It is, in the slightly wider perspective that's probably a little hard for you to see right now, no big deal.

Idiotking,
I'm a long-time lurker who always enjoys your posts. Now that I've finally registered with disqus, I just wanted to say: you the man. You're the best robot homosexual (or bisexual or whatever) I've ever encountered online.
I have no personal problems I need advice on, so I'll go back to reading about everyone…

Belief is a pretty powerful thing to overcome—a person can believe something even if they understand that, objectively, it seems irrational Basically belief against one's own will.

I don't think liberal Christians get up in arms about people saying "I worship the fucking devil!", or you probably wouldn't really term them liberal Christians.

I read a biography about Crowley last year. Very interesting man and its interesting how his bisexuality and religious outlook was so at-odds with the time, yet his views on race and class were ahead of his time in the sense that Nazism wasn't quite a thing when his views on the world solidified.

Now who's being naïve?

Edit: It seems I've double posted? Sorry I'll try to remove the other one.

Disregard this one. Geez, you guys weren't kidding that Disqus sucks.

I might as well be a little controversial.

As an atheist/materialist Thelemite, I find Aleister
Crowley’s Thelema compatible with Satanism. In my extimation Crowley was a misunderstood and underestimated writer – he presents a number of compelling ideas and symbols, provided you strip out the silly Victorian occultism that he wrapped around those ideas.

By the way, all of the above is not to say that The Sopranos doesn’t have anything interesting to say about race, class, gender, religion, social justice, the human condition in general, etc. Very far from it: I would argue that The Sopranos does a far better job of addressing these subjects than The Wire. One tiny…

You say The Sopranos was “terribly unrealistic,” but the show wasn’t necessarily aiming for realism in its portrayal of events. That should have been apparent when, ten minutes into the pilot episode, Tony runs down a guy with a car in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people. It’s not very realistic, and much of…

And now for an unpopular opinion.

This is me (the same "los" as above)….I don't know what happened, but I had to log in a different way.