[lemon_and_mint]

ok rjw

i am sure you are familiar with satanists as depicted by the tate/manson events, which i will not discuss here, or as depicted in trash novels and late night b movies.

Which is why when I came acroass some people who claimed to be satanists I wanted to know more.

The first group I soon discounted as worshipping anything, they had painted all their walls black, black candles everywhere, goth makeup, symbols everywhere, adn professed to using ouji boards to conjure things, drunken parties etc.True or false I really had the impression they were "copying" and did this for effect on others and not for their own feelings.If I explain that in a way it can be understood.I also felt that I was uneasy as to how far these would go in their efforts to persuade other people that they believed.

A little later I came across a group of professionals who I did not even realise were satanists.It was a friend of theirs who told me, laughing as she said, you would never, guess and I hadn't.They were happy to talk.
In their house everything was normal apart from one room where they worshipped.They had a permanent circle with (pentagram?) diagram in chalk on the floor of this room.And WHITE not black candles.
They told me that they sincerely believed that there was an evil (? word?) which was the antithesis of good God.And they had seen that Good God cannot stop things happneing to even good people.So they had decided to pray to the Evil in order to stop bad things happenineg to them.
They were very respsectful to it and told me that the white cadles prevented it getting out of hand.

This made some sense to me.

And those are my experiences.

The second group really caused me to think for some time.