- 9sense Letters – Gothic, greasy looking guy wearing a sigil of Baphomet
- Something Different with Heather Height – Episode 10 – News is for Rubes
- Unorthodoxy with Witch Zaftig – Episode 12 – Bible study 101
Detailed Notes
Intro
Welcome to 9sense. 9sense is A Satanic Perspective of Our Modern World and I am your host Adam Campbell. It’s great to have you. It’s August 16th, and I have a great show for you this week.
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9sense Letters
- I have a career which requires licensure in my state, and as a part of the license I must complete a certain amount of continuing education credits every year in order to secure renewal. I recently attended a four day class at a community college in my area in order to do this.
During lunch times on those four days I would walk to the next building which housed a food court. The food wasn’t the greatest, but it was the closest place to grab a bite, and it afforded some pretty spectacular people watching. That is to say, college age youths.
The first couple of days went fine. I ate my lunch and watched sports jocks try to pick up girls wearing yoga pants (the girls not the jocks), and various groups doing their little rituals. I found it almost horrifically easy to pick out the “cliques” even though I was strictly a voyeur with only a couple collective hours of observation time.
Then on the third day I spot this gothic, greasy looking guy wearing a sigil of Baphomet around his neck, so of course I start to watch him. I didn’t care much for his style choices but who am I to judge? If you want to look like a terrible version of Marilyn Manson be my guest. What struck me as in insult was the way he acted. He sort of floated between cliques. The first group was made up of pretty young girls (or at least what passes for pretty today). He didn’t say a word but just sat to the outside of the circle, close enough to be associated by anyone walking by, but not being engaged. He looked like a dog begging for a crust of bread to be honest.
To tell you the truth, I didn’t care much at that point, I was content to finish my sandwich and go about my day…but then…
He gets up and sits down with a group of kids who are clearly mentally retarded. One girl showed signs of Downs syndrome and she was the one who seemed to be the least afflicted. He clearly wasn’t wanted in this group either, but after a few minutes he butts into their conversation (I doubt he could even understand them) and starts making fun of them (specifically the way they talk) in a very loud way.
So let me break this interaction down. This asshole decides to try his luck with the pretty girls, which in his head apparently means sitting next to them, but being too actually engage them in conversation. They finally give him the cold shoulder long enough for him to go away, so he tries to regain whatever confidence he had left by going over to the weakest people in the room…people who he knows won’t fight back…and kicks the proverbial dog.
ALL OF THIS IN PUBLIC! WEARING A SIGIL OF BAPHOMET! (to be completely fair it wasn’t the official sigil, but rather a Hot Topic knockoff…still…your everyday person only sees someone wearing satanic imagery acting like a complete fool…and a mean one at that).
I decided that action was needed.
Now it’s a matter of lesser magic because I want to correct this individual’s behavior without making a scene, and without outing myself to the crowd, but I also want to send a clear message to the poser in question.
Here’s what I did:
There were pool tables in the corner of the lounge area so I went up and asked the idiot if he wanted to shoot a game. He did. As we’re playing I start chatting him up and making him feel comfortable. Then I ask him about the Baphomet.
He shrugs.
I ask him if he knows what it means.
He says he does.
I ask him if he believes in what it represents or if he just wears it because it looks cool.
He says believes.
I ask him who the founder of the Church of Satan is.
He says Aleister Crowley.
I ask him who wrote the Satanic Bible.
He says Aleister Crowley.
I ask him if he’s a member of the Church of Satan.
He tells me that no such organization exists.
I say that’s interesting.
I lose the first game on purpose, and ask if he wants to play another.
He does.
I put some quarters in the table and start to rack. While doing so I ask him if he wants to make a friendly bet.
He tells me he doesn’t have any money (shocker).
I tell him that it’s alright. If he won I’d give him twenty dollars, but if I won I got to borrow his sigil for ten minutes. He was kind of confused, but asked to see the money. I showed him and we played. I won. I knew from the first game that he might have been even worse at pool then he was at dressing himself in the morning.
I asked for the Baphomet and promised that he could take it back if he wanted after ten minutes. He handed it to me and I asked who he thought the most attractive women in the room was. He indicated one of the girls sitting at the table he was creeping on earlier…no surprise there.
I took my twenty off the table and told him that I wanted to play another game…and walked over to the girl he pointed out. I apologized for interrupting her conversation and introduced myself. I then told her that I wanted to do something kind of odd. I asked her to put the Baphomet around her neck. I then pointed to the asshole standing by the pool table and told her that it belonged to him. Of course she didn’t want to touch anything of his, so I gave her the twenty dollars in order to ease her discomfort.
I told her that she could give it back to him, but only if he approached her and asked for it himself, and that she could keep the twenty for he trouble. If he didn’t come up and ask her for it, then she should leave with it around her neck and do whatever she wanted with it.
She agreed. I gave her the twenty I thanked her.
I then went over and told the asshole that the only way he was going to get it back was if he went over and asked for her telephone number. He was visibly pissed, but also confused. I went back to my seat across the room and stared holes though him as he fidgeted around for a few minutes. Finally he left the building without so much as approaching the girl.
I waited a while longer and the girl and her friends left with Baphomet in toe.
She probably threw it in the trash the first chance she got (or maybe she returned it later…I don’t know), but if she did decide to keep it…at least she was a better representative of actual Satanism then the shit head it came from.
So that’s my example of furthering the greater Satanic conversation. I understand that I didn’t actually place any new knowledge about Satanism onto the individuals in question, but to be fair, no one really asked my opinion, and the shit head wasn’t worth correction in the first place.
This leads me to a couple of questions for you Rev. Campbell (and any guest host who wants to chime in).
1) What do you think about the scenario I mentioned?
2) What would you have done different?
3) Does furthering the greater Satanic conversation stop with simply correcting misinformation or would you extend that conversation into media and other forums in a general way?
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Infernal Informant
- UK military action partly to blame for ‘chaos’ in Libya, says Tunisia PM
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/06/uk-military-action-blame-chaos-libya-says-tunisia-pm - http://www.theguardian.com/world/libya
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Unorthodoxy with Witch Zaftig
- Episode 12 – Bible study 101.
- What is a canon?
- Apocrypha
- Pseudepigrapha
| So my question has to do with the origins of the bible. It’s a cliche question but I’m always hearing all this stuff about King James being a paranoid schizophrenic who thought the devil was trying to kill him, and that hell is a Norse word and how badly it’s been repeatedly translated and edited. I understand that the old testament is the Jewish Tora, and the new is just mashed together by Saul of Tarsus, but what other true historical insights can you give us on the buybull? Thank you guys for your show I luv yuns Hail Satan! |
Outro
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