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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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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