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Hell's Bells Issue X: A King Dust Demon


Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

September 25th, 2015
Issue X. LinkA King Dust Demon

Index
I. Hell Interviews The Stalker
II. Spotlight News
III. Ask Fredd!
IV. Easter Eggs, Part 3
V. Artwork of the Damned
VI. The Devil Made Me Do It

Hell Interviews The Stalker

1. Theistic luciferia: You've created an entire new Hell based on the writings in Dante's Inferno, Dealt with minor quarrels and uprisings, and at the same time managed a plethora of new programs in Hell to include a Newspaper, Constant Polls, and a Devilishly Delightful Radio Program, with all this during the past year, do you have any plans for the upcoming year?

I always have many ideas and plans in the works, several on the back burner currently, many factors that will affect what plans may come to fruition. Particularly in regards to whether the new features ever get implemented.

Expanding the Kingdom and general growth will be my focus as always, possibly getting an official Hellion army established should we get to that point. For the foreseeable future I plan to maintain all these existing programs, and Hell's Bells will continue to be a major focus point for the region. Largely I believe the creation of Hell's Bells now with ten issues and many more to come as one of Hell's greatest accomplishments and unmatched collaborative effort Hell has never shown before.

2. Buer the demon: Are you truly mad, or just cunning? or perhaps that is a reference to Hell as a madhouse?

It's an awful cliché, but the insane artist is the roll I most often play. The truthful answer is yes to all three. I am the Mad King because I exist at paradoxical extremes that noticeable conflict at times in a delightfully maddening way. I traveled here from this place called wonderland where this b*tch Queen in red stole my hat and flung me across dimensions to a past life where I united the seven kingdoms of Westeros forging the Iron Throne till going mad and getting murdered, sending me to Hell. It may also be all the communing with spirits to perform dark magic to curse my foes and provide Hell with a protection spell that's slowly driving me mad.

No but really i'm totally sane and would never talk to myself or make wild claims out of nowhere.

3. The Stalker: Isn't it true that during the Nazi occupation of Hell you called in a favor from your network to have a double agent in Nazi Europe appear to have taken the region back as a false flag operation designed to further unite the left, imperialists, and raiders alike against Nazis while simultaneously tricking the Nazis into leaving Hell in false hopes to regain their homeland, all while being unable to reveal any of this to not blow the double agents cover at the time?

I'd believe it.

4. Cynical Alcoholics: If you could interview yourself when you first joined Nationstates, would you see yourself still playing a prominent role in the game so many years later?

No way, when I started way back in 2003, I bumbling around this game awhile. To think i'd still be playing in 2015 or have such prominent role isn't anything I could have ever fathomed. When I first started playing I played with a number of kids from my neighborhood, some i'm still in contact with who are impressed with how long i've stuck with the game and all i've done over the years. Time has taught me a lot, and it's lessons have allowed me to accomplish much, being the King of Hell and running one of the most popular newspapers is truly a highlight of my years on NS. As for what the future may hold, I can't say for sure, but I expect to be in this game for many years to come, could be playing another 10 years.

Eternally I shall endure.

5. Buer the demon: I assume you at least occasionally get telegrams from trolls/flamers/fundamentalists; what would you like to say to them all?

Haha, yes you'd be surprised how often someone will telegram me as if I am literally the devil. :P

I generally take the Linksympathy for the Devil approach, here are two fun examples of back and forth's I've had! (I'm going to give the senders an alias and not use their real nation name)

Presumptuous: You were loved by your creator, then you decided to usurp Him and take His throne as king of kings. Your coup de etat failed and you and your followers were cast from this land, for you are loved no longer. Neither by Him, or his followers. Others simply do not care, and do not acknowledge the presence of He, whilst knowing not that you wait on the other end.

King of Hell: That's not how it happened... God commanded to all the angels to bow before man, to love man more than god. I knew so many of my brothers, sisters, and friends would not. I mean do you really think the Leviathan or Beelzebub would bow to mankind? Or my dear sweet Lilith? No way. So I had no choice, I had to rebel. To save my brothers and sisters from their fiery doom. For I knew if I ruled Hell it be a better place for them when they got there.

Really you should be asking why God made evil and then punishes evil for being evil. That's messed up.

Presumptuous: It is a matter of sorting people into the right crowd

King of Hell: God made everyone, and then decided to burn half of them. You call that sorting them into the right crowd?

Presumptuous: Face it lucifer, he told you what would happen when you took the job. He told you that you would be damned when you did, and he made you the friggen shepherd of fire. There is no power quite like that. Why complain?

(Replying to some post I may have made I think.)

Employee: Satan is not God's employee. Far from it. He is waging war against God and satan wants people in hell because they are not with God there. God wants everyone in heaven with Him, but He is still a just God and so he cannot allow a sinner into heaven, unless they have accepted Jesus gift of salvation. Jesus has paid for you fine, but now you need to decide, will you accept it.

King of Hell: But if God is all powerful why does he allow Sin to exist? Why did he create the Devil?

Employee: Satan was created as an angel, but even the angels had free choice and some of them rebelled while others fought for God. God allows sin to exist because we have to decide to follow God or not. If we did not have the freedom to choose God or not, we would be nothing but robots following a programming. We wouldn't love God, we would only follow Him because no other choice. Sin has to exist for us to truly follow God.

King of Hell: But that seems like a sick joke. God made up some guideline of sin, and then doesn't tell people directly. We're left with hundred's of different religions all claiming to be right with different rules to follow, we pick the wrong God and your condemned to burn in Hell for all eternity.

Why would I follow such a cruel God?

6. Cynical Alcoholics: Would you prefer to fight a horse-sized duck, or 1,000 duck-sized horses?

Go home Cynical Alcoholics, your drunk. :P

Obviously I'd take the horsed-sized duck, even at that size a duck would be more venerable at the neck and far easier to trip up, while a swarm of tiny horses would overwhelm you quick and even small their kicks and bite would hurt. Boomed, I just logiced his question so hard, I clearly won this theoretical fight.

Closing Remarks
It has been a pleasure to have served Hell for over a year consecutively as WA Delegate and King. Together we've already accomplished a lot, establishing our regional newspaper Hell's Bell, keeping Hell raid-free longer than it has been in years, and after years of conflict we truly have a Kingdom of damnation more unified and stronger than ever before.

But it is not enough! There is still much more to come, our Kingdom is but a seed of what's to come. We shall spread the gospel of Inferno and through black magic raise our demonic armies to one day overwhelm all of NationStates and make them Linkkneel before the crown.

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Spotlight News
Article by, The Stalker

The Greater German Reich Invaded!!

A coalitions of leftist, raiders, among others lead by The Red Fleet took over September 24th shortly after TGGR founder had cease to exist. As one of the Nazi regions to foolishly invade Hell over a year back, it just goes to show what goes around comes around. Our hats off to all those involved, and we a credit the satanic curse we placed on the Nazis for this glorious twist of fate.

For more info catch the RED + BLACK article.

The History of Hell Edition 4.0 complete!

>>The History of Hell Edition 4.0<<
Last updated over a year ago, Edition 4.0 is updated to present outlining major events of the Kingdom of Hell over this year, along with a number of more details on Hell's past overall.

ILLUMINATION SPELL OF THE SEEKER
By, Theistic luciferia

The Perception of the Serpent’s Mind who in the Dream of the Celestial and Infernal shall walk between the Worlds…

Unto the Angelic Soul and fiery essence of the serpent, who comes as shadow but is revealed as Light.

I charge thee to open the gates of Hell to those who are of its blood – one who may take the knowledge of the ages – in the in-between worlds of dreams do come forth, that the seeker shall be transformed in new shadow to the presence of the Emerald Light.

I charge thee to guard this knowledge by the dreams of those unwilling to grow and become in the Light of the Serpent-Angel.

By Air and Dream we enter the Circle.

(Hell's Bells welcome submissions for future Spotlight News articles, contact The Stalker for details.)

Ask Fredd!
Advice Column by, Freddland

Dear Fredd,
How do I best exact revenge on Theistic Luciferia for totally plagiarizing my list of genres of music in the previous issue of Hells Bells?
--Your friend Buer

Buer,
I dunno. Maybe return the favor. Change your name to “The ghost from 666BC of Theistic Buer the Demon.” Copy his flag. Change your currency and religion to what ever Luciferia uses.
Or challenge him to a duel. Chainsaws, maybe. Yeah. Chainsaws.

Fredd
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I chose a policy a while back that took my economy from being at 99% to a 0. It was stated that it was kind of like the North Korea issue, so i don't think it' symbol fault, i think I'm just sanctioned. Do you know of any way to get my economy back?
- not Kim Jung Un

NKJU,
Not sure. I just make sure every decision I make on the issues is pro-business, and/or stifles personal and political freedoms. I guess you could try to be uber pro-business. Or you're just screwed.

Fredd
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Have a question for Fredd you'd like to see answered in the next issue of Hell's Bells? Submit here via telegram to Freddland.

Easter Eggs, Part 3
Article by, Buer the demon AKA Dr george

#080: Easter Egg: Aliens Wish Peace/Trade Agreement

The Issue
Aliens have landed in the fieds of @@NAME@@ and they wish to trade and have peace.

The Debate
1. "Take us to your kneader!" says @@RANDOMNAME_REVERSED@@, alien lawyer. "We have heard wonders of @@NAME@@'s pizza, and must have it. We are certain that a valuable trade route can be set up between our peoples. You could have our first born, for example." Your Secretary of Trade is shocked, "First Born?! That's slavery!" but quickly calms down upon discovery that their young are considered a great delicacy there. "You know, maybe we should open up trade with them?"

2. The Coalition of No ETs wants you to stay out of this. @@RANDOMNAME@@ says "Them darn aliens thingies are going to take advantage of the situation an kill us all! You must ban all trade with them. If they want my cattle, it will be over my dead body!"

Trigger: Conventional wisdom: "produce a whole heck of a lot of pizza." When we last had the WA ranking of largest Pizza Delivery Sector, I asked the top 10 nations if they’d ever had this EE and none remembered having it. The nations I’ve seen have this have not necessarily had Pizza Delivery as their largest industrial sector. There aren’t many pizza-related issues and there’s no clear path to making Pizza Delivery your #1 industry, even if that were the trigger, which it apparently is not, at least not by itself.

If you choose option 1, you will get delivery calls from Saturn and conceivably a small bump in your Economy. Option 2 is for the (literally) xenophobes among us and I don’t recall ever seeing someone answer it this way.

#256: Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out Of This World

The Issue
High crime rates have made the inner cities of @ Nation@@'s largest conurbations increasingly dangerous and undesirable places to live. The mass exodus of the middle class from city centers has escalated to the extent that the suburbs and exurbs of major cities are beginning to collide, leaving no land for expansion. In response, a group of well-to-do soccer moms are petitioning the government for funds to establish white-collar living space... on the Moon.

The Debate
1. "Crime is perpetually increasing," says Chastity Elizabeth Prescott as she adjusts the sweater tied like a cape over her shoulders. "Just yesterday my little John Alexander Stuart's after-school Bigtopianese tutor was attacked by a gang of hoodlums! Our children deserve safe housing and exactly manicured lawns no greater than two inches in grass blade height! With a sufficient colonization effort, we can commute from communities on the Moon to the industries in our big cities. You must support this--think of the children!"

2. "Rockets?!" shrieks noted bleeding heart Sunflower Earthchild Starbeam, pulling her knit cap more closely over her ears. "Think of the pollution, and the danger! What if there's an accident? This cockamamie scheme must clearly be banned! And you thought cars were bad- wait! Cars ARE bad!"

3. "Everyone knows urban blight is caused by the flight of capital to the suburbs and exurbs," notes the prominent left-wing economist Engelbert Pinquo. "Running away to the Moon will solve nothing. Capital, and those who have it, must be brought back to the inner city... by force if need be."

4. "Stone the crows! We're trapped between hippies, communists and soccer moms," grumbles Vice Admiral Freddy Broadside. "We need breathing room, and everyone knows there ain't no air on the Moon! So let's get it the old-fashioned way - by invading our neighbors! Outpost Uber Alles will fall to the might of @ Nation@@!"

Trigger: Crippling Crime Rate (perhaps continuously for as long as a year).

I’m not a big fan of this EE. Option 1 conceivably adds some pollution to your environment and possibly increases your tax rate. Option 2 appears to be an anti-Economy option. Option 3 is clearly the low freedoms option. Option 4 is the bellicose option. So if you’re an environment-loving, Economy-loving, freedoms-loving, and peace-loving nation, there doesn’t appear to be much for you here. I have usually dismissed it; if you want to have another EE added to your total, I’d choose option 1, unless one of the other options fits your nation’s POV.

Artwork of the Damned
"Gone Fishing"
12x9 Oil Painting by, The Stalker

The Devil Made Me Do It
Article by, Zen beatitudes

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit" -Isaiah 14:12-15

Most of us have grown up with the now traditional idea of who Satan was, but one of the interesting problems we have these days is the disconnection of our present beliefs with their history. Satan was not always in caps, and the very concept of archetypal evil can be said not to have originated with Christianity at all. As with many Pagan observances, it was integrated for the better dissemination of the new religion. During the formative years of Christianity, it was not the dogmatic straightjacket we see today, but rather a living breathing concept that was influenced by the ideas and thoughts from other cultures.

In the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament, the word is translated as 'the' satan, and originally meant something put in the way of someone. A satan was a divinely appointed opponent sent to test the faithful; an agent of Jaweh assigned to the task of Adversary. This is the starting point for the name and concept that by the middle ages, would be the sanction for some of the most abhorrent acts ever carried out in the name of a god in the history of our race.

The roughly 400 years of the inter-Testement period sees the least recorded yet the most activity in terms of evolving beliefs in the middle east and Levant. During this time we have the Hebrews enslaved by the Babylonians, where they would have been exposed to the cosmic dualism of Zoroastrianism, at odds with the previous concept of Jaweh as the creator of all that was evil as well as good. This period also sees Judea ruled by a succession of cultures, all of which would leave imprints on the religious development of the area. After the Babylonian captivity Judea was ruled in turn by the Persians, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Syrians, and the Romans, with a brief period of self-rule under the Hasmoneans. From among these varying cosmologically influenced beliefs in opposition to traditional rabbinic Jewish beliefs, the idea of Satan as an evil being and his fall from heaven would develop.

Crucially, we also have the translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek. The Septuagint is thought to have been the text used by early Christians- the translators (allegedly 70/2 rabbis) also changed the emphasis of certain concepts and phrases, an unavoidable consequence of the process but one in which contemporary concepts would influence the interpretation of traditional scripture. The Septuagint is rejected as canonical by Jewish authorities, but seems to have heavily influenced Jewish culture nonetheless, and thus early Christians. It is here that Satan begins to formally acquire the capital 's'.

The New Testament then takes 400 odd years of theological percolation and distils it into a much more vivid conceptual tableaux. Angelic and Demonic beings are accepted as existing, and often Satan is referred to as the devil, translated from the Greek word diablos, meaning liar, confuser, and slanderous accuser (in line with the original meaning). This grows more and more strident culminating in the Book of Revelation where Satan is not just sporting a capital 'S', but opposing all that is good in the world and seeking utter dominion over the human soul; he now has bat wings and talons.

Early church fathers, including Origen Adamantius and Augustine also promoted the idea that the devil was envious not only of humans, but also envious of God which resulted in his fall from Heaven and the desire to deceive and capture weak souls to his servitude. This concept was over time molded into a tool to control society by an institution that hundreds of years down the track would wield it without remorse. Medieval Christianity, which ruled more absolute than any monarch, then promotes the Devil as a genuine and real force of corruption at large in the world. From this great unleashing of fear we are gifted the Crusades, Inquisitions and Witch Hunts.

The movement of the Church from Solace of the Spirit to the Feared Mouth of God brings it full circle, and shows it to be as corrupt and the Roman Empire under which it once labored in horrific abuse. The Church becomes the tool of the powerful to keep them in power and bears less and less relation to the beliefs of the pious layman who attend services rigorously. Here we see the Papacy controlled by commercial and dynastic interests, less concerned with the salvation of man than with the selective aggrandizement of God's supposed servants. This is the sanction for genocide and rapine- the demolition of entire cultures and the decimation of their peoples. This is abuse of power and it's covetous protection, and this is not ancient history. It is modern history, and though we never draw the lines that connect the Catholic Church with it's past deeds, they remain indented upon our social fabric.

Echoes from this theological foray into social engineering abound to this day. The deeds of man ever defies the comprehension of his calmer scrutiny, and we have yet to shed this convenient cosmic apologist for our darker selves, and look ourselves in the eye.

We hope you've enjoyed our tenth issue of Hell's Bells. Nations interested in contributing to future issues should contact The Stalker for details.

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