{"id":543,"date":"2013-10-15T01:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T01:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sectofthehornedgod.wordpress.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-01-12T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:25:40","slug":"machine-gun-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Machine Gun Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Octavius<\/p>\n

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An open letter to the keyboard warriors of the LHP:<\/p>\n

“Challenger” and “Adversary” does not mean “one-who-criticizes-everything-possible-in-hopes-of-drawing-affimation-or-accolades-from-other-on-line-Satanists.”\u00a0 You’re boring.\u00a0 You’re unappealing.\u00a0 You’re uncouth.\u00a0 Far be it from me to posit absolutes, but I will say that being adversarial or agnostic in your life does not require bitching about the perceived “satanic value” of various television programs, movies, books, or fellow internet denizens.\u00a0 It does not require you to dissect every post or video on multiple LHP forums in an attempt to bolster your Satanic internet credibility.\u00a0 Your opinion was likely not solicited, and your post only illustrates your need to socially display your pseudo-superior understanding of all things LHP in the most transparent and desperate way possible.\u00a0 These cyber-Satanists will often retort with ham-fisted excuses, my favorite being, “Why did you post this if you didn’t want it challenged?”\u00a0 What are you doing in your own life away from the computer screen to validate your assertions of superiority?\u00a0 Have you nothing better to do than surf the internet looking for “fresh prey?”\u00a0 Why is your Axis Mundi an unrelenting focus on\u00a0 YouTube or forums?\u00a0 What a sad existence.\u00a0 I can make this accusation because, at one time, I was one of these idiots.<\/p>\n

So many find it necessary to belligerently give their alternate opinion or perception of a given topic in an attempt to present themselves as credibly Satanic.\u00a0 Varying degrees of hostility are not a benchmark of Satanism.\u00a0 Rather, I suggest that it’s the ability to politely carry on a conversation or contribute to a healthy debate that garners respect, if respect from others is what’s needed or desired.\u00a0 Belligerent criticism and posturing mean nothing.\u00a0 In any discussion, one must first have an intelligent and informed platform in which to present the issue or topic.\u00a0 Alas, these basic concepts of common courtesy are all too often assumed unnecessary within the cyber world of Satanism.<\/p>\n

Then there are the schemers and trolls; those who spend most of their free time with eyes glued to their computers and post vague ideas under the guise of philosophy.\u00a0\u00a0They may also obfuscate overlong essays designed to repackage what has already been said by someone else in hopes of impressing the credulous or confusing the informed.\u00a0 They wait for someone unfortunate person to reply, then proceed to elevate themselves above the questions posed by bullying or denigrating the questioner.\u00a0 This is a common practice among many cyber-Satanists, some of whom are well known in many on-line communities.\u00a0 They are tolerated for a time, then banned, and move on to another forum or Facebook group to start again.\u00a0 These are parasites of the LHP, not Satanists.<\/p>\n

My unsolicited advice to anyone still reading is simply this; honesty, courtesy and curiosity are still in style among those who know better.\u00a0 Your attitude will always define your behavior.\u00a0 Then again, this entire post is merely my opinion.\u00a0 How you interpret it is up to you.\u00a0 However, it’s my responsibility to present it with respect and candor, which I have genuinely tried to do here, and try to do with anything I do, say or write.\u00a0 Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Octavius An open letter to the keyboard warriors of the LHP: “Challenger” and “Adversary” does not mean “one-who-criticizes-everything-possible-in-hopes-of-drawing-affimation-or-accolades-from-other-on-line-Satanists.”\u00a0 You’re boring.\u00a0 You’re unappealing.\u00a0 You’re uncouth.\u00a0 Far be it from me to posit absolutes, but I will say that being adversarial or agnostic in your life does not require bitching about the perceived “satanic value” of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6,9,11,13,15,18,21,22,24,26,27,29,32,1,33],"tags":[208,38,209,213,46,51,57,217,219,222,67,226,228,231],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BLIO-8L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}