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\u201cYou cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor judge of character and quality. If anything is used too freely it loses its true meaning. Therefore, the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy\u201d – Anton LaVey<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was taken back to this statement by Anton LaVey during my studies to obtain the knowledge of The Order of Pan. When I was a child I wanted world peace. I wanted everyone to be able to \u201cjust get along\u201d and live in harmony. I wanted violence to become a thing of the past. <\/span><\/p>\n Fast forward 30 years. Since then I\u2019ve been beaten, robbed, hustled, ridiculed, and told countless times how I am going to burn in Hell for eternity. \u00a0I\u2019ve been through a marriage where I gave 110% and my ex-partner checked out as soon as we said our vows. I\u2019ve been stabbed in the back repeatedly and left with nowhere to turn when I hit rock bottom. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I realized more and more with each incident that I was cut from a completely different cloth than most of those around me. I\u2019d slowly but surely had become emotionless and detached. I\u2019d realized that I was alone and I had toughened up and become quite callous in the process. It didn\u2019t take me long to realize how ridiculous my original line of thinking was! I\u2019ve since learned to stop giving away my love so freely. I\u2019ve learned that all who smile in my face are not my friend. I\u2019ve also learned to stop turning the other cheek. <\/span><\/p>\n Now let\u2019s rewind back to my childhood. \u00a0I was a bully as a little kid. \u00a0By third grade I moved past that and had completely given up on violence, wished for peace, buried myself into books, became an honor student, and tried my best to avoid fights. I became a nerd to put it lightly. <\/span><\/p>\n There was an incident when I was in middle school where I was at recess and was minding my own business. All of a sudden something hit me really hard from behind and I was face down, clothes full of mud. I stood up and turned around and the guy who did it was standing there laughing. <\/span><\/p>\n It was all fun and games for about 10 seconds. \u00a0I stood up and smashed his left cheek as hard as I possibly could! He immediately lost his sense of balance and the smirk on his face. I felt a supreme sense of hatred surge through me after the first punch. It was a very deep, seething, malicious hatred – the depths of which I had never felt before. I embraced the rush of adrenaline and charged at him full speed. He was still dazed and I gave him the old 1-2 combo until a teacher broke it up. \u00a0I explained what happened and I was not sent to the office. I felt real power for standing up for myself. I took my Grandfather\u2019s advice from when I was a kid and I applied it firsthand: I struck first, I struck hard, and I made sure that everyone had seen it.<\/span><\/p>\n In hindsight that incident was a major turning point in my life. It had the effect of me becoming more outspoken, more confident in myself, and no longer was I going to be taking any shit from anyone. This was when I started to rebel against religion. This incident \u00a0was my awakening \u2013 the beginning of my walk down the Left Hand Path. <\/span><\/p>\n So remember to always use your love sparingly, embrace the hatred when it finds you, and take matters into your own hands as needed so justice can prevail. \u00a0It will save you a lot of pain and heartache. I can promise that you will be a much better person for it in the long run. Hail Satan!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Steve Sitri ~ Member of the Sect of the Horned God \u201cYou cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor judge of character and quality. 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