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in reply to a message by Sarahjeanne
"I'm glad that you have a cool husband! Maybe someday I'll get one:)"
@@@@ You and Phyllis will both find someone cool eventually. You know that old saying, "You've got to be a friend to have a friend"? Well, it's also true that you've got to be cool to get cool. And you both are. :)
"Thanks, Nan. I really did learn alot from that. It's amazing what stereotypes can do to things. AND people :p"
@@@@ It's limited thinking that leads to stereotyping. Satanists aren't "evil" -- just "untamed". ;)
-- Nanaea
@@@@ You and Phyllis will both find someone cool eventually. You know that old saying, "You've got to be a friend to have a friend"? Well, it's also true that you've got to be cool to get cool. And you both are. :)
"Thanks, Nan. I really did learn alot from that. It's amazing what stereotypes can do to things. AND people :p"
@@@@ It's limited thinking that leads to stereotyping. Satanists aren't "evil" -- just "untamed". ;)
-- Nanaea
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Nanaea and Sarahjeanne
Ditto with witches and (most) neopagans. I attended a small ritual and I felt less inhibited being "sky-clad" when a number of those involved were too. Nobody cared what anybody else looked like.
Before you ask, no, the flails were left behind (it wasn't a Gardnerian ritual).
Phyllis
Ditto with witches and (most) neopagans. I attended a small ritual and I felt less inhibited being "sky-clad" when a number of those involved were too. Nobody cared what anybody else looked like.
Before you ask, no, the flails were left behind (it wasn't a Gardnerian ritual).
Phyllis
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Yep, ditto with witches and most neopagans. Some neopagans are a *little* bit tamed, though. :) That whole concept of worrying over the things that you do coming back at you "threefold" doesn't exist at all in Satanism.
That's not to say that Satanists don't have ethics, of course. It's just that we feel that, as intelligent adults, we already *know* the difference between what's right and what's wrong -- and we act accordingly. We don't act (or refrain from acting) out of a fear of divine retribution.
Of course, I'm not saying that people who aren't Satanists act rightly only out of fear of divine retribution -- because Satanists obviously aren't the only people capable of acting on their conscience. I'm just saying that Satanists aren't "tamed" in any way by such religious conventions.
I know what you mean about not feeling self-conscious about being skyclad when around others who are also doing it. In my pre-married days, I used to be a regular visitor to a nude beach on Fire Island. However, I wouldn't be likely to suddenly start disrobing at a regular beach. People would think you're craaaaaaazy (or something else!) if you did that. LOL!
-- Nanaea
That's not to say that Satanists don't have ethics, of course. It's just that we feel that, as intelligent adults, we already *know* the difference between what's right and what's wrong -- and we act accordingly. We don't act (or refrain from acting) out of a fear of divine retribution.
Of course, I'm not saying that people who aren't Satanists act rightly only out of fear of divine retribution -- because Satanists obviously aren't the only people capable of acting on their conscience. I'm just saying that Satanists aren't "tamed" in any way by such religious conventions.
I know what you mean about not feeling self-conscious about being skyclad when around others who are also doing it. In my pre-married days, I used to be a regular visitor to a nude beach on Fire Island. However, I wouldn't be likely to suddenly start disrobing at a regular beach. People would think you're craaaaaaazy (or something else!) if you did that. LOL!
-- Nanaea
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"It's limited thinking that leads to steroetyping. Satanists aren't "evil" -- just "untamed".;)
@@@@ I like that!! I may have to join the "dark side", I often find myself doing things I shouldn't. And I love it! :)
Sarahjeanne
@@@@ I like that!! I may have to join the "dark side", I often find myself doing things I shouldn't. And I love it! :)
Sarahjeanne
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Yanna, you fledging satanic Greek you :P
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It's all part of my plan, everytime you turn around, I'm a different person! You'll never know the real me! Wasn't there a movie like this? The Saint...ohhh, saint...maybe I'll be a saint now, I need a name!!:p
Sarahjeanne
Sarahjeanne
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hmmmm make it mean "sensual creature" :P and while youre being a saint dont forget to wipe your nose cuz it is often stuffed and your armpits need a good dose of vaseline
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A saint? Well I guess a Tinkerbell tattoo in the small of one's back can make a person heavenly :P
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