Davis Aurini - The Heresy of Soul Annihilation
Aired: 2016-10-13
Duration: 08:35


=== Decided to Party (04:33) ===

[00:00:02]  This video is about a heresy which is very rampant throughout Western civilization, including the church.
[00:00:10]  It's the heresy of soul annihilation.
[00:00:14]  The idea, the idea that the sinner, the the evil, wicked sinner, when they die, their soul is snuffed out, that hell is merely the ending of their existence.
[00:00:30]  And this heresy is terribly, terribly destructive.
[00:00:34]  And to illustrate that to you, I'd like to tell you the parable of the nightclub.
[00:00:41]  There was a young man, a good young man, law-abiding, knew how to handle himself in a fight, but didn't start fights unnecessarily.
[00:00:51]  Came from a bit of money.
[00:00:53]  And one night he decided to go he decided to go downtown.
[00:00:58]  He decided to go to the dive club.
[00:01:01]  And in that club, the people in that club were a bunch of sinners, whores, thieves, people who would rape pit bulls for fun, with guns and knives and brand new sexual organs that you did not know existed.
[00:01:17]  And so he went down to this nightclub, and he partied at this nightclub.
[00:01:21]  He had quite a bit of fun.
[00:01:22]  There were many loose women.
[00:01:24]  He made friends with the owner because he wasn't misbehaved like some of them.
[00:01:29]  He wasn't an out-of-control drunk.
[00:01:32]  He wasn't an idiot.
[00:01:33]  He didn't start fights.
[00:01:34]  He didn't get arrested.
[00:01:36]  He just went down there and he was partying and he was drinking, not to excess, just a reasonable amount.
[00:01:42]  And he was having one hell of a time.
[00:01:44]  The whole time he was in that nightclub, he was protected because he knew not to start fights.
[00:01:51]  He knew not to get into trouble.
[00:01:53]  He knew not to screw things up.
[00:01:56]  He was dressed well.
[00:01:57]  You know, not the best dressed man in the club.
[00:02:00]  There were people that were better dressed than him.
[00:02:01]  But he was dressed well.
[00:02:02]  Looked like he came from money.
[00:02:04]  So the guys in the wife beaters, the guys in the cargo shorts, they didn't start it with him.
[00:02:09]  He stood at the sidelines, watching these idiots fight, knife one another over some whore.
[00:02:14]  He stood to the sidelines and thought, hey, I'm above it all.
[00:02:18]  I've got the sense not to get dragged down by all of this.
[00:02:23]  And then and then the night came to an end.
[00:02:27]  And he walked outside of the club.
[00:02:29]  He thought it was maybe 3, 4 a.m., but it turned out it was 7 a.m.
[00:02:33]  Sun had long risen.
[00:02:35]  So he stepped out of the club, popped into a diner to get some coffee and to get something to eat to sober up.
[00:02:42]  He realized something.
[00:02:44]  You know, maybe he didn't get arrested.
[00:02:46]  Maybe he didn't, you know, get into a knife fight, maybe he didn't get murdered, maybe he didn't get an STD.
[00:02:52]  So he kept things in check.
[00:02:54]  So he sat in that diner, saw all the other people, and they were all looking at him, because his suit, his suit had looked so good in that nightclub.
[00:03:03]  The lights been shining off it, he looked like a million bucks.
[00:03:07]  He looked like he knew what was going on.
[00:03:09]  Because in the nightclub, you couldn't see the cigarette burn on one leg.
[00:03:13]  The nightclub, he'd spent so much time there, all the sleeves got tattered.
[00:03:19]  He stank a cigarette smoke and cheap perfume from the whores he'd been associating with.
[00:03:24]  Yeah, maybe he didn't get an STD, but they left their mark on him.
[00:03:28]  And he realized that no matter how good he looked in that nightclub, out there in the daylight, he looked like a piece of filth.
[00:03:37]  That young man is me.
[00:03:39]  You know, the more the more I try and walk the righteous lifestyle.
[00:03:45]  Not just talk the talk, like that asshole that I was in the nightclub, but actually walk the walk.
[00:03:52]  The more I come into the daylight, I realize just how tattered and shabby I am.
[00:04:00]  Just how much I've wasted the gifts given to me.
[00:04:04]  And any time I step out into the daylight, and you can see the torn threads, you can see that it's a cheap suit that doesn't fit very well.
[00:04:12]  It looks great in a club, but in real...
[00:04:13]  No, I look like garbage in the light.
[00:04:17]  I look like garbage under the light of truth.
[00:04:20]  You know, and walking out into that light is absolutely terrifying because I'm still hungover.

=== Pretending To Be Better (04:14) ===

[00:04:25]  My ears are still pounding with that music.
[00:04:28]  And so if I think I look like garbage when I'm standing in the light, can you imagine what a sober person must think of me?
[00:04:36]  Somebody whose faculties aren't twisted, aren't bent, aren't affected, somebody that can see me like I actually am?
[00:04:43]  And part of me wants to run back into that nightclub, back into that place of pounding music and flashing lights, where I can pretend to be cool.
[00:04:52]  I can pretend to be in control of things.
[00:04:56]  I can pretend to be better than all these other people in the nightclub.
[00:05:01]  The beatific vision terrifies me because I've got an inkling.
[00:05:07]  I've got just an inkling of how pathetic and ragged I actually am.
[00:05:15]  And I'm pretty sure I'm a lot more pathetic and ragged than that.
[00:05:20]  I don't want to be in the light.
[00:05:22]  I don't want all my sins, all of the mistakes, all of the wasted time from my life.
[00:05:29]  I don't want that to be under a harsh halogen lamp.
[00:05:34]  Part of me, part of me would much rather wander into that nihilistic abyss and end my soul.
[00:05:47]  Part of me wants to believe in those lyrics from the MASH theme song that suicide is painless.
[00:05:55]  You know, I would love, I would just love, wouldn't I, to spend another 10 or 20 or 30 years partying in this nightclub.
[00:06:04]  And then when my suit really gets ragged, when all the other partygoers in this nightclub and they're beginning to look down on me and I realize that I'm one of the beasts, just swallow that pill, slip those wrists, check out of the whole system.
[00:06:19]  The beatific vision terrifies me.
[00:06:22]  God utterly terrifies me because I know I don't deserve his mercy and none of us do.
[00:06:27]  And the concept of there not being a hell is a very, very tempting black pill for us to all swallow.
[00:06:35]  So those who say or believe or promote the idea that the saints get the beatific vision, they get life eternal.
[00:06:43]  They get to go to heaven.
[00:06:44]  And everybody else just, they disappear into blackness and they stop existing.
[00:06:50]  That is so, so tempting for so many people.
[00:06:54]  Spend another 20 years on this planet pursuing physical pleasure, pursuing ego pleasure, pursuing whatever.
[00:07:02]  And then you die and there's nothing.
[00:07:05]  Very tempting.
[00:07:07]  We need the courage to walk into the light.
[00:07:10]  And people that say there is no hell, priests who say there is no hell, are doing a disservice to their flock.
[00:07:18]  Because there is a hell.
[00:07:19]  And if you're honest with yourself, you've seen it.
[00:07:22]  You've seen it in people's eyes.
[00:07:24]  You've seen it in the rage and hatred they have for you when you've done something just, when you've done something good.
[00:07:30]  Maybe, maybe you've even seen it when you yourself felt that rage and hatred.
[00:07:37]  Soul's your soul.
[00:07:39]  It's an aspect of yourself, your free will that exists, period.
[00:07:46]  And when you die, it does not get snuffed out.
[00:07:49]  Cannot be snuffed out.
[00:07:51]  It can merely be outside of the presence of God with all the other damned souls where there is nothing but this hatred and envy and contempt and viciousness.
[00:08:08]  And in hell, another human can torture you just as well as a demon can.
[00:08:12]  Everybody is equal down there.
[00:08:16]  So walk out into the light.
[00:08:19]  Even if you're covered with scars, even if you're stinking of cigarette smoke, if you're covered with sores, no matter what outfit you're wearing, go walk out into the light.
[00:08:29]  Because it is infinitely better than being trapped down there with the monsters.