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redshirt posted:How about instead of panic we had a Satanic picnic? This is suspicious... gonna keep an eye on you now. https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/st...als/4600133001/ quote:A group of convicted sex offenders is suing the state of Iowa, claiming their right to worship Lucifer with a weeklong feast of fried chicken, doughnuts and ice cream is being violated.
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My mother once made me run away from a garage sale because she saw a Ouija Board for sale there and told me that meant everything there was possibly demon possessed. She threw away a stuffed animal I had because the couple who gave it to me quit the Jehovah's Witness religion so... get this, that meant it had demons possessing it suddenly. I wasn't allowed to watch the Smurfs because it had Gargamel in it who was a wizard and that meant watching that cartoon would get me possessed by demons. I lived my entire childhood terrified that anything I could possibly do meant DEMONS Hanging out with friends who weren't in the correct religion equaled Satan. Watching a TV show equaled Satan. Liking music equaled Satan. Wearing trendy clothing equaled Satan. I wish any of that was a joke. Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Catastrophe posted:My mother once made me run away from a garage sale because she saw a Ouija Board for sale there and told me that meant everything there was possibly demon possessed. This makes me realize to an extent how much religious based horror we raised children in. Still do, but hopefully it's a bit less.
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Jul 23, 2023 18:01
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yes, i was the satan figure
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I remember sometime around 1985 or 1986 our school handed out a paperback book that was full of stories about the dangers of Satan worship, alcohol, and autoerotic asphyxiation. I think it blamed music like Ozzy, Judas Priest, and W.A.S.P. for a lot of the satanic stuff that was supposedly going on. I read the book several times because it was hilariously bad, usually while I was blasting Black Sabbath in my room. Then an older kid started passing around his copy of The Necronomicon as an antidote of sorts. isaboo fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Jul 23, 2023 18:32
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isaboo posted:I remember sometime around 1985 or 1986 our school handed out a paperback book that was full of stories about the dangers of Satan worship, alcohol, and autoerotic asphyxiation. W.A.S.P was so hardcore in 1986 whatever.
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Jul 23, 2023 18:41
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redshirt posted:W.A.S.P was so hardcore in 1986 whatever. Even more hilarious is Blackie Lawless is a devout Christian these days. Same with Alice Cooper. I saw W.A.S.P. twice last December and had tickets to the show next month but the entire tour got scrapped because Blackie's got some serious back injuries that will require surgery. Hopefully it will get rescheduled for the Spring as they intend...
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Jul 23, 2023 19:15
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zone posted:No. To be fair, it lasted well through the 90s. Case and point the whole, "pokemon are just japanese demons to turn your children away from god" nonsense.
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Jul 23, 2023 19:16
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WescottF1 posted:Even more hilarious is Blackie Lawless is a devout Christian these days. Same with Alice Cooper. Sad to hear that about Cooper.
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I was a 90s kid and definitely remember the tail end of it. Harry Potter accused of teaching spells and Pokemon being demonic because ????? it was all a very stupid time
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I grew up in Los Angeles in the 80s. Heart of the Satanic Panic The location they filmed the evil cult in one of the Police Academy movies looked like Fort MacArthur. So that was known as where satanists held rituals, in the bunkers and tunnels of Fort MacArthur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_MacArthur  An abusive gently caress beat his stepdaughter to death 2 blocks from my house. To hide the evidence, they lit her dead body on fire in the park. THAT sure as gently caress didnt help the Satanic panic. I walked by that park to get icecream, rent vhs tapes, and go to school. I was the exact same age. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-13-me-2739-story.html I fell out of a tree in kindergarten and smashed my face up good. lotta bruising, but nothing broke. School kept asking me who beat you, who did this, was it satanists? no, i fell out of a tree...
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Catastrophe posted:My mother once made me run away from a garage sale because she saw a Ouija Board for sale there and told me that meant everything there was possibly demon possessed. I'll never get why believe this stupid poo poo and get so scared about a heart shaped piece of plastic and some cardboard. My ex wife, who has a science degree in environmental biology, refused to buy our 12 year old son a Ouija board for Xmas and "doesn't want it in her house" after I bought it for him. Not sure what she's scared of but he was bored with it after 15 minutes and never touches it. So far, no ghosts in my house and he is not possessed by the devil. Far as I know anyway.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll never get why believe this stupid poo poo and get so scared about a heart shaped piece of plastic and some cardboard. Best just let her win that one, regardless of reason. IMO.
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Jul 23, 2023 20:17
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I was an integral part of the panic, and am very disappointed in how lane the outcome was
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I was alive when Twisted Sister front man Dee Snyder schooled congress. I was only 2, but I was alive
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Jul 23, 2023 21:30
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I spoke with Rob Halford once when I was doing tech support for a web hosting company. I asked him what it was like being such a badass and he replied "Taxing, brotha." He didn't say anything about Satan, though!
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isaboo posted:I spoke with Rob Halford once when I was doing tech support for a web hosting company. I asked him what it was like being such a badass and he replied "Taxing, brotha." He didn't say anything about Satan, though! I saw Priest at Ozzfest when I was 18 and Rob wore a giant mirrored robe for over half the show, disappeared and reappeared on stage elevators and poo poo, then they finished and left and a motorcycle revved and he came out on stage riding a big rear end harley in his full gay biker leather and they did a 20 minute encore, then Sabbath got on stage and looked old as poo poo. Rob Halford is loving awesome.
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Jul 23, 2023 21:39
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redshirt posted:Best just let her win that one, regardless of reason. IMO. I typically let her win all of them. It was just weird to see a smart person who's educated in science even giving a poo poo about it.
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isaboo posted:I spoke with Rob Halford once when I was doing tech support for a web hosting company. I asked him what it was like being such a badass and he replied "Taxing, brotha." He didn't say anything about Satan, though! Rob Halford loving rules!
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I was always confused as to why the fundies forbade all the wizardry media but seemingly loved LOTR. It's not like Narnia where there's a Jesus stand-in. Gandalf is basically a god.
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Satan also lives in NZ. We have many religious communities and sects stemming from the 19th century meme that NZ was a lost world/utopia/potential utopia. Order of the Golden Dawn, the brethrens, the Quakers etc. Their descendants were boisted by the American counterculture and literal government funding to start and grow communes. Our unproximity to the rest of the developed world means many Satan fearing sects remained and remain unseen out in the rural areas and when the Satan panic hit you bet your bottom dollar they got involved. But it was the mainstream protestant churches that openly yelled about harry potter and pokemon channeling literal 👿s. It wasn't everywhere, but I distantly remember at least two seperate adults stamping out of the cinema after screaming "leave us Satan!" At the screens. I think it was the scene where the restricted library book attacks harry with its teeth. And pokemon was super banned. Long winded speeches and letters from our school principal about how each pokemon corresponds to a particular demon. When I started a board game club in high school the one rule was 'NO SATANIC ROLEPLAY'. When the Da Vinci Code came out we'd have a christian specialist in the occult give us a two day seminar on why it was actually Lucifer's lies and not factual history. Yu gi oh was created by Japanese channelers and mediums. American pop culture was Satan attempting to corrupt NZ. Secular music was Satan attempting to corrupt our worship of God. The mainstream Christian youth group Easter camp (which many youth groups all attended together) was already comprised by Satan and a lost cause rip teens in board shorts. Any visits, enquiries, or letters from the government is to treated with cynical suspicion as an attempt by a Satan worshipper to destroy our families. There were already some undeveloped natives living in God's paradise/'Godszone' before we got here from Europe but they practice black spirit magic which is actually worshipping Satan. Any rumours or talk of leader misconduct is Satan lying to you. Benny Hinn and other American megapastors are actually false prophets sent by Satan to seduce you through temptations of money and the material and getting involved with dark things like living in cities or towns ("the world"). Satan is absolutely about to appear in the form of/channeled by the antichrist who will rise out of the EU before x date and also is it before the year 2000 because if so the world is absolutely ending at Y2K. Satan is associated both with bigger urban environments (Auckland) and the bush/jungle areas of NZ so the sweet noSatan place is farmland and compounds. Do not talk to nonchristians because Satan has the power to temporarily take over their bodies so you might be talking to Satan. Satan is actually worshipped by using any technology past the year 1993 even though it's 2005 - which by coincidence is roughly the level of technology us boomers are comfortable with and also there are exceptions if it's your job or makes money. Because it takes so long for western trends to get to nz this was all the early 00s, the time after the end of the s panic according to wikipedia lol. Oh also satan absolutely exists here in the form of many social ills mostly perpetrated by the leaders and members of the religious sects and communes still operating out between small towns. The exclusive brethern own a lot of farmland and subdivisions and stay out of the public eye. Lampsacus fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Lampsacus posted:Satan also lives in NZ. Satan lives everywhere. ESPECIALLY in New Zealand. And "Satanic Panic" still kind of goes on. There's a hardcore jesus lady I work with who, while we were discussing the OceanGate submersible incident, actually said that that nobody should go there anyway because "it was evil". Sunken ships are evil, you see, because the Devil sunk the Titanic I suppose. I didn't dig too much further into it so I'm not sure. There's also the "democrats drink the blood of babies" adrenochrome pedophile pizza parlor poo poo and people seeing satanic symbols in logos. Speaking of logos, someone else brought up Proctor and Gamble and that was a targeted marketing campaign by Amway directed at their "independent business owners" to convince them that products you can easily buy off the shelf for far less money are actually the work of Satan. Amway and MLM's like to convert people to Christianity and posit themselves as Christ's chosen way to empty your savings accounts and max out your credit cards. Not like those affordable places like Wal Mart or Costco who are secretly satanic. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trademark-of-the-devil/ BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Dutch goon here - i vaguely remember that maybe one or two classmates in elementary school weren't allowed to watch pokemon at home, or at the very least that there were *some* kids at school who weren't allowed. I don't think it was nearly as big as in the USA, but it definitely was a thing for some poor kids.
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Animal-Mother posted:I was always confused as to why the fundies forbade all the wizardry media but seemingly loved LOTR. It's not like Narnia where there's a Jesus stand-in. Gandalf is basically a god. JRRT was a devout Catholic all his life and pretty vocal about it. A case could also be made that characters like Saruman, Bombadillo etc. were not human but more like supernatural beings.
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Valko posted:JRRT was a devout Catholic all his life and pretty vocal about it. A case could also be made that characters like Saruman, Bombadillo etc. were not human but more like supernatural beings. There's no case to be made. They are supernatural beings. Gandalf and Saruman are Angels, Tom is who knows what but he's not human. Sauron is a fallen Angel.
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redshirt posted:There's no case to be made. They are supernatural beings. Gandalf and Saruman are Angels, Tom is who knows what but he's not human. Sauron is a fallen Angel. all that is heresy. Don't make me call the Pope
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Lol NZ tv is 50% gurning fundies trying to get your attention and personal details
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:all that is heresy. Don't make me call the Pope Gandalf AKA Olorin is an immortal being who was born before time
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I grew up in a christian household and stuff like harry potter / kiki's delivery service were banned because of witchcraft. Violent and/or demonic games like doom were also not allowed. My neighbor's parents bought into that "pokemon is demonic" poo poo which sucked a lot for him. Later in life my parents lightened up and stopped caring about that poo poo because it was just entertainment.
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redshirt posted:Gandalf AKA Olorin is an immortal being who was born before time ok. cool. it's still heresy
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bossy lady posted:I grew up in a christian household and stuff like harry potter / kiki's delivery service were banned because of witchcraft. Violent and/or demonic games like doom were also not allowed. My neighbor's parents bought into that "pokemon is demonic" poo poo which sucked a lot for him. I know that. I'm trying to be a pain in rear end here
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My parents aren't religious but they thought DnD was Satanic. Still loved the Rolling Stones. They sent me to a fundamentalist Baptist school but were probably too high to realize how extreme it was. But those guys thought even Christian rock was evil. Actually trolled a Southern Baptist teacher out of the school because her son listened to it.
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:ok. cool. it's still heresy Hey I've seen The Pope, I got a Dispensation!
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^^^Who recorded an album called "Satanic Majesty's Request" and had a hit called "Sympathy for the Devil". Doom, D&D and poo poo like that have actual demons in them. The gently caress is satanic about Pokemon?
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BiggerBoat posted:The gently caress is satanic about Pokemon? All the lowdown bestiality
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redshirt posted:Hey I've seen The Pope, I got a Dispensation! I have too. You know what I don't get, how come he needs a bulletproof car? If the pope is afraid of death, what chance do I have?
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Carlos Lantana posted:All the lowdown bestiality 
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BiggerBoat posted:The gently caress is satanic about Pokemon? Coming from a non-christian culture would be my first guess. There's probably more to it than that. No really. I remember being in primary school and one of our teachers would yell at us to 'sit like christians' if we were sitting half-lotus or whatever.
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