The ONA, Blackwood, and The Others

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Genetically Modified Blackwood is up to his old tricks again, despite his many recent claims that he was no longer interested in criticizing others. Seems, though, that he just can’t help himself, and needs the Internet to make himself feel real and alive, for he hopes it will provide him with a sense of importance.

Thus, he is flooding the Internet with new – mostly semi-literate – “statements”, pronouncements, claims, and slagging off the Order of Nine Angles, the 352 Progressive Satanism group, and “the usual suspects”.

Now, there is nothing wrong, per se, in someone being semi-literate, or even illiterate; in fact, it may have some advantages in this age of mass propaganda, and my own great grandparents were illiterate, like many European peasants at that time, and would sign their names – as on some old family documents – with a good ‘ole cross, their “mark”.

What is wrong, though, is lack of manners; descending down to what my grandmother used to call “the level of the fish-wife”; and Blackwood has bad manners in abundance, something that others have also noted and commented upon, as evident in this quote from the onanxs blog:

“Its just lame for someone who claims to be a “Grand Master” of an organization to go around the internet and call girls cuss words like “bitch” and “whore” like you never mentally graduated from high school.

Can you imagine Anton Long or Anton LaVey going around calling Chloe bitch and whore for some reason? It would never happen because they have class, which you don’t. You are dumb and classless.” http://onanxs.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/blackwoods-size-doesnt-matter-crap/

GM Blackwood certainly lacks class; he has no style, certainly not the type of style appropriate to a Satanist, whatever group they belong to or whatever type of Satanism they follow or admire. As a certain Anton Long once noted:

Outwardly, in terms of persona and character, the true Dark Arts are concerned with style; with understated elegance; with natural charisma; with personal charm; and with manners. That is, with a certain personal character and a certain ethos. The character is that of the natural gentleman, of the natural noble lady; the ethos is that of good taste, of refinement, of a civilized attitude.

http://nineangles.wordpress.com/noble-guide-to-the-dark-arts/

Now, the ONA differs quite significantly from many other groups, organizations and individuals who are, or who claim to be, Satanic, and the ONA has often criticized such groups as the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set, and accused them of being “pseudo-Satanic organizations”. This is natural, in the nature of things, since such criticisms are attempts to highlight the genuine differences which exist, and push the “ONA point of view”, its particular Satanic mythos and weltanschauung. But never, ever, has the ONA stooped down to the level of personal abuse directed at the leaders or even members of other Satanic organizations.

In fact, rather the opposite – as the very polite, gentlemanly, letters of a certain Stephen Brown, of the ONA, to Aquino prove (qv. The Satanic Letters of Stephen Brown).

Despite our differences, we note that Aquino certainly had a certain style; as did LaVey. Many other Satanists – most other Satanists by virtue of their personal character – also have a certain satanic style.

Blackwood has made himself an exception to this. For years he made claims about being a high-level “leader” of the ONA. Then, when the ONA stated they had never heard of him, he dropped these claims, and claimed instead that he had “disbanded” the ONA. Then when this scam was revealed to be a scam, he claimed he had “reformed” the ONA. Many times, over the years, he was politely and in private asked to desist from making such silly claims. Then he moved on to claiming the ONA did not in fact exist, except as some Internet ghoul, and that his own group was bigger, better, the only real Satanic group and he the “world leader” of Satanism blah blah blah. In addition, he became personally vituperative against named individuals, and therefore “crossed the line” to make himself, as an individual, a legitimate target of personal invective. Hence the personal criticism he has come in for, in the past months.

But why bother with him, and his fatuous claims, at all? Primarily because, as we and others have noted, he serves as a good living example of what Satanism and genuine Satanists (of whatever group or organization) are not. By pointing to him, the ill-mannered charlatan, we reveal the true character of Satanism and of Satanists.

So, we do hope that Blackwood carries on. For he not only provides us with many good laughs, but also serves the general cause of Satanism itself, although, not of course, in the way that he himself, in his delusion, claims.

Blackwood Pouts Again

Order of Nine Angles Name Scam

Not content with having exposed himself – again – as a dumb-ass, GM Blackwood (aka Fat-boy Pseud aka Tum-Tum Raspotnik) has a new even dumber scam. This is setting up blogs, and internet sites, using some variation of the name Order of Nine Angles, and he even boasts of having purchased a dot com domain containing the ONA name.

It is quite clear that Genetically Modified Blackwood has an unhealthy obsession with the ONA – or, perhaps more to the point, and more esoterically correct, the ONA has come to haunt and possess him, taking over his life, and making him act in rather strange ways. Perhaps without his not too friendly personal ONA “demon” his life would be even more empty, more vacuous, more inane, than it already is. Perhaps without this ONA “demon” watching over him, day and night, and causing him to dream strange dreams, and do its bidding, he would be what he was before, a mediocre non-descript struggling car salesman, sans girlfriend (or even sans boyfriend), living in some crummy motel. So kudos – again – then to the ONA for letting this vampiric-demon sucker itself onto Raspotnik’s life, and giving us esoteric folk a lots of laughs, as the demon entity pulls Blackwood’s strings, and provides us with some entertainment.

In setting up his latest wheeze, it seems to have escaped Genetically Modified Blackwood’s notice that if anyone is fooled by his ripping-off the ONA name scam, then it just shows them for the fools they are. Thus – and at his demon’s prompting, no doubt – Raspotnik has provided the ONA with another test to sort the fools, the pseuds, the worthless, out from the genuine seeker who might be interested in the ONA itself.

But I am reasonably certain that this point will evade the brain of Blackwood, such as that brain is, just as I am reasonably certain that Blackwood has failed to understand that the ONA is more than happy to let him carry on with his rants, his demented attempts at “exposure”, his clumsy wheezes and his scams. Indeed, I’m told they are quite glad to have him around, for reasons other than his sheer entertainment value. Why?

Because his antics, his personality, his claims, his scams, all serve as a contrast to the excellence of the ONA itself. He is a rather good example of everything that a genuine Occultist is not; an excellent example of – an admittedly somewhat stupid – Old Aeon charlatan; an example of the detritus of Western culture, of the type of individual that the ONA does not bother with, except possibly (if they can be bothered – for after all there are so many millions of such idiots, around) as an opfer or as someone to be used, manipulated, to achieve something consistent with the sinister dialect, even if that “something” is – as often in the case of Fat-bot Pseud – to provide us with some light entertainment, for a while.

Also, because his antics – spread frantically all the internet by himself – attract a certain amount of curiosity about the ONA itself, and so helps to guide a few more suitable individuals to the ONA, as certainly has happened since he began to flood the internet with his claims, counter-claims, attempts at “exposure”, and the like.

So, it is to be hoped that Tum-Tum – and his fake internet-only Temples of Satan – will continue with his craziness for a while, for genuine Occultists, of whatever path or way, can point to him and say (as many already do) that, “There is an example of a charlatan; there is an example of a liar; there is an obsessive individual; there is an example of everything we are not…”