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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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Do you believe in demonic possession?
Do you believe in demonic possession? Serious question. Do you believe in such cases as Anneliese Michel?
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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Re: Do you believe in demonic possession?
No, not in this sense. I believe in some sort of "possession" in a certain way, but it's not really the same. I think people can be used in a way as mouthpieces for the gods, but it isn't really like the "demonic posession" in the traditional sense.
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Re: Do you believe in demonic possession?
Perhaps as a state of mind, of madness?
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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I've heard some interesting anecdotes about possession from priests. I personally wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, although I think that the ones encoutered in The Exorcist would be a very small majority and the most extreme. The vast majority would be far more subtle in their effects and not so glaringly obvious.
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The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). 
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Re: Do you believe in demonic possession?
No, and I don't live in fear of witches either.
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 "Asialliset hommat hoidetaan, mutta muuten ollaan kuin Ellun kanat" -Vilho Koskela
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596).
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Re: Do you believe in demonic possession?
I suppose I do.
Exorcism in the Orthodox Church.
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"I have been seeking through all the valleys to acquire some isolated pasturage which will yet be easily accessible, moderately clement in temperature, pleasantly situated, watered by a stream, and within sound of a torrent or the waves of a lake. I have no wish for a pretentious domain. I prefer to select a convenient site and then build after my own fashion, with the view of locating myself for a time, or perhaps for always. An obscure valley would be for me the sole habitable earth."
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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Re: Do you believe in demonic possession?
Yes, i believe in the possibility of it. But that does not mean that anyone committing any evil act under such possession is to be held to be less responsible for the act in question.
Last edited by Marcus Marulus; Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 21:49.
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Re: Do you believe in demonic possession?
Sure. I mean it is possible. There are a lot of things not just demons in the classic sense that enjoy having the use of people's bodies.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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Hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark. At the end of a storm, There's a golden sky, And the sweet silver song of a lark. Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams be tossed and blown.. Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone....... You'll never walk alone. Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart, And you'll never walk alone....... You'll never walk alone
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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