D&D General D&D made the 2022 Doorway to Demonic Possession list!

[Jer]

There is antisemitism.

Kabbalah or is there a dog-whistle in the rest of the mix that I'm unfamiliar with?

(I missed Kabbalah on the first pass through - but yeah, there's at least one).

 

[Mannahnin]

Also... trilateralism? Does that word have some alternative meaning I'm too old/young to understand?

This is a conspiracy theory dating back to the 1970s, about the Trilateral Commission being an evil world dominating organization, and yes, much of the fearmongering is anti-semitic anti-globalism stuff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/04/25/beware-the-trilateral-commission/59c48198-9479-4c80-a70a-a1518b5bcfff/

BEWARE THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION!


By David Mills
April 25, 1992
Behind closed doors (of course), they are meeting this weekend in Lisbon. Some call them "the shadow government," "the Establishment," the "global elite" that runs the world.
They call themselves simply ... the Trilateral Commission. (Chills run up spine.)
Depending on which conspiracy theory you subscribe to -- and the Trilateral Commission has found its way into many -- this 19-year-old organization is anti-American, anti-democratic, anti-Christian or anti-worker, and is scheming ultimately to abolish the sovereignty of nations and establish one world government!

According to Lyndon LaRouche, fringe political candidate and convicted tax cheat, the Trilateral Commission is behind the international drug trade. A writer affiliated with the far-right Liberty Lobby says the commission is forever plotting to raise taxes on Americans, siphoning the money overseas. Evangelist Pat Robertson believes it is somehow linked to Freemasonry and the occult, that it springs "from the depth of something that is evil."
...

Trilateral Commission - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I wish there was an evil organisation running the world. Couldn't do a worse job than the idiots who are actually in charge.

 

[Mannahnin]

I wish there was an evil organisation running the world. Couldn't do a worse job than the idiots who are actually in charge.

Alan Moore:

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.

The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.

The world is rudderless.”​

 

[Yaarel]

Heh, I dont believe in conspiracy theories because people tend to be less than competent enough to pull one off. And the more people involved, the less likely it is to succeed.

 

[Oofta]

Heh, I dont believe in conspiracy theories because people tend to be less than competent enough to pull one off. And the more people involved, the less likely it is to succeed.

That's exactly what they want you to think!

 

[David Howery]

Confirming my oft-stated theory that Zoom meetings are a tool of the devil.

Unless they meant something else…?

my first thoughts on reading that was something along the lines of spying on people with cameras or something. Which isn't nice, but hardly a biggie on the path to demonic possession...

 

[Jer]

my first thoughts on reading that was something along the lines of spying on people with cameras or something. Which isn't nice, but hardly a biggie on the path to demonic possession...

Naw - "remote viewing" is the fancy parapsychology way of referring to clairvoyance when you want to sound like you're investigating something scientific/worthy of military investment instead of magic.

 

[Jacob Lewis]

I thought things were looking up for D&D, and then this happens! I never thought I'd see the day...

when D&D shared a list with the Twilight movies.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It really does feel like they haven't really gotten with the times (which with this sort of list, feels like an ironic thing to say). I would expect something like "Vaping" or "NFTs" to have made it on a more modern list.

Twilight, Harry Potter and 'comix'.

These people are on the cutting edge of 2010.

Edit: Just the Twilight films though. The books are fine.