The marketing of satanism as diabolism is silly. Human sacrifice in modern times is murder, no matter how it is rationalized by purported satanists. Indeed, the devil, satan, and even demons are mental and physical negativities of a person or group of people.
Yet, as a Buddhist, I believe that good and evil have no external existence as fixed points of time and space. Rather, what we create has either good and evil attributed to it by public opinion.
Everything I just said about evil in the previous two paragraphs applies to God. Yes, I am saying God and even Jesus are projections of basic goodness.
However, mixing Christian sybolism with Buddhist symbolism often leads to cognitive distortions like confusion and even cries of syncretism despite the fact that much of the Bible hints at syncretism in the New Testament.
Even so, I will deny that the mind stream is akin to the soul, which violates the no-self principle. For even the soul is subject to a finite existence.
Even though this brings up eternal life and how Christians misinterpret Buddhism, I'm not talking about it. I'm discussing the myth of satanism.
Mass media loves to perpetuate the propaganda about satanism because it scares the churchpeople and then they can do public service by doing a mini series about it.
Even so, I will stick to my denial about satanism. My earlier comment about human sacrifice being diabolism implies only that the evil that man does is created by his acts against humanity.
Ok, I'm done with this topic for the time being, but reserve the right to beat this dead horse some more.
Oh yes! SATAN IS DEAD! Vive le diable!
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20130428
Dog Year
Last summer, during my Most Excellent Work Experience (July-August 2012), I received from one of my workmate a plastic toy dog.
Being of the Dog Year in Asian Astrology, which I do not believe in but treat like the pseudoscience it is: a metaphysical tool which is hardly useful outside of trying to fit myself to the stereotypical dogged attitude of perseverance, loyalty, and eagerness to please.
Apart from the stereotypes about dogs, I have discovered that people born in the same year sometimes appear similar in traits, but that could mainly be due to wishful thinking.
This toy dog represents and symbolizes my dogged attitude towards working in my chosen career as security guard. While the pay means part-time work, I have been loyal to the same company for the past 12 years for the same reason why I am a Buddhist, which is summed up in a clichéd phrase: "You can't teach a dog new tricks", to which I add with gusto, "But you can learn like a human how to adapt according to the environment.
On closer look at this toy dog, I'm convinced it's a Retriever.
20130311
Under the Shoes of a Leader (poem)
While we exist
there will be black ice,
the leaders will slip,
the leaders will fall.
We are ice under the shoes of a leader.
Cold are the days
under the tyranny of leaders
who berate the idle,
who forget who raised them up.
We are under the thumb of tyrants.
While we exist
there will be black ice,
the leaders will slip,
the leaders will fall.
We are ice under the shoes of a leader.
Frozen in fear we wait,
uncertain who to turn to.
Is it my neighbour?
Is it my dear friend?
We are all watched by paranoid leaders.
While we exist
there will be black ice,
the leaders will slip,
the leaders will fall.
We are ice under the shoes of a leader.
Originally written August 23, 1999 02:03 PDT
Last edited 2007-01-17 04:50
Last posted on blog: January 21, 2009 2217H
Update posted: March 11, 2013 0007H PDT
there will be black ice,
the leaders will slip,
the leaders will fall.
We are ice under the shoes of a leader.
Cold are the days
under the tyranny of leaders
who berate the idle,
who forget who raised them up.
We are under the thumb of tyrants.
While we exist
there will be black ice,
the leaders will slip,
the leaders will fall.
We are ice under the shoes of a leader.
Frozen in fear we wait,
uncertain who to turn to.
Is it my neighbour?
Is it my dear friend?
We are all watched by paranoid leaders.
While we exist
there will be black ice,
the leaders will slip,
the leaders will fall.
We are ice under the shoes of a leader.
Originally written August 23, 1999 02:03 PDT
Last edited 2007-01-17 04:50
Last posted on blog: January 21, 2009 2217H
Update posted: March 11, 2013 0007H PDT
20100808
Lands Edge: A Story Summary
The Boulder
The Boulder is a massive glacial boulder that marks the lair of the dragon of Lands Edge in the outskirts of the Highlands.
Kiryn is the heroine of Lands Edge. She is the daughter of Gylan, the late Highland king who was killed by the Highland dragon in retribution for not maintaining the ancient rituals of worship that summon up the dragon that guard the energies that channel through it to keep the lands fertile and free of death and pestilence.
Dragons here are actually shapeshifters, whose original form was that of a mortal human who were once mages but have been transformed by the primordial energies of the earth into their current form. They can maintain their human form only after doing battle with a dragonslayer, the last one dying in Lands Edge.
After witnessing her father's death, and fearing for her life because she never was taught the art of dragon fighting, Kiryn travels to the last place on her world where she may find the last of the dragonslayers, a friend of her father's.
She passes the Boulder, unaware of the dragon's presence.
Lands Edge Inn is a tavern in the lowland many leagues from the Highland plateau that Kiryn grow up in.
Kiryn finds the dragonslayer, only to be told he no longer trains and is a landowner like her father. She ignores the slight, since the dragonslayer is more like the benevolent aristocratic landlord than a true king who rules over a vast domain.
She tries to shame the dragonslayer into training her, so that she may confront the dragon of Land Edge and learn how to appease the dragon now occupying her former castle on the Highland.
The dragonslayer teaches her fighting techniques, yet never did learn the reason why a dragonslayer fight dragons. This is never revealed in the story.
Two Stones
After training hard, the two humans unleash psychic energy induced by ritual combat which awakens the dragon below.
Alarmed and already sensing the presence of its brother dragon on the Highlands, it knows it must act swiftly to maintain the balance over death and pestilence.
It reaches the surface of its home world at the Two Stones, the place of its battle with the dragonslayer's father, who died due to his slow reaction. The smaller of the Two Stones is a man-sized chip that fell from the Boulder when the dragon's deadly blow missed the dead man.
Also, previously dragon's tears are mentioned and they are the most valuable gems, the dragon's treasure.
A battle ensues, which ends when Kiryn, awakened to the dragon's mind, stops fighting and listens to reason.
Finally, the dragon uses the energy of battle to shapeshift to human form and instructs Kiryn on what must be done to regain her home in the Highlands. This is not clear in the story.
What is clear is that dragons need alcohol to be tamed.
Kiryn returns home and bribes the dragon there to be her husband Draco. Making her his betrothed, deflowering her causes Draco to be bound to her, unable to shapeshift unless she releases him from her spell.
The dragon cult is promoted by Draco in far off lands.
This marks a departure from mages who guard one kingdom or domain. He extracts fealty by warning the fiefdom that if they do not give tribute, a dragon will come out of the land to punish them. Sometimes a fiefdom will disobey him yet he cannot punish them in human form.
So he asks her to release him from the spell.
She replies that their son will do that for them.
Soon she gives birth to a dragon that her magick cannot bind to human form. She complains to her husband, who tells her that he needs to lie in wait for a virgin queen to bribe him with alcohol after a battle.
They send the son to kill the rebel lord of one fiefdom, and tell the people to send a young woman to be raised as warrior who knows the way of the sword and the queen's magick.
The fiefdom picks an orphaned girl.
The tradition of dragon sons conquering fiefdoms in exchange for an orphaned girl to be raised as warrior-mage is established. This establishes a lineage of fiefdoms, since the next fiefdom is conquered by Draco's grandson. Yet Kiryn's magick can give both her and Draco long lives.
Once the dragon lineage is established and no petty lords exist to oppress their own fiefdoms, both she and Draco retire to Lands End.
From time to time Draco would play with the Boulder dragon, staging mock battles for his queen's amusement.
In time Kiryn dies and is buried at her ancestral estate in the Highlands. Draco, freed of the spell cast by his mate, reverts to dragon form.
Draco and the dragon at Land's Edge join forces to prevent the likes of men from ruining the world through corruption.
They use magick to create worms that fly off to find places on the earth in need of protection. Nothing is mentioned of the Highland lineage.
The Boulder is a massive glacial boulder that marks the lair of the dragon of Lands Edge in the outskirts of the Highlands.
Kiryn is the heroine of Lands Edge. She is the daughter of Gylan, the late Highland king who was killed by the Highland dragon in retribution for not maintaining the ancient rituals of worship that summon up the dragon that guard the energies that channel through it to keep the lands fertile and free of death and pestilence.
Dragons here are actually shapeshifters, whose original form was that of a mortal human who were once mages but have been transformed by the primordial energies of the earth into their current form. They can maintain their human form only after doing battle with a dragonslayer, the last one dying in Lands Edge.
After witnessing her father's death, and fearing for her life because she never was taught the art of dragon fighting, Kiryn travels to the last place on her world where she may find the last of the dragonslayers, a friend of her father's.
She passes the Boulder, unaware of the dragon's presence.
Lands Edge Inn is a tavern in the lowland many leagues from the Highland plateau that Kiryn grow up in.
Kiryn finds the dragonslayer, only to be told he no longer trains and is a landowner like her father. She ignores the slight, since the dragonslayer is more like the benevolent aristocratic landlord than a true king who rules over a vast domain.
She tries to shame the dragonslayer into training her, so that she may confront the dragon of Land Edge and learn how to appease the dragon now occupying her former castle on the Highland.
The dragonslayer teaches her fighting techniques, yet never did learn the reason why a dragonslayer fight dragons. This is never revealed in the story.
Two Stones
After training hard, the two humans unleash psychic energy induced by ritual combat which awakens the dragon below.
Alarmed and already sensing the presence of its brother dragon on the Highlands, it knows it must act swiftly to maintain the balance over death and pestilence.
It reaches the surface of its home world at the Two Stones, the place of its battle with the dragonslayer's father, who died due to his slow reaction. The smaller of the Two Stones is a man-sized chip that fell from the Boulder when the dragon's deadly blow missed the dead man.
Also, previously dragon's tears are mentioned and they are the most valuable gems, the dragon's treasure.
A battle ensues, which ends when Kiryn, awakened to the dragon's mind, stops fighting and listens to reason.
Finally, the dragon uses the energy of battle to shapeshift to human form and instructs Kiryn on what must be done to regain her home in the Highlands. This is not clear in the story.
What is clear is that dragons need alcohol to be tamed.
Kiryn returns home and bribes the dragon there to be her husband Draco. Making her his betrothed, deflowering her causes Draco to be bound to her, unable to shapeshift unless she releases him from her spell.
The dragon cult is promoted by Draco in far off lands.
This marks a departure from mages who guard one kingdom or domain. He extracts fealty by warning the fiefdom that if they do not give tribute, a dragon will come out of the land to punish them. Sometimes a fiefdom will disobey him yet he cannot punish them in human form.
So he asks her to release him from the spell.
She replies that their son will do that for them.
Soon she gives birth to a dragon that her magick cannot bind to human form. She complains to her husband, who tells her that he needs to lie in wait for a virgin queen to bribe him with alcohol after a battle.
They send the son to kill the rebel lord of one fiefdom, and tell the people to send a young woman to be raised as warrior who knows the way of the sword and the queen's magick.
The fiefdom picks an orphaned girl.
The tradition of dragon sons conquering fiefdoms in exchange for an orphaned girl to be raised as warrior-mage is established. This establishes a lineage of fiefdoms, since the next fiefdom is conquered by Draco's grandson. Yet Kiryn's magick can give both her and Draco long lives.
Once the dragon lineage is established and no petty lords exist to oppress their own fiefdoms, both she and Draco retire to Lands End.
From time to time Draco would play with the Boulder dragon, staging mock battles for his queen's amusement.
In time Kiryn dies and is buried at her ancestral estate in the Highlands. Draco, freed of the spell cast by his mate, reverts to dragon form.
Draco and the dragon at Land's Edge join forces to prevent the likes of men from ruining the world through corruption.
They use magick to create worms that fly off to find places on the earth in need of protection. Nothing is mentioned of the Highland lineage.
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