Lately, I've been seeing more and more how a person's ideologies,
   politics, and intellectual knowledge are just window dressings and
   outer trapping for their character and feelings. (This is nothing new,
   straight from Mao too by the way). How a person dresses up what they
   know from their carnal experience and feelings doesn't really mean
   much; it's just an intellectual framework for explaining and
   rationalizing feelings and experiences. E.g., Tani said in her last
   post how she is rare as a Durga who is atheist and comletely
   materialistic. But how much does it really matter whether she
   logically explains her abilities with materialist explanations, or
   calls them something Buddhist or even explains it with Christianity?
   E.g., the Christos.
   
   This goes back to the old discussion of why people adopt certain
   ideologies. I.e., that they are expressions of their inner beings.
   People can also both share an intellectual framework and have very
   different INNER beings and understandings of that ideology. E.g., two
   people can call themselves Marxists with very different carnal grasps
   of what they are describing. This all ultimately goes back to
   neurology anyway.
   
   Why do some people believe Goldhagen (or their own understanding of
   it), and some condemn his thesis and book as rubbish? Why do some
   people think that the US is an imperialistic country, and some people
   think it is the do-gooder savior of the world? Well, of course they
   have lots of fancy books and facts and statistics and sources to back
   them up, but the fact is that there exist books and figures to justify
   ANYTHING. People selectively believe certain facts to believe. So in a
   sense MIm3 was right long ago, that people DO embody a truth, because
   that truth is the CHILD of their bodily experience through life. Why
   do some people think that Stalin was a petty power-mad dictatorial
   tyrant, and some people think he was a despotic (meaning no-bullshit
   hard-core against incompetants and other Enemies of the People) guy
   who served the People to make Communism? Well, personally, I think
   more like the latter because in books I read on him, LITTLE THINGS tip
   me off; I can RELATE to them, i.e., to my REAL feelings and
   experiences! THAT'S why. THAT'S why these Western people can ONLY
   understand things in the framework of their own pretaloka shithole
   experience. They can NOT comprehend that Stalin killed those people
   for anything OTHER than sheer male disease-type power-madness, because
   that is the only behavior they KNOW. Of course, they are not AWARE
   that their ideas are based on real experience (they have emphatically
   denied it to me), and thus think it's some "pure logic" or "universal
   spiritual truth." MORONS. That's why convincing them otherwise is a
   waste of time. The Black ex-Marxist Thomas Sowell noted how these
   western people either saw the USSR as Utopia or Hell. I think these
   Westerners are RIGHT to hate Stalinism, since they would PERISH under
   it. Of course, these intellectual waste-products that whine and wail
   about the USSR are all unaware people who cannot simply say "OUR KIND
   perished under Stalin", and instead preach about universal injustice,
   etc. STUPID shit.
   
   Look at what different people have made with Satanism. LaVey defined
   Satanic in a very unusual and novel way relating to his own inner
   experience living in America as a Gypsy etc, and wrote a book about
   it. Then mostly white Americans read that book, usually due to a
   tantrum against themselves and their own inner confusion, and made
   their own thing out of the COS (e.g., the Hobbesian stuff). Then Tani
   et al come out with their Dark Doctrine (which existed in LaVey's
   writings, but very subtly and quietly) and redefine Satanism as
   something INNERLY specific. SOME in COS circles saw this and
   consequently related that to themselves and their own experiences. So
   these things are all "Satanism", but all very different. It's wierd
   (and wonderful) for me to think of what I call "Satanic", and how
   EASTERN and DARK it is, and yet how it relates directly back to many
   things LaVey said all along.
   
   B