BrightSpace666 said:
I feel I don't need to explain myself, my opinion speaks for itself. I have the same opinion about former High Priest Salem Burke. Whatever you say will not change my opinion. I didn't like that he betrayed us [allegedly], I liked his personality at the time. That's it, nothing will change that.
You are a person of deep kindness and emotion, and you place the people whom you respect for the good things they have done in your eyes on very large pedestals, which interferes with your judgement.
It makes you biased in favor of the person. This is not really a good thing. We should be able to asses and judge people unbiasedly, setting aside our emotions and personal feelings.
Salem Burke certainly did inspire people, however it was in the wrong ways. His achievements on this path appeared back then to be extraordinary, however it was just immature child's play without any substance.
If you know about him, I don't think you will respect him anymore.
I certainly don't, and it disgusts me that people like them are still being looked up to with respect because one time in the past they carried an undeserved title.
Unfortunately, because the times were different, it was necessary for more people to be around with titles, but in truth for almost all of them the title was completely undeserved.
Salem Burke was pretending to be some great Satanist to the public, while privately he was a drug addict and a wife beater.
These days such a thing is absolutely unacceptable. Let alone for HP, even as a dedicated member to Satan this is unacceptable.
There is a reason why he went of the deep end and disappeared, because for one he lacked balance, and for two he didn't even care to change himself to a respectable person at all, he just kept pretending and continued acting and living like a subhuman behind the scenes.
The Gods let this run its course. Since he didn't care to change or listen to them even once, they leave him be and let his existence run its course.
This is the result of being a pretender and living like a worthless person behind the scenes.
Why should such a person deserve your respect? Because once they carried the title of HP?
What other reason could there possible be? That he used magic to win a small lottery and subsequently also ruined his life by exposing himself like an idiot?
I don't even want to imagine what he wasted the money on. Someone like him would have squandered it on drugs and other trash.
The Gods couldn't care less about a person like that.
Why cling onto the people who's fate with the JoS has ended long ago?
It is a waste of your sympathy and respect.
In fact, you yourself are much greater of a person than "Salem Burke" ever was, a better SS and even your contributions blow his contributions out of the water with no contest.
Literally.
That is the case for many members here. The failed people of the past are already completely eclipsed by the growing membership of today, because we are moving forward and we all grow alongside each other and alongside the JoS.
What for then do the people of today cling on to the failed people of the past, whom for the most part aren't even worth mentioning?
Just as we all rise, we must not cling onto the poison of the past.
We must judge all of it objectively without bias, and realize what really is to be respected and what was all along a poison that stains the JoS rather than uplift it.
Hail Satan!