Comments | polaris93: YouTube - The History of the Devil [part 1/5]

polaris93

YouTube - The History of the Devil [part 1/5]

Jan 25, 2011 19:14

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew_FedgPcyg)

The idea of "God's evil enemy" has been around for thousands of years. Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan... He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the ( Read more... )

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hannahsarah January 26 2011, 09:41:00 UTC

<---I use this icon a lot lately.

polaris93 January 27 2011, 02:40:56 UTC

It must confuse the living hell out of people.

prader January 27 2011, 13:31:58 UTC

If the Devil does in fact exist (and I believe he does) then he is the mortal enemy of man, not God. Simply because there's not a damned thing he can do to God.

God plays with/torments Lucifer every time he shows the mercy to a human being that he withheld from lucifer for his own betrayal.

prader January 27 2011, 14:02:49 UTC

To elaborate on my prior comment, here is what I think might might have been the sequence of events alluded to in later passages of the Bible but never clearly spelled out:

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the EarthLucifer is appointed God's representative on Earth and is possibly appointed over some pre-Adamic race of beings (who possibly become the "Demons", rather than fallen angels, often mentioned in the Bible ( ... )

polaris93 January 27 2011, 20:02:25 UTC

Whatever happened, in my time I've had to deal with truly evil people. That first happened when I was a very young child, about 2-1/2 years old, and it was a group of grown men, one of whom was my adoptive father. I had no power to defend myself or do anything other than suffer them. The shock was so bad that the memories of such encounters got shoved way down to the bottom of my mind, and for many years I couldn't consciously recognize it when I ran into it, or accept that that was its nature. I was finally forced to accept that my student George Bryson was utterly evil when he pulled one last stunt in 1993 that impelled me to tell him to get out of my life and not return, and with that the dam broke, though it took a couple of years before I was finally free of the blinders. I had acknowledged it back in 1986, when I finally realized what someone I'd known since 1971 was trying to do to me and everyone else, and identified her as truly evil, but in 1995 I finally recognized that a lot of those I'd known down the years were just ( ... )

I guess what I meant to say is that the interviewers are evil polaris93 January 27 2011, 20:40:01 UTC

I guess what I meant to say is that those interviewers in the video are themselves evil, or infested by evil. Those smirks they wear when they present anyone who believes that there is such a thing as real evil as stupid and/or mentally ill is a dead giveaway. I've seen that expression on child-molesters talking about how they have never done anything really wrong to a child or anyone else, and how children like being molested and otherwise used by adults; and on my former student when he described going down from Santa Barbara to Watts, California to "participate" in the Watts riots (meaning, incite to riot and then rush to a bar where he could enjoy it all safely on TV; at the time, he said he was "past all that," but clearly, looking back now, he wasn't); and on a number of other truly lost souls as they applied psychoanalytic theory to people who knew what they were and loathed them for it to try to get others to believe that those people were insane. C. S. Lewis described that expression as the Smirk. There's something ( ... )

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brezhnev January 28 2011, 04:15:08 UTC

Why, that's Lionel Fanthorpe! He also wrote a couple hundred pulp SF novels. He's the one who came up with the infamous "Not the flaz gaz!" deus ex machina ending for one of them; I wish I knew which it was.

As for LaVey, he's pretty much a dweeb IMO.

polaris93 January 28 2011, 04:18:57 UTC

LaVey was -- he died in 1997 -- no dweeb. He was an accomplished student of combat arts, a potentially dead one, and a conservative/libertarian. He was a close friend of Robert A. Heinlein, also no dweeb.

The others I don't know. But the smirks on their faces, the snigger implicit in their speech, were alarming. Very. I wouldn't let any children or grandchildren of mine for any amount of anything, thank you very much.