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Mike
the one line that stood out particularly, to me, was this one: most people encourage demonic activity, and they are not Satanists.
my view is that it is being passive aggressively put upon them, packaged in a way that is palatable. all wrapped in compassion and love for our fellow man and equality.
how brilliant, right? the best way to spread evil would be to cloak it in the good and let the population do your work for you. gotta give the devil his due sometimes:)
Well, I'd take it a step further.
It doesn't come from the media, it starts at home.
Is it not fairly common for a child to be a piece of property?
"You've got a roof over your head and something to eat, so you do exactly as I say."
The roots of fascism just seem to be dear old dad. Employers look at people the same way.
Yes, I think we have a lot of insanity bundled in marketable products. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's all we have. "Religion", in the modern sense, is worship of the manufacturing process. The finished products--whether hard goods or media content--are like germs purveying disease.
I am pretty sure on a psychological plane, it is a deliberate attempt to drive man by those characteristics he shares with animals, such as herd mentality and fear, and so on, out to the conditioning of response.
In the religious sense, the physical Demiurge or Creator has been exalted to over-write and replace spirituality.
"I gave you your body, now ingest herd mentality and fear".
That kind of thing. That is how scripture has been altered. So it is an ancient art of mind control, and, in order to steer clear, I avoid common usage of terms like Satan and things like that. I don't buy their first, ancient argument, nor the modern manufactured and advertised one. Same concept: flawed ideas kept in a book, flawed ideas in other forms for public consumption.
If some churches are smart enough to talk about fear as the devil's work, it suggests to me, the conversation keeps going, because they have not provided the means of dispelling fear.
Perhaps one of our main philosophical differences is that we do not see demonic-ness as a thing to be "cured", as in removed, like an appendix, but "converted". It doesn't exactly cease to exist; you are simply making it work in the opposite direction. Our first rite is Pacification. The second is Enrichment, or well-being; and so it is not possible without the first. Unless you Pacify--i. e., harness and control--the demonic influences, no actual step towards Enrichment can be made.
It would be a false, artificial one, something you might be told or find on your own, but it cannot ultimately work.
That is my reaction to almost everything we can find. It's like the Treaty of Versailles: some of it manages to look good on paper, but, in reality, it carries the seeds of its own destruction and future strife.
Our definition of "compassion" is "compassionate act, a successful one", it is not simply an emotion you can say "I have this", or just believe you agree with it, or do something that does not accomplish the purpose.
Yes, for the most part, tricking the population into doing your work for you, and believe it is something else, is the supreme method at play here. At this point, devil = man, or, one at the helm of this wickedness. The same forces of wickedness are perfectly alive and well in me, but, I have, to some extent, "seen through" them, and reversed their course, in a way that other people can observe. So it can be defeated. But this seems unlikely to arise from almost everything we have been "made aware" of.