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[–]our_team_is_winning 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I knew people that wanted to summon demons, people that did blood letting rituals. Like what the hell.

You know, I saw the post about the app that "monitors" posts that offend TRA and they're calling it "Shinigami eyes" -- that's a Japanese death demon, literally that's what "shi" (death) and "kami" (god) together mean. I don't expect these anime-obsessed TRA to know anything about the history of Shinto outside of how it's used in anime, but there's that strange connection between TRA and demons again.

I wonder how widespread the connection is, or if it's no more common among TRA than it is among confused youth in general?

[–]BiologyIsReal 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Shinigami eyes" is a reference to the manga and anime Death Note, which is not related with trans issues at all. In the anime, the main character uses a shinigami's death note to kill criminals by writing down their actual names into it (a pseudonym won't do it). Certain characters gain shinigami's eyes because these eyes allow them to see people's actual names.

[–]absoluteblasphemy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They really called it that, of course they did. Now I’m not suggesting that all trans identified people are as bad as the particular crowd I fell into but there does seem to be running occult themes.

Like if I had a penny for every satanist trans catgirl I’ve seen on Reddit, I’d have a whole lot of pennies. I don’t know if people understand that we’re tapping into something very primal when we use occult symbolism and ritual like this. We’re not living in times where we understand it well.

And when I’m thinking about it how far away is SRS and the mythology surrounding the idea you can change sex from other ritual practices we’ve seen in humanity? Castration comes to mind.

I don’t have any good answers but I think the religiosity of the trans movement is something that is very clear even without stories like mine.

[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So glad you got out. I hope you share more about your experiences in/with the trans cultists. The world needs to know.