[This blog post was written February 13, 2015, and was never published because everyone said that the days of the Flame Wars! were over---I am publishing it today because someone just started screaming that someone was trying to start a new flame war against them.]
The history of the twenty year plus long Golden Dawn flame war is (more or less) as follows:
In the late 1990s, two different Orders trademarked the name "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn." One was based in Europe, and the other one was based in the United States. The trademark was fought over in a lengthy court battle, a battle that also spilled over onto the internet.
In addition to this, two GD gurus decided that they wanted to turn Golden Dawn into a business, one where they had the monopoly over the entire Golden Dawn system. To help accomplish this, both parties also fought it out on the internet by defaming the other party, and anyone who supported them.
Both of these battles resulted in at least one party using sock puppets and their human followers to post the most vicious and nasty lies that they could think of to describe the other parties and people that they wanted out of the Golden Dawn business.
During the course of all this, sooner or later, everyone got called a Neo-Nazi, Satanist, and a criminal. Needless to say, there is a lot of hurt feelings.
Who is guilty? Well, each party involved blames someone(s) else for the whole nine yards.
So basically, some parties decided that it made good business sense to call other people names, in order to convince students of the Golden Dawn system that they were the only logical choice to teach and lead Golden Dawn, given the fact that all of the other Golden Dawn leaders and teachers were complete and utter dogs intent on ripping people off and using them for their own evil pleasure.
As always, remember "Buyer Beware!" for some people are very good at appearing to be other than what they really are.
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2 comments:
Nice summation. The anonymity in the post is however betrayed by the names in labels. Now all we need do is work out who was doing what to whom ;)
I think you should add to that penultimate paragraph:
Although you might consider that people who have to resort to name-calling to advertise they are the "true" Golden Dawn have obviously either not been practicing their craft or gaining any real spiritual uplifting from it.
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