19 April, LV A.S.

9sense Episode List, Year LV A.S. Episode List / / Charles Dickens, Coronavirus Testing, Creature Feature, Great Expectations, Infernal Informant, Public Protests, Religious Exploration, The Devil's Advocate, Warlock Jeff Bowling

1. The Devil’s Advocate

Time Stamp: 7:10

  • Letter: If [former members] have changed their mind, they think that their current ideas are correct and their former ideas incorrect. But I find that, as interesting as their current endeavors are, the basic platform of Satanism remains for me the most solid foundation from which to operate, so this paradox is mind-boggling for me.
    • Magus Gilmore eloquently writes in his essay “Yes, We Have No Occultism:”
      https://www.churchofsatan.com/yes-we-have-no-occultism/
      • “Our members . . . might be intrigued by other religions (from neo-pagan and Eastern beliefs to ancient doctrines), a broad range of philosophies . . . . And . . . Satanism provides an excellent platform for open, critical examination of many perspectives . . . . Our members are free to extract and employ whatever they find in them to be beneficial to themselves.” 
    • You can explore any ideas from other religions, using what you like and discarding what you don’t like. It’s what Satanism is in the first place!
    • Just don’t fool yourself into thinking there is any validity to the spiritual or occultnik hype you will find, as it is all a lie. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid

2. Infernal Informant

Time Stamp: 24:32

  • 1,000 people gathered in violation of health order to protest Salt Lake City’s coronavirus restrictions
    https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/04/18/utah-group-protests-salt/
    • They came with signs and wearing red, white and blue. They came with masks. Most came without. They came with just-purchased take-out from McDonald’s and Costa Vida and Crown Burger. They came with lawn chairs and picnic blankets.
    • But mostly they, close to 1,000 people, came because they could. This is the United States and they want to get back to normal. They want to get back to work.
    • “We have to let [government officials] know, with our voice, that it’s ‘We the People’ and not ‘They the Government,” rally organizer Eric Moutsos said to cheers “We can be respectful, we can be healthy, we can be safe,” he said, “and we can work, as American citizens, immediately.”
    • state and local stay-at-home directives and orders infringe on their rights and do more harm than good.
    • anticipate an increase in suicides as people lose their livelihoods
    • “snitching” on neighbors for gathering is like fascism
    • Americans can make their own decisions, and those who want to open their businesses and get back to work have that right.
    • Similar protests have materialized in Idaho, Michigan, Texas and Virginia
    • Q: Where is individual liberty in a pandemic? (vaccines, public health, etc.)
    • The quarantine is designed to slow the curve of infections not prevent them.
    • 2019-2020 flu season thus far:
      https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
      • 39,000,000 – 56,000,000 flu illnesses
      • 24,000 – 62,000 flu deaths
      • Compared to 738,923 corona virus cases
      • Compared to 39,015 corona virus deaths
  • Coronavirus testing needs to go up by 350,000 per day for the US to reopen, Harvard researchers say
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/health/us-coronavirus-sunday/index.html
    • Testing nationwide is currently at 150,000 per day, they said, adding that “If we can’t be doing at least 500,000 tests a day by May 1, it is hard to see any way we can remain open.”
    • The research on the testing shortfall was done by Dr. Ashish Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, Dr. Thomas Tsai, researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Benjamin Jacobson, research assistant at the Harvard Global Health Institute.
    • In the US, 20% of those tested for coronavirus get positive results. The World Health Organization has said that to reopen, that number should be between 3% to 12%.
    • the White House said states can enter the first phase toward reopening once they see a continued decrease over two weeks.
    • The US is currently lacking the testing capacity critical to reopening, and the roll out of tests was stalled from the start of the national outbreak.
    • That delay stemmed from contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coronavirus test, multiple health officials told CNN

3. Creature Feature

Time Stamp: 1:00:28

  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ6t9TS-4RCZ08CdxzBTjhQWHHcIyVW3F
    • the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel
    • first published as a serial in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.
    •  set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century
    • full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death
    • themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and guilt
    • On Christmas Eve, around 1812 Pip, an orphan about seven years old, unexpectedly meets an escaped prisoner (Abel Magwitch) in the village churchyard, while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings. 
    • Miss Havisham, a wealthy, reclusive spinster asks Mr Pumblechook, a relation of the Gargerys, to find a boy to visit her. Pip visits Miss Havisham and falls in love with Estella, her adopted daughter.
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