Peitho Prose

The easiest and, therefore, most popular method used by modern Nihilists to cleanse their spirits ([size=85]cowards, imbeciles, weaklings etc…[/size]) comes to them from the pagans.
They select a sacrificial goat, accuse it of the worse plaguing their souls, absolving and purifying themselves, and then they slaughter it… ostracize it, damn it to hell.
It’s called scapegoating.
This way they can accuse some other of what they fear is worse in them… feeling purified by this accusation.
Having no strength to correct self, they cast this “negativity” as another, an otherness.

This is how the mediocre have dealt with their fears and their inner demons since ancient times…
Of course, it never worked for long, because the “evil” was not the other, but in them.
Know Thyself was not possible for the average.
This required a particular disposition and quality of mind the many did not possess.
This is why rituals of abnegation became traditions.

It’s the tale of Socrates and Jesus, and, I dare say, of Nietzsche if he had become popular during his lifetime.
It is the age old story of man contra the masses.
Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents.

Always pharisee, charlatans, snake-oil salesman in every age, taking advantage of mediocrity and mass stupidity.
Kohen had to rid himself of Jesus.
Meletus rid himself of the gadfly.

Meh
:-&
Banishment ain’t so bad when the city that throws you out is full of zombies.
How many times can you decapitate another brain-dead rotting corpse before it becomes boring?

To feel ashamed of your lies and errors, you have to have integrity - an inner control, a compass, keeping you on the straight an narrow
Most moderns lack this inner compass, and so rely on external controls, like law & order, peer pressure, popular opinions and so on.

This is why the majority of Abrahamics fear non-believers.
This is why Judeo-Christian/Muslims do not trust those that deny the external control mechanisms.
This is why Moderns are shameless, unless they are exposed.
they feel no shame when they lie, or pretend they are what they are not… it is only being exposed that bothers them.
The Christian knows that with no external threat and promise he will revert to his true nature…having no nobility inside of him.
He knows he is all manimal, and his piety, his goodness is all an act, and he fears it in all those who do not surrender to his external discipline measures.
This is why the Christian calls himself a sinner, and visits the church weekly to cleanse himself of his lack, and to reinforce it.
He intuitively knows what he truly is, under all the pretenses, training, and mimicry.

And this is why Socrates returning from war, changed his mind after seeing what his effect had had on the youth of Athens, and advocated teaching them what he had picked up in Thessaly from Zalmoxis, about monotheism… or was it all Plato?

But do we not see this every time law and order breaks down?
The street full of manimals thieving and destroying everything… their true natures unleashed when no external force keeps it at bay.

Note to mods:

Please, please, please don’t ban him. Not again. If there was ever an example of the banality of objectivism, it is encompassed in Satyr/Lyssa’s god-awful posts.

Also, in the Age Of Trump we need all the reminders we might garner regarding just how far this reactionary crap can be taken.

Well, unless of course I’m wrong. You know, for the first time. :wink:

Note to self:
Never involve yourself with guppies.

Note to mods:
Mmm…let me use you to get rid of a thorn in my …mind…whatever.

Note to others:
Just wanted you to see me…I need you to see me, to acknowledge my existence, because I feel so…so…alone.

You know if you do not stop following me around, inserting yourself with mind-farts in my every thread, I might stop believing you when you “thump” me, or when you say “look what I reduced him to”…
Because up until now I almost was convinced it wasn’t your “tell”…you know your poem every time you get your arse ripped to shreds.
But, you know…I could be wrong.
:wink:

G…gu…gup, pie…go puppies…go puppy.
Here boy…here boy…now that’s a goood boy.
heel…go fetch…
:-"
goood boy… :evilfun:

Note to guy down the hall:
Your wife is having an affair with your best friend.

Note to best friend of guy down the hall:
He knows.

Note to wife of guy down the hall:
I’m available next Thursday.

Supplementary note to self:
Pick up condoms, she’s a slut.

Here [once again] Satyr/Lyssa tries his hand at repartee. He tries to be…clever.

And it may well be more excruciating than his philosophy.

The autodidactic wit.

Not all that far removed [here] from Pavlov’s dog.

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A decadent age… when men-children use feminine ways to seem manly, and females use masculine ways to pretend they are.
To be ashamed of the beauty of a naked body, and shameless about the nakedness of a pretentious mind.

What is left but gossip?

The Devil does not create evil, he brings it out of the hearts and minds of those he seduces.
He pulls it out of them.
then, he retires…and they burn effigies driving him away, returning the sin inside…then he comes back, like the solstice.

When a woman gets hurt, or is rejected, the first attack is on the male’s sexual organ, his virility, his reproductive potentials.
The source of her own self-esteem becomes a weapon to destroy the others.

In this day, where emasculated males flourish, this is also true of so-called men.