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When I was a kid some kids at school thought that pringles are evil because the company was owned by a satanic cult. I associate pringles with satanism to this day but I still buy them.
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When I was 5-8, we lived in a town with some really lovely cemeteries. My mom used to drive me and my friends out to them at night so we could all get spooked and have fun. One dumb bitch decided to tell her mom that we went out and performed rituals by chanting while jumping up and down on gravestones and her dumb bitch mom believed it. So I was a 7 year-old witch. Gotta start somewhere, I guess.
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Jul 23, 2023 09:08
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The Satanic panic sounds like a good band name.
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Jul 23, 2023 09:19
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I think I was! There was this shack in the woods with a pentagram. Everyone got freaked.
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Jul 23, 2023 09:33
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been robbin graves since i was a lad
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Jul 23, 2023 09:47
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it was a bunch of bullshit cooked up by pat Robinson and other fundamentalists who were convinced the apocalypse and second coming was going to happen in 1988
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Jul 23, 2023 09:47
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Dr...I am Satan
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Jul 23, 2023 09:57
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The closest I ever got to mainstream Satanic panic was when my fifth grade teacher stopped reading Harry Potter to us because some students' parents wouldn't let them listen to it and it wasn't fair that they had to be sent to another classroom during reading time. I kind of wonder if those same parents support JKR now that her bigotry is known However a couple years before that my mom made me throw out the Dinosaur hand puppets I got in a Happy Meal because she thought they looked like snakes, and once they were gone she called a priest over to bless every room in the house.  Pictured: Tools of Satan She never said anything about the time I brought home a glow-in-the-dark snake toy from school though
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Jul 23, 2023 10:09
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I was scared of ghosts for a while in 4th grade.
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Jul 23, 2023 10:49
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a "former satanist" visited our school and held a speech in the class
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Jul 23, 2023 11:47
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MiracleFlare posted:The closest I ever got to mainstream Satanic panic was when my fifth grade teacher stopped reading Harry Potter to us because some students' parents wouldn't let them listen to it and it wasn't fair that they had to be sent to another classroom during reading time. I kind of wonder if those same parents support JKR now that her bigotry is known Your mom sucks
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Jul 23, 2023 12:14
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IDK man you ever get a Pringle caught directly in the roof of your mouth? Yikes.
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Jul 23, 2023 12:29
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I AM the satanic panic
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Jul 23, 2023 12:39
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I hate the internet but growing up in some podunk rear end Southern town before the internet must have been so loving awful that I can barely even imagine it.
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Jul 23, 2023 12:39
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why you throw devil chip
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Jul 23, 2023 12:41
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Knights In Satan’s Service? But the one guy’s wearing a blouse and singing a disco tune.
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Jul 23, 2023 12:41
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Next time this happens we should put ridicule to good use instead of being polite. My friend’s mom used to be all into this as a teen and he’d wait until there was an audience and announce her private crazy to the group (who were usually all christians) and she’d start walking it back asap. It crops up from time to time and gen A is due for their own satanic panic.
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Jul 23, 2023 12:51
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My family banned pokemon, harry potter, and dnd in the house and whatever else they felt they didn't like they could also just blame on "demons" or whatever. I brought some pokemon cards home one day and when I went to sleep my mom threw them in the garbage. I checked out the first harry potter book from the school library because everyone was talking about harry potter. She made me return it before I got back in the car. Now I wear pentagrams so guess that overbearing christian poo poo didn't work too well in the long run.
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Jul 23, 2023 15:27
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in one of the most 80s ways imaginable: my dad was head of detectives for a town in southern New Jersey who was tasked with becoming the staff occultologist so he had to go to a bunch of seminars about Satan. Because he wasn't religious but it was the 80s, his perception wasn't that he was a soldier in a holy war but he had a duty to know when a scrawled pentagram was kids being shitheads or an imminent invasion by a satanic communist army of communist satanists.
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Jul 23, 2023 15:41
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My brother asked for a D&D boardgame for his birthday and my grandma bought it for him, then asked for it back a week later because someone at her church told her it was Satanic.
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Jul 23, 2023 15:55
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the holy poopacy posted:My brother asked for a D&D boardgame for his birthday and my grandma bought it for him, then asked for it back a week later because someone at her church told her it was Satanic. My sisters were huge Harry Potter fans growing up, I think I need to burn them at the stake. I won't but the point I'm trying to make is that because christians think their own favourite book of fiction is literally real does not mean that others think the same way about their own fantasy universes. I'm convinced they must think kids are casting actual magic spells and summoning demons, there can be no other explanation.
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Jul 23, 2023 16:07
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drat dude, i'm glad i was raised by chill agnostics
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Same on the DnD thing. Catholic elementary school; friends and I started playing in the yard at lunch. A nun asked us what we were playing and we told her, "knights and wizards and thieves, and you all explore dungeons and haunted castles and kill monsters and look for magical stuff and your character gets stronger". It didn't help that one of the modules that was open had a pentagram on the page. The nun of course loses it, shrieking at us, and attempted to confiscate our stuff. We all crammed it into our backpacks and held on tight and essentially told her, "No way". After being taken to the principal's office and being admonished about the dangerous path we were on parents were called to take us home (uh, okay? cool). Not a single parent gave a gently caress. One mom said something to the effect of, "They're story-telling and making a game out of it, they're not worshiping Satan." (we were, lol) In the parking lot my mom offered the kids and the parents if they wanted to come to our house and continue playing for the afternoon that they were welcome. Everyone showed up ten minutes later. Our devil worship was back on! I honestly think all of our families were mildly ostracized in the church community from then on. So it was a win, all the way around.
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Jul 23, 2023 16:47
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When I was a kid, it was all about 70s rock/metal bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest as well as hair bands like Mötley Crue and all the backmasking they were doing to make kids do drugs and worship the dark lord. Also, they other one I remember is something about Proctor and Gamble supporting witches and Satanism and how you shouldn't buy Dawn or any of the other million household products they produce because you are supporting Beelzebub and witchcraft if you do.
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Jul 23, 2023 16:51
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I had expressed a passing interest in D&D, mostly because of the cartoon but also some kids older brothers played it. My narcissistic aunt made me give several long-winded explanations/apologies on how I was wrong, not just at the time but over the years. I was maybe six? forced to defend vancian magic for a game I had never played nor seen. (Sure as gently caress didnt know the term vancian magic). Because my naunt is just as crazy as she is evil, then she bought me some 80s christian science fiction to  replace my passing vocal interest in D&D, but I cannot stress enough how loving awful it was. At least one was flat out dishonest - the story was in the future and there was some sort of super-cop who was chasing these radical terrorists (who were somehow 100% peaceful and did nothing wrong) and they have some sort of secret manual thats letting them be successful called The Word ( ) and as it turns out, the terrorists are hiding it on some sort of chip that gets injected into your jaw* and then vibrates to your inner ear (as in, you heard the Word ) The finale of the first book (IIRC there were several) was the super-cop getting injected with The Word The finale of the first book was definitely a whole warehouse of (IIRC) "xtians" dying so their leader could show the word to the super-cop, and apparently it speed-read the super-cop the bible and it instantly transformed him into accepting Jesus into their heart. *it may not have been an injection, maybe like a rock you hold or something? EDIT for clarity, I dont think they dropped the xtian thing until the last 10 pages, and The Word is obviously the bible, but I was eight years old and didnt go to church (Naunt was the only religious one) so I didnt put that togetherDOUBLE EDIT honestly whomever wrote Equilibrium may have stolen that story from the weird christian science fiction book I read. I cant remember the title or author, but I remember the book itself was in a weird small format Vampire Panties fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Jul 23, 2023 17:00
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Motley Crue ruled during the Satanic Panic.
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Child of the 80's here chiming in and yes. Kid I played D&D with his mom hated us playing it and actually house ruled against us using demons from the monster manual. But she really REALLY hated my Black Sabbath t-shirt and forbade me from wearing it in her house. That was the first time I learned what 666 was supposed to mean. This shirt:  I just thought it was a cool illustration and I wasn't even that big of a Sabbath fan. I also remember the stupid backwards masking horseshit and the Judas Priest trial. Everyone I knew who liked Priest, Sabbath and played D&D were pretty much the opposite of Satanists and just thought some of it was cool imagery. I mean...we were fighting and KILLING the demons, sometimes with a Paladin or a Cleric. When I moved to Florida in the early 90's, there was some uproar here near Jacksonville about Marilyn Manson playing a show there and a lot of Jesus Freaks having a cow about Harry Potter where, along with Kansas, we actually banned the books from libraries. Around that time, somewhat related, I watched the West Memphis Three Paradise Lost documentaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost:_The_Child_Murders_at_Robin_Hood_Hills and immediately empathized with those kids since I had been through some vaguely similar things, had friends who liked metal/horror/dressed weird and felt like the three accused teens could just as easily have been me and my homies. During their 18 year incarceration I donated money to the defense and got involved with the cause since it struck so close to home and even had correspondence with some of the families. Also remember reading a book called The Ultimate Evil sometime in the 80's that attempted to link the Son of Sam and Manson murders to satanic cults. I didn't realize at the time what trash it was but a few years ago they did a documentary about it that got pretty popular called The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness which seems to take the idea seriously. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Jul 23, 2023 17:03
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Nah. Closest I ever got was my cousin and I exploring a huge storm drain when we were 14 and coming across an altar of sorts with lots of candles, a pentagram on the floor, and what appeared to be old blood stains from a small animal sacrifice. Scared the gently caress out of both of us and we hightailed it out of there.
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Jul 23, 2023 17:10
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no but i have a graphics card called "red devil"
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Jul 23, 2023 17:12
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Buddy I was the Satanic Panic  Actually outside the U.S. it just seemed weird and amusing
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My parents were satanists and one day they caught me listening to christian rock and reading the bible. They immediately took me to the temple to be cleansed in goat blood. Gee thanks mom, I think that’s enough with the blood ritual already.
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Jul 23, 2023 17:28
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I was a kid in the 80s during the height of this stuff and honestly I never really got the sense that adults were taking it very seriously. Like everybody seemed worried that pop culture was too nihilistic or anti-social but stuff like back-masking seemed like it was a big joke to most people.
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Jul 23, 2023 17:29
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Then there was Stryper...
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Our religious studies teacher did some satanic panic greatest hits with us(played some songs backwards and claimed there were hidden messages, showed some hidden symbols in images, etc.). After the majority of us admitted to hearing/seeing the stuff, she said it's all made up bullshit and explained what priming is and to be very careful with believing random bullshit you hear and that it can be harmful. Limp rear end liberal European Christianity is kinda ok, I guess. I think a decent amount of priests are actually atheists now
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GABA ghoul posted:I think a decent amount of priests are actually atheists now You mean the devil got to them
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Jul 23, 2023 17:35
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When I was in middle school I decided I was a Satanist and told all my classmates
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Jul 23, 2023 17:36
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How about instead of panic we had a Satanic picnic?
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I was a kid in the 80s during the height of this stuff and honestly I never really got the sense that adults were taking it very seriously. Like everybody seemed worried that pop culture was too nihilistic or anti-social but stuff like back-masking seemed like it was a big joke to most people. Growing up Southern Baptist in Texas, my grandmother 100% believed that Satan and demons were real and that if you brought anything associated with fantasy, spiritualism, or the occult within the walls of her house that meant demons were invited in. My mother and father were kind of in-between, not necessarily believing it 100% literally but also not dismissing it as much as they should have. They were also briefly Sunday School teachers, which happened to coincide with the SBC promotion of the video by con artists Gary Greenwald and Phil Phillips: Deception of a Generation (and Phil Phillips's book Turmoil in the Toybox). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhZrpbY4DqQ Because of the content of that book and video, my parents decided to throw away the majority of me and my brother's toys. (I think the only things that didn't get thrown out were the GI Joes and Legos.) It is difficult to truly convey just how deeply stupid parents were back in the 80s.
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i won't ldnt call it satanic but i have probably ten panic attacks a month
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I was a kid in the 80s during the height of this stuff and honestly I never really got the sense that adults were taking it very seriously. Like everybody seemed worried that pop culture was too nihilistic or anti-social but stuff like back-masking seemed like it was a big joke to most people. I’m gonna guess you grew up somewhere with a lot of college educated people?
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