posted on Apr, 30 2023 @ 12:25 AM
a reply to:
EmeraldCoastFreedm
You must have read The Satanic Witch. Glanced through it. How to be an alpha mean girl. If you need help to be more manipulative your "LBM" isn't
probably going to be all that effective anyway.
I liked some of his essays. The ones at the first half of the satanic bible, and a few later essays. But I never really joined his personality cult
and did the magic altar thing.
He was a gifter. A carnie actually. Literally a traveling carnival worker before his church. He said lion tamer, so that means he was probably ticket
taker.
Spent most of the time exploiting his own followers and using their dopey need to belong to amuse and benefit himself. At one point, he sold degrees
within the church to undermine a fake culture of needing labels for self esteem. He ultimately found himself surrounded by posers and exploited their
sycophancy. Then wrote about how to exploit their sycophantic tendencies.
At some point in 80's and 90's it drifted anyway from the LaVeyan version. Although they still consider themselves the authority, they lost influence,
as is evident by the Boston Tea-bagging Party. But before TST turned it political it turned into something similar to Therevada Buddhism. (At least
outside LaVeyan cult circles).
I do find it amusing they take the a hatchet-job position though.
edit on 30-4-2023 by Degradation33 because: (no reason given)