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"The Satanic Temple leader & cargo cult messiah"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldw0xflMrAk

This video essay by researcher veritas et caritas has been edited and re-uploaded.

> The year is 2014, and Cevin Soling, also known by his pseudonym Malcolm Jarry, one of the leaders of The Satanic Temple in the US, is visiting the tiny Pacific island of Tanna, part of the nation of Vanuatu. According to Soling, “Apparently there was a prophecy I would come”. This video tells the strange story of how Cevin Soling arrived in Vanuatu, convinced that he was the messiah of a cargo cult.

#TheSatanicTemple #SatanicTemple #TST #Satanism #CevinSoling #cargoCults #Vanuatu #cults #videoEssay #VeritasEtCaritas

The Satanic Temple leader & cargo cult messiah

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Xenofact Mar 1

Cultural Cargo Cults Ethics and Taoism

https://www.xenofact.com/2026/03/01/cultural-cargo-cults-ethics-and-taoism/

Cultural Cargo Cults Ethics and Taoism – Xenofact.com

Connect Paranormal Dec 29

Cargo cults are Melanesian religious movements that emerged in response to colonial encounters, particularly during World War II, characterized by rituals aimed at summoning material wealth (“cargo”) believed to be from ancestors or gods. #cargocults https://connectparanormal.net/2025/12/28/cargo-cults-religion-colonialism-and-the-quest-for-material-wealth/

Cargo Cults: Religion, Colonialism, and the Quest for Material Wealth

Explore the fascinating world of cargo cults and their impact on religion and colonialism in Melanesia after World War II.

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doboprobodyne Nov 7

@kelvin0mql
Lord Kelvin, if you find - in the popular imagination - such deviations from reality to be distracting, I fear you shall become so devoted to trying to explain to people that they are living in Plato's cave, that by the end of your life you shall have good units of measure that well represent reality named after you.

Heuristic shortcuts are EVERYWHERE. Most heartbreaking (to me) is when someone is imprisoned or excommunicated or killed because they used reality (or its closest proxy) as their benchmark, and their judges (&/or police) did not. An almost-literal witch-hunt.

#thereIsNoBoxYouInventedTheBox #platosCave #francisBacon #reality #cargoCults #witchHunt #politics #justice #science #hollywood #memes #memetics #thought #policing #police #whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo

Queer Satanic Oct 7, 2023

#CevinSoling is a weird dude, and it's weird that more people in #TheSatanicTemple don't care about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpiswunQh40

Good video on "Mr. Cevin and the Cargo Cult" and the background behind it.

#MalcolmJarry #CargoCults #Cults #Vanuatu #MrCevinAndTheCargoCult #WhiteSaviorism

The Satanic Temple leader & cargo cult messiah

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Matt Hodgkinson Jul 27, 2023

"The primary advantage of LLMs (their output can be copied and used without modification) also makes them poor tools for effective learning. They create cargo cults from their training materials."
https://jlericson.com/2023/07/26/not_understanding.html
#LLMs #ChatBots #CargoCults

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