In case anyone needed a reminder that "fan" is short for "fanatic"

It’s approximately the one-year anniversary now of the incident I spoke of in my first journal entry.  On one hand, I have the urge to reflect, but on the other, I have limited time-capacity for doing so right now, given the workload-rhythm of my chosen career.  Nonetheless, I’d like to have more than one entry for November, so what follows is a condensed version of a longer reflection/rant that I tried to write back in July/August but failed to finish before getting distracted by other things.

I also shelved it because I figured it made me sound crazy, but we won't worry about that just now. ;)

Anyway: at Terminus this last year, I wore outfits on all four days that were inspired by four bands who’ve had an especially big impact on my life.  To put that impact in a nutshell:

Of black dragons and blind idiot gods, part IV: Yes, this is a functional basis for a religion

Last part now of this 4-part series on my idiosyncratic beliefs about “ultimate reality”:

• Azathoth, of the Lovecraft mythos
• Az, of Zoroastrian mythology
• Azerate, of anti-cosmic Satanism, via Dissection’s album“Reinkaos”
• How do you venerate a “blind idiot” god without running a nihilistic death cult?

This entry is longer than the previous three, and hence split into several sections discussing various right-hand path and sinister path perspectives on my proposed “dark trinity”:

• Right-hand path perspectives: Three enemies / three poisons
• Sinister path perspectives, I: “Dark” Brahman
• Sinister path perspectives, II: Dealing constructively with inescapable existence
• Sinister path perspectives, III: When to respect the right-hand path and when to oppose it

The latter three are really all one discussion, just split up for the purposes of manageability length-wise.

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