I am actually really glad the clergy shows in the actions they take this very seriously and do their best in order to bring the Temple of Zeus to the whole world. Which is why I will just raise some observations, so everyone sees why this is necessary and where this actually leads. The way I see it is just one of the steps to fully eradicate those basement dwelling narratives and make ToZ open to the whole world.
It appears the clergy have set-up the proper plan for all this transition. I have full trust that this community will grow even further and turn into a major religion. I will also mention this as this is definitely inevitable. No matter how much clean-up is going to be done here, the shadows of the past will always be weaponized against the Temple of Zeus who will be motivated to discredit/destroy the Temple. Yehuboric enemies will try to find ways to discredit ToZ, especially when ToZ becomes big and goes public. They will complain about lack of "transparency" of donation money. When this fails, then they will try to dig up into the past about previous High Priestess'es, her husband affiliations or whatever they will be able to come up with. This is inevitable as people on that side will try their best to discredit what causes a threat to them. And when all of this fails, then they might try some legal actions against this place. And when everything of this fails, ToZ still grows, then they will try pretending to be "friends", they will try to invite ToZ representatives in public and will try to defame/discredit them in public. All the previous botnet attacks, troll posts, edgy stuff here will look like nothing when serious initiatives will be introduced to destroy ToZ.
People should understand that the powers that are motivated to silence the Gods within Humanity are backed by billions if not trillions of USD, so at this point they have a massive amount of options to try whatever they like. Yes, the Gods are with us, but this in no way means we should sit here and do nothing when it is clear what the fact of ToZ going public in the future implies in reality.
I am writing this, so this is known and everyone would have a better understanding of what is being tried to achieve. I believe the clergy will reflect on this even deeper and in more extensive manner later when they complete their job with all of these changes. But sometimes one first needs to do the necessary job before talking about it. Probably the clergy already knows all of this and they are either ready or preparing for this seriously. Definitely, the clean-up of some edgy posts made by us is a must in order to circumvent potential legal attack vectors. This is very logical. I myself actually when establishing my own business in certain areas actually analyze the competitors and their legal weaknesses that I can utilize against them. This is just routine stuff to do when you try to enter the market. And it would be pretty naive to assume that in religions market laws have no effect. Some of them do have an effect. Of course, at least I do this from an honest angle as I also tend to provide superior services/products for the people, so at least I am morally justified in using the legal weaknesses of my potential competitors. But when talking about ToZ, we should understand we will not meet those who are moral or honest as ToZ itself is about absolute truth, honesty and morality.
The fact that even the clergy's number of posts was reduced shows that all of us were under the same influences in the past. And this is quite understandable. Who could have known ten years ago or earlier about such massive revelation? This is where this old phrase about unknown God's paths comes into place. But now we know, now we see and it would be stupid to keep everything the same as before. We need to go further, we need to transform. Sometimes, even foundations need some repairs.
And let us be real. Some of the posts that were allowed before were literally idiotic, retarded, and even illegal in some countries. Some of the posts even threatened other people, some of the posts actually suggested criminal behavior that is not tolerable. Yes, ToZ also never tolerated anything illegal, official positions were absolutely legal. But the posts that suggested criminal activity just slipped through. Now this needed to be cleaned up.
On the other side, we also had posts that even spiritually were just stupid. How would it look to the whole world when someone finds out about some Zevist masturbating to his "spiritual lover"? Everyone from Yehubor would be extremely glad for such beefy material to discredit the whole Temple. And they would start preaching for months just about how HPZM is in favour of this. Some even more wicked ones would start claiming about HPZM's some "sexual preferences in spirituality". Of course, even this clean-up does not guarantee this would not happen (and I actually expect this to happen when ToZ becomes more widespread), but this clean-up might guarantee for the ToZ itself massive legal angles of defense against those who try to discredit/destroy ToZ. If everything here is pure and some Yehubor shits on HPZM, HPZM would be able to easily start his own legal process against such tongues.
I myself wrote some inadequate posts which makes it fully understandable right now that they got removed. We either accept this or not. This is part of growing up and becoming more mature. For myself it looks like a big win. The fact that in less than two years I have grown so much and can accept the decisions here like this shows that I really have grown so much. Which means that everyone else who properly practiced also should have grown as much or more. For myself, I can definitely say that without ToZ I would have never grown the same amount even in decades that I did in less than two years. And if the ToZ introduces even more changes that will result in an even more accelerated growth of me, then I am fully all in.
So yes, I think the changes must be not just welcome, but also understood as absolutely necessary for the long-term vision of the Temple. If we really want to build a presence in the outside world, this is how it must be done. Sometimes, steps will be small and hardly noticeable. Sometimes, those steps will be a little more noticeable like this one. But all of this leads to where we need to go.
Also, aligning with law does not mean that ToZ starts licking ass to some authorities. This would be an extremely stupid assumption. If some country legally does not allow murder and punishes for it, it does not mean that someone licks the government's ass just because he/she does not kill anyone. And in this case, the contrary is true. What ToZ does is basically cleaning up in a way that potential enemies would have no leverage against the Temple. The fact that the Temple converts itself into something that is able to have proper presence is the biggest threat that can happen to those who want us destroyed. The potential enemies who want us destroyed would be much more happy if we would still lurk in our basements, worship "Satan" and talk about historical narratives from the twentieth century. I am not sure if I can speak for the clergy, but if I would be allowed to, then I would say this. Bad for them, we are not falling for that.
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