Making friends in Satanism | Forum

One time not too long ago when I was getting gas this guy was handing out pamphlets; he was a pastor or something from a local church. Unbeknownst to him I was 'the guy' who indulges psychoactives and contemplates the ineffable, among other things, for quite some time.

I was fairly close to the upper regions of the 'bell curve' so I rambled on for what certainly did not seem like the forty minutes it was.

And in parting I shook his hand and was invited to 'attend' a future gathering, but all I really wanted was what I had already done.

They want you to go places and do things and be extroverted. But the entire time you're counting down the minutes before you can respectfully return to your little hole and do the same autistic things over and over again because real life people are too confusing anyway. Plus interacting with them breaks you from your warm cocoon of comfortable repetition. 

That's why I stick around relatively faceless forums such as this and have minimal Facebook presence. I find if you don't ever append real life people to the avatars there is no need to have a 'human' attachment to them. You fulfill the brains requirement for some degree of socializing without any obligation to actually care about anyone. 

But then again the things I find fun most people find extremely boring and vice versa. 

Just continue to be the person that is able to have friends in many different social networks and from different faith systems. There's no reason to emulate Christianity's bad behaviors. Just be aware of how strongly you threaten their internal belief system by being a decent, happy. well-adjusted person even though you don't hold their beliefs. This will motivate them to get you back into the fold. 

One thing Satanism tends not to be is a social club full of feel-good, happy-clappy people. A lot of Satanists you will encounter are assholes with a big chip on their shoulder. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't be a Satanist or that Satanists aren't happy, well-adjusted people. I'm just coming to believe that it's particularly difficult for Satanists to socialize together. 

There isn't really much that unifies Satanists, tbh. We all know what we're against, but what we're each for is a different matter entirely. I think that's why Satanic organizations tend to have such short lifespans. The Satanic Temple seems to be trying to get around this fact by demanding political uniformity from their followers. I disagree with that type of organization pretty strongly. 

Just keep your brain working and keep seeking knowledge, truth, and your own private true path to a genuine life. Genuine friends are few and far between. If you desire a larger number of acquaintances, you're probably best off just keeping your religious beliefs to yourself. 

Okay, so here's my constructive response to you: 

If you notice the conditional "if" in my post above, you should pretty easily be able to figure out that I was saying that if - if - someone desires a large number of acquaintances, then one will have to be selective about what one shares with those acquaintances. 

If all you care about, like me, is having a few genuine close friends, then you should be your true self around them. But if you need a larger number of acquaintances, you're going to need to make yourself appealing to a much larger group of people, and that often requires one to selective about what aspects of one's personal life to share with the outsiders. 

See? That's not really a controversial idea at all. In fact, it's positively Satanic in that it leaves it up to individual to decide what approach to take for themselves.