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Demonically Alive

Cornelius Plantinga, Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be

Plantinga writes that to a big-league addict, addiction “feels not only parasitical but also wily and perverse. It feels demonically alive, as if not just a thing but a personal intelligence is set against one’s freedom.” He gives language to the experience many know: the sense that something is actively working against them, not merely a neutral chemical process.

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Addiction can feel like a living, hostile presence—not merely a bad habit.

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