A Curious Thing about Hell

I've finished the initial cycle of my romantic novel. The heroin's past life has been hammered out, and her husband has been laid to rest. With the story set in Norse mythology, I had to look into that religion's take on the afterlife. I learned that there was not only one Viking heaven, but two. I've also learned a few things about Hel, also known as Helheim.

The sources are conflicting on the subject. However, old sources indicate that Hel is not at all like Christian hell. The link between Hel and Christian hell is something that was introduced by Christian missionaries as they moved north, into territories where Norse mythology was practiced as religion.

The original belief was based on the idea that the afterlife takes place underground, in a realm where life goes on pretty much as it did on Earth. This realm, where everyone goes is what they called Hel, and there was nothing particularly sad or terrible about it. It wasn't some punishment for past sins. Whatever character a person had while alive continued in the afterlife.

This means that lost souls. The sad lot that never manage to see anything good in life, remain lost soles in the hereafter, and it is this group of people that the goddess of the underworld, also called Hel, bring together as an army that will eventually battle other gods at the end of times. This image is what Christian missionaries expanded and elaborated on in order to convince people that all of Hel is like this. However, this is a demonization of the original belief, where lost souls were only a tiny bit of Hel's enormous realm.

Furthermore, there were alternatives to Hel. People went to Folkvanger and Valhalla as well. There was also a place called Alfheim, which appears to have been a popular destination among believers. But you couldn't get to any of these places without first going to Hel.

Christian missionaries used a demonized version of Hel in order to explain the Christian idea of hell and eternal damnation. The word Hel was thus converted into the word hell, which we now use to mean what the Christians had in mind. This worked well in England. However, when they went to Scandinavia, they had to up their game, because the word hell means good luck in Scandinavian languages. Besides, people rather liked the idea of a cosy warm place underground. It was very much what they were having in mind as Hel anyway.

The missionaries had to give up on the word hell and invent a new word. That word is helvete. Hell is to this day used to mean good luck. We wish all our friends 'hell og lykke' in their lives, which translates to 'good luck and happiness'.

Another curious thing about the old belief system is that it was generally believed that spirits of our forefathers could be brought back to Earth by naming a child after the forefather in question. If that forefather had been to Alfheim, the realm of elves, the child would grow up to be in part an elf. The whole afterlife thing was something floating and cyclical. Spirits went to the various places that existed for the dead and they could come back and bring some of that with them.

The idea that the Christian vision of what the afterlife looks like is similar to pagan tradition is wrong. Norse mythology has nine realms, and spirits travel between all these places. When we die, we first go to Hel, and from there we move on to wherever else we want to go, or we simply hang around in Hel, living our lives as before.

Stone ship graveyard

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The Great Vaccine Pivot Continues

Here's a rather revealing article in The Atlantic that illustrates a couple of things about the way things work.

The author starts out by describing her utter cluelessness as to how viruses spread in general. Then she goes on to tell us that she had no way of knowing the severity of the Wuhan flu. There was no reliable information regarding this at the start of 2020. However, that's a blatant lie. Anyone who cared to dig a little beyond the talking heads on TV knew from the start that very few were getting seriously ill from the flu.

Then she defends her position on vaccines. Who was she to question the wisdom of it? Never mind that the mystery serum was largely untested. Even kids should be injected with it despite the fact that no healthy children get seriously ill from the flu.

The article is a piece of utter obfuscation. The author uses the fact that she thought that American teachers' unions were pushing the mask mandate on kids a little too far as proof that she was somehow in the other camp. Now, all of a sudden, she's a defender of liberty and truth. She too is joining the great vaccine pivot.

What's particularly interesting about this is that this woman was hailed as something of an expert when it came to public health and vaccines, and her role was to play in the controlled opposition team.

Real opposition by real experts was pushed aside, and this puppet was put into place instead. This pushed away valid scepticism related to the virus response by governments. Instead, we got this moron telling us that kids may suffer from wearing masks all the time, and that we should stop doing this even before all the children are properly vaccinated.

Now that it's clear that the virus response was a massive disaster with enormous social and economic consequences that will burden us for decades to come, the woman has the audacity to suggest that we should forget what they did to us and move on. She places herself firmly in the opposition camp, and generously declares that she is willing to forget and move on.

This is how controlled opposition works, and we're idiots to fall for it.

While we have no choice but to move on, we must never forget what happened, and how it was done. There's no excuse for what they did to us, and the author should never again be taken seriously by anyone. Nor should we ever again trust the so-called experts that they roll out for us on TV. They are snake oil salesmen every one of them, always with the same remedy to their imagined and made-up problems. Be it a virus, nuclear war or global warming, their solution always includes higher taxes and less freedom for everyone.

Emily Oster

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Notable Deaths in October

With October behind us, we now have another month of notable deaths to analyse.

October 2022 saw 677 deaths, which is less than 2021 and 2020 with 742 and 679 deaths, but only marginally so. The number is well above 2019 and 2018 with 590 and 570 deaths. Once again, we're seeing numbers in line with the pandemic rather than the years that preceded it:

• 570 in October 2018
• 590 in October 2019
• 679 in October 2020
• 742 in October 2021
• 677 in October 2022

Deaths among those younger than 70 years of age compares to previous years as follows:

• 21.07% in October 2018
• 20.00% in October 2019
• 23.42% in October 2020
• 22.11% in October 2021
• 23.04% in October 2022

October 2022 is comparable to 2021 and 2020. This too is in line with numbers from the pandemic.

Using a severity formula that divides deaths among those older than 69 by 10 and multiplies deaths younger than 70 by 4 we get the following:

• 525 in October 2018
• 519 in October 2019
• 688 in October 2020
• 714 in October 2021
• 676 in October 2022

October 2021 and 2020 are the worst, with 2022 a close third. These numbers too are well above 2018 and 2019.

Notable deaths according to Wikipedia

Here are the numbers:

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October 2022:

• 20s = 4 = 0.59%
• 30s = 11 = 1.62%
• 40s = 24 = 3.55%
• 50s = 33 = 4.87%
• 60s = 84 = 12.41%
• 70s = 140 = 20.68%
• 80s = 212 = 31.31%
• 90s = 155 = 22.90%
• 100+ = 14 = 2.07%

Total = 677; Younger than 70 = 23.04%

October 2021:

• 20s = 7 = 0.94%
• 30s = 10 = 1.35%
• 40s = 14 = 1.89%
• 50s = 48 = 6.47%
• 60s = 85 = 11.46%
• 70s = 161 = 21.70%
• 80s = 246 = 33.15%
• 90s = 147 = 19.81%
• 100+ = 24 = 3.23%

Total = 742; Younger than 70 = 22.11%

October 2020:

• 20s = 5 = 0.74%
• 30s = 10 = 1.47%
• 40s = 26 = 3.83%
• 50s = 39 = 5.73%
• 60s = 79 = 11.63%
• 70s = 153 = 22.53%
• 80s = 204 = 30.04%
• 90s = 151 = 22.24%
• 100+ = 12 = 1.77%

Total = 679; Younger than 70 = 23.42%

October 2019:

• 20s = 7 = 1.19%
• 30s = 12 = 2.03%
• 40s = 11 = 1.86%
• 50s = 31 = 5.25%
• 60s = 57 = 9.66%
• 70s = 129 = 21.86%
• 80s = 195 = 33.05%
• 90s = 135 = 22.88%
• 100+ = 13 = 2.20%

Total = 590; Younger than 70 = 20.00%

October 2018:

• 20s = 5 = 0.88%
• 30s = 14 = 2.46%
• 40s = 18 = 3.16%
• 50s = 31 = 5.44%
• 60s = 54 = 9.47%
• 70s = 128 = 22.46%
• 80s = 187 = 32.81%
• 90s = 122 = 21.40%
• 100+ = 11 = 1.93%

Total = 570; Younger than 70 = 21.07%

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One New Case of Monkeypox per Day in Portugal

A total of 944 cases of Monkeypox have been registered in Portugal as of October 21. This is the first update of these numbers since October 2 when there had been 926 cases since the beginning of the outbreak.

This means that there have been 18 new cases over a 19-day period, which translates to about 1 new case per day. A clear downward trend has been in place since the start of August.

• July 1 - 415 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• July 7 - 473 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• July 13 - 515 cases - about 7 new cases per day
• July 20 - 588 cases - about 10 new case per day
• July 27 - 633 cases - about 7 new cases per day
• August 3 -710 cases - about 10 new cases per day
• August 10 - 770 cases - about 9 new cases per day
• August 17 - 810 cases - about 6 new cases per day
• August 24 - 846 cases - about 5 new cases per day
• August 31 - 871 cases - about 4 new cases per day
• October 2 - 926 cases - about 2 new cases per day
• October 21 - 944 cases - about 1 new case per day

Assuming a hospital stay of no more than ten days for the infected, there should be no more than 10 cases of Monkeypox currently in Portuguese hospitals. The downward trend indicates that the outbreak may be over by Christmas.

Pride flag

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275 New Cases of Monkeypox per Day Worldwide

As of November 4, we've reached 78,500 cases of Monkeypox worldwide. That's fewer by a few thousand than predicted on October 17. We are only seeing 275 new cases per day. That's down from 1,000 new cases per day back in August, and a clear sign that the outbreak is waning.

The worldwide number of cases currently in hospitals can be estimated to be 2,750 based on an assumption that patients are released within 10 days. That's a miniscule percentage of the total number of hospital beds in the world, which is in the millions.

Assuming that this trend persists, we can make the following prediction going forward:

• July 24 - 17,500 cases, 700 new cases per day, 7,000 inpatients
• August 1 - 24,000 cases, 750 new cases per day, 7,500 inpatients
• August 9 - 32,000 cases, 1,000 new cases per day, 10,000 inpatients
• August 17 - 39,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• August 25 - 46,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• September 2 - 53,000 cases, 875 new cases per day, 8,750 inpatients
• September 10 - 57,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• September 18 - 61,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• September 26 - 65,000 cases, 500 new cases per day, 5,000 inpatients
• October 15 - 73,000 cases, 400 new cases per day, 4,000 inpatients
• November 4 - 78,500 cases, 275 new cases per day, 2,750 inpatients
• November 14 - 81,000 cases, 250 new cases per day, 2,500 inpatients
• November 24 - 83,500 cases, 250 new cases per day, 2,500 inpatients
• December 4 - 86,000 cases, 250 new cases per day, 2,500 inpatients
• December 14 - 88,000 cases, 200 new cases per day, 2,000 inpatients
• December 24 - 90,000 cases, 200 new cases per day, 2,000 inpatients

Pride flag

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Dark Magic

The problem with disbelief in God is that we end up not believing in the devil either. Evil can be on full display, and we don't see it, because we don't believe that it exists. At least not in the pure and undiluted form that it has been shown to us lately.

The same goes for magic. Once we stop believing in it, we stop believing in dark magic as well. We become blind to the propaganda and the psyops used to control and spellbind us, and we become like putty in the hands of the evil ones in control of the apparatus of magic.

Many got themselves unwittingly injected by unknown substances for no good reasons at all, except for the dark magic that was used against them. It was well known all along that the injections were ineffective and dangerous. I wrote about this during the early days of the rollout, based on news reports that anyone could read for themselves. People got ill with the virus despite being injected. Many died from the injection. One of the selected substances was so dangerous that even those in the deepest trance were getting apprehensive.

People wore masks on their faces, sometimes two layers. Many were genuinely scared of people who behaved normally. There were those who refused to go to Christmas gatherings if there was anyone unvaccinated among the guests. That's how crazy things were.

But people are waking up, and many are starting to understand the power of their foresight and will. They can see what's coming, and they don't want any of it. Seeing that those who resisted the dark spell did so with no other weapon than their will to resist, people now know that dark magic can be resisted in this way. Next time the people at the ministry of magic try their dirty tricks on us, many more will say no, and the evil will in that way be deflected and rendered impotent.

None of this was impossible to predict, of course. Anyone with a clear head and a good grasp of reality could see that this would eventually happen. Yet very few will dare use the word magic to describe what went on, even though people were quite clearly in a trance, spellbound and unable to act rationally based on widely available facts.

The mask of the beast

A Victory for Democracy

The election in Brazil is universally hailed as a victory for democracy. Just about everyone that's asked to comment on the election result will mention this, often as the single most important thing about the election, as if the ousting of Bolsonaro was some kind of great return to democracy after decades of dictatorship.

I find this curious. It's almost as if everyone has been given a script to read from. Besides, there was something fishy about the results coming in at above 55% in favour of Bolsonaro at the very beginning of their counting, only to be gradually turned into a narrow loss. It was not quite as odd as when Biden ended up the most popular president ever, with more vote than Obama ever had, but the numbers that came in looked fishy. There was something too smooth and managed about them.

However, none of this matters. Liberty is not won at the ballot box. It's grown organically through the network and the severing of ties with the state. When we take control of our own lives, and apply foresight and will to our destiny, we become free. Everything else is but an illusion of freedom where the power-hungry tie us down with their chains of dependence on their various welfare schemes.

Stolen elections may even be good in the end. When it becomes obvious that politicians are nothing but crooks, hellbent on power, people realize that they cannot trust them. This will make people seek alternatives, which they will find among the liberty minded in their own communities.

The laws of economy kick in. When the elite bases its power on a diminishing base of support, their exploitations become all the more glaring. We get inflation and a radical move of wealth away from ordinary people and into the hands of well-connected corporations and individuals. The whole economy gets skewed towards the production of weapons and drugs, and away from healthy living.

In the end, it becomes obvious that only those who manage to disconnect form the system have any chance of getting through the ensuing collapse without great loss.

The social contract