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Author Topic: Sword Dream: Leftist OSR  (Read 39797 times)

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Re: Sword Dream: Leftist OSR
« Reply #300 on: February 13, 2021, 07:29:43 PM »
Leftist OSR? Why thou. There are seriously hardcore problematic subjects in this world people could devote their time if they cared. For example, work camps. They still exist, people still die there. SociaL warriors(kek, that name) dont care enough to make a concentrated push. Or to do anything really. Well, im awaiting the next hot topic that will inevitably arise once polluting the rpgs is no longer hip. The soon the.. better?

If you get rid of the sweat shops, iPhones and vegan shoes will skyrocket in cost. That would be really annoying for millennials working at Starbucks.
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Re: Sword Dream: Leftist OSR
« Reply #301 on: June 01, 2021, 07:37:43 PM »
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I believe what we’re seeing with Woke-ism is a secular cult, and others have pointed it out. It has some similarities to communism in being a secular cult, but in other ways it has done a better job of sneaking up on society before many of us realized what is going on with Woke-ism.

The Cult of Woke is a religion because they have a shared coherent conception of what is sacred and what is profane. Belief in the supernatural is not a prerequisite for a religion. The purpose is to make subjective, not objective, sense of reality and provide a map of how to get from the unbearable present to the desired future, i.e. it is not logical in the scientific sense. The Cult is anti-Christian, not anti-religion.

I would argue that the Cult of Woke and Satanism are one and the same thing, since both repudiate and invert cultural norms, which is to say that all references to Satanism or demons in Christianity are wholly applicable. Because the Cult is not predicated on logic, using logic against it accomplishes nothing; its members are not perturbed by failures in their logic, and mocking them for such is useless and shows a failure to understand what one is dealing with. All instructions within Christianity (or any religion that confronts evil) for dealing with evil are effective against it.

Satanism, defined simply as rebellion against the will of God, which is a culture’s consensus regarding right and wrong, is a phenomenon that occurs in all cultures. When combined with occult practices (e.g. goddess worship), Satanism can be called witchcraft in the anthropological sense of the word.

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Ea [Sumerian Enki] might therefore be reasonably regarded as representative of that part of humanity eternally (and ignorantly) contemptuous of tradition and willing to undermine or destroy the past without understanding its necessity or nature. Those "unconsciously" protected from the outside world by the walls of culture may become irritated by the limitations such walls represent, and incautiously pull them down. This act of destruction, disguised as a blow for freedom, lets the terrible unknown flood back in. The Great Mother [Tiamat] is a terrible force, in the absence of patriarchal protection. The Enuma elish makes this vital point, implicitly... (Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning, pp. 116-117)

In The Witch (2015), at the end, after the family falls apart and is destroyed, the daughter goes into the woods and joins a coven of witches and she laughs as she discovers that she can fly. This is symbolic of group neurosis (witch hunts, Satanic Panic, pandemic hysteria, et. al.) degenerating into group psychosis, and it is also a very good mythological representation of the Cult of Woke and how it attacks and deludes young women. Such mythological imagery is more efficient and comprehensive in the transmission of ideas, especially those which have not yet been consciously apprehended by the culture.

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” -African Proverb

Perhaps the laziest, mainstream, rebellion for its own sake kind of Satanism... but not LaVeyan Satanism.  If you actually read The Satanic Bible and similar texts on Satanism, it's more like Jordan Peterson + Trump + Gene Simmons.  Common sense conservatism, love of capitalism and money, and preference for deep, primal, symbolic, and esoteric thinking.

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