Its interesting the lack of maturity and lack of common sense that is on display by Max More.
There is also an obvious lack of intellectual honesty.
But for any adult living in the real world, they know that what you say and what you write matters.
A person can be an atheist, but you don't try to ram your atheism down everyone's throats, unless you WANT to get blowback, its called being an arrogant jerkwad or worse. Same with a religion, or a sect or cult. Any mature adult must know that if you choose to attack people's core beliefs, like their religion, they are going to get upset at you.
So then its pretty pathetic to start crying that others are criticizing you, when you are attacking their core beliefs!
Its like a spoiled self-centered teenager.
So for Max More to go out there and write these types of articles, then cry that he's being misunderstood, its PATHETIC.
He made the choice to write an article "In Praise Of The Devil" posted on the joy of Lucifer website [
www.lucifer.com] and again, he's the one who wrote it, right? (even though the author's name is removed).
But check it out, he could get that article taken down in minutes, as one assumes its his copyright. But he chooses to leave "In Praise Of The Devil" up on the Lucifer.com website, but to have his NAME REMOVED!!
How much sense does that make? Why do that? They say its about death threats, but is that the truth?
Why write an article, called in praise of the devil, where Satan is praised in the first line, and have it posted on a Lucifer website, and then complain that fundamentalist religionists in America are going to get angry at you? Who is the dummy in that scenario?
Check out the 1998 Postscript [
www.lucifer.com] where he says he's AMAZED the number of people who think he's a Satanist! For real, that is a borderline delusional belief, where again he is BLAMING THE PUBLIC, for his own lack of communication skills, or lack of intellectual honesty.
First line QUOTE: "This article is written in praise of Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, or whatever you want to call him."
Then he's AMAZED that people think he is in praise of Satan as a non-material concept! He was apparently saying the same thing in 1998 as 2011, and still is AMAZED that praising Satan/Devil makes people think you might be a Satanist.
It really makes no sense.
Its the same pattern as the other article about pedophilia, trying to BLAME OTHERS for reading the text of the article.
The arrogance fills the entire room, its like some ego-bloated prof at a community college mumbling in the corner, and railing against the world for not understanding his unreadable Manifesto.
But its worse, trying to have it both ways.
If he thinks that the public internet won't follow orders, as its not like a graduate school class with 3 people in it, then how is he going to face the mainstream media?
Who's fault is it, if someone is a horrible public communicator?
Look in the mirror.
And if this person had a SHRED of intellectual honesty, they would point out that in fact the stuff about "creating values" near the end [
www.lucifer.com] is just a copy of some material from Nietzsche. Why doesn't he just admit he was (badly) copying the style and content of Nietzsche, instead of trying to pass it off as his idea?
And this stuff about not "really" believing in Lucifer/Satan, blah blah..it actually sounds exactly like the apologetics of the weird sect called Desteni. [
forum.culteducation.com] Desteni talks about Lizard Aliens/Hitler from other dimensions or whatever, but if you ask them if they believe in them, they say they DON'T beLIEve in Lizard Aliens/Hitler...they don't beLIEve in any of it.
And down the cultish rabbit hole you go.
Its the oldest trick in the book.
You set up a belief system, then claim to not REALLY believe in the belief system, its just a mental construct.
Notice that basically every sophisticated cultish leader does this to people. The technical term is a mindfuck.
It seems the choice of the cryonics company for their new leader was a perfect match in terms of mentality.
If ya can't dazzle them with deceit, bamboozle 'em with bullshit.