"Art Deco" <art_deco@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:141120051151523802%art_deco@127.0.0.1...

Tom <askpermission@comcast.net> wrote:

"Art Deco" <art_deco@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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The Holy Scriptures says Satan is the real
ruler of the world right now

Really?  Where?

You could try reading it for yourself.

I have.  The Bible is a big book.  Perhaps you can cite the specific chapter
and verse in which Satan is declared to be the ruler of the world right now.
I don't seem to be able to find it.

I did not make this statement, therefore it is not my responsibility to
find it.

Well, I didn't make the statement either, but you saw fit to suggest that I look for it anyway.

Below is what I posted to alt.freemasonry and alt.conspiracy and
others. Note that Freemasons have persecuted me as a servant of
YEHOVAH by repeatedly drugging me by couart order for my true
Christian beliefs

Any evidence for this insane delusion?

I think it's quite possible that this guy has been drugged by court order,
if he was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital after it was
determined that he was a danger to himself or others.  It's also very likely
that his rather bizarre religious beliefs were at least in part the
motivation for the behavior that got him committed.  It may be delusional
that the people who actually did the committing were Freemasons, but it's
not impossible that some of them were.

Do you believe everything you read on usenet?

No.  Do you equate the admission of a possibility with a belief?  I don't. I'm offering what appears to me to be a plausible interpretaton of our dear JW friend's autobiographical anecdote.  While it remains an hypothesis, it doesn't seem unfeasible.  Surely that's not enough evidence to promote it to the status of a "belief", yet it has the virtue of not requiring any extraordinary assumptions, so I think it falls on the positive side of Occam's Razor.

The Freemasons also lurk under your bed waiting to steal your kidneys.
Be very afraid!

But you forget, he says that he has angels protecting him from kidney
snatchers, CIA assassins, and so forth.

Are you one of these alleged angels?

By what must be the sheerest of coincidences, I had recently been thinking about what it would be like to be an angel, and how one might act in that capacity even though one was no more than a mere human being.  It seems to me that when we exercise our generosity, do something kind (especially for someone in particular, a gratuitously performed personal favor of some significance), or engage in any sort of altruistic interactions, we might be perceived as an agent of a benevolent god, which is, after all, what an angel is supposed to be.

But be that as it may, no, I do not want our friend to think of me as someone willing and able to rescue his kidneys from the Freemasons and I'm pretty confident that neither you nor he is seriously considering the possibility that I might be.  Still, he feels he has their aid and that belief should trump his fear of the kidney thieves, just as it does his fear of the CIA.  As I see it, he believes himself to be clothed in the armor of righteousness, which, as we all should know, is proof against kidney thieves, government goons, demons, aliens, and assorted nefarious entities, both mundane and supernatural.  I've known quite a few paranoids, some schizophrenic and some not, who feel that they would surely have succumbed to the forces of evil were it not for their armors of righteousness.