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“Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

tags: anton-lavey, being-different, different, individuality, marilyn-manson, powerful, society, thought-provoking, unique, wisdom

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“My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more beast than human, and I had grown up to be him, locked in the basement with my secrets as the rest of the family reveled in the petty and ordinary upstairs. Down there, I saw my black, ancient, ineluctable core exposed, like a crab forced out of its shell--dirty, vulnerable, and obscene. For the first time in my life, I was truly alone.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

tags: alone, basement, dark, family, family-drama, family-history, growing-up, ineluctable, loneliness, marilyn-manson, relatability, relating, relation, vulnerability

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“Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?”
― Rebecca K. O'Connor, Lift

tags: animal-training, animal-welfare, falconry, learned-helplessness, taming

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“You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.”
― Rebecca K. O'Connor, Lift

tags: animal-training, animal-welfare, falconer, falconry, learned-helplessness, relationships

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“But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people as much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children's behavior. After years of studying the concept, I began to realize the Antichrist is a character--a metaphor--who exists in nearly all religions under different names, and maybe there is some truth in it, a need for such a person. But from another perspective, this person could be seen as not a villain but a final hero to save people from their own ignorance. The apocalypse doesn't have to be fire and a brimstone. It could happen on a personal level.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell