No, it isn't just me. It's actually rather strange that you haven't encountered those ideas. It's as if you were telling me that I was self-centered for having met Christians or Wiccans or agnostics and finding those beliefs common. It is shocking to me that this conceptualization of Satan as the bible's misunderstood hero is novel or revolutionary to you. I've heard it from every budding teen Satanist I've ever known.
Maybe it does make me self-absorbed to extrapolate my experience to the wider world, but I think we all do that to some extent. I doubt anyone would call me self-absorbed for being familiar with mascara and expressing surprise that others didn't know what it was. :)
Or maybe you're still upset with me about the feminist discussion. I dropped that in mid-stream because I knew we were on opposite sides of that ideological fence. There's no point in engaging with someone who has an ideological axe to grind, especially if they want to grind it against my neck, so I generally just disengage from those conversations. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this issue, too.
I found it trite; you found it insightful. Not everyone agrees on art or philosophy. With that said, I'm ready to close the book on this topic and let the poor OP get back to what he was doing. I didn't know my original offhand comment, albeit snarky, was going to be so upsetting.
Please accept my apology for being snarky in the first place and for assuming you were more familiar with rebellious teen ideologies than you are. I think you probably hung around smarter teens than I did. :)
Well fair enough there is nothing more to say on this issue and I agree with you that on some level our response to philosophy is subjective.
"Or maybe you're still upset with me about the feminist discussion. I dropped that in mid-stream because I knew we were on opposite sides of that ideological fence."
I don't know if I would agree with that though. You made a statement that was counter-factual about women being in greater danger of strangers than men. I then responded by correcting you. You then ran away rather than be mature and admit you were mistaken or back up your claim.
I don't know if that makes us on opposite sides of an ideological fence as much as it makes one of us right and the other one wrong. I'm for women's rights as they are human rights but the claim of discrimination actually has to be true for there to be any solution to the discrimination.
Most feminist claims are not true: like women facing greater danger, the pay gap. A few actually are but it is difficult to see how they could be solved: Women not being accorded the same respect in public speaking and being interrupted more.
Is it normal to think that Satan is the good guy in the Bible?
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No, it isn't just me. It's actually rather strange that you haven't encountered those ideas. It's as if you were telling me that I was self-centered for having met Christians or Wiccans or agnostics and finding those beliefs common. It is shocking to me that this conceptualization of Satan as the bible's misunderstood hero is novel or revolutionary to you. I've heard it from every budding teen Satanist I've ever known.
Maybe it does make me self-absorbed to extrapolate my experience to the wider world, but I think we all do that to some extent. I doubt anyone would call me self-absorbed for being familiar with mascara and expressing surprise that others didn't know what it was. :)
Or maybe you're still upset with me about the feminist discussion. I dropped that in mid-stream because I knew we were on opposite sides of that ideological fence. There's no point in engaging with someone who has an ideological axe to grind, especially if they want to grind it against my neck, so I generally just disengage from those conversations. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this issue, too.
I found it trite; you found it insightful. Not everyone agrees on art or philosophy. With that said, I'm ready to close the book on this topic and let the poor OP get back to what he was doing. I didn't know my original offhand comment, albeit snarky, was going to be so upsetting.
Please accept my apology for being snarky in the first place and for assuming you were more familiar with rebellious teen ideologies than you are. I think you probably hung around smarter teens than I did. :)
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Well fair enough there is nothing more to say on this issue and I agree with you that on some level our response to philosophy is subjective.
"Or maybe you're still upset with me about the feminist discussion. I dropped that in mid-stream because I knew we were on opposite sides of that ideological fence."
I don't know if I would agree with that though. You made a statement that was counter-factual about women being in greater danger of strangers than men. I then responded by correcting you. You then ran away rather than be mature and admit you were mistaken or back up your claim.
I don't know if that makes us on opposite sides of an ideological fence as much as it makes one of us right and the other one wrong. I'm for women's rights as they are human rights but the claim of discrimination actually has to be true for there to be any solution to the discrimination.
Most feminist claims are not true: like women facing greater danger, the pay gap. A few actually are but it is difficult to see how they could be solved: Women not being accorded the same respect in public speaking and being interrupted more.