- me, some clueless imbecile who doesn't know squat about the discourse but feels the need to interject anyway: ding ding ding, and there we have it ladies and gentlemen. bingo. take a good look boys and girls
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Anonymous asked:
my friend has been getting into some book called the sofia code with her friend, and it feels like some weird christian cult. do you know anything about it?
cryptotheism answered:
I wouldn’t call this a cult but this is definitely wooy bullshit.
*cracks knuckles* I did a read through of the Sophia dragon code for some friends and the actual content is worse.
Kaia Ra or whoever opens the book with satanic conspiracy theory, claims that if you want to practice kabbalah/indigenous ritual/etc it's because you were jewish/indigenous in a past life and you're entitled to it, and that Racism Is Over and Healing has to happen now. It has everything; Atlantis and lemuria, chakras, 'quantum' everything, appropriation of Buddhist concepts, yoga- it's like if you simmered new-age bullshit into super-bullshit with a veneer of Instagram marketability over it.
And to make matters worse the woman herself got her start performing reiki on the elderly so that she could convince them to sign over their properties on her death bed.
As you can read here:
so like what’s the dragon tribe part of the book
Oh naturally it's a tribe of quantum higher vibrational dragons who are trying to help humanity ascend by opening their heart-womb chakras. Not making that last bit up, the ultimate goal is to ascend to also being one I think?
It's uh. bad. it's bad and not good.
i ended up googling how many billionaires there are because of this whole fiasco and there are almost three tHOUSAND billionaires. that is what... trillions of dollars being horded. trillions of dollars that could feed people, house people, educate people. trillions of dollars that could be used to make sanctuaries, protect land and animals, make entire swaths of the world just places where the planet can breathe.
two thousand, seven hundred people. that's just... a particularly dense neighborhood. owning enough wealth to save the world and instead spend on killing it and sometimes killing themselves.
that's what people who go "aw, they're still human beings, aren't they?" don't get. to me, this sounds like fucking space invaders who landed on the planet and just stole the entire food supply. that's not a fellow human being, that is a roadblock to fucking survival. that's my enemy and, yes, i cheer when my enemy dies sometimes.
Think I'm Done
The new faux-twit layout is small potatoes in the history of aggravations on this site, but the fake insta pornbot strip and the lack of URLs on dash, and the plans to neuter the entire fucking point of reblog chains on tumblr? Just, blet, fuck it, this is a waste of precious life. I had to make a blacklist of terfs and nazis ten thousand deep and still be adding shit to it all the time. I'm tired.
What do you think?
Question from our recent AMA
Q: If you're willing to share, are there harms to you all personally that aren't getting much air time - eg psychologically, interpersonally - that you would like us to know about? How has this experience affected your orientation to the satanic community in general?
These are some excellent questions and I really want to thank you for asking them. I can only speak for myself (defendant Sullivan).
As a founding member of TST-WA (late 2014) and someone who was directly responsible for interviewing dozens of people as members, looking for both community and activism in the late capitalist hellworld we have now, I've been dealing simultaneously with both a huge sense of betrayal from the org itself, but also an amount of shame/guilt for not having picked up on enough of the warning signs as to realize that this was an institution that was actively hostile to being fixed, while continuing to welcome those people anyway. And even though I personally was not responsible for the immediate harm or other toxicity, I still put them in the place where it was there. A lot of my motivation in this suit is to make up for that and keep it from happening elsewhere.
A lot of why I stayed a member for so long was based on the idea that "well Lucien sucks but surely we can make our chapter different and better!" which is, in hindsight, an incredibly easy attitude to exploit because it's so individualistic and thus myopic. To quote Bojack Horseman, "When you're wearing rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
I don't know if it's an inextricable feature of Satanism - there are explicitly leftist orgs like The Luciferian Dominion and Order of the Raven, etc - but I do know that that tradition of "hail thyself" is absolutely ripe for conditioning people into accidentally isolating themselves as prey for grifters, and it seems especially apparent in environments that give credence to either LaVey or to "Enlightenment values" without talking about the systems and peoples that those ideologies are built at the expense of.
It's made me a lot more cautious regarding alternative religions in general, especially because I personally informed so many peoples' first impressions of what we would like that to be, in contrast with the suffering we've actually been through. It's just a mess, and for me there's a constant tension between "I need to do better" and "my life is in danger and I need to survive this now."
It's incredibly disorienting some days, running on fight-or-flight mode in an arena that most of the world simply doesn't know exists and rightly has other things to deal with, for many more people.
-Azazel