The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest Something wicked has befallen San Bernardino National Forest, if signs posted around the protected woodland in Southern California are to be believed. Which they aren't, according to the US Forest Service. The Department of Agriculture agency took to Twitter to debunk notices found in the region that warn: "Due to increased …
Is that LaVeyan Satanism then? If so then they did revere Satan as a figurehead, which makes their claim, "as an atheistic religion, we don’t believe there is anything to make a sacrifice to" about as serious as the Flat Earth Society's claim that they are indeed a global community.
But you can revere someone, or something, without believing they are a deity.
Don't confuse worship with admiration of an ideal.
To quote Wikipedia:
"LaVey was an atheist, rejecting the existence of all gods. LaVey and his Church do not espouse a belief in Satan as an entity who literally exists, and LaVey did not encourage the worship of Satan as a deity. Instead, the use of Satan as a central figure is intentionally symbolic."
There are surely signs of this being an alien invasion. All those missing people must have been taken against their will in round flying devices with blinkenlights. The animals are, of course, probed by said aliens and probably remotely cooked, mostly and probably inadvertently, by said round flying devices with blinkenlights.
Warning signs for alien invasions should be considered a Good Thing(tm), especially in places where you may encounter aliens without any possibility of having evidence of said aliens after any such encounter.
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Just for the record, those "known to cause cancer" signs haven't actually changed anything here in California. They are a fine example of feel-good legislation that does absolutely nothing at all, except make a few very wealthy curtain-twitchers & namby-pambies happy to make large contributions to politicians.
You can still get a gallon of motor oil, ignore the labeling, and drink it on down if you want to. Likewise, we pump our own fuel despite the "don't breathe the fumes, causes cancer" signs. And some normal foods have to be labeled "contains minute quantities of thing which some judge somewhere, despite having no training on the subject whatsoever (Duh! He's a judge!), thinks might, possibly, contribute to cancer somehow, although he refuses to let us all know how he came to that conclusion" ... but you can still purchase and consume it here. Useful labeling, no?
Actually, I lie. They have changed something else. The signage is fucking ugly, and has made California a visually less pleasant place to reside. And they have made California the butt of jokes worldwide, for absolutely no reason at all. But that's about it. They certainly haven't made the place any safer. We still have mountain lions and bears about the place (he says, drifting back on topic) ... but I'll bet the idiots are trying to figure out how to get rid of those, too ... in an environmentally friendly way, of course. The fucking idiots.
>those "known to cause cancer" signs haven't actually changed anything here in California.
Yes they have, they made things less safe.
I see the sign on the door, assuming it means you have white board cleaner or printer toner - and I realize I'm looking at a row of open anodizing baths.
It's like labelling everything in the store as poisonous and wondering why the kid drank the weed killer
Well if someone were to suggest that mountain lions and bears contain agents suspected of causing cancer ... (Ed., written only for humorous purposes, I say leave the mountain lions and bears alone)
LOL, we visited California a couple years ago and did get a chuckle out of those ridiculous Prop 65 signs everywhere. Even Disneyland has to have them posted. Maybe you could turn it into a tourist activity - find all the Prop 65 signs. Maybe make a Pokeman Go type of app to track them (once the pandemic has eased to a sane level, of course).
That would be Southern California. California is a rather large place (over three times the size of England), trying to tar us all with a single brush is about as sensible as saying Liverpudlians and Mancunians are the same ... they are only about 30 miles apart, after all.
The early film studios tried to establish a foothold here in Northern California, but we're too laid back for those uptight weirdos, so they ran off to LA with their tails between their legs a century or so ago. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE did some of his best work up here; he loved Niles Canyon. Some say he never recovered after the forced move South.
"That would be Southern California. California is a rather large place (over three times the size of England), trying to tar us all with a single brush is about as sensible as saying Liverpudlians and Mancunians are the same ... they are only about 30 miles apart, after all."
Surely they are pretty much the same? It's all just north of the M4.
Church of Satan is not Satanism. The name comes from Christian mythology - God's favourite angel who rebelled against the god's rule. Church of Satan is a collection of atheists disliking rule by a Christian church. They identify with a character in a story without believing the character is real. If you like truth justice and the American Way you could start the Church of Superman without requiring members of your club to believe Superman is real. You can also donate to the Church of Perpetual Exemption without believing John Oliver exists.
Thanks for the explanation. It seems a bit of a badly chosen name though; one likely to cause confusion.
I mean, Hitler was well known to like fine art. But if I started a fine art club, I probably wouldn’t call it “The Hitler appreciation society” - it could give the wrong impression
Specifically Church of Satan polices the official separation of church and state in the USA.
So when a city puts up ten commandments or religious statues on government property they campaign to put up equal statues of Satan.
TLDR - they are atheist political campaigner good-guys (tm)
Messi is not exactly what I would call a typical Cougar/Puma.
He's not even what I would call a typical cat. It is fairly obvious that the disease that left his body stunted & somewhat twisted when he was a kitten also affected his brain. He and his humans are very lucky to have run across each other at the exact right time and place.
Long live Messi!
I had the honor of playing with some of the calmer cats at a big cat sanctuary roughly 15 years or so ago. While they had some cats that were no go and unfriendly to everyone, including the keepers, the cougar's I got to interact with basically behaved like giant house cats.
Santa and Satan are the same being, everybody knows that.
As proof, one is an anagram of the other.
Secondly, Oct 31 and Dec 25 are the same number.
Thirdly, have you ever seen Saint Nick and Old Nick in the same room together?
This makes even more sense when you think about it further ... For example, who would YOU pick as the patron saint for a holiday best known for hedonism, libertinism, decadence and debauchery?
There's an actual name for people who worship Satan: Christian heretics. Satan-worshippers are by their natur Christian because they need to acknowledge the existence of the trinity in order to be properly worshipping the opposite on the spectrum.
By definition, heresy is, generally, a doctrine held by a member of a religion at variance with established religious beliefs; more specifically, the veneration and supplication of a/the maleficent deity within a religious framework, while simultaneously acknowledge the deit(y’s)/(ies’) maleficence.
All of that is very vague and generalized, but it is fundamentally correct. Satanists rarely portray themselves as heretics outright from my knowledge and interactions with them.
"Didn't necessarily used to need to be an actual Satanist to be considered a heretic."
Used to? Shit, I know supposed xtian groups who call each other heretics today, in 2020! The mind absolutely boggles at the vastness of human stupidity.
(Yes, I know the Einstein, Ellison and Zappa quotes.)
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The same way they’ve got forest fire maps, the US Forest service should publish Satanic Rituals Alert Map. I propose a four level warning system:
Lever 0 Clear heavens - no Satanic activity detected
Level 1 Scattered chanting - localised moderate Satanic activity, stay alert
Level 2 Prevailing sacrificing - high risk of losing your pet, stay home
Level 3 Severe brimstone storm - go out and enjoy the show while you can
When I was a kid I read the Satanic Bible
I was bored, got it at the mall in Ohio
When I was older I moved out to the bay
And at a music store, hey, I met Anton La Vey
He was dapper and he had two strippers with him
He played organ with expertise and precision
I got invited to his house in '97
With my friend Becky there was some kind of get together
I didn't go because I had something or other
Then he died that year in late October
And if I'm ever near the corner he lived on
I always think about the day I met Anton
His old Victorian was black as Bondo
They tore it down now a shiny new condo
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