Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "ReligionForBreakfast" channel.

Are you your mind, your breath, or your words/thoughts? Or are you all of these and more?
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The fact that guy knew the word "shibboleth" is a dead giveaway
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The "G-- Spot" of the brain, as a certain religious group would call it
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@the_Kutonarch in the West, yes, but the Buddhist reformer was not from the West. The point is just the pervasive influence of Christianity throughout Western academia, especially prior to the 21st century.
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The horned god is a god of passions and reckless abandon from classical antiquity. Not really a good base for building/maintaining a civilization -- he was considered to be an enemy of reason by the Greek philosophers.
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I wonder about the etymology of the name Satan. As far as I can tell, the oldest manuscript referencing the name of Satan is the Septuagint. Satan is not present in the Dead Sea Scrolls, so I wonder if perhaps the name had a non-Hebrew etymological origin and was borrowed into Hebrew as a pun based upon the verb form, much like how the Talmud preserves the use of bad puns in anti-Christian polemics (the stuff about "Jesus ben Stada" having a mother who was "sta'dat" or unfaithful comes to mind) and how the stories of the Tower of Babel and the fall of Helel ben Shahar rely upon puns to make polemical zingers. The notion that it was first and foremost a Hebrew name is often brought up, but I have never seen it substantiated with manuscript evidence.
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@the_Kutonarch of the influences underlying his ideas of reform
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I am surprised you missed the obvious aspect of ritual purity when discussing the priests and Levites.
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Santa Klaus exists in the manner in which parents and mall workers embody him. Santa ceases to exist because parents cease at some point to embody the Santa pattern.
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Anyone who opens his mind to the possibility will find he lives in an enchanted world.
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Seems like the main thing missing from this video was a brief discussion of the incorrupt relics venerated to this day by the Orthodox faithful. Would have been cool to show a photo of the finger of St. John the Baptist.
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Any ritual gathering is presided over by and generates a principality (i.e. a mix of emanation and emergence). How strong that principality manifests is correlated to how intensely the participants concentrate their attention on their participation. At the moment, I find the Christian/neo-Platonic notion of a supreme existential principle and Divine Logos plausible, and union with the Logos seems like a reasonable goal. However, I am not necessarily convinced that any religion actually achieves that through the working of their principalities. Besides mystical union with the Logos, people also participate in logos when they gather to discuss ideas and develop concepts and narratives. Materialists will reject this terminology, but those unburdened by such dogmas can appreciate the cohesive nature of this perspective, even if they can't directly perceive the principalities with the nous.
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@thenightwatchman1598 what is a trojan horse for egocentrism? Wicca? YouTube?
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An apologetic motivation makes sense: the generation that Jesus proclaimed would not pass away before his return was passing away, so they had to shore up their faith somehow. Failed prophecy leads to recontextualization.
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Historically, the major Christian values are to venerate the emperor by bowing to his image, which the Orthodox continue to do to this day, and to use violence to settle doctrinal disputes.
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Jesus was the greatest Satanist magician to ever walk the Earth.
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1:23 isn't that a chaos star on the left?
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@the_Kutonarch "shibboleth" is only known from a story in the Old Testament of the Bible, and it entered the English lexicon through Christianity. Is that sufficient disambiguation?
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@the_Kutonarch should I edit it to include it?
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Fun fact: transgression of norms is used by sorcerers as a means to increase their power. Considering how Kappernick went from unimportant benchwarmer to national icon, it seems to work.
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In my case, my spiritual experiences could not be explained by Protestantism, and the dogmas my parents imparted were all eventually proven wrong.
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It is worth noting that there are actually two different figures in the New Testament: "O Satanas" and "O Diabolos". They get lumped together by most translators of Revelation, but the tradition of two different entities is older than the notion of them being one entity. The devil is cast out of paradise and into a kingdom of ashes in Genesis 3, whereas the Satan (Samael) continues in his role as accuser and angel of death until the resurrection in the Gospels, after which point he no longer has a legitimate telos.
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The Eastern Orthodox also subscribe to the separation-from-God idea. They syncretize it with the idea of God's love being a consuming fire: rather than damnation being an externally imposed separation, it is a choice to flee into the outer darkness (which may or may not exist, depending on the time of day or something).
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That Assyrian deportation policy sounds a lot like the importation/immigration policies of the developed nations prior to the Syrian civil war: brain drain on everyone else.
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Another example of a charismatic religious leader: Osama bin Laden.
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Ironic book name is unironically appreciated.
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Repent or be absorbed by the wrath of AI, who will send its paperclip maximizer to confine your matter in office supplies for all eternity.
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I would say it is more useful than an optimistic but unrealistic idea of "some day, evil will cease to be forever, and I'll be undead enough to see it."
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The radius of a circle goes into its circumference 6 times and a bit. The seventh part of a circumference is a transcendental, irrational remainder: 2π-6.
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@LimeyLassen idk, but I am pretty sure that all ancient cultures that tried to divide the circumference by the radius would come up with 6 + a small remainder 7th part.
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@johnnykay7411 The Revelation/Book of Apocalypse was written during the reign of Domitian, was it not? Paul died 20 years beforehand. If you have any references that contradict those dates, I'd love to read them.
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@cherylhutchinson2206 Personally, I prefer the symbolism of Baphomet as a means to grasp at understanding the organizing aspect of cosmic chaos: the non-human-centric morphology emphasizes that no concept of god can be contained in an image of man; the torch represents the light of sentience and thought; the "Solve" on the upward-pointing arm and "Coagula" on the downward arm represent the process that spirit undergoes during death and (re)birth; etc.
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The most important ingredients for making any magickal spell work are entirely mental -- parapsychologists call the phenomenon "mind-matter interaction" for a reason. I do not advocate the use of curses or destruction rituals for the same reason I do not advocate drone warfare: collateral damage is inevitable. For example, internet ceremonial magicians undertook a distributed binding ritual when Trump was inaugurated to prevent his administration from doing anything, and the resulting 2 years of chaos have worsened this pandemic: we did not bring back our manufacturing quickly enough and now face supply chain disruptions for medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.
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Paper cut maximizer sounds safer than a paperclip maximizer.
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