Satanic Panic: SAPS Edition

STS said:
i can relate too, when i grew off of christianity, i wasn't a complete atheist yet, so i still tried paganism and buddhism, people sometimes forget that it takes a while to get all of the propaganda out of your head. anyway i was bullied, i had virtually no friends, my mother's guilt trips made me extremely anti-social and my only enjoyment was video games and porn.

i guess these things are good to experience tho, i still think of my parents as naive as there is a lot they do not know and that i haven't told them despite them loving me, and i feel like i'll b a better prepared dad for whatever my son is going to experience
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I did mine arse about face. I tried everything else and ended with Christianity. In the end I'm kind of unique because I wasn't hurt by Christians and I don't hate them or the church. If fact I think they fulfil a needed role in providing community where there is a lack of anything else.
 
Madman88 said:
I did mine arse about face. I tried everything else and ended with Christianity. In the end I'm kind of unique because I wasn't hurt by Christians and I don't hate them or the church. If fact I think they fulfil a needed role in providing community where there is a lack of anything else.
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by propaganda i meant that satan was hiding behind every corner :) i still see christianity as a beautiful belief if it's not abused
 
I decided at 13 that I didn't believe in a higher power, besides the RI teachers I had no issues with my parents who were like well he's relatively normal so leave it and the teachers didn't bug me over it either. Even if they did I wouldn't have given much of a difference either I told the RI teachers you have your belief I have my lack thereof, I am forced into this class so lets just live with it. The two I had in high school which was the hippy were generally okay with it, besides as I stated the hippy sending me out of her class sometimes due to my inability to shut up when I felt she was wrong.
 
@ Lycantrope & STS: Did you guys go to English schools?

My wife and I agreed to put our kids in English schools one day, to try and avoid indoctrination, but now i`m not so sure.
 
evilstebunny said:
Remembering the days of hidden satanic messages when songs were played in reverse ..
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Haha, and pulling out the tape innards and draping it over trees, then watching people get hissy fits about it.

If my aunt saw tape spread along the road she would stop the car and start to pray to "break satan's grip on this road." Good times.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
Yikes, quite a story. :(

Glad you came out okay, though.
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What makes you think I came out okay? :D

Any chance you could expand a bit on your experience with Wicca/Paganism?
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Oh, just the usual emo teenage nonsense: danced under the moon, burned candles, memorised the Rede, cast spells, the usual, did some silly rituals with a coven in Cape Town. All quite embarrassing to think back on now :)

STS said:
i can relate too, when i grew off of christianity, i wasn't a complete atheist yet, so i still tried paganism and buddhism, people sometimes forget that it takes a while to get all of the propaganda out of your head. anyway i was bullied, i had virtually no friends, my mother's guilt trips made me extremely anti-social and my only enjoyment was video games and porn.

i guess these things are good to experience tho, i still think of my parents as naive as there is a lot they do not know and that i haven't told them despite them loving me, and i feel like i'll b a better prepared dad for whatever my son is going to experience
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Yep, when I finally weaned myself off of Paganism, I ended up becoming incredibly scared of dying. You know, you're conditioned to believe in an afterlife since the moment you're born so you never doubt that such a thing exists, until you face that reality and come to terms with it. Then comes the anxiety disorder :D

I like to romanticise about an afterlife still, but I don't believe in one. I certainly hope one exists though, but the idea makes no sense to my mind any longer.

Personally, I have no intention of being a father. I don't mind being a doting uncle who can spoil his nieces and nephews... But I'll never be a father. I just don't think I can deal with that at any stage of my life.

The thing is, people don't seem to understand what kind of actual harm this kind of bull**** propaganda does to vulnerable children, teenagers and people.

And the people you expect to protect vulnerable children and teenagers from this sort of nonsense... don't :)
 
Jabberwocky said:
@ Lycantrope & STS: Did you guys go to English schools?

My wife and I agreed to put our kids in English schools one day, to try and avoid indoctrination, but now i`m not so sure.
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Well, it was a bilingual school but it the school was primarily Afrikaans. But I'm English-speaking with Afrikaans parents (go fig).

I suspect therein lay the problem... Small Afrikaans communities can be more superstitious than indigenous tribes in the Amazon...
 
Lycanthrope said:
What makes you think I came out okay? :D
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...:erm: :p

Lycanthrope said:
Oh, just the usual emo teenage nonsense: danced under the moon, burned candles, memorised the Rede, cast spells, the usual, did some silly rituals with a coven in Cape Town. All quite embarrassing to think back on now :)
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That's hilarious. I've never had any personal experience with these things. But I don't know how I'd stop myself from laughing. Guess they also prey on the vulnerable. :p
 
Zewp said:
He's still ten times the man you'll ever be. ;)
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OrbitalDawn said:
...:erm: :p
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:D I'm alive, but I'll be the first to point out that I have issues. Mostly just involving feeling sorry for myself, so nothing too serious :)

That's hilarious. I've never had any personal experience with these things. But I don't know how I'd stop myself from laughing. Guess they also prey on the vulnerable. :p
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I think some part of me really just never believed. I wanted to, badly. But I didn't. I think to some extent it was "fun" being different. Mostly because they (the kids at school) didn't understand it and really just believed I was a Satanist, so they left me alone.

Which, frankly, was all I really wanted (to be left alone at school).

Zewp said:
He's still ten times the man you'll ever be. ;)
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Hey, hands off. I :love: Alan!
 
Lycanthrope said:
:D I'm alive, but I'll be the first to point out that I have issues. Mostly just involving feeling sorry for myself, so nothing too serious :)
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Yeah, I think everyone does. :)

Really sad how people can either misunderstand or pour fuel on these problems, though. :(

Lycanthrope said:
I think some part of me really just never believed. I wanted to, badly. But I didn't. I think to some extent it was "fun" being different. Mostly because they (the kids at school) didn't understand it and really just believed I was a Satanist, so they left me alone.

Which, frankly, was all I really wanted (to be left alone at school).
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Same as any subgroup, really. People trying to fit in somewhere. At the same time, lots of kids just want to be left alone, but then that's misconstrued as a sign that something's wrong, or that Satan's got you. :p
 
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