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Originally posted by Kaiden:
The Temple of Set would argue with you. They see Set/Satan as self-reflective awareness, or at least the source of it.
Set philosophy (as well as Christianity) deals with our conscious mind's decisions regarding our personal conduct, decisions which form only a small subset of the thinking process proper. Therefore I repeat myself: Satan did not invent thinking. Maybe cerain thoughts, but not the thinking process proper, which is far larger than conscious thought alone.
Another thing neither Christians nor Satanists want to admit is that not every thought has bias; not everything is 'for' or 'against'. Many of our conscious thoughts and decisions are neutral and only have the relative judgmental value placed on them later by our own (or other peoples') personal belief systems.
In Taoism, to do the appropriate action at the right time is the highest good; to ignore universal physics principles in favour of following our own ego or will to power is the incorrect/evil way. This idea is of eastern origin so it supersedes many westernized Christian/Satanist arguments because it follows a different premise.
But I digress. Back to the topic at hand.
[This message has been edited by x (edited December 11, 2002).]
