Night vision

 

SPOILER WARNING

"Beck - Spår i mörker" (also known as "Beck 2 - Spår i mörker") is a 1997 Swedish film (or strictly speaking a Scandinavian-German co-production). Police officer Martin Beck is a fictional character developed by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, but the film isn´t based on their crime novels. "Beck - Spår i mörker" features Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt and other famous Swedish actors. 

And now, the subjective part...

Almost 30 years later, the film comes across as very strange. It has a noir and cyberpunk feeling, but also concentrates heavily on Beck´s strained private relationships (which are much more mundane). One running gag is that Beck always has to break off his planned vacation?! Beck´s constant sidekick Gunvald Larsson comes across as "the crazy cop", while almost everyone else is incompetent. The plot itself was *extremely* unrealistic back in 1997, almost to the point of science fiction. Sweden was a much safer place 30 years ago. Today? You tell me.

Beck, Gunvald and Beck´s love interest Lena Klingström investigate a string of bizarre murders in the Stockholm metro. The assassins have hacked the security system and can turn off the lights and the power at will. Indeed, they seem to live in the tunnels. Curiously, no motive for the killings is discernable and the only clue is a Internet symbol meaning "death"...

It turns out that the murders are part of a computer game called "Final Doom", in which the players have to kill real people in order to "reach the next level". It´s never explained what this could possibly mean, but it´s heavily implied that the teenagers playing the game are actually a nihilistic cult. "Beck - Spår i mörker" ends with an American reporter revealing that a similar string of killings have been reported from New York. The cult is worldwide and presumably web-based. 

I suppose this noir film did tap into real fears about the Internet which existed back in 1997, long before most people even had access to the damn thing. Today, we know what happened. Violent cults (such as the notorious 764) do indeed thrive on the dark web. Also, youth gangs in Sweden recruit children on-line to carry out murders. It´s hard to believe that things will take a sudden turn for the better. In that sense, the high strangeness of "Beck - Spår i mörker" feels almost prophetic. 

Thankfully, the metro in Stockholm is still relatively safe!     

Är Satan kapitalist?

 

Är Satan kapitalist? Med ekonomiska intressen i Tierp-trakten? Med tanke på att borgerliga UNT vill att Vänsterpartiet i den kommunen ska tillåta hans anhängare att bli medlemmar...

Och nej, jag kan inte heller läsa hela ledarartikeln. Fast om jag testar svart magi kanske det funkar? Eller om jag betalar UNT. Kapitalism, ni vet. 

LOL.  

Ett anti-satanistiskt vänsterparti

Vänsterpartiet i Tierp borde välkomna satanister

Maniac Murder Cult

 

Tar den här skiten aldrig slut? Fast observera att "Maniac Murder Cult" faktiskt kallas satanistisk i den andra artikeln! Måste dock säga att bevisen för en rysskoppling verkar ganska svaga. 

Terrordömd svensk rekryterades av misstänkt rysk agent

20-åring döms för deltagande i terrororganisation

WTF

 

Who the fuck is Ammon Hillman?!

Masters of the universe

 

I didn´t know US Christian fundamentalists considered He-Man to be demonic. Or maybe I did, but forgot about it. But yeah, there is a shape-shifting witch in the story, so there´s that. I assume the clip above is from the 1980´s? Cultist BS, if you ask me.

Wtf, I love He-Man now. 

If the tin foil hat fits...

 

Thomas Sheridan has a new conspiracy theory. OK, folks, you won´t believe this one! 

If the tin foil hat fits...

Terraforming Earth

 

Are data centers controlled by an alien or interdimensional race, which is "terraforming" Earth to take it over? This race came through a portal when Jack Parsons and L Ron Hubbard did their infamous Babalon working. Parsons´ wife Marjorie Cameron may have been one of the space aliens. They are a silicon-based life form (like computer chips) and can´t stand carbon (and therefore secretely control climate activism). Most humans will be replaced by these creatures, but the "tech bro" elite have been promised Mars and will soon leave our planet in a "Noah´s ark". 

Or so Thomas Sheridan speculates. The full presentation is only available for paying channel members, but I think I got the gist of it. 

I don´t doubt that some elite groups may believe in *very* crazy things, but that doesn´t mean they are right, or that they can act on their beliefs. I mean, what are the chances that Peter Thiel & Co can build a space ark and leave orbit? This is just a form of quasi-political superstition, in which the upper class is cast in the role of "gods" (albeit evil ones). 

But sure, I suppose it would be ironic if our overlords are ultimately overthrown by ignorant peasants who actually think they are fighting interdimensional aliens... 

Igen och återigen om 764

 

Here we go again. Från vår "ofrivilliga grannblogg". Intressant analys!

Angående 764

"I was wrong about false memories"

 

American Skeptics seem to have two dogmas when it comes to so-called false memories: Elizabeth Loftus is right, and the Satanic Panic was therefore fake. Here is a skeptic who denies the former, but affirms the latter. Which, I suppose, is interesting. The video is five years old and was posted after the New York Times wrote a critical exposé of the False Memory Foundation.  

Lover´s Point

 

Trump´s new appointee for head of the US Navy, a certain Hung Cao, is apparently a fairly fundamentalist Christian. Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) decided to investigate his conspiratorial claim that a place known as Lover´s Point in Monterey has become some kind of center for Wiccans and other Neo-Pagans. Watson soon realized that there were more Christian missionaries in the area than anything even remotely witchy. 

Apparently, the closest thing to an evil witch at Lover´s Point is Watson herself, since she´s an atheist feminist and sometimes scuba dives there!  

Childlike faith

 

Well, I lost my naivety long ago...

Inte nu igen

 

De icke-satanistiska satanisterna nu igen...

Svensk 15-åring har erkänt mordbrand

Counterfeit

 

Hard to believe award? The Adventist channel Scriptures Illustrator claims that there is a Satanic Trinity made of Lucifer, Lilith and Asmodeus. The video (which gets tedious after a while) is about a young Christian man in Brazil who sold his soul to this legion of demons, et cetera. Even if taken at face value, very little in this story can´t be given a purely naturalist (psychological) explanation. And that´s that. 

A Lovecraftian take on Lovecraft

 

Peter Levenda again. A short video arguing that Lovecraft KNEW. Or perhaps didn´t know shit, but subconsciously channeled energies or entities who sure as hell DO KNOW. Of course, this is a common take among occultists. Lovecraft´s horror stories about the Eldritch and their hideous (or rugous?) cults are simply too good, too evocative, not to be believed in. Or you can use the tales to bend Reality. Depending on your level of dark initiation, muh-hah-hah-hah. 

Sources say

 

Claim: the guy starring the priest in the red robe (who doesn´t say anything) in the famous "Godfather" baptism scene was an actual priest in the Liberal Catholic Church with connections to CIA front operations?! 

Source: Peter Levenda, the alleged author of "Simon´s Necronomicon". 

Wtf.

Ozzy forever

 

Overheard on the interwebs: "So, first John MacArthur dies and then Ozzy Osbourne. And you might be wondering, how is it that you could even be uttering these two names within the same breath? How different they were! You know, one was this massive rock star up on stage influencing millions of people, mumbling a bunch of nonsense, and the other one was Ozzy Osbourne."

Blizzard of Ozz

 

ChatGPT has answers to every conceivable question, I mean, dude! 

Were Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath Satanists or anti-Satanists?

Short answer: They were not Satanists — and in many ways their message was anti-Satanic.

Let’s separate image from belief.

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🎸 Black Sabbath

Formed in 1968 in Birmingham, the band developed a dark, occult aesthetic that shocked late-60s audiences.

Their name was inspired by a horror film:

• Black Sabbath (starring Boris Karloff)

But their lyrical content often gets misunderstood.

The Song “Black Sabbath”

On their 1970 debut album:

• Black Sabbath

The title track describes a terrifying encounter with a demonic figure. The tone is not celebratory — it’s fearful.

Geezer Butler (the bassist and main lyricist early on) has explained that the song was inspired by a frightening experience involving occult materials. The point was horror and warning — not praise.

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🎤 Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy cultivated a shock-rock persona — especially during his solo career. Biting the head off a bat in 1982 cemented his “Prince of Darkness” image.

But:

• He has repeatedly denied being a Satanist.

• He was raised in the Church of England.

• He has said he believes in God.

• He has worn crosses throughout his career.

His use of dark imagery was theatrical — part horror, part rebellion, part marketing.

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🧾 Lyrical Themes: Anti-Satanic?

Many early Sabbath songs actually have moral or cautionary themes:

• “After Forever” openly references belief in God.

• “Lord of This World” critiques Satan as a deceiver.

• “War Pigs” condemns warmongering political elites.

• “Children of the Grave” is anti-war and pro-peace.

There’s more apocalyptic Christianity than occult devotion in their catalog.

In fact, some early critics accused them of being Christian moralists disguised as occultists.

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🧠 Why the Confusion?

In the late 1960s–70s:

• Occult imagery was culturally provocative.

• Bands used horror themes to differentiate themselves.

• Media panic amplified “Satanic” accusations.

Later, during the 1980s “Satanic Panic,” metal bands were frequently accused of promoting devil worship regardless of lyrical content.

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⚖️ So What Were They?

Satanists?
→ No evidence supports that.

Occult-curious?
→ Some early fascination, especially via Geezer Butler reading occult literature.

Using horror imagery artistically?
→ Absolutely.

Often morally cautionary in tone?
→ Yes.

Ironically, many of their songs portray evil as terrifying, destructive, and spiritually dangerous — which is closer to traditional Christian demonology than to Satanism.

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If you’d like, we could also explore:

• The difference between theatrical occultism and real Satanism

• How metal’s use of “darkness” compares to earlier Romanticism

• Or how later bands (like early Norwegian black metal) differed ideologically

Given your interest in religion and symbolism, the archetypal “Prince of Darkness” motif in modern music could be a fascinating angle.

His song "Suicide solution" was accused of promoting suicide, but Ozzy himself claimed it was anti-suicide.

Yes — that controversy became one of the most famous metal moral panics of the 1980s.

🎵 Suicide Solution

From the album:

💿 Blizzard of Ozz

By:

🎤 Ozzy Osbourne

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What the Song Was Supposed to Mean

Ozzy and bassist/lyricist Bob Daisley have said the song was about alcohol abuse, not suicide advocacy.

The phrase “Suicide Solution” was intended as a play on words:

• “Solution” = a liquid (alcohol)

• Alcohol as a slow form of self-destruction

Ozzy has stated it was partly inspired by the death of AC/DC singer
Bon Scott
who died in 1980 from acute alcohol poisoning.

In interviews, Ozzy repeatedly said the song was meant as a warning about drinking yourself to death.

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The Lawsuit

In 1984, the parents of a California teenager who died by suicide sued Ozzy, claiming the song contained hidden subliminal messages encouraging suicide.

The case went to court in 1986.

The judge dismissed it, ruling:

• There was no evidence of subliminal messages.

• Lyrics are protected under free speech.

• There was no demonstrable causal link.

This case became one of the early cultural flashpoints in what later became the 1980s “Satanic Panic” around heavy metal.

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Why People Thought It Promoted Suicide

Several factors:

1. The repeated line “Suicide is the only way out” (taken out of context sounds direct).

2. Ozzy’s dark public persona.

3. The broader cultural fear of heavy metal at the time.

4. Lack of nuance in media coverage.

But in context, the lyrics describe addiction trapping someone until they feel there’s no way out — not prescribing suicide as a solution.

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Was It Anti-Suicide?

Ozzy has consistently said yes.

However, there’s an important nuance:

The song is dark and ambiguous. It doesn’t clearly say, “Don’t do this.” It depicts despair vividly.

That ambiguity made it easy to misinterpret.

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Broader Pattern

This mirrors the earlier accusation that
Black Sabbath
were Satanists — where horror aesthetics were mistaken for endorsement.

In both cases:

• Darkness was treated as advocacy.

• Artistic depiction was conflated with moral encouragement.

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If you're interested, we could explore:

• Whether art depicting despair increases or decreases harmful behavior.

• How moral panic works psychologically.

• Or how heavy metal’s engagement with death compares to older religious “memento mori” traditions.

Inversion

 

I´m a bit surprised by the large number of atheists on-line who naively assert that Satanists never harm anyone. Christians (especially the Catholic Church) are guilty of sexual abuse and what not. Satanists never are. 

That is, people who *are explicitly named after an evil being in Christian/Western mythology* are actually harmless, while people claiming to follow the good guy are evil?! Yeah, I´m sure that´s the case. Or maybe not, since this sounds exactly like...Satanist inversion. 

When does naivety cease being an excuse? If one group of evil-doers claim to be good Christians, why is it so bloody inconceivable that people who openly brag about being transgressive actually are so?  

 

Portal to the Underworld

 

The episodes of this bizarre series have titles like "Portal to the Underworld", "Reptoids of Lassen Park" and "Demonic Dominion" (the latter not linked here). And no, it´s not a documentary about current American politics, LOL. I actually watched this series perhaps ten years ago, when it was called "Mysteries at the National Parks". It seems to have been retitled "National Park Secrets and Legends" (at least sometimes). 

Weirdly, I don´t remember how *scary* this series actually is. Or have I just become more paranoid lately? (Any connection to US politics?) It could easily be turned into a "real" horror flick!

Even if taken at face value, many of the incidents could (perhaps) be given natural explanations. Maybe something in the forests make people hallucinate? We´re talking EM effects, volcanic vapor, that kind of stuff. Note also that some of the eye witnesses are self-proclaimed paranormal researchers. Others are Native elders or New Age seekers. Perhaps they are "primed" to have strange experiences? But sure, there is a much simpler hypothesis: ghosts, aliens and unruly spirits are real...

This aint no country for White men. Or any men for that matter.  

Sheridan on Epstein

 

For the record only. Thomas Sheridan´s comments on the Epstein files and Epstein Island. Or some of them...

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