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Bohemian Grove people «worship» an owl.
I am entirely open to the idea that, as in the past with Freemasonry, there exist powerful conspiracies driven or unified by unorthodox metaphysical beliefs, including Satanism and the Cult of Saturn, rather than regular self-interest of concentrated power and information asymmetry.
I've yet to see good evidence of it. In any case, calling people Canaanite cultists because they're celebrating a statue is the peak of unfelpful peasant-with-a-pitchfork attitude. We have creepy sacrificial effigies at home.
I liked seeing Butter Lady burn when I was little. Doesn't make me a spiritual descendant of Carthaginians.
The point is they’re not physically gathering around a symbol of society losing all the mutually-observed bits of politeness and turn-taking which kept us from all-out culture war. The conflation I pointed out does nothing to serve the conversation.
Oh for sure, pointing to our/rationalist use of Moloch is either a joke or a bad faith deflection.
I am comparing the tweet hashtagged Moloch with the rationalist use with full sincerity.
My priors for Volkova being an edgelord is much more numerous than anything insidious.
"Rationalist" repurposing of occultist terminology might sound edgy, but it is massive own goal.
When normie, even secular educated normie who might be interested in rationalist ideas, hears "moloch" "egregore" etc... he imagines in his mind weirdos dancing naked around black altars with pentagrams and goat heads, and tunes out. Just make new words for new concepts, it is not hard.
There is a reason why Dawkins called his new idea "meme", not "demon possession".
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I found out recently that my great grandmother was deep into the Eastern Star cult/lodge/social club. Named role in some of the rituals, of which there were a variety.
Now I’m seeing its symbology on bumper stickers. They’re coming for me next.
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Also worth noting that there is no real historical basis for connecting 'Moloch' with an owl. In fact it's a question whether there ever was a deity called Moloch. One line of thinking is that in the Hebrew Bible, 'moloch' actually refers to the process of human sacrifice, rather than the recipient (of which there were many, including Yahweh himself).
Ah, so they’re really just way too into jinchuuriki?
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