This may seem entirely unrelated, but I believe it is very much foundational to understanding all of the mess. It talks of the overall controversy between good and evil, and why people do what they do.
https://secureservercdn.net/160.153.138.53/xj0.767.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Great-Controversy-1911.pdf
The same can be found in a free audiobook (good to listen while driving long distances) here:
https://ellenwhiteaudio.org/great-controversy/
On another note, I have a personal theory and it goes like this.
Child abuse and sacrifice seems to go back as far as records go. We know about Moloch from early parts of the bible. I ask myself a question:
Why would the devil want child sacrifice and abuse? My theory is that the devil knows that we are all built with a natural affection for babies. It is built into our biology. When we care about babies, we care about what happens to them, the environment they grow up in, the people they interact and make friends with, and everything that may affect their lives. This is a care for the world, in general. We want babies to grow up and have a great life. This care adds to our own desires to make the world a better place.
The devil, on the other hand, wants people who don't care about anything. He wants them to do all kinds of evil, and the only way he can have servants like that, is for them to be stone-hearted. Uncaring about anything that is good or holy. Such men and women can infect, harm and destroy anything which it would please their master to destroy. It seems to be a fair explanation for why people don't even have children together, such as the Clinton's not being mother and father of Chelsea Clinton, and quite possibly the Obama's and their children. They don't want strong ties to this world, or it's betterment. They can't afford to, or they may find their natural affections growing, rather than being stifled.
Would be interested to hear any thoughts. Cheers.
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kishind ago
No, we are not. Some people have "cuteness aggression" to an extreme degree. I believe cuteness aggression is a sign of mental illness, but people without it still use their phrases like "I want to eat you up" or "I could just hug you to death".
First thing is you got to stop assuming that people are born good like you were, and only corrupted later. Around 1 in 50 people is born evil. They take joy in the suffering of others. The happiness of others angers them. These people typically cascade corruption into the population as a whole. By the Pareto curve, we can estimate the most prolific 4% of rapists commit about 64% of the rapes - these are the kind of numbers we're looking at.
You are so innocent about the nature of man, and you must release yourself from the good and evil dichotomy to understand more. Good people and evil people are the far ends of the bell curve. The center is selfishness that doesn't violate others.
"The devil" is just one of the evil gods, usually depicted as a variant of Pan (renamed Faunus by Romans). Pan, the nature deity of fields forests and fertility, of pastures and shepherds and jam sessions (impromptu music).
Let me say that again in case you missed it: the symbolism assigned to the Christian devil is one of nature's fertility, just one of many examples where unholy forces shaped the church's history.
So the devil is either an evil god, or a servant of Yeevoh (YHVH, chooser of jews), who is certainly an evil god. Each god has its own appetites, even the good ones, and they all thrive on the energy released from a potent emotional experience. The exception is God Prime: He who has neither image nor name, whose laws cannot be broken, God of Truth and Nature, the Creator and God of Reality-as-It-is. He is something else entirely.
Moloch "eats" babies. He is fed by their agony more than their deaths... As I said, each god has its appetites and particular rituals. They must consume the spiritual byproduct of strong emotions or they will "die" (a powerless sleep that may last forever). And Moloch grants worldly favors in exchange for such sacrifice.
Again your naivete is showing. The devil's servants have an appetite for The Sickness. Have you ever felt the thrill of cheating on someone you care about? Actually let's dial it back. Have you ever felt the thrill of risking being caught masturbating? Someone could walk in at any minute, ooh how perversely exciting. That feeling is The Sickness. It's the thrill of risking something important to you, usually for no good reason. That feeling becomes a fetish and addiction. No one identifies with their fetish without it. Like my girl likes to be tied up and blindfolded from time to time, but it's not who she is, and it's not the "wrongness" of it that turns her on.
The devil's servants are servants of The Sickness in themselves. Getting away with naughty behavior, so to speak, is one of their favorite things. Just like any drug addict, they need more and more and stronger and more. Killing and eating children that you've just raped is The Sickest Thing that can be individually accomplished.
It's not indifference to good but full-throated love of Evil.
21yearsofdigging ago
Interesting and, for me anyway, thought provoking. It is important to also mention that a normal young child, one that is caring and good can be turned by way of extreme trauma torture called ritual abuse. That child, after years of the abuse, will grow up with all the characteristics of a psychopath yet this was induced. I look at many of the Antifa brats and I seriously wonder how many of them are victims of SRA or Ritual abuse? Maybe 50%?? My ex wife was a victim and when she was cornered (one of her lies exposed) she became a hysterical violent maniac that was/is capable of anything, including killing, which I witnessed once when she attempted to drown an 8 week old kitten in front of my 2 small children. Her idea of humor was an old man crossing the street and getting run over and killed. Other people's pain turned her on. Honestly, I had(at the time) no reference for her behavior. Many many years later it all fits into place. She most likely still gets a thrill knowing that her lies about me and her network of people around her helped to completely destroy what was once a viable career. In hindsight I am grateful to be out of that industry. Most of you would never believe the 'good guy' actors and what they really are about. A good example is Robert Redford and his support for the film Cuties. Ask yourself why would he (the quintessential tree hugger) endorse a film like that and even give that film a director award??
Vindicator ago
There's a very good chance your ex was possessed. I was listening to an exorcist today talking about how in his experience over 50% of the women who are possessed did nothing themselves that would could lead to it (such as necromancy, fortune-telling, etc). He said 80 to 90% of them were raped or victims of SRA.