ABOUT MY CHOICE TO JOIN THE SATANIC TEMPLE

It’s designed as an intellectual statement to propose critical thinking and healthy discernment are like “the true religion” — and it’s mainly about knocking Christianity without being like some Christians and putting down other religions as how to go about it (brutally). And I am SURE that’s a VERY funny and smart way to make fun of Christianity. And I really agree, since most people don’t think for themselves or think critically at all, it’s amazing how much it can seem as though it’s a supernatural power, similar to having God on your side or something lol, to even think for yourself at all (lol). It’s a great comedy to make fun of the issue of how Christians sometimes expect life to function on abstract, ungrounded terms to such a genuine fault.

Like you know, some of the most rude Christians, what we see is a pattern of dissociation going on in their mind, where out of wishful thinking that it were just as simple as attaching to the idea of God for every thought, they justify harmful actions on the logical basis of ridiculously abstract and undiscerning terms. And this is a picture of not wanting to be accountable because they’re low-functioning and don’t like to look at that in themselves. Fact is, anyone can dissociate and not be accountable or have any integrity, but that’s not a question of God, it’s a question of that person not functioning. And that’s such a valid claim from Satanism. They’re not putting down Christianity but they are saying, just being accountable, reasonable, having integrity and thinking critically, seems to actually be more powerful than attaching mentally to the label of God, as if that lends power to any whim.

And about my perceptions of Marilyn Manson. I was disappointed at first when I heard that he became officially Satanist (in his earlier years) and gave a speech at the Church of Satan — but that’s only because I look up to him spiritually, and I sense very evolved and advanced spiritual awareness in him (which Satanism doesn’t encompass) but I’m always hoping to find confirmation of that — since I’ve intuitively picked up on that. But with a little time and learning about Satanism, I realized that it doesn’t speak for Manson’s more genuine spirituality at all, as mentioned earlier. I mean I know he acknowledges just being grounded and thinking intelligently as one very healthy aspect of spirituality, but of course that’s only one aspect of a much wider field. Also, this understanding for me came from observing him going through life more, because he’s also attended Christian service too, and he’s more diverse and into showing various interests of all kinds of spiritual pursuits.

But as for Manson, I bet you he would be jealous of me that I got to join The Satanic Temple. He joined Satanism, obviously more as a publicity stunt — and I joined The Satanic Temple as a publicity stunt too but I think TST is closer to my and Manson’s genuine authentic wishes of what to publicly promote for attention — because it’s against pedophilia. And that’s the magic of TST — it’s not a religion but it is well known to be doing tons of really ethical programs for the good in the world. Essentially you might say that it’s similar to Satanism in the sense that it knocks Christianity and some religions in a peaceful and non confrontational way — only TST does so by ethical harm-reduction outreach and well educated, excellent quality efforts against pedophilia. For example, wherever there are any Christian after school programs with children, TST specifically matches the amount of outreach they do for children after school, using religious rights in organization to get placement at schools. This is aimed against the suspicon of pedophilia in church systems.

And I’ve been getting the emails from The Satanic Temple since I joined. Now, first of all, I wish I had money to donate to some of their causes, but I haven’t been able to support them much, but at least I have a little bit. But secondly, it’s just fascinating to read Lucian Greaves, the founder. He provides really educational long articles by email all the time, and this way you can really do case studies to examine the types of corruption in society which they are working to protect against. They just take opportunity within situations where arrogant and corrupt laws are being threaened and all kinds of socio-political issues, and they make a very well educated and healthy, formal, group effort to ensure safety for the community. Then Lucien writes about it passionately and it’s just enjoyable to stay up on the news.

As well, I was very taken in by it as a thing against pedophilia by my amazing friend who is a really cool guy and for so many years he worked as an injury laywer who makes the majority of his income from pedophlia claims against the church. It’s really silly to play that game of denying that there’s organized pedophilia in the church, when you look at the numbers — and my friend the injury lawyer certainly was one person who sees it enough to make a very very handsome living off purely insurance claims alone. The church is so rife with the issue that they have massive insurance set up to just easily handle all those constant pedophilia claims (lol) </3. It’s unbelievable !! But don’t we all know it. To deny that is outrageous. And this friend of mine is a really really cool guy who actually was in Soundgarden as a guitar tech roadie for most of his days (and was in Temple of The Dog) and has worked in the rock scene with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails and so many other incredible greats as a guitar tech. He’s a really smart guy who knows what’s what about the music scene I’d say. So that was quite fascinating that he became an injury lawyer after SoundGarden came to a close and found wisdom in TST.

And it’s a tragedy that Manson wouldn’t necessarily be able to use TST for a promotional stunt to show that he’s against pedophilia like me. I think quite possibly, he could get away with it if he had his show set up around it a certain way. Because the thing is, it’s not that he would deny that he’s against pedophilia, but pedophilia oriented violent outrage groups do exist, and they are very dangerous — so if they thought he was doing that for publicity of that cause without it having just a commerical reasoning which is less genuine to his heart necessarily, they would be very morbidly offended and really target him for violence in certain dangerous ways he might not be prepared to handle. So, he might be able to manage it if something about his commerical enterprise kinda said “This is just part of the show right now, I have no choice”. But that’s such a bummer, cause I know Manson is really punk against those hate groups and he would rather be educational and open about his beliefs.

And in my case, I’m not famous, so I don’t face the same severe threats. But let’s just say if I was famous, or if I suddenly blew up thanks to an opportunity — I think in my case it’s really not as dangerous as in Manson’s. Just because, I’m not as controversial as a figure, and I’m not considered a scary type of person really, plus I am really spiritual and sweet in such a wide open way, I think it just wouldn’t be quite as easy to take down my enterprise, or destroy my popularity, or convince groups or dangerous gangs to go against me and try to murder me just like that. Like I think famous people do have to watch out to the point where like, they should make sure it’s not like one day around every corner, any member of the Hell’s Angels has gotten a memo to murder you and they totally agree with that for many various reasons and could easily be tricked by pedophile groups, in each case, so suddenly it’s like civilians have guns and half the population wants you dead (lol). But they manage OK even as Marilyn Manson, with it being fairly arguaable that they really represent the sense of the true devil, even to street gangs like Hell’s Angels or any violent idiot around town (lol).

And street gangs like the Hell’s Angels would be into protecting me, cause I’ve voiced myself quite well and very elegantly about being a survivor of abuse and been very clear about who’s to blame that it’s not me, and been a real sweet girl. I mean street gangs like Hell’s Angels would be quite interested in killing some of the guys who have raped me (lol). That’s really more the kinda thing it is thankfully for me in my scenario :)) Just cause the fact is, I’m such a picture of a nice girl one should feel good about protecting and being in her lane <3%

And that’s my update. There’s more I wanted to say just about how I plan to use this to back me up in a statement against pedophilia which is more full throttle, but I’ve felt blocked in getting that whole part out unfortunately. But at least this one :)

Love, Ba
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