A Satanist's view on Spiritual Awakening | Forum

In this Antitheists opinion it's another useless "God Delusion". 

I'm a spiritual type, myself. Sue me. But where I work I have to confront death and suffering on a day to day basis. I occasionally wash the bodies of my dead patients. You know, people I look after. Not to mention the death of my family. I once had a friend who was a down to earth Atheist and when our mutual friend got seriously sick, she was freaking out at the hospital. The whole thing reminded her of the sick and dead father. Finally she ran away.

 I think the attitude to death, pain and suffering depends more on character than the beliefs you hold. Both the religious and atheistic folks can freak out at the thought of their mortality if they lack fortitude. The thought of a paradise can be a consolation but it doesn't make death and pain less real.

One more thing I would wish to add is that I don't feel like a new born person after the death of my loved ones. It wasn't an epiphany. Some things did improve. I feel I'm a bit more self-confident due to having to solve some issues myself. The most important has been the change of the job. Being no longer a teacher has removed a lot of stress and frustration from my life. It also gave me more satisfaction. I just feel I'm on my place finally. That I managed to find work that is compatible with my personality.

Spirituality being the optimizing of experience, awakening means arriving at insight as to how one may arrange one's particular circumstances and skills to most expertly and with endurance satiate her every desire, bringing joy and contentment.

That is also not the complete version of that, Anna...

I am personally a fan of Anton's unsettling mannequin room.

They can only look at you with their dead vacant eyes, like models. And as such, I'd have way too much fun playing dress up with them.  I could blow these broads away with my abilities and a full assortment of clothing and apparel to mix and match. 

Anna Winter doesn't have shit on me. And I'm totally strait like Tommy Hilifajiger. 

1) Generational - born into a LHP Family

2) TRAUMA - born into a family of drama and a violent action

has brought your soul so close to death that you 

SEE through the BS after surviving the violence

There must have been a brush with death in order for your mind to wander that way (again) 

Hail Satan Sister

Did you know on 9/11 there was a bizarre string of bad luck that made a large portion of passengers including Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane miss their flights? Even people making those flights experienced bullshit to get there. 

All described a fucked sequence of hitches and bad luck that came along preventing them from making it.  

I try to be an antitheist, but that trips even me out. It happens all the time. 

Were those all miracles? 

Over 225 instances (across 4 flights) of people sleeping through alarms, having cars that won't start, rides falling through, or just not wanting to go at a rate far in excess of industry standard for no shows.  

What made causality trip up and go against it? 

With a larger question for why are such dramatic events preceded by things seemingly trying to prevent it? Intuition stuff. 

Perhaps the answer is some outcomes are so impending and ominous it filters through surrounding causal chains? 

How does one take the god (of some kind) out of that? 

People are forgiven for seeing grace there. 

Sorry, I am still geared to that other thread. 

This should be a thread of its own, and it now is. Thank you for the idea. 

I wrote this paragraph a while ago and think it fits in this thread:

Finally there’s death. The higher wild animals know what it is. They mourn their dead. Yet as far as we can tell, they don’t brood over the brevity of life. They don’t race against death, or wrestle with it, or bow to it, or bargain with it. They don’t interact with it at all, and therefore they have no need of religion’s main function. They just rise each day from their makeshift beds and go about the business of living, doing what they must and enjoying what they can, each of them a channel for the life force, and if today is the day they die, it won’t be any different from any other day of their lives, until the moment they expire. While they’re alive, death holds no power over them, and therefore neither does religion.

MY ACCOUNT OF MY SPIRITUAL AWAKENING:

I walked around life like a zombie just doing things I knew needed to be done. No emotion involved. I drove in traffic without frustration. I didn't care if the radio was on or off. I cleaned the dishes and went to bed at a reasonable time without itching to do something else. It was as if all emotion and wants were no longer existent and I was able to direct myself to do what needed to be done to continue living. I preferred silence, being alone, and thinking of nothing while by myself for the duration of the week this happened to me. Just sitting with a cleared mind. Felt at peace as if nothing existed or mattered. This is when I took it upon myself to make religion my priority in life and shun all other things that didn't matter.

Did you undergo lobotomy?

I didn't know they still do this shit to people. It's scary.