Milton’s “Paradise Lost” paints Satan as a tragic hero. According to Peter, Satan waged war against Michael and other angels and was defeated. In defeat, he inherited the Earth. Proof of that can be found in the temptations of Jesus in which Satan offers Jesus the World. The offer could not be made if Satan did not claim ownership of the World. If all this is mythology, who or what is the real Devil? If, as Sartre notes "Hell is other people, then the Devil is what is other than the Self. Is the Devil Other or is he us?
The devil was created to sanitize God. To make God perfectly good, you need to remove characteristics which are, or seem to be, evil. You associate those characteristics with the devil.
She is no hero. She is a narcissist with an ego so big she cannot be reasoned with and she is incredibly devoid of empathy.
In a sense, the toxicity and pain of the Devil infects our minds, in that sense he lives inside us. He uses attachment mechanisms and contrast to maximize our sufferings.
In a sense, yes. When you encounter the Devil, you lose all motivation to be bad, because you see what bad is, and you want no part of it.
Devils and angels maybe, but not “The Devil” himself.
So you are either Satan or God, but don’t know which?
When I was young I thought I might be the anti-christ, but when I was even younger I thought I was an angel.
Tbh, I am not sure but I think my life’s purpose is to defeat the Devil (and also make the DnA machine for the 2nd garden of Eden that will last for 1000 years.)
The devil is the inclusion of a fail proof system within god’s perfect plan, satisfying the thermodynamic requirements of creation. In that sense they are one, the devil is a kind of caveat, or afterthought, to make repetition unavoidable.
Karmic progression, or regression, are the religious metaphors to this process.