I don’t think anyone has been a victim of demonic possession, ever, actually.
Have you noticed this?
Submitted 2 days ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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grte@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I also psyched myself into remembering magic stuff when I was an impressionable child and visited friends who are into Reiki.
They’re all hardcore covid deniers and generally conspiracy nuts now, so good thing we didn’t continue forcing ourselves to deny reality in favor of woo.
ulterno@programming.dev 1 day ago
Maybe it was just invisible to you because you couldn’t see properly at the moment.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 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.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Atheists use VPN pro max against both demons and angels remaining in the shadow for the anyone except the main admin - God.
Aedis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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)
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gotta believe in a soul to believe in exorcisms.
pageflight@lemmy.world 2 days ago
NSFW tag on that image?
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No? It’s a shot from the Exorcist.
ulterno@programming.dev 1 day ago
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.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You ever notice how apple pickers use tools to get apples out of trees that haven’t fallen yet?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Unfortunately, unlike Courtney Love, I am not a walking study in demonology, so I’m not entirely capable of understanding their motives.
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s like in the skeleton key, it doesn’t work if you don’t believe
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
“You mean other than literally all of them?” - Steve Harvey, probably.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Maybe possessions go off Final Fantasy Tactics rules. Too low a faith stat and magic does nothing.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
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.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How does being demons marionette gets you hell?
I’m missing something.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Because the soul is corrupted in the process.