{"id":733,"date":"2013-12-19T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-01-03T02:55:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T02:55:29","slug":"a-dead-end-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"A Dead End Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Goatboy-by-Mark-Hiblen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-734\" alt=\"Goatboy, by Mark Hiblen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Goatboy-by-Mark-Hiblen-236x300.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Goatboy-by-Mark-Hiblen-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Goatboy-by-Mark-Hiblen.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jasin Elric<\/p>\n<div>I&#8217;m not a particularly old soul in the world of Satanism, though I&#8217;ve been a self proclaimed Satanist for little over 15 years.\u00a0 In my time of venturing my own path, and having the privilege to speak with many knowledgeable peers along the way, I&#8217;ve learned much about myself, and have refined my paradigm on more than one occasion.\u00a0 Knowledge, it seemed, in earlier times, was an endless commodity, and I indulged gluttonously.<br \/>\nAs of late, the more I read, the more people I encounter, what little valuable knowledge I&#8217;m able to extract, seems to be nothing more than echos of long dead philosophers, or reiterations of recent intelligent thinkers, cleverly reworded to appear prototypical.\u00a0 In my own thoughts, I sometimes find this to be true.\u00a0 It feels as though there&#8217;s no more to reap, and all the same to sow; like walking the same mile every day, down a dead end path.<br \/>\nI find more and more every day that Satanism is lived and experienced, more so than it is studied and comprehended.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an ever evolving personal paradigm that can never be completely defined, understood, or universally accepted.\u00a0 What more is this than a collection of experiences to either reinforce, or decimate a superior, or inferior definition of what we all believe Satanism to be?<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/sectofthehornedgod.wall.fm\/user\/JasinElric\"> JasinElric<\/a> Mar 9\u00b7 Comments: 8\u00b7 Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/sectofthehornedgod.wall.fm\/blogs\/list\/browse-by-tag?tag=random thoughts\">random thoughts<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jasin Elric I&#8217;m not a particularly old soul in the world of Satanism, though I&#8217;ve been a self proclaimed Satanist for little over 15 years.\u00a0 In my time of venturing my own path, and having the privilege to speak with many knowledgeable peers along the way, I&#8217;ve learned much about myself, and have refined [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,5,9,18,24,27,29,1],"tags":[209,213,51,58,217,234,226,228],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BLIO-bP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}