>>4054533

This would be like saying "All Presbyterians are bad guys."

Or "All Wiccans are bad guys." (Since there seems to be some manner of link between Presbyterians and Wiccans that is rather spoopy these days).

The truth is usually that the good outnumber the bad. Among any group where the leadership becomes corrupted or coopted into evil, there will be subunits or factions which form in opposition to this leadership or control.

Even among people who would call themselves satanists - they do so as a rejection of what they see as an overly authoritarian Church structure and deity following the same notion. Is God really a capricious autocratic figure? I doubt it, and argue with similar types who assert such views are Christian. So, I understand where a few "satanists" come from. Some may go a bit farther and embrace a utilitarian idea regarding the smart/strong's right to do as they will with 'lesser' people - but even then, we can see where some would agree with another person resorting to slavery/abuse/sacrifice and others would reject such treatment and fight against those who resort to it.

People may be pigs in human clothing, so to speak, and easily steered by evil - but outright evil must put a lot of effort into deceiving good to fight against good in order for it to prevail.

>>4054749

Not necessarily all of them.

Kaguya Hime is an interesting one from Japan. So is the story of creation within Japan. Izanagi and Izanami - where Amaterasu (the sun) comes from the left eye and Tsukuyomi comes from the right eye. It is a sort of mirror story of Horus - and some of it may even parallel the story of the battle between Horus and Set, if you take the idea that Horus is Izanami and Set is Izanagi.

Cane

Abel

Set(h)

"My name is Seth - just - Seth. From God, to Kane, to Seth."

Brotherhood of Nod (Nod being the area east of Eden and the word for "to wander"). The Black Hand - Serbian militants who staged the assassination leading to World War 1.

Whether there is a deliberate message in symbolism, or not, there are certainly a lot of references to it in our media. Perhaps that is the meaning of "hivemind." The symbols act as touchstones used by various people throughout history, allowing a message to be sent to such a time as it can be once again pieced and parsed together.

>>4054608

Let's say that a "god" gains power and insight from consuming other gods. This process is described within "the hidden hand" interviews. This process may yield results to some extent, "seventh dimensional compressed light of yadda-yadda" - but to expect simply repeating this process on ever increasing scales to yield the same gains is…. Kind of stupid.

And destructive.

Thus the whole story of the dragon/satan, uroboros, etc. This being thinks it is on the verge of making it to 8 dimensions or whatever - and is coming ever closer to the cosmic force of creation.

Now … Let's put that entity onto a planet with free will and subdivide its soul… But give each of those pieces the same knowledge and wisdom it held when it was "the greatest angel." Then turn those people loose with free will.

This is the next stage of spiritual evolution. Let's also say that the "core" of this ancient being were to be born and could witness itself. Would it be pleased?

Consider, also, the ultimate question of sentience… Which I plan to get to in a story I am writing (which turned out more prophetic than I could have ever imagined). It is the question of whether or not anything other than yourself truly exists. Be it the NPC phenomenon or the simple inability to truly know another's heart in this life - the idea that one is truly alone in this world is a terrifying one to ponder.

At the edge of existence, between angel and demon lay the question of the self - whether the self is all that there is (or all that is of relevance), or whether the self is part of a greater whole.