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Wolfshadow
Age: 52 Zodiac: 
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Location: Yakima, Washington
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:34 am |
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I was watching a television program about the spirit world a couple of months ago. A man who is a church (deacon, elder, brother). whatever title he went by said that he believed that everyone on earth was possessed in some way. Reading what other people post here at Mystic Board makes me think about what he claimed. If I remember right, he is an exorcist. I have had similar experiences concerning numbers, I used to see the time 12:34 quite a bit of the time, I haven't seen it lately though. Now that I have written that, I would bet that I will see that time in the near future, it never seems to fail.
Whether we are possessed or not, (I think he may be right), these spirits that invade our personal space if you will, may have different persona's and attributes. I am speaking from personal insights. You know, movies like The Exorcist, (based on an actual event) Rosemary's Baby and such, Jesus Christ casting out demons are very influencing.
From Wikipedia: The idea of demons is as old as religion itself, and the word demon seems to have ancient origins. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives the etymology of the word as Greek daimon, probably from the verb daiesthai meaning "to divide, distribute." The Proto-Indo-European root *deiwos for god, originally an adjective meaning "celestial" or "bright, shining" has retained this meaning in many related Indo-European languages and cultures (Sanskrit deva, Latin deus, German Tiw, Welsh [Duw],]), but also provided another other common word for demon in Avestan daeva.
In modern Greek, the word daimon (Greek: δαίμων) has the same meaning as the modern English demon. But in Ancient Greek, δαίμων meant "spirit" or "higher self", much like the Latin genius. This should not, however, be confused with the word genie, which is a false friend or false cognate of genius.
That can be very disturbing, I realize, but today we here that there is a new revitalization on all things spiritual, could it be demonically inspired? I personally do not believe that anyone is psychic in the sense that we have a personal knowledge that makes one more knowing than another person. I do believe that when unexplainable, unnatural, other worldly things happen, they are from other beings, which I whole heatedly believe exist. I do not mean to imply that these beings are strictly malevolent, but that that their is a battle for our souls going on. The sons of light against the sons of darkness. I have prayed for the power to discern the difference between the two, I believe that would be a most comforting attribute, to know what is going on around me.
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