00:00:06:00 - 00:00:27:21 Unknown Welcome back to Toke It Out. It is in the afternoon and I've just cracked an energy drink. And I'm pretty sure the edible is hitting rapidly fast. So thanks nanotechnology. Appreciate you. So. Hi. How are you? Happy birthday to me. Yes it is. The 14th of October is my birthday. And I'm so happy to share it with every single one of you. 00:00:27:28 - 00:00:45:02 Unknown Thank you so much for tuning in to me, for I don't know how many episodes some of you are one time listeners, and that's fine. And some of you are billion time listeners. I don't know, whatever. Like I said, that edibles hitting rapidly fast. So we have to quickly get through this topic before I can't articulate words anymore. 00:00:45:07 - 00:01:06:09 Unknown That was a big word for me because if you are a million time listener, you guys know that. So it's a so I guess you guys liked the Necronomicon. Cool. I also enjoyed learning about the Necronomicon and telling you guys about it. 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But I need to tell you, we're deep into the Halloween everyday movie thing, and we're burnin and turnin. Listen, I have to tell you, I watched that Ed Gein monster special on Netflix, and in one day, I watched eight hours of it. Yeah, I did, yeah, I did, I said, I'm like fucking. But for eight hours. 00:02:13:15 - 00:02:44:53 Unknown And I watched all of it because I love it. I freaking loved it. Did it make me feel wildly uncomfortable at times? Absolutely. But was it supposed to? Absolutely. So, you know, slicing and dicing. No pun intended. How was I supposed to feel like. And then I feel a shitload of empathy for him in the end because he's just a mentally ill person, but you still can't go around doing those crazy mentally ill things. 00:02:44:58 - 00:03:01:21 Unknown I don't know, I I'm feeling a little conflicted. I feel like kind of upset with myself on a more a level that I'm like feeling empathy for him. But also the logical part of me is like, you know, obviously you're feeling it, but whatever. Okay, so tell me what you guys thought about it, because I know that you guys have watched it too. 00:03:01:21 - 00:03:25:17 Unknown If you're watching this and you're not watching that, forget my shit. Go watch that. That was better. Let's wait. Clearly. But I finally got into some classics, The Exorcist, which I have never seen. Sinister, which my husband's never seen, Texas Chainsaw we skip Suspiria to Suspiria. I thought it was Suspiria last time. It's just whatever I. Words aren't my strong point. 00:03:25:17 - 00:03:42:54 Unknown As you know, Celcius is now also hitting, but that's what I watched again, so I'm calling that a movie. Eight hours of it. Yeah, I'm going to call it a movie for sure. I mean, it's a TV series, but I'm counting. It is one of my days. Okay, plenty of time. I suck The Evil Dead and the witch. 00:03:42:59 - 00:04:07:55 Unknown And then the day I'm filming this, I'm going to watch Hell Raiser tonight. My favorite so far has been The Exorcist. Well, again. But like, as far as, like, bonafide movies go, The Exorcist for sure. Second would be sinister. Then Texas, no, then the witch, then Texas, then Evil Dead and I'm the Evil Dead. The remake is one of my favorites, but this I thought. 00:04:08:06 - 00:04:38:19 Unknown I really thought that I was like, I'm campy, I'm super campy. I love campy things. Maybe not. Maybe I'm wrong because the Evil Dead 1981 is so obnoxiously campy and like low budget, which, like, go off for making that good of a story, that low budget. But it's it's like kind of hard to watch, you know, nearly what is it, 40 some years, 50 some years later, it's hard to watch. 00:04:38:19 - 00:05:03:32 Unknown It is so and not Partizan like it's not enjoyable. It's just like, oh, this is like not scary. This is not this is like boarding from camp to like bad movie. Like it really borders on that. Guys. Sorry, ash. I respect the evil that respect it. Especially like I said, we even brought it up last time with the Necronomicon and the books and all that does respective it. 00:05:03:32 - 00:05:23:06 Unknown Don't know how to like remain a horror movie person and say that I didn't really love the old Evil Dead. Love the story. I just didn't love the production of it. Okay, let's call it that. Let's. All right. Let's. I'm not sure what that was, but, like, you know what I'm talking about, right? Yeah. You guys it. Okay. 00:05:23:11 - 00:05:52:36 Unknown So I was going to let's let's fuel up. I feel like Popeye every time I take a sip of Celsius, I'm like, I don't know, I. I swear to God every time. So to get into the background, Anton Sandworm LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, founded it in the 1960s. This was like late 1960s. This was his way of like rebelling against traditional religion and spirituality, which he had never vibed with. 00:05:52:40 - 00:06:19:54 Unknown Now, it was written in 1969, is when the it was the book of the Satanic Bible. There we go. I was like the Book of Satan. No, the The Satanic Bible was written. This was also during like that Age of Aquarius, a cult revival kind of time fascination with like dark symbols and rituals and all of the occult, just kind of like we're doing again right now in 2025 is happening. 00:06:19:58 - 00:06:45:15 Unknown You know? Have I always been fascinated by it back in 1993? Okay, let's talk about consciousness, 1999. Yes. He was born in Chicago, raised in California. So he claimed that in his younger years he was a lion tamer and a circus organist, which could not be verified by somebody who wrote his biography as well, as he claimed to have been a crime photographer. 00:06:45:19 - 00:07:10:57 Unknown Very interesting, but again, not something that they can find under his actual legal name because Anton LaVey, it was not his actual name. But this all became kind of foundations for his performances that he would do at the Church of Satan in 1966. He saw Satan as a symbol of like human instinct, indulgence and the opposition to hypocrisy. 00:07:11:11 - 00:07:43:12 Unknown Not a literal deity with like horns or whatever, like, you know, person, thing, entity, whatever. So he established it in San Francisco. It served kind of like not only like like a not theological place, but a philosophical society. But also as, like a theatrical kind of catharsis thing. They would put on these big, grand performances. I don't know if you've ever seen, like, old movies of him and stuff. 00:07:43:12 - 00:08:10:32 Unknown He's like, always dressed up in, like, a cloak and stuff, and he's like, doing this, like grandiosity of theater with this, like his services, I guess so. Compiled largely from Livy's lectures, ritual scripts and early pamphlets called the Diablo Diabolic Con and the Book of Fire. That is where a lot of the drawings for The Satanic Bible come from. 00:08:10:37 - 00:08:38:35 Unknown So he took from a lot of different sources, some really older works of philosophers, psychology, Social Darwinism, Aleister Crowley as well as large large sections were just plagiarized from Might is Right. In 1890 it was published what is Might is right. I didn't look that up. Let's see. Might is right or there's survival of the fittest is by Reagan Redbeard, generally believed to be the pen name for somebody else. 00:08:38:40 - 00:09:04:46 Unknown First published. It advocates a morality consequentialism and psychological hedonism. Okay, so basically, like what I want is what I want, and I'm going to do what I want to get what I want. Period. Period. As hedonism in less so the psychiatric Bibles organized into different books like the Book of Satan, it denounces Christian hypocrisy and promotes strength, pride, and vengeance. 00:09:04:51 - 00:09:34:15 Unknown The Book of Lucifer, which is essays on philosophy, morality, sex and power, The Book of the Leo Ritual and Magic Theory, and the Book of Leviathan. Amy Leviathan instructions for ritual, Speech, and invocation. So a lot of the core philosophy around the church is Satan and the Satanic Bible, where atheistic Satanism. So like Satan, is a metaphor for rebellion and human instinct. 00:09:34:15 - 00:10:02:45 Unknown It's not. You believe that there is no God or double or Satan, whatever. Then there is the 11 satanic rules of earth, and then nine Satanic statements outlining the ethical codes emphasizing self-interest, justice and critical thinking self-interest. They say, put your oxygen mask on first before you put it on others. Justice. As a Libra, I have a hard time disagreeing with justice and critical thinking like we should all be doing a lot more of that. 00:10:02:45 - 00:10:29:27 Unknown So, you know, can I say I disagree with at least those three things? Can't say it. Disagree with that. The magic and ritual parts of the Satanic Bible are not meant to actually invoke hate anything. They're actually just used for psychodrama and kind of as a way of catharsis for people to just at least feel it's kind of like it's pressing the button for the crosswalk. 00:10:29:27 - 00:10:57:25 Unknown It's doesn't actually do anything, but it's going to make you feel like you have the power. And that's what these magic and rituals were supposed to be in the Book of Satan. Excuse me, the Satanic Bible. So it never was meant to bring you supernatural power. So obviously the mainstream reception of this at first was initially scandalous, but by the 1970s it was one of the most purchased occult books in America. 00:10:57:30 - 00:11:19:24 Unknown So people really reviving with it, or at least vibing with some of the concepts and at least the morbid curiosity, I guess, or the dark curiosity, I guess. It's not morbid, but this inspired leader movements like The Temple of Set and the Satanic Temple, the Satanic Temple we're going to get into because it is. I thought the Satanic Temple and the Church of Satan were the same thing. 00:11:19:28 - 00:11:45:19 Unknown They are not satanic temple was actually not established until 2013, so we'll get into it in a second. Black metal bands like Slayer, Black Sabbath have brought up the Book of Satan, have read passages from it, have been like, if you play the song backwards, it's a passage from that. It's not obviously countercultural thinkers and horror filmmakers are huge fans of it. 00:11:45:23 - 00:12:13:22 Unknown However, by the 1980s and 90s it kind of was synonymous with Satanic panic, which is crazy because listening to The Church of Satan was never, ever associated or convicted to be associated with any crimes or abuse that was around satanic panic. So do you want to read the Satanic Bible? Well, you sure can because it is still in published today by Harpercollins. 00:12:13:22 - 00:12:43:12 Unknown Avon books, I believe, publishes it. It is the foundational texts of modern Satanism. Again, it's establishing ritual language, symbols and ethical framework. But again, nobody actually believes in Satan. It remains widely studied in religious studies, anthology and cultural history for its mix of the theatrical rebellion and self empowering philosophy. I went to a private Christian school growing up through high school, sixth grade, through 12th grade. 00:12:43:12 - 00:13:06:27 Unknown I went, and in my junior year of high school, we had to learn about other religions instead of Christianity. So at some point we didn't learn about the nine like tenants of Satanic Temple or this of Satanism, which are not bad. Let me tell you. Well, we'll get into those as well, but it's not what you think. Okay. 00:13:06:28 - 00:13:28:12 Unknown How does the Church of Satan differ from the Satanic Temple? Because I did not know that they were different until researching this. So like I said, the Satanic Temple was not established until 2013. It was established in Salem, Massachusetts. Although it started as a small collective in Florida, this was not meant to be an actual place of worship. 00:13:28:12 - 00:13:55:01 Unknown This was a immersive art political protest project kind of thing. Lucien Greaves, his legal name is Douglas Messner, and Malcolm Gerrie, a pseudonym, a pseudonym are the founders of The Satanic Temple, the Satanic Temple, okay, The Church of Satan and the Satanic Temple. Those are very close. I did not mix them up, but I'm I'm so just we're talking about the Satanic Temple from here on out. 00:13:55:06 - 00:14:29:01 Unknown Okay. Again, sorry. Performance art project kind of highlighting the contradiction between the U.S. churches and state separation and Christian privilege in public spaces. So their first public act was in 2013. The small group in Florida, they did a mock rally protest kind of thing for Governor Rick Scott decision to allow prayer in schools. So they went and they rallied and they held up signs that said that thanked him for supporting Satanic prayer, exposing the hypocrisy of religious favoritism. 00:14:29:06 - 00:14:56:34 Unknown So the Satanic Temple has similar beliefs as the Church of Satan. They do not believe that Satan is a real deity. They just believe that they're humanists, they're humanists, and they're atheistic. So they don't believe that there's a God. They believe that humans rule all things. Satan is a symbol of rebellion, reason, and individual freedom. Drawing from romantic and enlightenment imagery like Milton's Paradise Lost. 00:14:56:34 - 00:15:18:46 Unknown Okay, let's look that up. Images. Okay, so this is where they're drawing romantic images of Satan from of like, being cast out of being rejected. Okay, I see, I see, I see, I'm picking up what you're putting down. So their core focus is obviously the separation of church and state, which is what the whole immersive art project was supposed to be about from the beginning. 00:15:18:55 - 00:15:46:18 Unknown Religious pluralism, which means there's multiple religions. We recognize multiple religions all on the same level, and freedom for most for whatever religion that you want, which is what this country was fucking founded on religious pluralism and freedom, empathy and reason and justice. The seven tenants. These form the ethical foundation of the Satanic Temple. They're emphasizing compassion, bodily autonomy and the pursuit of truth. 00:15:46:22 - 00:16:11:00 Unknown Now those let's get into those seven really quick. Okay, now the seven tenants are number one, compassion and empathy. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason. So meaning ethics should be guided as by understanding and kindness, but balanced with logic. Compassion isn't blind sentimentality, it's a reasoned humanity. Okay? Bodily autonomy. 00:16:11:00 - 00:16:38:00 Unknown The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. True justice isn't static or dictated by authority. It evolves. What did I say? It evolves through continuous resistance against systems that oppress or restrict human freedom. Period. Slay. Slay that one. I know we're not saying slay seriously anymore, but I'm a millennial, so you gotta like, give me a second to fucking catch up, okay? 00:16:38:09 - 00:17:00:34 Unknown Justice over authority. One's body is invaluable or subject to one's own will alone. So my body is mine. And I can do with my body what I choose. Freedom of belief. The freedom of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend, to willingly and justly encroach upon the freedoms of others is to forgo one's own. So what does that mean? 00:17:00:41 - 00:17:24:57 Unknown Tolerance means defending everyone's rights to express belief, even unpopular ones. So, so long as they don't cause unjust harm. Let me repeat that again. Let me go ahead. And for the people in the back, let me go ahead. Repeat this one. Tolerance means defending everyone's rights to express beliefs, even unpopular ones, so long as they don't cause unjust harm. 00:17:25:03 - 00:17:47:42 Unknown Number five rational thinking beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts, to fit one's own beliefs. Science and reason are moral compasses. Faith or ideology should never override evidence or reality. I know a lot of people have a lot of faith in different things, and I totally respect all of that. 00:17:47:50 - 00:18:05:08 Unknown And I'm not saying I believe in this. You know, science and reason can be moral compasses. I think that there are things that can be explained without science, but maybe that's just me. What it could be, I don't know. I'm not here to explain things. I just think that there are things that are unexplainable that happen. Accountability. People are fallible. 00:18:05:13 - 00:18:35:02 Unknown If one makes mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused. Moral strength comes from accountability. Satanic ethics derive divine absolution. Only personal responsibility restores integrity, okay, and dynamic morality. Every tenant is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility and action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word. 00:18:35:13 - 00:19:13:41 Unknown So the spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word. Ethics should be flexible and living principles that suit must serve humanity, not enslave it. The tenant guides actions, not dictates dogma. So that is the seven tenants of the Satanic Temple. The Satanic Temple is tough. They are tough as nails. Between 2014 and 2018, they fought the government to basically place a Baphomet statue on government grounds where the Ten Commandments monuments were displayed. 00:19:13:46 - 00:19:38:31 Unknown They filed lawsuits defending religious equality, arguing that if Christianity gets special privileges, say Satanism must be given equal treatment under the First Amendment, God good for them. Reproductive rights. They advocate for body bodily autonomy and access to abortion, framing it as religious freedom issue protected by these satanic tenets. Hey, whatever gets the job done, you know what I mean? 00:19:38:31 - 00:20:05:45 Unknown I believe in body autonomy, so whatever gets the job done after school, Satan Clubs know that's so funny. Created as alternatives to evangelical good news clubs in public schools promoting science, empathy and secular ethics. Okay, you know, after school I'm going to my after school Satan club, get together with the boys, we're going to Satan Club. Who who's ready for the Satan Club? 00:20:06:00 - 00:20:30:00 Unknown That's crazy. It's really cute though. They put like little paper horns on how they make little paper horns. And they're like, we promise to be nice to all creatures. That's so cute. Oh, after school, Satan Club, I said, you'll go after school Satan Club. Yes, yes, I was getting clowned. Oh my God, that's so fucking cute. So that's so freaking cute. 00:20:30:05 - 00:20:51:31 Unknown Oh, it's so freaking cute, you guys. I would just die. I would just die. It was so cute. Oh my heart. Sorry, sorry. I had a moment there. Had a moment there. I needed to get that out, though. It was a very cute. The Satanic Temple, as recognized religion officially recognized by the IRS, is a tax exempt religious organization in 2019. 00:20:51:36 - 00:21:10:26 Unknown Good for them. They deserve it, right? Because they they're obviously so I guess they are a as of 2019, they are a religious organization as far as the government is concerned, because they are you know, that is so funny. That is funny that they did that. It's not funny. It's not like funny. Like I'm not laughing at them. 00:21:10:26 - 00:21:27:52 Unknown I'm just like, you know, some people do wild bad things. This is kind of like a wild, neutral thing. Like this is just kind of like, you know, being like, okay, you want to act one way. Well, then we get to act one way. And if you're going to say we can't act that one way, then why do you get to act that one way? 00:21:27:52 - 00:21:59:49 Unknown I mean, it's just, you know, it's those Libra scales of justice, which I fuck with. Okay? It's the it's that as above, so below shit, I fuck with it. So the Church of Satan and the the temple of the Satanic Temple don't really like each other. I guess the Church of Satan calls the Satanic Temple political theater not true Satanists and the Satanic Temple calls the Church of Satan a stagnant brand that abandoned satanic principles of resistance. 00:21:59:54 - 00:22:24:02 Unknown So the ideology is kind of split as far as the fact that the Church of Satan is about that self worship, that kind of egotism that like me, for me sake kind of mentality, and the Satanic Temple is a lot more about community activism and modern enlightenment and humanism. So now, whichever way you lean is not what I care about. 00:22:24:07 - 00:22:54:43 Unknown The Satanic Temple gained global popularity in 2019 with their documentary called Hail Satan, question Mark. It reframes Satanism as a movement for religious liberty and social justice, changing mainstream perception. So a lot of people these days don't think of saint like know that Satanism is not this like devil worshiping type thing. But as far as the temple of Satan, the Satanic Temple goes, it's about community activism. 00:22:54:43 - 00:23:16:37 Unknown It is about enlightenment. It is about helping each other and making sure that there is right in the world for everyone. You know, there's justice, fairness for all, and acts is both both a religious movement and a civil rights organization focusing on tangible change rather than ritual. But again, both are still rejecting the supernatural. But okay, you guys. 00:23:16:37 - 00:23:36:52 Unknown Well, I think we are like running out of time. I don't know how long this episode is going to be. I know, I know, last week's was pretty short, but this week I'm hoping to give you our full amount of an episode. You know, my recommendation of the week is to continue watching horror movies with me. Let me give you the seven for this week. 00:23:36:52 - 00:24:02:53 Unknown Don't worry. I know you guys have been on edge about the seven. Okay, so today we are watching The Shining. If you're watching it today, on the day it comes out the 14th, my birthday tomorrow is the ring 2002, 16th is 2007 paranormal Activity the 17th is 2019, midsummer, the 18th is 2005 the descent and the 19th is 2006 is. 00:24:02:58 - 00:24:35:42 Unknown The Hills have Eyes. The 20th and the 21st. By next Tuesday is Halloween and Halloween to the first and second, 1978, in 1981. So please watch those you guys. Let me know which one's your favorite one this past week, did you watch even if it wasn't on the list, what did you watch this past week? What spooky movie did you watch to get into the mood to get into the season and let me know below, because if it's really good, I'll add it's in the list because I am a horror movie junkie. 00:24:35:43 - 00:24:56:15 Unknown Well, that is going to do it for me. I hope you have a lovely week! I am so blessed to be here another year. I'm going to be here many more years and I just love you guys. I love every single person that tunes in. Don't listen to me. I'm so incredibly grateful. You all are so beautiful and amazing and wonderful and awesome and I appreciate you all so much. 00:24:56:20 - 00:25:03:38 Unknown Okay. Happy birthday me. Okay, bye. I'll see you next week. Tell your weird uncle about me. Bye. Go watch last week's game one more time. Bye. 00:25:03:38 - 00:25:12:42 Unknown Boom boom. Oh!