Satanic Wisdom

The title of this post is misleading...this is the sort of post that grabs a lot of attention though.
Actually, I'm not even certain that the individual who posted this is a Satanist, but I met him on a Satanist thread on facebook and he is an interesting man from Germany who had this on his page...I liked it a lot, as I identified with it a whole lot.


"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King


The reason for such a long and confusing set up to this quote was to point out that it may be very possible that we miss out sometimes on some interesting things because we are so afraid that if we get to know people outside of our beliefs that it will somehow weaken ours.  I'm interested in anything anyone has to say about this....