Demons

 Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, Monsters, hellions, and other dangerous bloodthirsty beasties

Zombies are undead.   That is to say, they are the living dead.    I realize that makes no sense.  They're like animated corpses.   They survive on human flesh, with a craving for brains.   If they don't kill you, their bite will turn you into one of them.  So it's like a contagious disease, that multiplies into great armies of ambling, stumbling, brainless ghouls that stop at nothing until they devour every human's brain.  You can of course blow them to bits with shotguns or cut off their heads or whatever, but barring that, they just keep on coming.   They climb out of their cemetery plots, with various amounts of flesh attached, and walk slowly toward anything that moves.  The Cranberries sang about them.

Vampires are also undead, but rise nightly to subsist on human blood.   They are nocturnal carnivores, and are far more dangerous and threatening than zombies.  They're basically alive, but think they're dead, and like to think of themselves as another race, superhuman and superior, despite really only being psychotic serial-killers, in truth and fact.  Anne Rice wrote about them.   Some of them have fangs.  They can be a pain in the neck.  They are averse to sunlight and garlic and crucifixes, and turn to dust if you stab them in the heart with a sharp pointy thing (stake).   I think a shotgun or beheading would also work on them, too, really.   Vampires will drink you dry, drink you dead, but can multiply if they feed blood back to you, transforming you into one of them, in the process.  Maybe they're a warning to stay sober and not get drunk.   Anyway, the big deal about them is they're supposedly immortal.   But if you kill nightly,  you will get caught, and who wants to spend eternity behind bars?  Or even in the lake of fire of Hell?  In fear of pain and suffering, such as being locked up in a box, etc.   So, being made a vampire is a kind of curse.  You become a bloodthirsty predator, under constant threat of eternal torments, from malice and revenge, being hated.  A spiritual warfare attack.  

There's the other kind of vampire, the psychic kind, that drain you of prana or chi or whatever, and with it, the will to live.  Like dementors.  They work you to death, and make you feel guilty, or nauseous, or weak, or sad.   They're thieves that rob you of the will to live.  Like there's no point, no meaning, no purpose.   No love, only malice.   Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I'm gonna eat some worms! Remember that?  "Note: vampires are creatures of folklore and fiction, and not scientifically real." -google

Werewolves are hybrid animals, that transform from regular human to big, murderous, carnivorous, man-eating wolves, when the moon is full.   They can be killed with silver bullets, says the lore.  Hairy Potter, lol.  Anyway, the movies always show the skeleton stretching, and the hair growing, and the face transforming, until the afflicted human becomes something else, entirely (for the duration of the full moon).   It's like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thing, with the moon instead of a potion, and they often try and lock themselves up, so as not to kill their friends or whatever.   A complete and dissociated transformation, that they are helpless to prevent.  People are weird.   One person can become multiple.   We play roles, sometimes saints, sometimes sinners, or even angels and demons.  Life is good!   Sometimes, we think everybody is everything.   If it's in Nature, it's natural.

Monsters can be real or virtual.   Maybe people get scared of entities in their dreams.   Or think roles they've seen in movies are more real than most people give them credit for.   I think the woman who blew her trumpet at me in downtown Davis assaulted me, came close to giving me a heart attack.  Prisons are full of monsters.  Not just the giants, either.    The malicious and vicious, who get off on beatings, rape, getting away with murder, forming racist gangs, and just plain hostility, or bothering people, making people hate themselves, or not letting them be happy, pushing buttons, or intimidating, insulting, punishing, tormenting, assaulting, or disturbing the peace.   Noisy and annoying and unremitting threat.   A monster can be a mosquito as much as a Godzilla.   Either can kill you.

ghosts, cannibals, unreal virtual entities - I don't believe in ghosts, but if you look for them, you can find spirits everywhere, the mind is a vast and strange place.  You can be haunted by memories, and imagination.   Demonic bears, or a mere 2mg of fentanyl...  The Irukandji jellyfish is one of the smallest (cubic cm) animals, as well as most venomous animals on earth.   6000 pound hippos and 2200 pound saltwater crocodiles, on the larger side.   Threats of all types and sizes.

Hellions, people whose world is self-defined as unpleasant, miserable, hated, annoying, sad, uncomfortable, scary, even savage, or -  tormented / torture.   People who cannot bring themselves to a higher state of acceptance, helpfulness, service, kindness, or virtue.   It's a long hard road out of hell, as they say.   Residents of Hell can be hopeless and give-up, even occupying insane virtual worlds of belief in being unforgiven, and destined for eternal punishment, because there is not a drop of goodness in them, much less a future of eternal reward.   Hell is a state of unhappiness.   But eventually we learn No one lives forever, and can take comfort in evanescence.  But misery loves company, and Hellions can be contagious, believing in eye for an eye, until the whole world is blind.  Fairness demands suffering, they think.  Everyone has original sin.   Or every single one of us, the devil inside.   Or cruelty is necessary: "cruel to be kind,"  or identify with The Dark Side, and be pro-war or pro-abortion or pro-pain.   Many take pleasure in telling lies, disseminating delusions, and confusion and trickery.   War is hell, and the art of war is deception.  Like life isn't fair, the whole world can go to hell.   Heaven be damned.  

Carnivores.  All these demons eat meat.   Humans are demons, in that respect.  I am.

Maybe human blood is delicious.  Maybe the hunt is exciting, and the murder a thrill.   Maybe there's an element of justice, or even virtue, to the criminal act.   Yada yada.   I'm not going down that road, to that world.  

to be continued...

HH

Heavenly Host

The party in the sky.   Earth is in the sky.  Definitely pie in the sky.   Like a Nation's for the dead.   Airplanes, and parachuting, and roller coasters, and all the good things in life, whatever that means.  Fill in the blank.   What are you grateful for?  Being Alive, so that you can in fact feel anything.   Well, we can dream, can't we?  A lifetime of joy, lasting for thousands (millions? billions?) of years!  AMEN

demons and deities- "although a foundational aspect of the world-view and reality of many,  there is no definitive empirical evidence to prove or disprove the existence of a deity" - google

Higher Powers, on the other hand, are EVERYwhere.   :-)

wp:  which rich wretched witch-wench stole my watch?    Details and dog tails.   Catholics and alcoholic cats.   Mouseketeers and Aristocats.   AA hair:  Kinky, curly, and coil-y (and Moe!);  a cool collection of classic cars to see!;   Dudley Do-right eats Doritos!   Are you ready for the royal Riyadh rumble?  No, nyet, not.    Listen, mister:  I got your daughter caught in a pot of water, like an otter in a hot spot!

today, I bought:  lillies, protein bar, almond danish, spinach dip, sourdough roll, egg burrito, cobb salad, gallon milk, strawberry cereal, eggs, bacon, (and a ghost pepper chicken sandwich with a sprite and cajun fries from Popeye's).

It's all in your head;  everything is mind;  reality is a mental hospital! (huh?)

zoanthropic transformation to a dog? an ant?   spirit animal - IR weasel?  a turtle (never homeless)?  fly like an eagle, to the sea, let my spirit carry me - Steve Miller band;  kafkaesque dung beetle?  And Lev Grossman's depiction!   What it is to be a bat!   Batman, Spiderman, Catwoman, Hanuman...  In addition to werewolves, D&D has wererats.  (Teshara: he's a rat - the letters also contain Hare, Tahr, Stare, and Sear)   :-)