If You Did These Things, You Might Just be a Sociopath

Last night, I heard a new story about the most consistently disappointing person I’ve ever known.

This individual threw her life away on drugs, spent her fortune, lost her professional license, got convicted of a felony because she didn’t feel like completing a diversion program, lost her house and possessions, ended up in a homeless shelter, and was taken in by a kindly aunt. Once she was in her aunt’s home, she took over a guest room, made her aunt pay for her food, stained the carpet and furniture, and caused roaches to move in. She told her aunt she couldn’t be evicted because of coronavirus.

Here is the new story: when she was finally thrown out, the aunt found chewing gum stuck to the underside of her dinner table. Several big blobs. And her guest has very few teeth.

Human depravity is a marvel.

Before things turned completely sour, the aunt’s daughter offered to give this person a 2008 vehicle in very good shape. The offer was declined. She said she wanted a BMW.

Sit and let that soak in.

Hell doesn’t exist solely to punish. It also exists to bless the righteous by keeping the depraved out of their sight. When you’re in hell, the people in heaven can’t see you or hear you. They don’t get updates on you. They don’t visit. They never ask God to help you. They don’t think they owe you anything. They don’t remember you existed. You can’t put on a black outfit and a mask and go to heaven to riot for what you think are your rights.

This has to be one of the best things about heaven.

God told me it’s more important to get the wrong people out of your life than it is to bring the right people in. If you have 5 friends and one enemy whose presence is a stench in your nostrils, you’re better off cutting the enemy off than looking for a 6th friend.

I think hell is very important. I believe God will not annihilate a spirit, and this is consistent with the Bible. That means every evil being ever created still lives. Based on my observations of humanity, I also believe every spirit grows more powerful given sufficient time and opportunity. I think the pain of hell and the lake of fire isn’t just punishment; I think it prevents spirits from getting stronger and causing more problems. All they can focus on is their agony. People who claim they’ve visited hell and the lake of fire say the spirits in these places are close together in distance but completely alone when it comes to interaction. That makes sense to me, because it prevents them from unifying against God.

I am sure there are many people in hell who have never repented. I’m sure there are people there who still think they’re right and that God has mistreated them. I think that even if God somehow found a way to give them the opportunity to be saved, they would stand in the flames, curse him, and turn him down. I have been on Earth for several decades observing human nature, and my opinion is based on what I have seen.

It’s pleasant to think God has a plan for cleaning out hell and fixing the spirits who are confined there, but I have no reason to think that will happen, and there is a ton of evidence that it won’t.

It’s important to understand depravity and to admit it exists. Otherwise, you will always see God as cruel and unfair for building the lake of fire.

I have learned that most people do not believe in depravity. We love to say people are basically good. That’s completely wrong. The very best of us may be good by human standards, but by God’s standards, all human beings are filthy and evil. We all deserve hell, and many of us are so vile we should be killed on sight. As I write this, babies and children are being raped, tortured, and murdered by people who are not merely able to tolerate it but extremely aroused sexually. Slaves are being beaten. Doctors are tearing the unborn apart and thinking about the money they’re making. In order to stand this life, we develop the habit of avoiding thinking about the evil around us and inside us, but it’s always there.

Pride tells us we’re not so bad. No wonder homosexuals call their movement “pride.” We can’t see God sitting on the throne, so we have no idea what good looks like. We therefore decide we must be good.

When you know someone who is extremely depraved, the only people who will believe your stories about that person are other people who know the depraved. Everyone else who hears what you say will think you’re a self-righteous bastard. Sometimes people who don’t believe you will take up a depraved person’s cause and give them things like housing and money. Trying to do what the bastard should have done. Then what happens a little later? They call and express their amazement at the depravity. Either they’re mad at you because you didn’t warn them, although you did, or they want to apologize over and over for not believing you.

The death penalty exists for a reason. Life without parole exists for a reason. Solitary confinement exists for a reason.

They say a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. That principle is at work in our dealings with the depraved. There are some lessons the proud can’t learn except from experience. If you won’t trust an honest person who tries to warn you, and you think you know better and that you’re morally superior, bad things will happen to you.

There is always symmetry in the supernatural. There are many beings who harm us simply by existing and being seen and heard by us. It’s easy to hurt other people simply by being perceived in some way. Think about women who dress like sluts. They tempt and corrupt men just by showing up. Think about pop musicians who put filth in our minds every time we hear them. Consider perverts who perform public displays of affection in front of children. Consider people who wear T-shirts with obscene slogans on them. It’s very easy to harm people simply by being seen or heard, and people who do that kind of harm also hurt us when they interact with us. To protect yourself from some people, it’s not enough to try to coexist peacefully. You have to be in a place where they can’t go.

On the other hand, by symmetry, there is one being who benefits us every time we see him, hear him, read his words, pray to him, or think about him. God’s presence is joy, love, peace, faith, and healing. Unless he has given up on you, which happens all the time, to be near him is to be blessed, even when he criticizes or chastises you. God is completely beneficial. By symmetry, he is the counterpart of depravity. He helps us to become like him so we are beneficial, too. Children are supposed to take after their father, and he is literally the father of Holy-Spirit-filled Christians.

I don’t regret discarding people. I have never discarded anyone who wasn’t a minus. I never wish I had any of them back. I am glad they’re gone. I thank God for their absence a lot, and I ask him to keep them away until they change. Some, I just want gone, period, because I know they won’t change. I quit praying for them.

Maybe some of them will be redeemed eventually, but most will be separated from me eternally, so why maintain destructive relationships that will end when I die?

It’s fascinating, the way the universe works. It’s remarkable that no one teaches us these things. I have never seen the ideas I am explaining anywhere. This knowledge could save many millions of people a lot of unnecessary suffering, but it’s just not out there for them to see.

Preachers generally do not hear from the Holy Spirit. To get God’s guidance, you have to pray in tongues a lot, and you have to like being corrected. You can’t be proud. You can’t defend yourself. They don’t hear from God, so they make up crazy doctrine, and they feed it to people and tell them it’s true. People believe it, because they don’t pray in tongues either. Then they stop looking for the truth, which is much better.

Everyone is supposed to hear from God, every day. It’s not just for guys with strange, gigantic hats and self-glorifying robes. It’s not just for people who have TV cameras pointed at them. God knows who you are, and he has been waiting for an opportunity to teach you, but if you are convinced that some old monk in a creepy robe or some grinning jackass with a church the size of a basketball stadium has all the answers, you will never get what God has prepared for you.

Other people can’t teach you everything anyway. There is just too much revelation. You need God to explain it.

I wish somebody would give me a free 2008 car. I’d be all over that like a duck on a June bug.