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It's not a good idea to confront druid ghosts who've taken over your 747 in midflight, freezing the place and demanding a human sacrifice. But sometimes there's no alternative -- particularly if you're a character played by William Shatner and the other passengers are actually about to give the ghosts what they want.
The Horror at 37,000 Feet is just that ridiculous of a movie--and just that awesome. The philosophical talk between Shatner's defrocked priest character and the pagan woman who's on the side of the druids is great. And then . . . and then there's the last lines of the movie, delivered by the doctor in this gif. This is a character who knows what he does not know and who also recognizes the insight that may have motivated the former priest's actions: If there are devils, there must also be gods.
You'll also find this idea in the climactic moment of The Rite, where the doubting priest recognizes the evil in the room, concludes that G-d also exists, and starts quoting from the Nicene Creed. I've been hearing this idea a lot lately, mostly but not exclusively from @JamesDelingpole: If evil is real, so is good; if supernatural evil is real, so is supernatural good; if demonic powers exist, so do heavenly; if Satan exists, so does G-d; if there are devils, there must also be gods!
Halloween has largely moved on from classic ghost movies, the Great Pumpkin, silly costumes, and kids eating candy--things I support. It's increasingly nightmarish, darker and darker, and sexually degenerate. It's . . . downright demonic.
Well, newsflash: The devils are real. Evil powers exist. The most accurate and thorough conspiracy theory of them all is: Satan exists, and the big jerk does stuff.
But here's some more news: Tuesday is also Reformation Day; then Wednesday is 1 November, and--besides being the day to which Halloween was once merely the eve--that is also Thanksgiving season, followed closely by Advent, twelve days of Christmas, and the real J6--Epiphany, when the Magi met little Jesus.
If there are devils, there must also be gods. Feed the kids some candy, shun the devils, and rejoice with where the year is going next. There are also powers in Heaven!
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A friend sent me a photo of women dressed in overly sexualized outfits for Halloween this weekend and was sort of shocked. But it makes complete sense that a holiday featuring death and devils would tend toward sexual temptation, too. And maybe that's the right place for it honestly. These girls and women play at versions of themselves that they know would not be acceptable or laudable on the other 364 days of the year.
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Perversion of human sexuality was always a priority for the devils.
And it can lead to death, as the Old Testament teaches. Also a theme in The House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price.
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Isn't it just barely possible that everything we experience was created as a plaything by forces we would consider evil but are actually the only ones that exist?
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Are we talking H. P. Lovecraft ideas here, or something else?
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I'm not trying to make an analogy to anything. But the idea that if (what we consider) "evil" exists then (what we consider) "good" must also exist, seems flawed.
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