I have a pretty interesting spectrum of FB friends... the conservative older American Christians are currently discussing the Satanic dangers of Enneagrams.
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To me it just sounds like another moral panic about the latest passing fad.
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Replying to @josh_m @aaronzlewis
or someone not noticing that they're being charged by a bull because they're so full of anxiety that the patch of dead flowers nearby might give them cancer in twenty years
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Like; this is literally the same day that Trump posts his “I’m basically King David and the Messiah” tweets, and they’re worried about... a personality test?
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a slightly occulty personality test, sure, on about the level of a ouija board someone made a big chart once of all the different versions of the enneagram that show up, it's like dozens of people were writing about it and each just assigned the points however they felt like
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I wonder why they’re fixated on “satanic” things like this, which are… games. To me the “satanic” is very much more the Moloch concept or the Girardian accuser. Wind the overly literal interpretation of a personal Satan back to being metaphor.
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Replying to @josh_m @aaronzlewis
those are good Satans for an unbeliever, but for them Satan is just whatever's of this world rather than of God, which is to say anything that acts to limit or compromise their egregore's stable access to compute resources
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which, y'know, the enneagram and Taylor Swift both technically qualify under, so i mean, they're not wrong, just doomed
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my parents’ fundamentalist Christian friends told me that roleplaying games like Avalon are satanic i think the leaky boundary between role-playing games and “reality” make them wary. where i see LARPing, they see a training ground for getting better at deception and lying IRL
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Replying to @aaronzlewis @josh_m
i went to a Lutheran high school for a year; there was a religion course for each year, and the senior year's course was World Religions, which naturally was all about why everybody else is wrong. i got my hands on it at some point and found the article on D&D
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it wasn't about how D&D is bad for reasons like you're talking about, or anything else you'd expect, really. it was about how D&D is bad because the Monster Manual and whatnot contains the names of various demons and you shouldn't say them because they might show up
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Replying to @chaosprime @aaronzlewis
It wasn’t a huge deal in my world bc it was quite a few years after the craze in the US and no one actually played D&D anyway that I knew. The warnings were a vague “you’re opening yourself up to demonic influences.”
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Replying to @josh_m @aaronzlewis
*nodnod* which is true, and also something you're doing any time you read a book that isn't the Bible
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