XPost: alt.paranet.ufo, alt.conspiracy.spy, alt.alien.visitors
XPost: alt.magick, alt.usenet.kooks, alt.fan.art-bell
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"Art Deco" wrote in message
news:141120051151523802%art_deco@127.0.0.1...
> Tom wrote:
>
>>"Art Deco" wrote in message
>>news:141120050811481483%art_deco@127.0.0.1...
>>>>
>>>>> The Holy Scriptures says Satan is the real
>>>>> ruler of the world right now
>>>>
>>>>Really? Where?
>>>
>>> You could try reading it for yourself.
>>
>>I have. The Bible is a big book. Perhaps you can cite the specific
>>chapter
>>and verse in which Satan is declared to be the ruler of the world right
>>now.
>>I don't seem to be able to find it.
>
> I did not make this statement, therefore it is not my responsibility to
> find it.
Well, I didn't make the statement either, but you saw fit to suggest that I
look for it anyway.
>>>>Below is what I posted to alt.freemasonry and alt.conspiracy and
>>>>others. Note that Freemasons have persecuted me as a servant of
>>>>YEHOVAH by repeatedly drugging me by couart order for my true
>>>>Christian beliefs
>>>
>>> Any evidence for this insane delusion?
>>
>>I think it's quite possible that this guy has been drugged by court order,
>>if he was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital after it was
>>determined that he was a danger to himself or others. It's also very
>>likely
>>that his rather bizarre religious beliefs were at least in part the
>>motivation for the behavior that got him committed. It may be delusional
>>that the people who actually did the committing were Freemasons, but it's
>>not impossible that some of them were.
>
> Do you believe everything you read on usenet?
No. Do you equate the admission of a possibility with a belief? I don't.
I'm offering what appears to me to be a plausible interpretaton of our dear
JW friend's autobiographical anecdote. While it remains an hypothesis, it
doesn't seem unfeasible. Surely that's not enough evidence to promote it to
the status of a "belief", yet it has the virtue of not requiring any
extraordinary assumptions, so I think it falls on the positive side of
Occam's Razor.
>>> The Freemasons also lurk under your bed waiting to steal your kidneys.
>>> Be very afraid!
>>
>>But you forget, he says that he has angels protecting him from kidney
>>snatchers, CIA assassins, and so forth.
>
> Are you one of these alleged angels?
By what must be the sheerest of coincidences, I had recently been thinking
about what it would be like to be an angel, and how one might act in that
capacity even though one was no more than a mere human being. It seems to
me that when we exercise our generosity, do something kind (especially for
someone in particular, a gratuitously performed personal favor of some
significance), or engage in any sort of altruistic interactions, we might be
perceived as an agent of a benevolent god, which is, after all, what an
angel is supposed to be.
But be that as it may, no, I do not want our friend to think of me as
someone willing and able to rescue his kidneys from the Freemasons and I'm
pretty confident that neither you nor he is seriously considering the
possibility that I might be. Still, he feels he has their aid and that
belief should trump his fear of the kidney thieves, just as it does his fear
of the CIA. As I see it, he believes himself to be clothed in the armor of
righteousness, which, as we all should know, is proof against kidney
thieves, government goons, demons, aliens, and assorted nefarious entities,
both mundane and supernatural. I've known quite a few paranoids, some
schizophrenic and some not, who feel that they would surely have succumbed
to the forces of evil were it not for their armors of righteousness.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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