Busted for [Demonic] Possesion

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-08-02 01:33am

CaptainChewbacca wrote:No, I verified it because I was there when her brother accidentally stuck a pencil in her ear during rough-housing when they were six. I figured she didn't fake that.

So she believed that her hearing had been restored, therefore it had? I have firsthand experience about the power of religion making me believe things that weren't true, just refer to my post.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-08-02 01:36am

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:No, I verified it because I was there when her brother accidentally stuck a pencil in her ear during rough-housing when they were six. I figured she didn't fake that.
So she believed that her hearing had been restored, therefore it had? I have firsthand experience about the power of religion making me believe things that weren't true, just refer to my post.

No, her hearing was restored. Went to an aurologist or whatever an ear-doctor is and went from 3% hearing to 88% hearing.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2004-08-02 12:25pm

Enigma wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:
Mock, but I've seen things I cannot explain with "hysteria" and "suggestion".
Such as?
Almost twenty years ago, at a family picnic (with another family) my father saw the father from the other family slither up to the picnic table like a snake. No jerking around, just a smooth slither right up to the table and then hissed with a literal forked tongue.

Mmm... My uncle in Portugal once dabbled in the occult. He even said he wanted to see the devil. He had furniture moved around while the family slept (no one came into their house at night to rearrange the furniture). They even heard footsteps when everyone was in their beds. He was able to stop a clock from ticking just by saying so (he did it once to a couple that was having a bible study with him). He renounced the occult and at the day of his baptism to become a JW he got a stroke. It may have been just a coincidence that he got a stroke for rejecting the devil but I doubt it.

There are supernatural occurances but they do not occur so wide spread to necessitate a dedicated police division to combat it.

Umm sounds like a lot of he said/he saw and nothing really substantial. I'd be careful of those kind of stories, they tend to be nothing more than exaggerations.

As for renouncing the occult and dying of a heart attack? So what many people die of heart attacks each year.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2004-08-02 12:28pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote: No, her hearing was restored. Went to an aurologist or whatever an ear-doctor is and went from 3% hearing to 88% hearing.

Okay, so her body was able to heal itself. The bodies of young children have amazing healing abilities, but it does depend on the nature of the damage.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-08-02 12:45pm

99% of so-called "miracles" are medical in nature, because we still don't entirely understand how the human body works. That doesn't mean they're proof of miracles, for fuck's sake. Such thinking is moron logic.

To put this in clearer terms, prove that her body was incapable of healing itself. Can't? Oops, then I guess you have no proof of a miracle.

Want more? Explain why Christians don't live any longer than anyone else. Surely, with all of these bullshit miracles happening to Christians, they should easily outlive the general heathen population. And yet, oddly enough, the statistics don't bear that out. How curious ...

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-08-02 03:08pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:No, I verified it because I was there when her brother accidentally stuck a pencil in her ear during rough-housing when they were six. I figured she didn't fake that.

Not what I'm referring to. Even if you're deaf in one ear, you can still pick up other sounds with your other ear.

You don't quantify God. It isn't the minister's power.

How convenient. Perhaps you should change your signature to reflect your views.