Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 9:49 pm
Once upon a time there was a boy named Chad. Chad believed that he had access to special, divine knowledge that others did not have. He realized that his special access to special knowledge gave him the responsibility to share that knowledge for the good of others. He shared his special knowledge through books and speeches.
One day Chad met Lori and recognized her as his eternal soulmate. They had been together in many lives. Chad shared his special knowledge with Lori — even the most special knowledge that he had shared with few others. Together, they realized that their knowledge gave them the responsibility to carry out a very special mission to help others.
But Chad and Lori faced one seemingly insurmountable obstacle — they needed to be together as eternal mates, but both were married to other people. So Chad accessed the source of his special knowledge and learned that he could judge people as being light or dark. Light people were good and would help Chad and Lori complete their mission. Dark people were bad. If they were dark enough, Chad knew that their spirits were dead and had been replaced by evil spirits or demons.
To his great surprise, Chad learned that Lori’s husband was dark, as were both of her children. They soon became so dark that Chad declared their spirits dead. The evil spirits inhabiting their bodies had to be removed so that the body could die and their true spirits be released so that they could pass on to the Spirit world, where they too had missions to fulfill.
Lori shared this most secret knowledge with select family and friends, and Chad accessed his special knowledge to teach them the art of spiritual warfare. They could remove curses and spiritual weapons from those being attacked by evil spirits. More importantly, they could cast evil spirits and demons out of bodies, releasing the true spirits and allowing the body to die.
They started their castings with Lori’s husband. Chad said they had succeeded in casting out the demon that inhabited his body, but learned that the body had not died. Instead, a second demon had replaced the first. When that demon was cast out, a third demon slipped into the body. The castings were not working.
Even worse, Chad began discovering more and more dark people: the soon to be ex husband of one of the warriors who was contesting legal custody of their children, his brother’s wife, who actively opposed Chad’s claim of access to special, divine knowledge, the wife of Chad’s close friend, who resisted his request to move to the town where Chad lived — even Chad’s own wife. So, so many people standing in the way of Chad and Lori’s divine mission to save the people.
Lori’s husband was shot dead’s by her brother, who Chad had said was called to the earth to be Lori’s protector. Chad woke up one morning to find that his wife had died in the night. Lori’s children just disappeared. The warriors suffered one devastating loss: the sudden death of Lori’s brother — her special protector.
Two weeks after Chad’s wife was found dead, he married Lori on a beach in Hawaii. The blissful newlyweds danced and sang, while Chad played on a ukulele. Lori assured family and friends that her children were safe and happy, but would tell no one where they were.
They were buried in Chad’s backyard. Lori’s seven year old son had a sealed plastic bag over head. Her teen aged daughter had been dismembered and the parts burned.
A conspiracy of dark police officers, prosecutors, and FBI agents arrested Chad and Lori and charged them with murder. At her trial, Lori stayed loyal to Chad, never suggesting that he had any responsibility for the deaths. She was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. She says she is regularly visited by the spirits of her two children and her eternal best friend — Chad’s dead wife. They comfort her, telling her that they are happy and busy in the spirit world and that she did nothing wrong. She looks forward to joining them.
At Chad’s trial, he blamed Lori and her brother for the death’s (except his wife’s, which was caused naturally). She seduced him, deceived him, and used him as a fall guy. He blames the conspiracy of evil spirits and demons, who possess the bodies of law enforcement, for framing him. (But he doesn’t share the part about evil spirits and demons with the jury.) He sits at a table, five days a week, listening to family, friends, and other witnesses tell his tragic story. He is comforted by the knowledge that his children, who he dated his secret knowledge with — including light and dark people — will come to his defense. Will he be allowed to continue his divine mission to help the people? Has he been given new, divine special knowledge that will allow him to defeat the conspiracy and go free. Will he share Lori’s fate? Or will the forces of darkness succeed by killing him.
Perhaps he is comforted by the knowledge that there are others who quest for divine, special knowledge. That have learned how to see in people what is hidden from everyone else. Who will take up his mission to save the people, whatever the cost.
Tribute & Warning 
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