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Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum
It’s not my job to educate you on whether I have questions about satan or satanism

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Turtle Watch
Jul 30, 2010

by Games Forum

Riot Bimbo posted:

What makes people take up an adversary figure largely attested in literature where loss and defeat is more or less rigid fate/prophecy?

Noanswers that hinge on a non-theistic viewpoint

Are underdog stories that seductive?

Even if you are breaking from Christian culture and patriarchy i think there are better ways to do it and better figures to get down with, like ishtar

I think it’s kinda like the Mark Twain story The Mysterious Stranger where people are like “drat devil you suck”. and he is like “ hey you gotta hear my side of the story, you’ve been reading poo poo about me for two thousand years time to set the record straight”.

So the feeling is he is sort of innocent of most of the charges against him, a juvenile-delinquent whose emotionally unavailable father kicks him out of the house instead of actually just being there for him. A sympathetic and complicated guy who can either be your angle or your devel.

Turtle Watch has issued a correction as of 11:48 on Feb 11, 2023

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