(10-09-2017, 11:21 PM)Aion Wrote: True I imagine personal revenge is probably more satisfying then generalized. I agree that is pretty much the ploy, the hard part being that you never really know what their plans are. I know you've had direct physical encounters with individuals and not just psychic interactions so I understand how your desires would come out a bit more visceral. If anyone attacked me or someone I care about directly I would be pretty ruthless too.
My apologies, must have misread the impression. I see where I got a wire crossed, my bad.
I think the Temple of Set targeted me because Aquino himself didn't like me. He used the O9A's interest in me as evidence that their group was "a joke", and I think at some point, the O9A began to agree. An anti-glamour spell that was cast on me a few years prior by a vampire really started to rear its head after festering for a while.
I think the Temple of Set's deal right now (one of them, anyway) is trying to hijack and weaponize Christianity for some reason or another.
I think the Order of Nine Angles are just so narcissistic that they can't help but underestimate everyone else, and they assumed I'd be easy to take out of the game because they thought I was weak. (Well, yeah, but they would be too if they'd been tortured for a decade.) If I'm a somewhat strong person in very bad condition, a lot (not all) of them are the opposite - average people in very good condition with very good training and education.
They're also not so different than the drug users and child molestors they claim to hate, I've noticed, in that they claim to want me out of the way because they fear my revenge (even quoting Machiavelli at me on the subject), but they'd rather spend millions of dollars to take potshots at me which don't kill me and only piss me off rather than the $5 it'd take to bribe me, which would work much better - like Nietzsche said, they prefer what's bad for them, and that's probably an important weakness. Their narcissism also makes them weak, and their desire for conflict even when conflict isn't the best option. There's probably some way I could use this.
I think they're used to being the craziest kids on the block. I think they're used to dealing with an older generation.
The other day, I was mentally comparing people in older motorcycle gangs and street gangs and such - who have these ideas about respect and morals and codes of honor, who are appalled by extreme violence and violent extremism, who are about drugs and motorcycles and prostitutes and having fun, who are used to being feared and respected just by virtue of who they are. I had a friend telling me, "You know, these 1%ers, they really don't give a f***." And my response was something like, "Yeah, they do. That's my primary complaint about them. Bunch of damn moralfags."
I feel like that's the generation that gives some Satanic groups a false sense of security.
The new generation is by-and-large nihilistic. We don't have morals, we like and commit violence for the sake of violence, we idolize people who massacre innocent civilians, we glamorize and fetishize schizophrenia and psychopathy and suicide, we're really just about hatred, and we don't respect anyone or anything - I was just reading a news story the other day about how small groups of kids are replacing traditional supergangs in a lot of places, and a police officer being interviewed commenting on how shocking the violence was, that these kids just don't care, that they'll straight-up kill a gang leader over some minor disrespect without regard for the consequences.
I'm digressing a little bit, but it's been on my mind some lately. And, really, it's the older generation that are pushovers. The real competition will come from this generation, motherfuckers who really are crazy.
And some of the people involved in aforementioned groups might really be dangerous, but I think they're rare. Most of them are just average people with shiny toys that are used to being able to bully and push around the elderly....