Recent content by Alif Balaam Yashin

The pentagram used by the Church of Satan, often called the “Sigil of Baphomet,” wasn’t invented from scratch by Anton LaVey. He actually adapted and formalized an older occult symbol that already existed in 19th- and early 20th-century esoteric literature. The core design, an inverted pentagram...

I am commenting from a Western Left Hand Path lens on your well-thought-out thesis. The serpent-slaying or chaoskampf myth is undeniably one of humanity’s oldest symbolic structures, recurring from Mesopotamia to Scandinavia. Yet its repetition across cultures does not necessarily signal the...

The Bahá’í Faith implies that Evil has no independent, created reality. It is a condition that arises wherever good is absent, obscured, or misused, and it disappears when good is fully present. Your Faith begins with the protected premise: God is perfectly good and the sole source of being...

Go back and read what I said, correctly this time. (The Baha'i conclusion “there is no evil in existence” ) I never quoted you, nor did I quote your scripture . . . as for the rest, I guess you have nothing. Thanks for playing . . .

This is the classic privation theory of evil (Augustinian / Neoplatonic). It fails on several grounds. First, absence alone cannot account for experienced harm. Blindness may be described as the “absence of sight,” but blindness is not merely nothing, it has concrete effects, structures...

Been there myself . . . :rolleyes:

How so?

No, it's proving that god doesn't exist, and if god did exist, he isn't omniscient, omnipotent, or moral, which means this god is nothing like the Abrahamic faiths make him out to be. You don't need to agree with it; it's philosophically sound. Prove it's wrong.

If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect. If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil. If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists. If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil. However, Evil exists. If...

I’m not entirely convinced that “Yeshua,” or the historical figure later called Jesus, existed in the way tradition presents him. Even if he did, I doubt he resembled the theological construct built around him. If he existed at all, I suspect he was a heterodox Jewish thinker who absorbed...

Great points, it's going to take me some time to address/unpack everything you stated.

I'll get to your excellent retorts tomorrow, it's my birthday today, and I have a few guests over.

Not sure I understand this, please elaborate. "God given faiths" , , , you've lost me already

I would say, The Objective Universe is given meaning through our Subjective Universe(s), but yes, objective reality exists despite us . . . maybe ;) Is there really anything that is True to us? The Left-Hand Path does not claim that the psyche is immune to illusion. It claims something far...

You've shifted the meaning of the word PATH to avoid my point. Both the Right Hand Path and the Left Hand Path do engage the whole person, but they do so toward opposite ends. Big difference. So yes, each path encompasses the whole person, but they orient that person in opposite directions In...