What is the Nature of Hell? What is the Nature of Demons?
A viewer asks me to discuss my study of Demonology. A forewarning: this is all very speculative.
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Comes from Anonymous, and brother, I really appreciate it.
Like I've said before, free speech ain't free.
If you value the alternative media, guys, gotta put your money where your mouth is.
So I really appreciate this video, this request.
And, you know, I'm just gonna read you the question because it's a really good question, and I'll get to why in short order.
So Anonymous asks, how real are demons and demonic possession?
How real is hell?
How real is the promised reward of heaven after a hard life lived for the sake of moral virtue?
Are all of these things just frameworks, effective and important they may be, that we use to ascribe meaning to human experience, or is there really an eternal life of reward or punishment after death?
How much worth to us is the morality based on the afterlife when it becomes so difficult for us to conceptualize and accept something of the sort in the modern age?
You know, this is a great question because these are issues that I've been putting a lot of thought into recently.
And, you know, I'm actually working on a treatise that I plan to run by my church to make sure I'm not going into heresy, because I don't want to publish anything until I'm certain on many aspects of it.
And I don't want, and usually I wouldn't want to talk about this stuff if I hadn't very strongly established the foundations for what I'm talking about.
Because when you talk about demons, demonic possession, we're talking about some pretty crazy stuff here.
And you really need to nail down your ontological arguments before you even get to this point.
And that's part of the reason that I posted the video yesterday about my reasons for being a Catholic, is to provide some of the ontological groundwork so that I don't have to in this video.
Now, that said, we're going to skip all over that.
We're going to skip over anything that's speculative.
And we're just going to address the questions themselves.
And as to whether demons exist, yes, absolutely.
Okay, I'm a Bayesian conspirator, okay?
I don't use absolutely loosely.
Yes, they absolutely, absolutely exist.
And, you know, the occult is something I have studied from a very young age.
Now, I've never been tempted by it.
My temptations don't really lie in that direction.
It's not something that's tempted me, but it's something that's fascinated me.
I'm very familiar with it.
And in recent years, I've started studying demonology and possession in depth.
And now, a lot of this stuff, it's hard to talk about because, well, what are the three rules of SJWs?
What's the first one?
SJWs always lie.
And demons, Satan himself is the lord of lies.
He is nothing but lies.
And there are many conclusions that I think can be drawn.
We can learn quite a bit about what the nature of good is by studying evil.
But many of these, like these are assumptions based upon the behavior of liars.
So they are all tentative.
I'm not going to give you the more.
I've got some very specific speculations about all of this, but we're not going to get into that.
I just want to talk about the basics.
What is the nature of hell?
What is the nature of the demonic?
What is this existential, this absolute truth level of reality?
What are these malevolent entities that exist and harass and occasionally possess humanity?
Now, some of you, in fact, by the time this video comes out, I'm sure there'll be some comments on yesterday's video.
Some of you will have noticed that one of the names of God fits very, very well with my ontological mathematical argument for his existence.
The word.
God is the word that makes all things be.
The absolute truth that demands existence.
And so what is hell?
Hell is when you're outside of the light of God.
You're outside of the word.
In many ways, it is a state of non-existence because it is rejecting logic.
It is rejecting rationality.
It is rejecting beauty, causality, time, dimension.
It is a non-existent and yet infinite plane of contradiction where all statements that are untrue are true and only the truth is reviled.
And when you get down to moral law, you know, when we get down to beauty, when we get down to all of this stuff, okay, and we're still discovering it.
We don't know it yet, and we might never be able to completely know it, right?
Because that absolute truth is God.
But with all this stuff, and moral law in particular, okay, the problem with moral law is that we never follow it.
We constantly disobey it.
We constantly want to replace, you know, it's the joke, I reject your reality and substitute my own.
That is the core of leftism, of social justice, of Satanism, of all of these degenerate pathologies, is refusing to accept the reality we were given and demanding that our opinions, our version of reality, this is narcissism, this is solipsism, nihilism, postmodernism.
This is demonology.
This is what demons are.
Because in hell, you no longer exist in time, in space, and yet you continue to exist.
In many ways, you can understand demons merely as philosophical constructs.
A very funny and small version is this sentence is false, for example.
This sentence is false.
It's something straight out of hell.
Same thing with dividing by zero, any of these contradictions.
These are all things from hell.
Okay, it's it's not fire.
It's not, okay, purgatory is fire.
Purgatory is where you get all your sins burned out because you're a pretty terrible person, but you're not completely demonic.
All right, hell is when you completely reject God, when you completely reject truth, and the suicide.
The reason suicide is a mortal sin is because the person that suicides often not always.
Again, the Lord is mysterious.
There is hope for some suicides.
Maybe.
But often a suicide, the worst form of suicide, they will take as many people down with them as they can.
Okay, the murder suicide.
This is the narcissist, again, the narcissist with a fake personality shell that everybody is convinced he's a successful businessman, but he just has lots of credit cards.
And then finally, everything implodes.
So what does he do?
He goes and murders his wife and children, his business partner, then he commits suicide.
He wants to destroy everything.
He wants to corrupt everything.
Okay, and that this is the nature of the demonic.
They want to blaspheme the truth.
They want to make things ugly because they do not like the laws of God.
They do not like karmic law.
They do not like moral law.
They do not like science, facts, economics.
They hate all of that.
You know, they don't like that men and women are different and that men and women have their roles.
They don't like that God created each race or evolved each, whatever.
Again, you know, tip the fedora.
That the races are different, that they have different aptitudes and characters and cultures.
They don't like that.
They demand their reality.
So what's the first thing that you do in an exorcism?
The very first, the first direct step that you get to, that you must perform to have any hope of success, is you force the demon to name itself.
Now, I'm of the opinion that demons are so schizophrenically insane that they don't exactly have names.
And this is just my opinion.
The name the demon gives itself, and it will vary from exorcism to exorcism.
Sometimes it will be a name of a historical personage who was terribly evil.
Sometimes it will be, you know, they'll call themselves Legion or they'll call themselves I Am Sloth or whatever.
But the reason that you do this, the reason that you demand a name out of them in the name of Jesus Christ, because you can't perform an exorcism on your own, don't try.
You need a Catholic priest or an Eastern Orthodox priest.
The reason you force the demon to name itself in the name of Christ is that the demon, the whole point of the demon is to reject reality.
I'm whatever I say I am.
I can be anything.
I'm a special snowflake.
Demons hate being named because as much as they crave reality, you know, there's an element to them that I genuinely suspect wants to be back in reality because hell is miserable.
You're surrounded by assholes.
They want out, but they try and come back into this world without following the laws of this world.
And by forcing them to identify themselves, they are admitting that they are subject to God's law.
That names have meanings.
Words have meanings.
You know, I saw a really interesting video a while back where this girl was trying to justify political correctness by saying that people are more important than words.
Right?
And if words hurt people's feelings, then we shouldn't use words.
Horseshit.
Words are more important.
Words are truth.
If 2 plus 2 equals 4 hurts your feelings.
And that sounds silly, right?
But let's say you go for a home loan and you have an actual honest banker like Aaron Clary, and he says, no, you don't qualify for it because your credit sucks.
That hurts your feelings, makes you feel like a loser.
But that's just math.
Aaron Clary isn't calling you an asshole.
The math is calling you an asshole.
Yeah, words, facts, truth, more important than your feelings.
But see, demons, they've got nothing but feelings.
They don't like the truth because it hurts their feelings.
They've rejected the truth.
They attack the truth.
So the first thing you do in an exorcism is you demand a name out of them.
And for the record, there's always been a very strict definition of what constitutes exorcism, what constitutes possession.
It's extremely rare.
Demonic harassment is very common.
Okay?
And everybody's harassed to some degree or another.
In fact, the more you try and pursue virtue, the harder it gets, the more they harass you.
If you're just going along to get along, if you're just engaging the slow decline of civilization, then it's like you're already doing their job.
They're not going to bother you.
As soon as you actually start trying to fight back, you know, that's when they really try and trip you up.
You know, that's when they really get angry at you.
So demonic harassment, yeah, that happens all the freaking time.
Possession, very rare, and you do look for certain signs.
I mean, I've spoken to schizophrenics.
Ironically, right after I got M. Scott Pecks, yeah, his book on demonic possession.
Right after buying that book, I was reading it.
I just had a coffee shop in public, just kind of like off my own corner, you know, and a schizophrenic man came over and started talking to me.
And at first I thought this is like, no way.
But no, he wasn't demonically possessed at all.
It was a classic schizophrenia.
Actual possession is extremely rare and there are signs of it.
There are you're going to get things involved in it that don't make sense.
So yes, demonic possession, extremely real.
Demons, extremely real.
And the powers of good are as well.
So hell.
It's a realm where basically you continue to exist.
The soul, you know, whatever you want to call the nature of your being, some aspect, some consciousness continues to exist, but it's an infinite realm of non-existence.
Okay, time doesn't exist.
Space doesn't exist.
And by the way, this is very speculative on my part, but I think I'm very confident with it.
You are forced to exist in eternity with no time passing.
You know, an infinite, just empty infinite space, and yet you are crowded with all these hateful, angry, jealous, miserable spirits just like yourself, ripping one another apart.
That's hell.
Now, what is heaven?
I mean, the idea of heaven as some sort of prosaic reward, at least myself, strikes me as quite ridiculous because that sounds really boring.
Okay, who would want that?
And quite frankly, I don't think we're capable of understanding heaven.
The beatific vision, which is, if you do live the life of a saint, you get to see the face of God.
That quite terrifies me.
Okay, which is actually a huge sin on my part that I need to work on.
But I'll be honest, it terrifies me.
God terrifies me.
But we are here.
We are here for a purpose.
I mean, if we were just meat machines, the night sky wouldn't be beautiful.
Okay, like, why do you evolve to think the stars were beautiful?
Awe-inspiring.
Why is Saturn so beautiful with its rings?
Too much beauty in the universe.
It has nothing to do with evolution.
Okay, you can explain through evolution why we like green hills and streams with the woods nearby.
That makes sense.
Okay, but the sheer beauty, the rugged, stark beauty of the universe.
I can only imagine that, and I really like the metaphor put forth by C.S. Lewis saying that, like in the last battle, where...
where life truly begins in the afterlife.
That's where the adventure really starts.
Okay, that the adventure just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
And so whenever you're feeling in life like, I don't belong here, this is mundane.
This is stupid.
Okay, this is just a cheap, cheap street party.
This is a pointless office job.
This is, I should be doing something great with my life.
I think that's what we're meant for.
I think it's going to be a little bit different for all of us.
You know, some of us will go adventuring.
Some of us will tend gardens.
Some of us will write poetry or paint paint or what have you.
And, you know, this whole idea of heaven and hell being like punishment, reward.
You know, like, this is.
This is really quite a foolish heresy that started up.
But, you know, there's one statement from St. Thomas Aquinas, where he said, what's the exact quote?
To ensure perfect perf perfidy?
Perfidity?
Oh, that erudite SOB.
For those blessed souls in heaven, a perfect view of the tortures of the damned shall be granted to them.
If you've met a bad person, if you've met a narcissist or a borderline or any of these terrible, destructive creatures, okay, these people that act like demons and are certainly headed there, you understand why they deserve it.
They choose it, they want it, they demand it.
And you know, I think it was C.S. Lewis that said the gates of hell are locked from the inside.
Okay, there's lots of people that have problems, but still try and be good people, but they're always falling into their sins, their vices, again and again.
Okay, this is why there's a Catholic doctrine of purgatory.
You know, other religions say there's multiple lives.
I don't have a really strong opinion on that.
I don't think that really matters that much, whether you get your sins burned out in purgatory, or if you have to keep coming back to earth and suffering until you finally get it right, Crownhog's Day style.
Either or.
We are called to more than this.
And the existence of demons.
Like, this is, demons don't want you to know they exist.
Okay?
They want to tempt you without you knowing it.
This is why possession is extremely rare.
And there's some speculation on why people get possessed.
Tends not to be bad people, essentially.
All right, if somebody's a bad person, if somebody's a narcissist or a borderline, demons are laughing their asses off.
They don't have to do anything.
That person's doing it all of their own free will.
So the suggestion I've read and that I agree with is that demons do tend to possess people that have redeeming qualities.
People that could do something with their life.
And it's also been observed by some exorcists that you need the help of the victim.
Like they need to want to get better.
Whereas if you go up to your typical narcissist, your leftist, your feminist, and you act kindly to these people, they'll hate you for it.
Okay, because these people hate themselves.
They don't think they're worthy of love.
Okay, this is why they hate everybody else.
All right, it's envy, it's shame, it's self-hatred.
And so if you do something nice to one of these people, they will repay you with evil.
Okay, because you're so stupid that you think they deserve kindness.
And one final thing.
The whole threat of hellfire and damn nation.
Quite frankly, and Barnhart pointed this out in her excellent, excellent video on the diabolical narcissist.
The closest thing to a righteous emotion that you will find in a narcissist is fear.
And fear of hell might be able to save them.
So that's my view on the matter.
Like I said, I am planning to present a much longer treatise on all of this.
I still need to do more research.
You know, and anytime I start researching exorcism demonology, I can't help thinking about what a terrible person I am.
But I do have something I want to put together.
I'm going to run it by a few different people.
I really, here's the thing.
Like, right now, I might have said a couple of things that were a little bit encrypt, but nothing too major.
Whereas if I go into actual heresy in this treatise, I want to know it before I present it to the public.
Right?
I don't want to lead any of you astray.
I don't want to get something wrong and present a really good argument that's stupid and wrong.
I mean, go look at Galileo's theses.
Okay, he was completely, absolutely wrong about everything except for the Earth going around the sun.
All right, that like the Pope back then, he was a mathematician, okay?
He was an accomplished mathematician.
And the problem with Galileo is that he was wrong about everything.
He was demonstrably wrong, and yet he still went and published.
And that's just rude.
That's unchristian, you might say.
So, final note.
I'm going to put a link below to a, if you're interested in demonology, possession, and so forth, there's a man, he was very unpopular with all the liberal Catholics 20 years ago, Malachi Martin.
I just love the guy, this Irish priest.
He was in Rome for a while, and he became one of the biggest names in demonology and exorcism.
And all of the liberals called him a liar.
And see, you know, somebody that's you can usually trust somebody that is accused of being a liar.
Because good liars never get caught.
Whereas anybody that's honest needs to add some salt to the soup to make it taste good.
So, those are my thoughts.
I hope this video was worth it.
It was a great question because it really, like, this is a lot of stuff I've been wanting to explore more in depth, but like I said, I'm usually a little bit stricter about getting my philosophical basis nailed down first.
