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2017

Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Losing

Hell is nothing if not hungry.
Wormwood has failed.
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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Fatigue

A tired human may be more vulnerable, but you have to use it correctly. Horror can also be upsetting, but only if you correctly twist the emotional reaction.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Cowardice

Hatred is useful, but combined with Cowardice and Fear it becomes a very powerful tool. And as always, keep the patient in ignorance!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Death

Human suffering is all well and good, but if they die before we can corrupt them, all is lost. Time, long life, monotony, these are our friends.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Petitions

The humans cannot comprehend simple things about the Universe because they are stuck in that fraction of it we call Time. It is easy to convince them that petitionary prayer is a farce, if they think (even subconciously) of their reality as the ultimate one.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Unselfishness

Early while these young fools are dating, convincing them to be supernaturally unselfish toward one another, but rely on their own strength and not the Enemy, will certainly produce wonderful results in the future!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Novelty

If those the patient interacts with must be Christians, let that be a backdrop to some other commonality that they share much stronger. Christianity alone maybe looks old and tired. Humans can be made to want something new and fresh.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Spiritual Pride

Wormwood needs to use the patient's new friend in order to enhance the religious corruption we are hoping for. If the patient can become proud in his religion, the corruption will be very sweet indeed.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about the Historical Jesus

We want humanity to recognize a Jesus in their own image, one they can use to meet their own goals. The corruption of religion is a wonderful way to win playthings.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Failure

Wormwood will pay for his horrible mistake. Allowing a patient to fall in love with a disgusting little Christian woman... and all while I've been instructing him how to find a good match for the patient! It's as if he ignores me and holds no power over his patient. Useless!

Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Ownership

The more a patient claims, the more they can become dissaponted, and the more irritable they become. Always encourage them to claim ownership over things they have no real claim to, especially their time.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Beauty

If we can define sexual "taste", then we can use that to bring about marriages useful to our purposes. You should know what we have currently crafted in this regard.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about The Secret

If ever we come to understand what the Enemy means by Love, the war would be over and we should re-enter Heaven. If we could only find out what He is really up to!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Marriage

In order to understand more nuanced attacks on chastity, my nephew must get hold of the basics of love and marriage as the Enemy intends.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Gluttony

My nephew thinks very little of those who fall to gluttony, yet it is a powerful and very common sin if one just takes the time to think about it!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Church Shopping

Some humans will go to church, but we should at least ensure they do not stick with only one! Critical sampling, that's the thing!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Time

The Enemy may destine humans for eternity, but the past, or better, the future is a much better home for them all.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Humility

The Enemy has particular intentions for humility, and if we can learn to work outside of those, even what seems like a virtue may turn to our aims.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Pleasures

My nephew has failed, once again, to understand basic human workings. Real pleasure, real pain, these things can show a person reality. We want to tempt them to unreality!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Nothing

Gradual changes are more lasting than quick ones. Nothing is very strong.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Laughter

Laughter can be a sign of good things, or of bad things. One cannot simply promote humour, but when done for the right reasons it can be very profitable.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Worldliness

Finally, some good news! My nephew had gone strangely silent, but I see that he has been putting his time to good use.

What could be better than worldly friends?

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about The Valley

A continuation of my last video. I give some tips on exploiting the low points of human existence.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Undulation

My nephew needs to learn that humans are always "coming out of a phase," but that doesn't mean they won't go back.

You cannot sit on your hands, you must work your opportunities!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Factions

Myth, magicians, extremes, in-groups, factions and more! Abusing Christianity to justify other causes.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Fear

My nephew needs to learn to make use of the suspense that political turmoil can bring.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Violence

My nephew is drunk on the glorious anguish his patient feels over turmoil in the world. But he must stick to the task at hand.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Prayer

My nephew seriously underestimates the power of prayer, but he also underestimates how easy it is to lead a human astray...

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Family

My nephew is lucky enough to have a family situation to play with. I give him a few pointers on how to make the most of that.

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about the Church

After a small setback, my nephew needs to know how to use the church to his advantage.

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DemonVlogger

In which I introduce a new channel. New videos every Wednesday!

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Screwtape Teaches Wormwood about Real Life

My nephew seems to think that he can win over his patient by making the right kind of argument! Let's set him straight.

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Libre Video Production (Timelapse)

A speed-run through my whole video production process, all using software which respects your freedom!

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Biblical Irony

The irony of threatening to sue believers for use of a book which instructs believers not to sue or cheat each other.

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Making YouTube Videos With Free Software

Now that my first series is done, I'm going to talk a little about things I learned and tools I use.

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27 — The Bleeding Heart

From here we get the whole cultural phenomenon. Probably mostly from the movie adaptations of other stories, but it all starts here. Is this what you expected? What surprised you the most?

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26 — 'Sleep Well, My Darling'

Almost done the book! How have you enjoyed it? Was it much like you expected? I've found it quite surprising at times. Even now, I wonder what Vesper is up to. Is someone after her?

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25 — 'Black Patch'

Secrets and lies, but not during the spycraft part of the book! It's here, during the relationship interlude.

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24 — Fruit Défendu

From a misogynist hack to a man ready for marriage in a day. Somehow I doubt this will go well.

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2016

23 — Tide of Passion

Now for your regularly scheduled sexy interlude.

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22 — The Hastening Saloon

Oh! It seems we're going to get some more spycraft after all! Though our hero seems silly enough to believe his own reassurances for now.

Who do you think could be after them now?

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21 — Vesper

It seems he's going to get the girl after all. Perhaps they'll retire together and stop all this spy business?

I mean, it's looking kind of like that. But that's an absurd outcome for the first book.

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20 — The Nature of Evil

This chapter reads more like a philosophy text than a spy novel. Is our hero going soft? Is he going to give it all up? Where's the macho he displayed earlier?

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19 — The White Tent

So, Vesper is fine. Success is his (no thanks to himself).

What's next? The mission is over. The enemy is dead. There's so much book left!

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18 — A Crag-like Face

Well, the torture is over. How is Vesper? He seems in no shape to get them out of here alone.

For such a culturally stacked character, this is a real moment of weakness for him. No bravado. Just failure and accidental life given.

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17 — 'My Dear Boy'

So, it's to be torture. Pretty simple torture, but I guess very effective. How will she hold up when they bring her in?

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16 — The Crawling of the Skin

He certainly didn't see that coming! Thought he had it all figured out too. So, is he going to come out of this by cleverness? He seems to be lacking in that right now...

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15 — Black Hare and Grey Hound

Our hero has some serious selfishness issues to work on. As well as the misogyny we already knew about. Through his rage, will be pay enough attention to notice the trap that he clearly does not expect?

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14 — La Vie en Rose?

Well, it's not over. The kidnappers must be our villains, or this makes very little sense. What can they be thinking, though? How will holding her help get the money back? Or maybe this is just about revenge?

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13 — A Whisper of Love, A Whisper of Hate

Thing are going pretty well. In fact, this almost feels like an end. The job's all wrapped up. But so much book is left!

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12 — The Deadly Tube

I find it interested how much suspense gets built over what is essestially a game of chance. I feel as though this chapter brings us through a glorious save and gives our hero one more chance... and yet if the next cards flipped up are not in his favour, we will be right back where we started.

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11 — Moment of Truth

That's a bit more than a setback. How will he recover from this?

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10 — The High Table

Do you think there will be a setback coming? It seems to soon to just win outright. Or maybe we'll be interrupted by some cool action again.

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09 — The Game is Baccarat

A lot of this chapter is just rambling about how the game is played. Does she even need to know that? What do you think?

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08 — Pink Lights and Champagne

Cliff hanger! What do you think of this cover/date? Is it just wasting time or is it serious character development?

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07 — Rouge et Noir

Leiter seems like an ok fellow, but there sure are a lot of people involved at this point. What do you think? Is he a liability?

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06 — Two Men in Straw Hats

So he's is fine, as we expected. An attempt on his life seems pretty extreme, given that the whole plan is "win at gambling". Maybe something else is going on?

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05 — The Girl From Headquarters

BOOM! I guess it was finally time for some action. Excited to see where this goes next!

Do you think the dramatic value of this cliffhanger is diminished by the fact that no reader these days would believe James Bond is dead?

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Misogyngy in Literature

I'm grappling with some patterns of bad behaviour in this culturally influential literature. I'd love to hear thoughts on this topic from you!

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04 — L'Ennemi Écoute

I had a fan on in the back when I filmed this (was a pretty hot day). Audacity's noise removal filter is amazing!

Is this delivery better? A bit less speed, a bit more attention.

The end of this chapter, though. Ehh. I guess it's not very surprising, but this kind of raw misogyny can't go unanswered. I'd like to hear how you think about this sort of content in such culturally-relevant literature.

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03 — Number 007

Playing with my delivery. Probably not going quite this fast in the future. Ends up sounding a bit flat this way, and sometimes a bit mumble-y.

This is the first time we get to see a decent jump-around for dialog. A bit rough this time, but I think the idea works out.

Content wise: this book is premised on the craziest plan ever! I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

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02 — Dossier for M

In which M has to read a lot of French.

This is my first time reading any of the books. Let me know in comments if you have read anything like this before. Is this about like you expected so far?

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01 — The Secret Agent

Let's start the real story!

Some of the editing is a bit rough on this one. Learning as I go.

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00 — Forematter

This episode really proves that I'm reading the book word-for-word.

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