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Yeah, unfortunately I'm one of those who understand. We're not yet at a place where you can be proven right, but that said, you may not be wrong.
There is a whole world of inexplicable "coincidences" and patterns that happen around these people. I'm not saying RFK Jr "has a demon" -- and how the hell would I know anyway? -- but I am absolutely certain that he IS a personal "Shit Happens" event walking around on two legs, and sometimes that language/cognitive construct is all someone has to try to explain what is otherwise inexplicable. And all that surrounds RFK Jr is most certainly inexplicable.
To explain to those who do not understand, the book People of the Lie, simply put, is a book written by a psychiatrist about his observations of those without conscience among us, and the draining-to-overwhelmingly-destructive effect they have on the people forced to remain in their personal orbit, like children or dependent spouses.
Long before the explosion of works in the 90s and later written for laymen in regard to psychopathy and narcissism, there was People of the Lie, and that's ALL there was at the time except for works by and for clinicians, like Cleckley's Mask of Sanity which you couldn't just check out from the local library, and that's if you even knew about it. People of the Lie is all about the line -- and if there even is a line -- between this kind of aberrant, conscienceless behavior and what the religious know of as evil. That book was there when I needed it, and I'm not ashamed to say it changed the course of my life for the better, profoundly so. I suspect I am not the only one.
So all that said, I am a diehard atheist, yet I have personally seen wayyyyyy too much strange and inexplicable shit surrounding the conscienceless among us to tell anyone else they're wrong. Especially when the kind of folks Dr. Peck was talking about are involved.
I'm jealous of the people that can just write what you said off as foolishness, because once you know, you know.
Please reread the Possession chapter of "People of the Lie", & read where he says that after they'd gotten clean ( 2 patients he had, who'd had successful exorcisms from what Cathoics call "satanic possession" ), they became "saintly", his word.
The ur-demon that he described as "50 million years old" & "reptilian" wasn't somehow inherently-declawed, rather it was the possessed-one's saintliness which was de-clawing the ur-demon.
Dr. Peck's inability to replicate its facial-expressions, in the following months of trying, too is evidence ( as is our species having the uncanny valley to protect us from that-spirit, encoded hard into us in the last few million years ).
I'm not jealous of the people who write-off what I told them as delusions, because once the masks come off, later in 2026, the slaughtering is going to begin, & they're more-likely to be BSOD-ing, instead of adapting.
What's coming, the 1st-Yang-Stage of The Great Filter, is going to make everything we've had as nightmares, seem fortunate.
But that's what our-continuums/souls "bought" into, in getting-caught-in-this-world..
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