So over the last few years, I've become convinced that there is something or someone in the spiritual

world who can be usefully referred to as the devil. And what I mean by that is I think there is

a conscious force in the spiritual realm that underlies physical life, a conscious force that is

advocating for evil in the world and evil's handmaid and slavery, as opposed to God who is the

source of human freedom and the good. Now, I don't think that Satan is some red guy with horns and a

tail and clove and hooves anymore that I think that God is an old man with a long white beard. These

are images we use to focus our minds. And yes, because of the sight-based prejudice of our evolved

bodies, we sometimes let these images override the unseable spiritual truth, which is harder to imagine.

All the same, I find that if I assume there is a devil, life becomes more predictable, and my view

of life becomes more realistic. And that's a kind of evidence when a mathematical equation

correctly predicts physical events like the path that light will take over a long distance,

that's evidence that the equation is true. And in the same way, when a sane person's spiritual

observations allow him to accurately predict and explain human behavior, that's evidence that

his spiritual conjecture bears some relation to the actual spiritual truth. And we know I'm a sane

man because I've been insane and I can tell the difference. So one of the things I've observed

about the devil is that he's very good at turning the victims of evil into the servants of evil.

It's one of his favorite tricks. The victims of child abuse become child abusers. The victims of

racial hatred become hateful racists. The victims of violence become violent and turn and so on.

Because he's a spiritual creature, Satan doesn't care who does the hating as long as the hating

gets done. Now we've been talking all week about ideas versus this idea of identity and silence

versus truth speaking. Leftism, which is a distorted slave philosophy of racism and sexism and

hatred, loves to jump on true ideas and brand them according to leftist categories to call them racist

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