For years, my friends would get a ride from my one friend’s grandpa over to my place to play various tabletop games–four to six teenage boys and me, a teenage girl. We learned once we were in college that he thought all that time that they were all coming over to rail me. For years. And he just happily drove them all over.
"My, that girl sure has a strong constitution! "
We did play all night.
and then you started doing the satanism, right
The Venn diagram of people that think this, and also buy books about compete BS Bible numerology are a circle.
What’s the square root of vicious mockery?
Technically, the occult is math, too. The word “occult” just means “hidden,” and that’s how we do things in the occident, where we have engineered our culture to control those people who cannot think for themselves whilst simultaneously guiding those waking up into the truth of the topological matrix we are not IN but rather ARE.
But that’s not Satanism, though Satanism COULD be one of the portals out of the police state default culture; I’m just not familiar with that particular portal. I learned from Jebus and the Boobha, whomever those guys are, but one’s words are shaved down for the above purpose and can be understood with an eighth grade reading level, while the other has these things called sutras which manifested from many enlightened beings sharing their wisdom, sometimes in ten thousand pages, sometimes in poems. Y’know, what I and other occult leaders do in our own mysticism schools.
As soon as she leaves:
“Ugh! FINALLY!!! I thought she would never leave…Ok, pass me the blood of the innocent.”
Finally, you can play your records in reverse to hear the sermon of the devil
“Congratulations, you have discovered the secret message, please send your answer to ol’ Pink, care of, the funny farm.”
“Let me do a check to see if I give you the right blood… Nope, not with a 5. Here’s your blood orange juice.”
I can work with this. I summoned a dank pneumonia one time I was doing a ritual with gasoline in the snow. I’ll just boof the blood orange juice and I guarantee whatever monster or dragon or giant cube of slime I’m fighting will be running for the hills after that!
Satan: ”Ok, so you mispronounced beelzebub which would normally give you -2 on the summoning check. However, your virgin blood counts as a superior sacrifice material so it all cancels out. Now, lemme get my dice…”
I saw a comic recently where the evil cultist tried to sacrifice his virgin friend to gain power/favor from a demon. Only, whoops! The friend had lied about being a virgin, and the cultist was one. Cultist learned just what the hard way is on that one.
I mean it is just nerd talking with math rocks
Don’t forget us failed theater kids!
Yeah, they said nerd talking
Aren’t theater-geeks geeks and math-nerds nerds?
You can totally be a theatre nerd or a math geek
Or even a dork.
Fuckin love a dork
Oh, I think you’re right. It took me a second for some reason, but yeah, you can nerd out academically about theater, and geek out as a fanboy/fangirl about math
I got into D&D in the late '80s. My super-christian grandma even tried to play. My dad’s church thought I was going straight to hell, though.
It’s mildly interesting that this claim originated during a time (~ late 70s and 80s) when such claims also originated about rock and metal music. Both D&D and those were somewhat new (or at least newly popular) during that time.
In a way it was the analog equivalent of modern FUD and misinformation spreading on social media. Maybe even disinformation, but probably just misinformation and FUD.
It was very much disinformation. The whole satanic panic bullshit was based on far right propaganda.
I can’t find any corroboration of that, can you say more? The D&D thing specifically was started by someone whose son committed suicide and she attributed his death to D&D.
In addition to what the other poster responded, the “satanic panic” was fanned to divert attention away from very real pedophile rings. Just like pizzagate was started to deal with leaks of the epstein/trump ring.
The right wing of america and the various christian cultural movements/monoliths have been allies since roughly the reagan campaign. The power of that alliance is a large part of the republican’s base/power. The politicians on the right have a great deal of push on them to parrot christian talking points, like the satanic panic of various flavors that was pushed about music and activities like D&D.
So while the d&d being evil may not have started as right wing propaganda, it quickly became so due to the way the cultural onus of christianity pushed politicians into acting. You can see the same thing with ‘christian’ values around political fighting with abortion, teenage pregnancy / sex education, israel (though that one is obviously much more complicated than just ‘church leaders fetishes -> politicians’ stances), ‘morality’ based laws around prostitution and gambling, etc.
That doesn’t sound like a disinformation campaign though.
Your view of whether it is disinformation depends on whether you believe church leaders and politicians had sincere beliefs about it, so, obviously, that’s going to be pretty personal to you. I have met several federal level politicians and ‘influential’ church leaders and gotten to know them well enough that I can say they push lies with intent, so I’d be confident in stating that the various flavors of satanic panic weren’t entirely organic and honest.
To be fair, this was likely a reverse problem of today: not enough social media or freely flowing info via the internet.
People who did not know assumed much from manual covers.
We thought the Internet would be our salvation… wow were we wrong.
Funny side story: we also though that technology, particularly AI, would save us - again, swing and a miss (tbf, LLMs != AI, so we still don’t truly know, though we’ve lost hope for it anyway since even if they did exist they would be controlled by the elites not applied to the good of of all humanity).
My husband’s parents bought into the satanic panic fully, apparently. He pretended to be making model airplanes instead of playing with the guys.
My parents played ad&d together in college so. There was a difference lol.
Ad&d has reelly shitty fone service.
And then the moment she was gone the spreadsheets went away and the goat skulls came out.
Im onto you
Be gay, do… Math?
