I am Walpurgis9 and I live in a perpetual state of Halloween. The only other holidays I acknowledge are Walpurgis and my own birthday, July 14. That is also Bastille Day. I find that quite nice, because Bastille Day was the day they stormed the Bastille and began the French Revolution. The Bastille was built centuries before for the purpose of imprisoning those accused by the Inquisition. I am proud to be born on the day that marked the beginning of the end for that horrible place built for its horrible purpose.

I am in my mid-forties and I live in Columbia, Missouri. I came here in 1978 after leaving Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Make no mistake, I am not Wiccan. I do not consider myself a practioner of the so-called white magic arts. Magic is Magic! I practice the so-called dark arts more along the lines of Anton Szandor LaVey's and Aleister Crowley's methods, although I have found that I am quite capable of creating my own effective methods. I am solitary. I am affiliated with no individual or group.

I define evil as I read in one of Dr. Jeffrey Burton Russell's books: evil is causing pain and suffering to sentient beings. I do no deliberate evil to the undeserving. The reality is, though, that eating food such as meat is evil because something has to die. To grow vegetables, one must destroy the habitats of other creatures to make the fields to grow the vegetables. All things that pertain to survival are evil if you really think about it. One cannot avoid evil no matter how much one tries to, but since I have understood that, I don't see myself as a superior being to anyone or anything. Humans are as savage as their four-legged counterparts on Earth, although most humans don't like to think that. Life is not a constant battle with evil, it is evil.

I am not now nor have I ever been a Christian, hardy har har! That religion was created by people who made up stories and created horrible punishments for those who do not obey their god's word, which they all claimed came through themselves. Of course, all of those prophets said something about their god demanding money from those ministered to or there would be terrible suffering in a place called Hell. Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk! I am sooooooooo scared!!!!!!

I really don't think I would want to be in Heaven. It seems to me that Heaven is filled with killers. Carla Faye Tucker, a pick-axe murderess who "got Jesus" after she got caught, I am told went to Heaven after they gave her that well-earned lethal injection. Sean Sellers, a multiple murderer who killed in the name of Satan, "got Jesus" after he got caught, I am told went to Heaven after his well-deserved lethal injection. Now, I am told David Berkowitz, the infamous Son-of-Sam killer from New York City, has "gotten Jesus" and will be on his way to Heaven when he finally bites the big one (of old age, more than likely). Susan Atkins, one of Charles Manson's lunatic murderesses has found her god now and I am told will be on her way to Heaven when she goes, also from old age. What kind of crap is that?

I have never killed anybody in my life, and never would, but I won't get to Heaven because I don't believe in it. Well, let me tell you something, There is no Heaven! Stop giving your money to preachers to build gilded temples to a man who preached in the fields.! Stop giving money to preachers to lie to you and keep you in fear of a place nobody has ever been, despite what is written in the Bible. Can you honestly prove it is any more truthful than Homer's Odyssey? I don't think so. So, let's all give a round of applause to perpetual HALLOWEEN.