Mysteriet löst? Apropå mina frågor i förra inlägget.
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Det här är faktiskt bisarrt. Vill inte Djävulen ha henne i helvetet? Det här är alltså kvinnan som varit i dödscell i runt 30 år, dömd för ett satanistiskt ritualmord. Eller också är det någonting väldigt sjukt med avrättningsmetoderna i USA.
Det hela känns på något sätt...symboliskt. Symbol för vad? Det återstår kanske att se.
An original take on American evangelicalism, arguing that it´s actually a form of populist mysticism. Note the idea that evangelicalism may channel both Christ and the Demiurge ("Satan"). So can most other religions, I think! Not sure who the content-creator is. Some kind of folkish mystic?
Information om subkulturen "True Crime Community", som skolmördaren i Fagersta misstänks ha tillhört. På engelska. Från amerikanska ADL:s sajt.
Skoldådet i Fagersta verkar vara ännu sjukare än vad jag trodde. Och jag var väl inte direkt optimistisk innan. Men vad är beviset på att gärningsmannen var "högerradikal" i vanlig mening? Det står ingenstans i AB:s artikel. Det här handlar med stor sannolikhet om en väldigt specifik form av "högerradikalism". Ni vet vad jag menar!
Är jag den ende som misstänker att skolmördaren i Fagersta tillhörde ni-vet-precis-vilket-nätverk-jag-menar?
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? 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.
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.
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.
Thomas Sheridan has a new conspiracy theory. OK, folks, you won´t believe this one!
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...
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.
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!