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Re:It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic by michaelmrose on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:28PM (#26686439)
With no successful prosecution I find such claims difficult to swallow. Trying to draw connections to such conspiracy theory favorites as MKULTRA, the CIA, Epstein, etc isn't persuasive either. The best lies are built around a kernel of truth. A psychology study that presumed it happened also doesn't serve to answer the question did it happen in the first place.

ISSTD appears to promote a wide variety of crazziness including government mind control and the illuminati.

Feel free to provide a persuasive source that it did in fact happen that doesn't also believe in the Easter Bunny.

Re:It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic by AndrewBissell on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:56AM (#26686996)
> With no successful prosecution I find such claims difficult to swallow.

lol ok then

> Trying to draw connections to such conspiracy theory favorites as MKULTRA, the CIA, Epstein, etc isn't persuasive either.

I'm not "trying," the connections are there. The FMSF was a key player in getting the media to adopt a standard line from the early 1990s onward that any allegations of organized child abuse must be false and concocted. And cases like Epstein's are relevant to a thread about child abuse and questions around whether it is real and whether we can rely on "successful prosecutions" to confirm or deny it.

> ISSTD appears to promote a wide variety of crazziness including government mind control and the illuminati.

I searched in vain for a reference to Illuminati on the ISSTD website, do you have a link?

> ... that doesn't also believe in the Easter Bunny.

Ah yes, the old "all conspiracy theories are the same as Flat Earth" trope.

Re:It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic by michaelmrose on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:48AM (#26687189)
ISSTD promotes LOTS of interesting viewpoints at their events.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/infernal/2018/01/greaves-grey-...

>Aveni, a Christian psychotherapist who professes a belief in demonic possession, is the current chair of the ISSTD’s “Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Special Interest Group,” where the remaining paranoiacs from the Satanic Panic fringe still exchange lurid supernatural horror stories pieced together primarily from the “recovered memories” of those alleged to hold multiple personalities.

Unfortunately this is verifiable.

Hard to take seriously people who give talks with titles like

" “Working Through the Traumatic Memories of Mind-Controlled Clients,"

In short they are incompetent crazy people promoting theories that are nearly as crazy as the idea that lizard people secretly run the world and cherry picking the least crazy nuggets from their detritus is about as mentally healthy as it would be physically healthy to live on the undigested nuts found in the feces of monkeys.

In theory if you carefully wash them you may survive but there is more nourishing food.

Re:It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic by AndrewBissell on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:55AM (#26687457)
Haha, a link to a Grey Faction post by Lucien Greaves. "For infernal use only" indeed.
Re:It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic by michaelmrose on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:16AM (#26687762)
Your folks posits that organized satanic groups are practicing mass pedophilia and mind control. The only reason it's hard to find say a source like CNN denouncing them is that they are so far outside the mainstream radar that nobody is discussing them.
Re:It's Time to Revisit the Satanic Panic by michaelmrose on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:24AM (#26687797)
For a pretty good laugh read

Organized Abuser Groups’ Use of Supernatural Powers to Intimidate Victims

https://news.isst-d.org/organized-abuser-groups-use-of-super...

This is just not real. It's on the same level as qanon.