I mean, this would be more convincing if it was some sort of a symbol they used in extremely private conversations that they didn't expect to be leaked. The fact that it's used for a public thing, especially something that'd be so ironic, means that it's a coincidence. Nobody would be stupid enough to publicise that sort of shit if they were actually doing it. You don't incriminate yourself for no reason.
Most of them believe that Buddha went to outer space, met angels called devas and received secret knowledge from said 'angels'.
Uh... Not a single Buddhist I've ever met, and I've met plenty recently, believes that. Most do not believe anything supernatural at all. And I'm talking about practicing Buddhist monks, one of which has been a Buddhist monk for 20 years and yet still calls himself an atheist (in terms of belief in a deity).
The DEFINITION of a Buddha (not only one Buddha, ours is the last one, Siddhartha Gautama) is one who reaches enlightenment and then proceeds to enlighten civilisation, usually referring to his teachings of meditation. The attitude of most Buddhists I've met, including the monks, has been "just meditate and you'll see the changes yourself" and surely enough, meditation really does seem to lead to a specific set of morals because of the (entirely natural and mundane, yet profound) experiences that it produces, a set of morals that aligns pretty well with Christian morality that founded the western world as well.
I have not been conditioned into believing that biblical stories are ridiculous to believe in. I know some buddhists who believe in some supernatural things, and I personally find it ridiculous as well. Islam is far more ridiculous than Christianity in its mythological stories that it expects people to genuinely believe in. People's skin turning into bronze and their blood turning into molten metal in hell, djinni, Mohammed's bipolar and arbitrary rulings, etc.
None of the other religions did anything for me - nor have they ever shown to be anything but outdated rulesets that made life easier in those times. The only major religion that seems compatible with the modern world is Buddhism, and it's the only religion that seems to actually advocate for self-improvement, and has reformation built-in from the beginning.
Jordan Peterson's analyses of Biblical stories have shown me that the Christian origins of western society have plenty of value. I believe in Christian morality, but as a religion (instead of a selection of very important mythological stories that formed western societies) it seems blatantly ridiculous to actually believe in.
Meanwhile, Buddhist teachings have managed to help me get my shit together in a matter of months and Buddhist monks I've gotten to know have been some of the most amazing people I've ever spoken to.
That sort of bullshit is why I believe that you're hitting the nerve when it comes to SOMETHING. They wouldn't be banning you guys if you weren't right on something very important. I'm just not sure what's the main thing you're right about.
How is that "hot topic" when I really believed that Satan existed and did rituals (involving prayer and meditation and offering food). I thought hot topic would refer to those people that claim to be satanists but are just atheists.
Google Joy of Satan, you'll see what I'm referring to. Also they're extremely antisemitic which some people on the site would like, lol.
I'm not sure how you categorise them. I was a spiritual satanist who believed that Satan existed and was the being that gave intellect and free will to humans. I answered how I ended up believing in it in this reply:
Because Satan is pretty much a name? It's not some deep meaning, it's just basic grammar. Like capitalising God when referring to the God of the Bible because.
And I don't know what a tumblr satanist is, but a girl I was great friends with (we were both metalheads) found a Satanist site called Joy of Satan and linked it to me because she found it interesting and funny. She didn't expect me to voraciously read every single page on the site and to end up actually getting convinced by it. The main obstacle is that I was raised Orthodox Christian (I was more religious than my entire family as a child, because it wasn't forced on me - I made my family go to Church with me because I thought it was nice). But the site exposed all the contradictions and logical errors in the Bible (basically, the classic evidence that atheists point to) that, eventually, lead me to believe that it wasn't real. Which I still believe - I just also believe that the Satanism isn't real either. If I belong to any religion now, then it'd be Buddhism, since meditation helped me a lot.
Yeah, that's beyond creepy. Though it makes me think more "I'm trying to be an edgy misunderstood artist" than "I sacrifice children". But at least I can understand people thinking that they sacrifice children from that fucking picture.
It seems like it's supposed to be some sort of a Biblical scene. The first thing that it reminded me of was this statue: https://previews.123rf.com/images/jgroup/jgroup1209/jgroup120900063/15440326-statue-of-mary-holding-the-body-of-jesus-by-michael-angelo.jpg
Some of the stuff people are talking about in this thread is nuts. Come on, guys, don't go off the deep end.
Sacrificial killing of a child...? That is obviously supposed to be some sort of a Biblical scene. The first thing that it reminded me of was this statue: https://previews.123rf.com/images/jgroup/jgroup1209/jgroup120900063/15440326-statue-of-mary-holding-the-body-of-jesus-by-michael-angelo.jpg
With this one, it's pretty obvious that you're seeing what you want to see. There's nothing wrong with that picture aside from looking a bit creepy, mostly due to their facial expressions.
Q predicted everything that has happened up to this point.
That's not very difficult when you've got thousands of posts that are basically horoscope tier of vagueness, and when you have people willing to add random numbers together and present it as "proof".
Can confirm, the last big purge of Qanon people lead me to finding this place. They wouldn't be purging you if you weren't right about something.