If the Filters menu in The GIMP 2 (I have version 2.2.12 from DarwinPorts) is empty, it could be due to the locale environment variables. It wouldn't work with my en_US.UTF-8 locale, but if I unset the locale entirely, it worked.
As you would normally want to have a locale set, you should disable it for GIMP only, e.g. by typing:
(unset LC_ALL; gimp)
... or create an alias for it.
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