I don't think anyone has been a victim of demonic possession, ever, actually.
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Psychosis projected outwards maybe. Although I did get thrown against a wall and strangled by an invisible force at age 18 when my roommate and her friends were using a ouiji board, so there's that.
that was me, my bad I'm shy
Baahaha 😂
Maybe it was just invisible to you because you couldn't see properly at the moment.
It is a bit silly.
But the reason is; the faithful are the prize. The unfaithful are already damned; why would the demons bother with those already going to hell?
I'm a lifelong atheist; it is all just superstition; but the logic is not flawed in this case.
How does being demons marionette gets you hell?
I'm missing something.
Because the soul is corrupted in the process.
Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, He sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel? Thomas Dagget from The Prophecy (1995)
Ever hear of an atheist needing an exorcism
You joke, but...
Demon Spirits – The Real Root of Addiction
Growing up in the 80s/90s, I 100% heard about how everything from Heavy Metal music to D&D to Voting for Michael Dukakis caused the godless heathens to become possessed and driven to deplorable acts. Exorcisms are for people with insider access to high ranking church officials. The folks living outside of the fence - the migrants, the hippies, the drug users, the fornicators and exotic dancers, the non-believers - why do you think they have all that crime and disease and misery?
They've fallen out of God's love and light. They're all tortured souls, possessed by any number of evils.
Atheists use VPN pro max, the great firewall and the Mystic anti-virus against both demons and angels thus remaining in the protective shadow, which keeps their minds free of spam and souls unharmed from malware.
Wasn't her mom atheist and just trying every possible thing she could?
Yes, the MacNeils were not a religious family at all in either the book or movie. Kind of an ironic pairing of text and imagery here.
Gotta believe in a soul to believe in exorcisms.
You ever notice how apple pickers use tools to get apples out of trees that haven't fallen yet?
Wait, but if one of the goals is to make people not believe, why would the demons give them more reasons to believe? I can only imagine that if such an event were real, it would strengthen people's faith.
And, like, usually a demonic possession in popular lore makes the people say and do ugly things like walk on walls, brood alone, and turn their stomachs out at priests. Wouldn't a demonic possession that made you party with cocaine and have orgies while going on killing sprees be more effective? And would it really be effective at sending you to hell if the demon was always in control instead of luring the person to do it themselves with their own free will? Surely St. Peter would understand it wasn't the person doing it themselves?
I have so many questions.
Unfortunately, unlike Courtney Love, I am not a walking study in demonology, so I'm not entirely capable of understanding their motives.
It’s like in the skeleton key, it doesn’t work if you don’t believe
Glossolalia is actually a fascinating subject. It’s like the faithful trying to hack into the part of the brain that produces religious experiences, which is the same part targeted by LSD, Ayahuasca, E, etc, but without chemicals. I expect there are other aspects of shared worship and ritual like chanting that tap into something.
Yeah there's also meditation, prayer, fasting, and flagellation as religious practices that hack the brain. You should look into Chaos Magic, it's a bunch of nerds who believe in science trying to use religion to do weird stuff to their brains.
"You mean other than literally all of them?" - Steve Harvey, probably.
Maybe possessions go off Final Fantasy Tactics rules. Too low a faith stat and magic does nothing.
NSFW tag on that image?
No? It's a shot from the Exorcist.
Show me yourself wearing a shirt with that visible all day during work hours in the office and not getting weird looks or weirdly less looks or a call from HR (depending upon the scale of your company).
Alternatively, you could put it on a poster in the office. During work of course.
I have a shirt that says "live, laugh, toaster bath" with a carton toaster jumping into a bathtub. I couldn't wear that at most jobs.
I wouldn't label it NSFW, because I understand what that label actually is.
NSFW has come to have 2 meanings.
Even though the 2nd meaning is what people tend to mean nowadays, the original meaning is still in use in some places.
That's the reason why something can be fine for children to view, while still being NSFW.