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I am the worse fear of the Jew, incarnate. I am his Satan. WHom better to be Satan to than a smelly African-American or other Mud?

This approach would not work for me.

My goal is to build, not destroy. I want to work on my own race and I don't give a damn about any others, although by the nature of my self-bearing I usually opt to avoid negative behavior toward others.

This is the best view of Race, and is the view I have held for a good year or so now, after the initial "White Pride"-tinged-with-violent-racism phase of my youth.

Many people find this goal hard to understand.  Then again, many people are idiots, who should, really, be shot dead, right now.

The general view of me amongst my closer acquaintances is that I'm some kind of White Supremacist.  This is a view that is not dispelled by careful argument from myself against that supposition: despite the fact that people have openly accepted, in front of me, that I am evidently not an advocate of the "White Power" movement, the very same people will return another day and say "But wait, aren't you a White Supremacist or something?"

An even more distant acquaintance of mine told me that he "worshipped Satan", a while ago.  When I asked him if he actually believed that a physical creature named Satan existed, he answered "No, but his power rules this world".  When I asked him to elaborate, he explained that he believed Satan to be representative of the Chaotic forces of Nature, whereas God was representative of the Order of Nature, thence, as we are currently living in stagnating societies and civilisations, the need for change - a Chaotic force of Nature, by his estimation - was required.  As a result, he is a "Satanist", and indluges in the related imagery, listens to the music, buys the t-shirts, and the hair gel, and the make up, and the jewelry, and the "gothic" candel holders, skull goblets, crosses, coffins, etc.

It is interesting, how someone with rather a clear view of the decadence of this society, someone who will openly profess his views against that same society, can be so horrendously in its sway.  In him, the hipster "Satanism" that has become so popular meets a Philosophical "Satanism", seeking change in a dying world.

Quote from: Cargést on April 21, 2009, 10:08:48 AM

I have finally been able to recognise that the problem is not with Christianity, but, rather, with the Church. 

I don't agree, and here's why:

The problem always comes down to individuals denying reality, and forming groups that then officialize that denial of reality.

It probably happened to Jesus, and it certainly happened to Christianity.

The fact of the Church's existence, in its many forms, gives those who deny reality a chance of refuge among others of like mind, therefore, I suggest we remove the formalisation/organisation of "Christianity", and it will become far easier to reveal to people that there are correct and false parts to their worldviews: without the support of a "community", people's views are more malleable, thus it will become easier to straighten them.

From being Christian by volition (my parents are confirmed Agnostics), to being a "Satanist" for about half a year, to changing to Wicca and Witchery, then having "anti-Christianity" as being my "religion", and then, finally, and only recently, considering the ten years since I have been giving myself a labelled religion, moving closer and closer to what could ostensibly be called "Odalism" (yet another label, but one that I prefer to simple "anti-Christianity", being positive and not negative), I have finally been able to recognise that the problem is not with Christianity, but, rather, with the Church.  A number of Christians I have become aquainted with were outraged to find that I believed Catholicism, Protestantism, 5th Monarchism, etc, to be "branches of Christianity".

It was made clear to me that the concept of "the Church" goes against the words apparently spoken by Jesus Christ.  I also realised that my problem with Christianity had, in fact, been a problem with the Church, and "organised religion".

Cosmic.

Wordsworthian Sublime, anyone?

All of the people I used to spend time with are like that now.

Morons.

2012.

Enough said.

Death is a scary place to be, so we'd rather delay the inevitable and just not get on with things.

I often hesitate to link Metal directly to Romanticism, primarily because most of the British Romantics I know (early Coleridge and Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, even Keats) were "liberals", whose opinions on many things I fiercely disagree with.  However, in terms of the perspectives on art, primarily poetic and prosaic literature, I would class even myself as "a Romantic".  I can certainly see links between Metal and Gothic/Dark Romantic literature, mostly in the use of horror, terror, fear etc. as primary sources of inspiration, or even subject matter.

People have too little respect for the Graveyard Poets, whose works would almost certainly be called "Romantic", if Paradise Lost can be considered as such.