Satanic morality

Satanism is, by default, amoral. No set of defined morals one must adhire to in order to adopt the identity of "Satanist". No "Thou shalts" or "Thou shalt nots" to obey. No commandments, no absolute rules that when broken will define you as a "bad person". True Satanism has the 11 rules of the earth, but breaking them tends to have tangible consequences as opposed to threats of a post death punishment. This is the core of Satanic morality. We define what is moral to us by the consequences of such actions. Throwing a punch for no reason simply invites a retalitory strike. Stealing can at best leave people distrusting of you and at worst imprisoned. Killing someone for reasons other than self defence can lead to imprisonment or an invitation for revenge.

Satanism is amoral, but it is not immoral. Immorality is doing what harms others with little to no thought of consequences. Amorality is doing things that serve your goals without goig out of your way to harm others, nor helping others in a way that takes more from you than you can aford. It is also making sure you are not a doormat. While the Satanist tries to treat people with respect when he or she firsts meet them, but if this respect is met with scorn, or even violece. The Satanist will respond in kind and never treat the other person with more respect than is owed.

Satanists aren't criminals, we are not immoral, just amoral.

XLVI A.S.: Some thoughts about the future, and the past

So begins a new year. 45 Anno Satanas, or 2011 CE. During the last decade we saw many changes. Many new technologies such as the evolution of internet connection, from dialup, broadband and then Wi-fi. Two incarnations of the Playstation game system. HD TV is finally outside of Japan. Yet in our quest for knowledge, is it possible we could be forgeting stuff? While collecting novels from the Horus Heresy series, the latest as of this post, Perspero Burns talks of knowledge being lost in time. In the far future depicted, a group was set up to recover lost knowlegde and to audit data. One of the achivements mentioned was recoving "all 3 of Shakespire's plays". I wonder what we lost in only the third millienium of the common era. Already can name some examples. In 1927 Germany, a movie premiered, it didn't do well, but for its time it was very advanced, impressive sets and interesting themes of class, revenge and artificial companionship. I'm talking about Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Often I had heard of the movie, but it wasn't until I picked up a DVD out of curiousity for the film itself did I learn that chunks of it was missing and at the time thought lost forever. While much of the footage was eventually recovered, it is still incomplete and still the footage is in bad shape. Also lost are many early episodes of Doctor Who are lost too, the 12 episode epic The Daleks Masterplan is reduced to 3. Other mysteries are lost beyond our understanding, for example, the construction of Stonehenge. These things are gone and maybe unrecoverable, but we cannot allow what we have learned to fall into the abyss of time. We have learnt so much, we cannot afford to forget. The quest for undefiled wisdom means keeping what we have.