My favorite author, currently, is Robert Anton Wilson. I have been (in my free time) reading everything of his I can find. His writing has given me so many insights, and I highly recommend all of his writings.

However, I don't believe everything he says any more than I do anyone else (which I'm sure he'd be thrilled to hear). There are1 a couple ( Read more... )

I hate smokers. Well, specifically the kind of smokers who smoke around other people. You wanna kill yourself slowly, fine; just don't subject anyone else to it.

I think smoking around children should be legally considered criminal child abuse and endangerment. I think smoking around non-smokers should legally be considered assault. And I think ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make: I sometimes take the extreme opposing view because I get in moods where I just want someone else to be as angry as I am. Like rats, for instance. I generally don't like them, but I do know they aren't inherently dirty creatures. I just liked fighting with the rat-lovers about it because it sounded like a good idea at ( Read more... )

I recently saw, not for the first time, a graph showing how much more advanced we would be if the Roman Empire hadn't collapsed. The graph blamed Christianity ( Read more... )

Reading "The Satanic Rituals" by Anton LaVey, the section on the Black Mass got me thinking. It talks of having a priest, a deacon, a subdeacon, a nun, an altar, and an illuminator, and everyone but the nun and the altar wearing black hooded robes. The altar being a nude woman, and a nun being, well, a nun, in the traditional habit and wimple. But ( Read more... )

I'm a bit unusual even for a Satanist. I believe that while stupid people should indeed be exploited and manipulated to the Satanist's advantage, I believe also that if we are truly to follow "survival of the fittest," that we keep in mind that humanity as a species IS the fittest because of our ability to cooperate. I believe that true socialism ( Read more... )

The Bible forbids idol worship. Christians worship images of Jesus, or symbols like the crucifix, or The Bible. So nobody is going to the Christian heaven.

Cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org

Survival of the fittest does not mean what most people think it means. It is NOT just about competition, of tearing others down, nor is it necessarily about who is most physically fit. It's especially important to know this because too many people try to apply survival of the fittest to social stuff, and economics, without understanding the most ( Read more... )