I didn't see how it was relevant to the definition of nastika. As far as I am aware Mara is a spirit that tempted the Buddha and is generally associated with samsara and desire. As I understand it such types of beings also exist in astika.
Seriously though, perhaps we should start a topic on...
Many are depicted as cosmic horror type of scary. So ya. Yahweh wasn't ****ing around. It's actually interesting how ancient Hebrews saw Yahweh as a henotheistic deity but today Christians think he's monotheistic.There's actually some history of how Yahweh came to be by combining many different...
Depends. A bunch don't, some do. I don't.
From everything I've ever understood or read Nastika is just rejecting the Vedas, idea of God and atman. I don't see how that's an antinomian movement. It's just atheism. Historically all of Buddhism was considered Nastika. So I don't really get what...
I don't really catch what you are getting at. Perhaps we could make a discussion or one on one debate topic if you wanna be socratic about it. Or go to PM. I'd like to discuss this more but it's getting off topic.
That's a false dichotomy though. Theistic Satanists often say they don't worship either. I don't see Luciferianism as any different in that respect.
Also I don't understand how you can claim that antinomianism "tends to want to be seperate from heterodoxy". That just defies any sense to me...
They already post in eachothers DIRs most of the time and no one in the LHP DIR even respects the boundries anyway. Also Ive never seen atheist satanists and theist satanists go at it on this forum now that I think of it. Maybe they have in the past but its rare that even an atheist satanist is...
That's a good point. I think a lot of the complexity comes fro mthe fact though that the term was appropriated with an altered meaning and then the meaning was altered more and for a lot it actually came full circle back to the original meaning (both today and decades ago).
I would be better...
In the future, you may find it useful to look up the Sanskrit letters and use something like this as a guide: Learning Sanskrit - How to pronounce in Sanskrit - Pronunciation 1 - The letters - Sanskrit & Sánscrito
Also sometimes I've had luck looking up terms on youtube to find Hindi speakers...
No, I think people just need to recognize that they can't try to exclude others. I know so called "western" LHPers can get along with people like me. Some of the LHP people on RF migrated to the Order of the Serpent's forums and not a single time has anyone ever misrepresented my beliefs there...
Okay, I'm tired of non-Satanists telling me I don't even know my own religion. This entire topic just looks like an attack on my beliefs specifically;
Find me someone else on the forums that's religion is at it's core Satanism and Shiva-Shakti based (Which is exactly what kashmir...
I agree with @Curious George It's like you've @Ingledsva never had dysfunctional parents or been a kid with parents going through a nasty divorce. We don't know how well she would react to that, or really anything about the situation. No one really acts rational or logical in these types of...
I think when it comes to moderation, as I said, the staff isn't equipped or knowledgeable enough to discern what is and isn't misrepresentation versus a matter of difference of opinion without it being really egregious. What more bothers me is when something is a relatively subtle attempt to try...
Basically all the Satanists responding say "yes" and one non-Satanist and the OP say no. Neither of the "no's" as far as I can tell are Satanists. Add to that many other Satanists if not all the other ones I know on the forum have ever said it's inconsistent or "wrong" for me to do what I'm...
I'm getting tired of these posts and topics/threads bashing the ORIGINAL Left Hand Path.
Anyways I'm a practicing Satanist and LHP Tantra. As far as I am aware I'm really about the only one that takes that association seriously as a core component of my beliefs. I've never run across another...
This is mostly something I see in the LHP DIR anytime the so called "Eastern" Left Hand Path comes up but it's been a very tense thing for over a year. And it's happened a lot in the religious debates with any number of religions and sometimes in other DIRs as well where someone who's never...
You people scare me. Some of what was said here is pretty horrible and ignorant.
I had a messed up childhood so I know not to put blind trust in the system. When I was 13 my mom and step father when through a really toxic divorce,. Stuff isn't always fair and the court doesn't always actually...
I think that article forgot to mention but she was also in SEAL team 6:
Transgender Navy SEAL Team Six veteran wants to meet President Trump: ‘You tell me I’m not worthy’
I would say for myself that we don't see our pantheistic "god" as being inherently an all-loving or even loving god... it just being what it is.
I agree with @Liu about the impure and dark thing too. It fits really well with Tantra. I don't know how I would express my thought on morality but...