not sure if a Satan exists, or what such a Satan would even be like, but there's a part of me that hopes there is one.
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  2.  @LordMegatron818  According to the Bible, who wiped out most of the earth on a whim? Who hardened Pharaoh's heart and killed the Egyptian babies? Who instituted slavery? According to Isaiah (45:7), who is the author of evil?
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  3. @BJ-dl8cl  he died for pissing off the Jewish authorities and "leading the children of Israel astray", according to the Gospels.
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  4. It is worth noting that "the Bright and Morning Star", an epithet of Lucifer, was appropriated by the writer of Revelation as an epithet of Jesus, who was also portrayed in the first chapter as a platinum blonde hermaphrodite with breasts.
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  5. @glandhound  you must not have ever heard of apocalyptic Judaism, the religion of Jesus and his disciples. The Christian concept of Satan is largely borrowed from apocalyptic Judaism. Anyway, my original comment is satire.
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  6. @fairybeliever4479  my original comment is satire. While I appreciate the Promethean myth of righteous rebellion against tyranny, my fundamental perspective more closely aligns with ancient myths about the world emerging from a formless chaos, and since it seems that spacetime emerges from quantum entanglement, there is a sense in which the ancient Greek concept of the world being created as an act of erotic love is relevant. I have had direct experiences with a number of numinous entities of several kinds, and my preference right now is to venerate a particular deity in private and be left alone by the egregores of religions/governments/ideologies and random astral pests that hang around their periphery.
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  7.  @fairybeliever4479  One of the difficulties with numinous experiences is that numinous effects tend to conform to the expectations of the perceiver. This is related to (if not identical with) what the remote viewing researchers call the "analytical overlay". For example, if you grew up in a cultural context dominated by Abrahamic religions, you will be predisposed to experience numinous phenomena that align with the philosophical, metaphysical, and ontological ideas prominent in that culture; if you consciously rejected Abrahamic religion and found Hindu myth and scriptures fascinating or relatable, or if you grew up in a Hindu context and did not consciously reject it, you will be predisposed to have numinous experiences that conform to Hindu ideas. (In general, religions will discredit any numinous experience that does not align with the official narrative and reinforce as legitimate any numinous experience that conforms to the religious dogmas and themes. Religious control over spiritual experience is primarily a boundary maintenance mechanism for social cohesion.) I tend to dissect my experiences after the fact to recognize the influences that colored my perceptions. For example, when I was reading about and experimenting with astral projection/out-of-body experiences, after I had read about a concept called the "guardian of the threshold", I had a very potent experience of this phenomenon -- I have had OBEs since I was 5 years old and had already had several controlled OBEs through meditative practices by this point, but this was the first (and only) time I experienced this threshold guardian phenomenon. It is impossible for information to be meaningfully conveyed without some pre-existing frame of reference, and numinous experience takes this principle to an exaggerated degree. The only pieces of advice I would give anyone on any spiritual path are the following: first, nothing is perpetually beyond scrutiny -- there is a time to acquiescence to riddles, but there is likewise a time for a stubborn resolve to extract answers; and second, stay away from egregores unless you know what you are getting yourself into.
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  8.  @fairybeliever4479  I wrote a long, nuanced response yesterday, but ThemTube censored it. The TLDWTRWI (too long don't want to rewrite it) is that existing cultural context colors perception, and this is taken to an extreme with numinous experience.
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