exorcisms: fact or fiction

sponger
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edited October 2006 in A Moving Train
So what do ya'll think? Do demonic spirits really possess people, only to chased out by a priest?
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    I don't believe in demonic spirits.
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  • BarkingDogs
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    I thought evil spirits were chased off by valium and bourbon?!
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    I believe in the spirit world. I don't necessarily believe that evil demons like Lucifer, Belial, or Satan exist or can possess someone.
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  • farfromglorified
    farfromglorified Posts: 5,700
    Meh.........
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    BarkingDogs wrote:
    I thought evil spirits were chased off by valium and bourbon?!
    I can see this working. However, I also believe the whole priest exorcising demons, too.
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    sponger wrote:
    So what do ya'll think? Do demonic spirits really possess people, only to chased out by a priest?

    I don't believe it in the slightest, but there is the placebo effect, and there's also a lot about humans and the brain that we don't understand yet.
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  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    Man I hope so.
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    I do believe in wrongly or not at all diagnosed mental illnesses that were/are used by the church to instill fear and 'treated' by performing exorcisms that killed a lot of people.
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    yeah I am into paranormal stuff, so thats right down my alley. Plus the subject made one hell of a horror movie. And the new mars volta cd is inspired by exorcisms and possessions.

    Whatever you think of their basis in fact, theres no denying exorcisms or at least the idea of them have been the basis for some good movies, music and art
  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    JaneNY wrote:
    I don't believe it in the slightest, but there is the placebo effect, and there's also a lot about humans and the brain that we don't understand yet.

    This sums up my thoughts on exorcism as well. Consider me a non-believer.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    I think it's all nonsense. I saw "The Exorcist" in junior high and laughed my ass off all the way through it. A couple of my friends were pretty freaked out by it, and I teased them mercilessly. That was made all the more fun by the fact that people thought I bore a striking resemblance to Linda Blair, haha. There were a few weeks there where pretending to be possessed was my main form of entertainment. Yeah, I was a bit of a brat :o
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    No. Not at all.. I would like to believe in a spirit world that we can't explain, another dimension parallel to our own, but no evil spirits for me.. Maybe lost, confused, or even pissed off regular spirits, but the idea of satan, demons, monsters just doesn't make sense to me. It seems like too easy of an explanation for when things go bad.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,946
    demonic spirits??

    absolute bullshit........
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  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Sonja_S wrote:
    I do believe in wrongly or not at all diagnosed mental illnesses that were/are used by the church to instill fear and 'treated' by performing exorcisms that killed a lot of people.


    sounds like scientology to me...


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  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    Works with the Catholic church as well. 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose' is based on a true story that happend in the 1970's in Germany for example. I know why I officially resigned from that nice little club when I was 14 :D
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  • Scubascott
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    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    yeah I am into paranormal stuff, so thats right down my alley. Plus the subject made one hell of a horror movie. And the new mars volta cd is inspired by exorcisms and possessions.

    Whatever you think of their basis in fact, theres no denying exorcisms or at least the idea of them have been the basis for some good movies, music and art

    I don't understand how even the evil spirits could stand listening to the new Mars Volta album.
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    sponger wrote:
    So what do ya'll think? Do demonic spirits really possess people, only to chased out by a priest?

    I think that people can be possessed and demonic spirits are around, but i'm not sure that only a priest can cast them out (priest in the catholic sense). I don't know enough about it to go beyond that.
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  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    hippiemom wrote:
    I think it's all nonsense. I saw "The Exorcist" in junior high and laughed my ass off all the way through it. A couple of my friends were pretty freaked out by it, and I teased them mercilessly. That was made all the more fun by the fact that people thought I bore a striking resemblance to Linda Blair, haha. There were a few weeks there where pretending to be possessed was my main form of entertainment. Yeah, I was a bit of a brat :o

    I saw it then too, and was one of the ones freaked out.. it still freaks me out.
  • Puck78
    Puck78 Posts: 737
    It's interesting the number of people that don't believe in god but believe in exorcism... (i'm not even saying about people not believing in god but believing in spirits...)
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  • wendy1976
    wendy1976 Posts: 88
    Puck78 wrote:
    It's interesting the number of people that don't believe in god but believe in exorcism... (i'm not even saying about people not believing in god but believing in spirits...)
    The two things do not have to go hand in hand...I don't believe in god but i do believe in the human spirit and reincarnation.Also think that some spirits do not immediatly reincarnate and sometimes that spirit wonders around.This day in particular the line between the living and the dead is really thin(i cal it samhain others halloween)And because not every person is a friendly one or not every one dies peacefully it can happen that there are not so friendly spirits out there.I do not think anyone can get possesd though....really scared shitles yes but taken over....no.

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