"Cogito ergo sum/I think therefore I am." (Descartes) is an edict that I observe many Modern/LaVeyan Satanists basing their principles on. Yet, on what basis are we and what are we? Is it even true? Who or what is really pulling the strings? Are we truly free-thinkers - spontaneous, independent, open-minded, and/ or conscious?
Our behaviors are a function of what we have on our motherboards/brains and the programming locked inside it. Everyone who is asked about that programmed it themselves and the free-thinkers" would fight to the death to assure that they think independently about everything.
Who really influences our choices and decisions? We have unconsciously, for the most part, let others stake claims on our motherboards/brains. As a child, we wanted our parents' acceptance. Now we think, act, feel the way they did, not comprehending as to why. Later on in adolescence and in early adulthood, we replicated others' programming out of guilt or fear and we're still doing it today.
We're living our lives without knowing who we are, acting out others' wishes, disconnected from our true selves. This is because we have added so many beliefs, visions, thoughts and values to our motherboards/brains that weren't ours to begin with. Now the result is "me", or is it?
