Let's think about the devil for a moment.....
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This picture is very interesting.
The bible / christians continually portray humankind as sheep.
It's a subtle way for the powerful on earth (the haves) to control the minds of others (the have nots), as weak and subservient, '...you must be obedient'.
Rather, the bible should continually portray humans as 'David', David vs Goliath. Battlers, fierce, overcomers, resilient, fighters.
That would do more for humankind than the 'sheep' mindset mentality sitting with christians.
But getting back to the devil subject, isn't being sheep how you would like others to see themselves, defeated, weak, followers rather than leaders, subservient, stupid.
It was the primitive earlier iron age and they didn't have that many common references to use I guess. Arguably there is a bit of reverse psychology as being called a sheep rankles most and reminds them they are not.
There is no devil, just an unpredictable universe we have been improbably lucky to get to sentience in (not scorched by a celestial event) but hey, we would not be here to notice if we were not the outlier. The devil a product of cultural conspiracy theory mentality, finding an other to blame or a way to comprehend major or personal tragic losses that have no silver side, evil.
Yeah, never liked the sheep thing but I'm not a lion either. I'm me, like Popeye.
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Yup, that's my thinking too.
The devil is a simplistic made up invention and excuse to explain how at times humans aren't coping with a situation.
These devil excuses are also convenient alibis, scapegoats, fob offs, to make the God story more plausible to simpletons.
Now I'll say what I've always said, there may be a God, but it's nothing like the myths christians perpetuate, if anything 'God' & 'Devil', good and evil are the same thing, just different sides of the same coin.
Like electricity, it can work for or against depending on how applied.
I think for the most it's down to the aforementioned conspiracy theory psychology, some 'other' is thwarting my success. Other sort-of-proofs and I've seen this myself are sheer chance or epilepsy. Epileptics experience the common effect of perceiving dark entities and a sense of evil. Nowadays they get into echo chambers online about it.
This can be induced magnetically into the brain also, magnets creating localised currents, as well as a great sense of oneness with the universe etc. if you stimulate the correct areas.
This can even happen in sleep apnea, a dark entity floating over the bed as the person is trapped in sleep paralysis.
Naturally when you have no way to tell what's real and what's an electrically induced hallucination you are a lot more difficult to sell on not falling into superstition and living an upright man's life.. Azimov talked about this a fair bit, morality is inherent in tbe majority, absent in a few percent due to defective wiring.
I have been in places and met people who 'feel' evil. This is one's instincts labeling a bad situation. Things like a cow walking into a village that has just been abandoned due to war and making weird noises as it walked. She walked straight into a brick wall and fell down. Then I could see a good part of the skull missing and brains exposed/lacerated. It had walked several miles from the nearest fighting like that.
The memory, the place itself seemed 'evil' to a part of me though I can break down the elements that made it so and overwhelmed my senses. So I don't go too hard on people who have experienced their own overloads however I get annoyed when they insist that like Mulder tolerating Skully, one day they will be proven to be largely correct
Fact Check-Joe Biden did not say his administration cured cancerI think that depends on the first name of the Biden speaking.
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True. He said "We ended cancer as we know it." It's not exactly the same wording, but that still doesn't make his statement remotely true.
I think that depends on the first name of the Biden speaking.
People need a hearing check, it's not actually ended, I hear "can end" quite fluffed. Joe has a speech impediment and always had. Chopping words is normal for him.
I've not a doubt his meaning was also clear in the overall context.