Three characters from today's walk.
1) I was walking down Market Street, whichw as crowded with shoppers. He was walking towards me with a steady, deliberate gait, like a predator hoping not to startle its prey. He wore a plain hoody. His skin was pale, his hair short and brown. His eyes stared forward, unblinking, while his face betrayed nothing. The gait and the face gave the impression that there was so much rage and hate and murderous lust inside him that his facial expression system had been overloaded and broken, leaving him with the expressionless face of a Passport photo or mug shot. As I walked past him, perhaps less than a meter away, a dreadful shiver went down my spine. I wanted to flee. I have never felt that before from such a brief encounter. It was as though all the hate and rage and murderous lust was, after breaking his facial muscles, being exuded from his pores, creating a terrifying aura around him.
I hope all this was just my imagination; I hope we won't be seeing his face on the news soon, wanted for multiple counts of murder and mutilation.
2) A man rode past me on a bike, on the pavement. He was wearing a grey tracksuit. He rode fast: he needed to get somewhere, or away from somewhere, very quickly. Tattooed across the left side of his neck were the large letters 'MUM'. The letters' prominence and crudity reminded me of cattle branding: was this man in such a hurry because he had just escaped from the chav farm?
3) On his back a cardboard sign advertised 'THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO THE END OF THE WORLD'; on his front, a similar sign advised 'OBEY GOD'S 4TH COMMANDMENT OR YOU WILL DIE'. Held above his head, was the largest of his signs: 'ALMOST THERE'. He wore a scruffy coat; he was not clean-shaven.
He held out leaflets in his arms. I approached him and collected one. Title: 'THE END OF THE WORLD IS VERY CLOSE NOW'. The man didn't, or couldn't, speak. He showed me another sign: 'WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FREE BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN IT ALL?'. I nodded. The silent preacher-prophet passed me them from his sign-covered trolley. The 'books' are homemade: printed A4 pages stapled together. Title: 'THE HOPE THAT WE HAVE IN JESUS AS THIS WORLD COMES TO AN END', parts 1, 2, and 4. No part 3 for me.
I returned home. Here are some excerpts from the leaflet:
'Something very very big is about to happen to the world towards the end of 2015... Pope Francis has referred to himself as Jesus 2. He has gained territory in Jerusalem in preparation for the supposed joint Jew-Christisn-Islamic rebuilding of the (Satanic) 3rd temple... Is Pope Francis a demon, and the last Pope ever?... The world has been gradually prepared for the arrival of Maitreya for 40 years... Maitreya/Satan says that the start of the rapid change from the old system to the wonderful new system will start towards the end of this year, and that he will appear in person for the 1st time very soon.'
According to Wikipedia, Maitreya is a future incarnation of the Buddha.
'You have been given a temporary body for around 600,000 hours, and we have been put on this world for no other reason than to see if you decide to obey the laws and commandments of the God who created you and put you here. The only purpose for your existence on this planet is to decide the destination for your soul.'
Such a nightmarish idea. Worse than nihilism.
'The world is full of IDIOTIC MORONS WITH A DEATH WISH, and BLIND IGNORANT LOSERS THAT CAN'T SEE WHAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM... Today's SLEEP WALKING SHEEPLE fall for all their deceptions, and they can't see that they are living in a world where the satanic authorities regard us as useless eaters that have to be destroyed... Those suffering from A TERMINAL DAFTNESS really do think it is rational to spread Satan's anti biblical propaganda, and people like Stephen Hawkins, Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough and Brian Cox really do believe the rubbish they are peddling to the masses via the TV box. Are you one of the BLIND TERMINAL REJECTS IN THE GAME OF LIFE that believes all of their anti-God propaganda?... Life is a continual battle against evil forces. If we win the battle... we find ourselves in God's world of AWESOMENESS BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION.'
I like the phrase 'a terminal daftness'.
'Have you ever wondered how MAGICIANS defy gravity, cut up their bodies, read people's minds and make things appear and disappear? The magicians have pledged allegiance of their soul to Satan in return for the ability to do party tricks that astound the UNWASHED MASSES THAT CAN'T SEE BEYOND THIS WORLD... Today's DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY is entirely supernatural. Many people in the gadget industries do know that it is mostly SATANIC WITCHCRAFT, and anyone that isn't living in Satan's dark world, and ON THEIR WAY TO LIFE'S GARBAGE HEAP should be able to see that it is beyond the range of what is physically possible... Even the printer that printed most of these books and leaflets is blindingly obviously not of this world... What will you do when the demons that appear to be aliens arrive?'
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, demons are used in technology such as watches and cameras. There's a novel by Arthur C. Clarke featuring aliens that look like demons.
The books are too long, and not as entertainingly angry. In them, we learn that supermarkets are part of Satan's plan to make the human population unfit and unhealthy; that medication is evil; that evolution is a satanic lie; that 'the coloured races are expanding, while the white races are diminishing'; that hygiene is evil; that Hitler was the victim of an incredibly successful satanic propaganda campaign; that feminism is evil; that the Devil monitors the internet; that Islam was a Roman Catholic invention.
And that only brings me about halfway through part 1.
That poor man.
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