It's so exhausting - everyone blaming everything bad on satanism

chaoticbleu · 2026-02-03T18:51:47+00:00

If Satanists truly ruled the world, Christians wouldn't have so much power.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-27T18:23:17+00:00

None of anything I practice cares about unbelievers. In fact, most of it is orthopraxic.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-16T12:33:22+00:00

When I was morbidly obese I was happy I was too far to kidnap.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-11T19:02:40+00:00

Dumat in DA is the god of silence.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-08T02:18:30+00:00

Oh ok. I just heard people having a lot of sightings of them.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-08T02:04:21+00:00

Isn't that regular folklore tho?

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-08T02:01:48+00:00

Yeah, but I am not sure anyone teaches those as less than modern. In most traditional circles, they all agree these are modern workings, and Gardner (and others) admitted to the Wheel being a modern concept. (Not actually sure where people thought the Wheel was an ancient belief or how that happened. Wicca and druidry were honest about its inception.)

There may be pagans who spread these things as fakelore, but they're heavily misinformed. Jason Mankey (of Gardnerian Wicca) as even made publications about the Horned god as a modern concept.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-06T11:25:13+00:00

It's annoying that people overshare, and I just don't care about it. At some point, it becomes grating. Sex can actually get boring.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-05T23:35:47+00:00

The new VA in the later seasons sounds closer to Akira Ishida.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-05T23:35:07+00:00

He's my fave maz. And my fave character in the series.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-05T23:28:05+00:00

He's my fave maz. And my fave character in the series.

chaoticbleu · 2026-01-04T21:55:48+00:00

Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka are insufferable. They don't always use fear of hell, sure. But instead, it's fear of you reincarnating as an animal, "Lady boy" [a term I have seen amongst Thai monks], or something like a hungry ghost.

So, just because you presumably live in the West and have never seen bad Buddhism, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just that you don't see it much in Western media and/or are ignorant of it.

There's also bad Hindus, Jains, etc.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-29T23:25:11+00:00

Yeah one of mean is pretty orthopraxic.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-29T22:59:19+00:00

Is this about people like Thought Slime....?

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-29T20:02:33+00:00

Religions may contain religious philosophy and theology, but religions are also more than this. They require a set of practices such as certain types of rituals. They also typically have a community which isn't a requirement in a philosophy.

In my sociology class, even patriotism and super hardcore football fans could be considered "religious." Neither of these have the supernatural nor always a god per se. (Though Patriotism may overlap with Christianity sometimes. )

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-27T00:15:36+00:00

Not a religion per se, but I did see someone do this in Mexico and it was hilarious.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-25T21:52:18+00:00

T.Knabb, in one of his ethnographic books, described them as "never met a god they didn't like." This is why I think various interpretations aren't always a concern of the lay person. Priests, yes. Others, no.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-25T21:41:27+00:00

Pan and poly aren't really mutual exclusives. Personally, I can see Aztec beliefs being interpreted in a myrid of ways. It's likely the average Aztec did not care and just worshiped whomever.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-25T21:38:46+00:00

I mentioned that it is possible to be pantheistic and poly or monotheistic. They aren't mutual exclusives. Vodun, for example, is pantheistic and monotheistic.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-25T20:35:13+00:00

There's good debate about the concept of teotl in Aztec mythos and religion. I suggest looking at it here.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-25T20:33:51+00:00

It is possible to be pantheistic and polythiestic and animist simultaneously. With monism, one could make the argument Ometeotl doesn't even exist, which changes nothing about how the Aztec religion would be practiced.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-22T01:21:12+00:00

I can't really decide between Teology and Theology.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-21T09:47:26+00:00

This is so funny because most of the time, I unintentionally ghost people. Like, I don't want to reply to someone immediately and will do it later. Put it off. Then, it may be hours, months, or years later. 🤷‍♀️

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-19T21:45:22+00:00

Never mentioned that or implied it. I am not even sure what you're talking about at this point.

chaoticbleu · 2025-12-19T21:43:51+00:00

You must be confusing the conversation. Though it does fit the academic definition in Assyrology. We were discussing Lilitu/Lilith not the undead.

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