Satanic Possession

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For this concept to be intelligible, by "spirit" one has to understand it to mean "attitude", "intention", or "mentality". As in, "a loving spirit", or "a holy spirit". Thus, "a Satanic spirit" amounts to a spirit of wrathful lust, as simulated by a video game like Grand Theft Auto. What else could better describe the spirit of a creature that exhibits an insatiable sexual appetite, consequently raping and consuming cognitive beings to survive, and that acts incapable of communication, while retaining the power logical thought? The Thing incarnations exhibit a Satanic spirit.

The Thing does not and cannot possess a mind of its own, as we understand minds, in the sense of a consciously-operating self-aware brain. Instead, the Thing constructs brains and nervous systems as needed, spontaneously evolving in response to its principle of possession. Being a biological principle, this principle is directed toward surviving biologically. The question will ultimately be, what power is doing the constructing? The answer is more terrifying than you can imagine. But now, continuing on survival:

For instance, while apparently dead, and definitely unconscious, as with Norris after his heart attack, the Thing itself suddenly goes unconscious. Being a perfect imitation in body, there was no hidden "Thing-brain" anywhere inside Norris, maybe hiding in his bellybutton or something, which could have anticipated the problems arising from the incipient and later onrushing heart attack. No. Being compressed by a social situation, the Thing was forced completely into non-existence as a conscious and corporeal entity. When cardialgia hit, Norris (and so the Thing) wasn't expecting it. The Thing couldn't repair the damage, because Norris had already called the others "Hey guys, come over here!", and they were on their way. Norris had to be completely Norris at that point, so the Thing had no time to repair the arteries. There’s more going on here than that, but that’s the gist.

It never repaired the heart before, because, again, the heart condition is part of who Norris is. A Norris walking around suddenly cured of his heart condition, will act different from the normal Norris. The Thing, on principle, did not interfere, and this is why Norris refused command – because the stress was affecting his heart. Thus, being a perfect imitation, robbed the Thing of its opportunity for command, there, because to have taken the revolver, while remaining "under cover", Norris would have had to have suddenly felt "up to it", and the Thing didn’t have the opportunity to fix his heart condition in full view of nine other men, nor could it influence Norris in any way, like "I gotta go to the bathroom guys, let me think about it", not with all eyes on him. And Norris himself, as the Thing’s only avenue of cognition while imitating him, wasn’t smart enough to anticipate the potential offer of command.

After the heart attack hit, while dead, the spirit of the Thing [2] began working immediately to regenerate a usable nervous system, hooked up to Norris’ sense organs, so it could hear what’s going on, for instance, and feel it was being moved, and figure out that it would soon be attacked. This, in fact, is the origin of the second head, the head that sprung forth from Norris’ chest cavity. The head formed out of his viscera (the natural hiding place), to contain a substitute thinking brain, along with legs, tendrils/nerves, and a fearsome visage. But this brain was not Norris – it was merely a replication of Norris’ visage (probably the easiest pattern at hand, given the materiality of Norris’ DNA), augmented with some token dog features (teeth, anger) for the sake of bluff. To the extent this brain, was hooked up with the brain in Norris’ head, it could tap Norris’ memories, and thus consciously remember what a defibrillator was (since he would know this), and thus have time to prepare for an attack, in the most dramatic fashion imaginable [3].

Similarly, the spider-head, was no longer Norris, for it cannibalized his brain to reproduce legs, leaving it rather dim-witted. Interestingly, it remained intelligent enough to know when the game was up, after being spotted. It didn’t flee in terror like an animal to be caught in the hallway seconds later, or attack futilely. It remained where it was and hastened its own demise. This is the mark of a chess-player, a mark of intelligence. More on that later. This suggests a conservation of neocortical brain tissue. Thus, the spirit seeks to manifest itself as self-reflectively as possible. A dog has some self-reflection, but a man has more, so it upgrades to the best it can produce at any given moment. Hence its inferred desire "to be us".

The Thing is different from ordinary Satanic spirits, who exist only to deceive and destroy, and who have purely spiritual roots, by also existing to reproduce. The Thing’s biological roots, combining compulsively recreational rape-sex-devouring-elimination with reproduction, distinguishes it here [4]. In other words, the Thing is transmissible only via such biological action. In ordinary possession, the action, if it be biological, is internal and non-transmissible (though it may be encouraged by external sources); what appears to happen, is man’s bestial nature, the irrational spirit of his body itself, displaces his divine nature, and through this generates perverse impulses tending toward wrathful lust.

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