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On Recognizing Satan As The World's Grand Master Puppeteer

All opposition to Truth: all Falsehoods, False Theories, Nonsense, Possession-Insanities - All the Evils of Mankind - Are Mere Manipulations Of Satan

Vic Biorseth, Monday, September 13, 2021
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Yesterday was the Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost;

For every man who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

The connection between the created physical world and the spirit world is in the mind of man - the intellect, the reason, and the will. That is what Satan and his demons attack. To corrupt intellect and reason, distracting them from the reality of God, to the point of realigning the will away from doing the will of God, to doing the will of self; to pleasing the self. Mentally displacing God, and mentally deifying self. 

To put self above everything. 

The Self-Exaltation Of The Elites

This is about, primarily, demonic possession. Many if not most of us normally think about demonic possession as the takeover of a physical body by a spiritual being. And that's what exorcists and exorcisms are for.  But there is another kind of demon and another kind of possession.

Evil ideas can be thought of as demons, or demonically inspired. People obsessed or possessed of evil ideas, or evil ideologies, are not normally thought of as being demonically or diabolically possessed. But they are. And this kind of possession - being absolutely convinced of an evil ideology, such as Marxism, or Islam, or "blessed" homosexuality/sexual licentiousness, or substance-induced euphoria, and being convinced to the point of militating activism to promote it, is not something we call in the exorcists for. 

But, perhaps it should be. 

The madman running amok with an axe is quickly recognized for the menace that he is, and neutralized by the still sane populace. Not so for the wicked, world-dominating agendas of evil political ideologies. 

Wherever they are allowed to exist, persist and grow, they will conquer.

My six years active duty in the US Army was in a different kind of Army. There were lots of draftees, and there were us enlistees. We got along, but there was a bit of hostility between the types. Draftees viewed enlistees with negative views that ranged from scorn to not quite open hostility. Not all draftees were like that, but there were enough to keep the differences there, drawing lines between us.  

More and more, as the years rolled by, I began to view some draftees with suspicion, because they most certainly were not patriotic Americans. That was from 1960 to 1966; with one tour of duty in Germany, and another tour of duty, with an extension, in Vietnam. During those years I had quite a few debates with - get this - Socialist American soldiers. To a man, they were shocked, amazed, and couldn't believe that anyone could say anything good about capitalism, the nemesis of socialism. It was demonic to them; a system of greed

That's what they learned in school; that's what the news media reported.

They didn't even know what capitalism was, which was and is a simple combination of two rights - the right to possess private property, and the right to liberty. When any government protect those two rights, capitalism just happens. It's a natural thing. 

Socialism has to be forced and imposed; capitalism just happens. 

What I perhaps too slowly began to understand was that many - not all - but many of the draftees in the Army of that day were anti-American. 

Many years later, as the leader of a men's prayer and discussion group at our Church, the recognition of previously unrecognized anti-American Americans (and possibly anti-Catholic Catholics) arose again. The first one of our regular men's meetings after the horrors of 9/11/01 was a real shocker, to me. After the prayers, the discussion turned to the planes hitting the towers, the pentagon and the Pennsylvania field. 

A member of the group asked (paraphrasing), 

Do any of you really think we didn't deserve what happened on 9/11, and didn't ask for it, with our greed, and our foreign policies?

When I answered, yes, I did believe that we did not deserve it, it was unprovoked, the people on those hijacked planes and the people in those building didn't do anything to anyone to induce this mass-murder, he just became hostile and belligerent, insisting that "America had it coming". And he would not be convinced otherwise. 

This guy was older than me, and I had assumed (wrongly) wiser. He was an American; he was a Catholic; he was a member of this men's Catholic prayer and discussion group; he attended regularly, and by all outward appearances one would think that he was a religious American. 

But he was a militant and militating Socialist. A Marxist

And no one can be a militant socialist and not be both anti-American and anti-Catholic.

The infectious demonic possession of socialism, a diabolical pandemic of the mind, misdirects the attention of its Useful Idiot puppets. 

Militant socialists do not look at why America is so economically successful. They look instead at all the other nations that are impoverished. And they are lead by Satan to believe that the reason they are impoverished is that America is wealthy. That "wealth" is a fixed pie, instead of an unlimited possibility. 

They really believe that

  1. America is rich because other nations are poor, and
  2. other nations are poor because America is rich. 

It just doesn't get any dumber than that. 

You really need to read Bishop Gracida's treatment of government imposed forced mass vaccinations of whole populations. As nutty as it sounds, the world elites are all in on experimentally trying to modify humans and make them into controllable "cyborg" types; combinations of organic and robotic creatures. Or, failing that, to inject nano particles that together will induce their own "Artificial Intelligence", originally meant for computers, into human beings. 

It's nuts, I know; I know. But all indications are that they believe in it, and they believe in it enough to try to do it. It is a blending of AI with nanotechnology. 

Elon Musk, who is worshiped by younger generations who see him as some kind of billionaire visionary on the cusp of all human progress, rather than as the world's slickest and richest welfare queen. His company, Tesla Motors, couldn't and wouldn't have even come into existence without untold billions of our tax dollars supplementing it, under the orders of the Marxocrat Party. (I mean the American government.)

And he likely never would have sold more than twenty or so Tesla cars if the purchaser's price was not similarly tax-dollar augmented by order of the Marxocrat Party. (I mean the American government.) And still, his cars don't work when it's cold outside, and they are notoriously undependable when it's warm. The multi-hour recharge of its batteries uses gobs of fossil-fuel generated electricity, so they do nothing to "save the planet" from the bogus horrors of supposedly man-caused climate change. Indeed, they worsen the imaginary situation, by producing even more of the demonized carbon - the most plentiful element in the universe and on earth - which the climate change nuts insist is somehow poisonous and must be eliminated, before the oceans rise and drown us all. Just ask AOC. Just ask Cap'n Planet AlGore.

Anyway, what Elon Musk says about a future cyborg population is, that we are already here. Right. He's been aworkin' on it, and he's not alone. I'm telling you, ya gotta read Bishop Gracida's article; if you thought some of the stuff being tossed around by the world elites was wild, you ain't seen nothin' yet. 

But what about the newest rise of Islam, brought about by the machinations of comrade President JoBama O'Biden? It is clear and obvious to everyone with eyes to see that his Afghanistan fiasco was not done out of stupidity, but out of malice toward America, on purpose. I suppose it is possible that the current President, Defense department and entire national intelligence apparatus did this, or allowed it to be done by Biden, out of incompetence and stupidity. But it would have to be a level of incompetence that rises to the level of imbecilic stupidity to be real. It is much more likely that it was done with treasonous intent. They are out to bring Constitutional America down, any way they can do it. 

Know this first: we, having allowed the anti-American political, legal and religious ideology of Islam to grow here, inside our own borders, and even in our military ranks, are living inside of what Islam refers to as Dar Al Sulh, or the Domain of Temporary Truce. When the Islamic Ummah grows large enough inside our borders, the domain will change to Dar Al Harb, or the Domain of War, until they conquer us as a nation. Then, after our defeat and/or annihilation, it will change to Dar Al Islam, the Domain of Peace, when they are free to dominate the entire nation with Islamic imposed Islamic religion, Islamic government and Islamic law. 

And we did the same thing allowing Marxism to grow here, unchallenged.

If it will harm America, the Marxocrat Party will support it. The final battle between Marxism and Islam is for later; first, the common enemy of both Marxism and Islam is the USA. 

Both Marxism and Islam think themselves as god. 

These people - the puppets of Marxism and Islam - are full of themselves.

For every man who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

Are they all crazy, according to the world's definition of crazy, or are they demonically possessed?

We report; you decide. 

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