Given how loathe you usually are towards this sort of speculation, this is really interesting to see. I really hope you're wrong, both because of how badly the people who sold their souls will get fracked, and also because of some of the other implications of the theory.
I don't know if you remember our discussions, but I was a left wing activist from the mid 1990s until 2018, and spent the last few years of that getting a front row seat to the total insanity of TDS. I remember asking about the possibility that what I was seeing was being driven at least in part by demonic forces, and you were saying that you strongly doubted it and it was more likely just cognitive dissonance; and that while demons might be involved in individual cases you doubted they were any kind of major factor.
As I wasn't very deep into the occult in those days I took your word for it, and by the time I was deep enough to have a good sense of it I had distanced myself enough from that scene to be unable to tell for sure; and frankly I also think you were right to tell me that a lot people see demons even where there are none and that usually human dysfunction is just that: human. Still, to see you say you now think it possible I was right....
If your hypothesis is accurate, this really reframes a lot of the last five years or so of my life in some very disturbing ways....
no subject
I don't know if you remember our discussions, but I was a left wing activist from the mid 1990s until 2018, and spent the last few years of that getting a front row seat to the total insanity of TDS. I remember asking about the possibility that what I was seeing was being driven at least in part by demonic forces, and you were saying that you strongly doubted it and it was more likely just cognitive dissonance; and that while demons might be involved in individual cases you doubted they were any kind of major factor.
As I wasn't very deep into the occult in those days I took your word for it, and by the time I was deep enough to have a good sense of it I had distanced myself enough from that scene to be unable to tell for sure; and frankly I also think you were right to tell me that a lot people see demons even where there are none and that usually human dysfunction is just that: human. Still, to see you say you now think it possible I was right....
If your hypothesis is accurate, this really reframes a lot of the last five years or so of my life in some very disturbing ways....