You will not read this, but will more likely than not skim through it looking for ideas or snippets to pick apart missing the whole view that I will try convey.
My political views stem from my religious ideas or my influence from religions, but these religious ideas or religions that have influenced myself are not main stay formalized religions. I will first start off with what religions have been apart of my life and which have influenced myself if any influence comes from them.
First, I was born and raised Roman Catholic, though no influence remains from this one except probably some ideas in how to interact with Christians and having tolerance for them as well. I was confirmed as well but that happened when I was 16, around the age of 17 I had already progressed far out the reaches of Catholic teachings. When I was 17, I learned about the Goetia, Wicca, and Kabbalah, which leads me to the second.
Second, I read and practiced the ideas expressed from the Goetias, I learned Wicca from both books and Wiccans, and learned Hermetic Kabbalah while also reading up on the Jewish Kabbalah as written by Gershom Scholem (sp?), and also have read the Zohar and Sepher Yetzriah (sp?). Now most Christians or seems most Christians, I could be stereotyping here so forgive me, but it seems most Christians believe without fail that Wicca is the religion of the Devil, and Polytheism is also a work of the Devil, this I can attest to be as wrong, and if somebody wants me to post my college paper (argumentative essay on Wicca not being an evil religion) I will.
This is not the case just because a religion believes in more than one God or Goddess does not mean they worship the Devil or following a religion of the Devil, on the contrary, those who are members of the Church of Satan worship the Devil, but even that is because they hold Judeo-Christian beliefs. Wiccans do not believe in Judeo-Christian beliefs, despite there are probably being some of those sects influenced by them, most Wiccans do not hold Judeo-Christian beliefs, and to follow the Devil one most believe in him and the people he opposes. In defense of the Goetia and Kabbalah, the Goetia are occult books attributed to King Solomon, but despite having the person deal with spirits and demons, is not inherently evil, nor is anything for that matter that is alive. Kabbalah, oh there is alot to cover, for one Kabbalah was original a secret knowledge given by God to the High Jewish Mystics, and is a part of Eastern Esoterica. Read up on Kabbalah by following the link on the right of my blog page, Colin Low has written some awesome stuff on it, not to mention others of different sects of Kabbalah have also contributed to it. All three have some influence even today over some of my views. Now onto the next.
Third, I read up and practiced the rites as were prescribed by the Golden Dawn, as well as learning from old Magus books such as The Book of Abramelin the Mage (?), 11 Lessons of Modern Magick, etc. Than I also read some of the Thelemic texts, but did not practice Thelema, though Crowley's 777 and Book of Thoth, are excellent additions to an occult library, 777 because it serves a Hermetic or Occult Kabbalah reference book, Book of Thoth as an accompaniment to the excellent Thoth tarot deck which I use once in a while but take readings with a grain of salt. Golden Dawn has some influence not much, and the rest were just a good read, though the Thoth deck and book are good, and the 777 are still great as a reference.
Fourth, I progressed further in my religious views, and stumbled onto the Principia Discordia (which a full online version can be found in my links on my blog at right) and Chaos Magick. Both have influenced my modern thought greatly, one being Discordianism, the other being Chaos, both have warped my mind into it's modern thinking process. My complete and stable views now which have been this way for 4 years now have been that I utilize the thoughts of scientist, I look for the proper variables, and look my interactions in the world as an experiment. I believe in the morals of science (which is having no morals but laws, like laws of nature and laws that do myself the least harm but provide the most gain). Discordian, well I would tell you all about it but I can't so FNORD.
Lastly, I read some things about Futhark and have a nice Rune set that glows in the dark writing on glass stones. Though still the learning’s from Chaos prevail, whatever works best for an experiment utilizes it but do not attach yourself to dogma.
Also the other view from my influence from Necromancy that I forget to cover is that I believe in achieving three tenets in one's life: Life, Divinity, and Death.
I will break this down:
Life = Everything Lives, everything is born, everything can be created, Live Life to the fullest by living your life in the best way you can and one in which is pleasing to yourself.
Divinity = THIS DOES NOT SUPPORT ANY IDEA OF A DIVINE ENTITY Divinity means to myself (which is a better term than just saying balance) is being both of polar opposites or being neither, but in the end you rise above both polarities and see the past them. Good and Evil, etc. A balance (or divinity) is what I strive for each day in my life. This view conflicts with almost all established religious views on God, since they all believe he is Good, when Good and Evil are human concepts not Deity concepts.
Death = Everything Dies, Everything is destroyed, everything can be torn down, accept death without fear, accept death period. My fear that stems from my acceptance of this is immortality, most people today are chasing for it, but I fear it, immortality is a curse. Just think of every memory you have made over your life, with immortality those memories keep growing never dieing.
Rinse and Repeat Cycle Over Again.
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well that is a resounding and steadfast maybe, if it is possible how would one know they had been reincarnated, if it is not than how come some of the same personalities are still recycled back into society?
As for my belief (of which ideas are always better than beliefs) on a Divine Entity, he or she may exist or not, so I will utilize Gods or Goddesses with names if I decide it necessary in an experiment, after all I have finally developed how to change my mindset into the one I seek and change back to my original mindset afterwards.
Example: I want to use the belief of Greek Gods for some silly thing, so I change my mindset into one of the believers of Greek Gods and utilize it, than change back afterwards.
I can also use this mindset changing to see where someone is coming from if there is enough information to facilitate the transfer.
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Political Views Portion
Now onto the next topic some of my political views, which I thought by putting some of the background it, might clear up why I stand for what I stand for.
1. I am an Anti-Racist period. No grey area here. I do not reinforce stereotypes even if people can tout off statistics to back those stereotypes, I always look at the individual, I don't look at the color of their skin, before I ever say somebody is Hispanic or African American, etc. I refer to them by name and only refer to their heritage when it is necessary, but never in a derogatory of generalized race comment.
2. I am against Religious Intolerance. Whether it is Pagan, Occult, Muslim, or even Satanist, everyone is entitled to their own views, and to suppress or oppress other religions because of they go against yours or are not yours is religious tyranny, and I loathe it. Everyone is neither right in their religious beliefs just as long as it does not oppress another's religious beliefs.
3. I am neither a Republican nor Democrat. In fact most people who claim they are, are just a part of or affiliated with that party because of their voting in Primaries, each person is an individual, does not matter what party you vote for. I wholeheartedly support having ALL VOTES COUNTED, even if they are votes against my candidate, and if you support every vote counting than you would NEVER EVER TELL SOMEONE THEY WASTE A VOTE ON A THIRD PARTY and instead should vote for your candidate. If you don't support third party votes, than quit your damn hypocrisy, because YOU DON'T SUPPORT EVERY VOTE COUNTING PERIOD, no GREY AREA DAMN IT JANET!!
4. Logic and sound Reasoning are better than Opinions and Reiteration, though I do tend to reiterate something somebody brings up I just do it to show that I agree as well plus if I am going to type it gets hard to only type a snippet all the time. Logic should prevail over opinion, is it wise and logical to support Every Life Is Sacred, when you support China, which has a problem with population control, which I will touch on it a bit.
5. Abortion is more of a 'red herring' issue but I figured I might as well state my view on it. I believe abortion out of inconvenience is wrong, with so many contraceptives available everywhere today why do pregnancies of inconvenience exist? Someone just should have tried a contraceptive instead of abortion. I do support abortions when the LIFE of the Mother is directly affected, i.e. the Mother will die or the child will die if it is born or carried, but the actual numbers of these kinds of abortions are so infinitesimal it is mind-boggling. Now onto the next.
6. Population Control. This might cut down on alot of stuff and help alleviate the future system, if number of children a Mother or Family can have are limited, they can get around this by adopting, adoptions will not count towards the total of Children someone can have. If measures are not taken to control this (as awful as it may sound) world will reach the point where people will are dieing because the planet cannot support them.
Like limit the number of children someone can have to help preserve the world for future generations, a much better way to cut down on abortion for inconvenience the pro-life people can put stipulations into this that state that any child aborted out of inconvenience counts towards the total number of children one can have, but if it was an abortion to save one's life than that does not count towards the total. Must think of the future even today, if we want to still live on this planet or have our descendants live on this planet.
This is not awful but one decision that must be done, this will also help to cut down on those who wish to have babies just to get a bigger check from Government. As for China, that system is awful, the rich can buy their way out of it, the poor still get rid of their girls, and now their is a huge black market that deals in human trafficking. To rectify this and to ensure the system works, PUT SOME DAMN INTEGRITY IN, like not bowing to anyone no matter how much money is tossed around PERIOD.
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Now I spent too much time typing this, so for now this is an end, and I may do a second part. Who knows but myself.
For those who have read this, congratulations, you read it and not a skimmer.
Later,
Grim Xiozan