There are no demons. There is no evil. There is no sin. There are only mistakes. Even actions that we currently view as mistakes did not always seem so. We had to do what we did under the conditions we faced at the time.

Shenanigans

You're on the wrong site.

Not one athiest has ever been possessed ...that should tell you all you need to know

hell yeah dude, have you studied the djinn
mental illness, how bout you use a word like schitzophrenic so you don't make autistic folks like myself sound like school shooters <3

how about you show me something supernatural

I am no expert, and am just guessing.

I have heard on NPR a few months ago that our minds actually have at least three dozen processing centers. For mos tof us this is one primary center which controls our bodies and is our primary personality, and the rest are all subconscious influences.

In multiple personality, a very rare condition, more than one of the minor processing centers in our brain takes control of they body and has a different personality, dependign onwhich one is in control.

I think so called "demonic possession" is a sub personality that has come to the surface and either partially or fully has taken over. I'd also postulate that such personalities processing center used by that personality is rooted in more primitive parts of the brain, but that is wholly guess work, as I have neither heard nor seen evidence to support that... yet.

I also suspect that schizophrenic persons who her voices or see people who are not there, are seeing or hearing manifestations in their minds, of other processing center personalities.

I think all the ancient prophets who actually believed they saw visions and heard voices were suffering from some sort of mental illness. Some mentally ill people can be quite functional. My favorite example is John Nash, who won a Nobel prize for mathematics, for work he did while suffering from schizophrenic delusions. His story is portrayed in the movie "A Beautiful Mind".

Anyway, my point is that ancient "prophet" most likely were just been persons who were both mentally ill and highly functioning.

Demons don't exist anymore than God does. But it does open up an interesting question. If you don't pay your Exorcist Bill do you get repossessed? LOL

Bullshit.

How can we be possessed by something that doesn't exist?

It's imagination. Self-induced delusion.

Really i can't say i have a strong opinion on this, never seen a person with such a severe mental illness, until i see someones heads spin totally around, i say im not. A beilever of demonic possession

It is a pre-scientific misinterpretation of mental illness.
Before there was medical science, psychiatry and psychology, people looked for some form of explanation and demons were the best they could come up with. Nowadays, it gets complicated because strong religious beliefs can manifest as neuroses or fixated ideas themselves, further aggravating a mental instability to a point the affected themselves strongly believe they are possessed.
All in all, any clinical treatment will always be better ( I.E. effective at all) than an exorcism, whatever that's supposed to be.

It's dumb.

Entertaining in fiction. Don't actually believe in it in real life.

I am conscious of the idea that there are things that we do not perceive because we do not expect to perceive them, we do not notice them, we perceptually filter them out by some other means, or are not neurologically equipped to perceive them. Those things can probably completely shatter one's paradigm of how one thinks reality works.

That being said, I would absolutely not be surprised if one day, somebody got past those perceptual boundaries, and observed a whole universe of sensory information that had never been seen before.

That being said, can demonic possession be a reality? I would still say it is more likely that demonic possession is caused by something going awry in the brain, because there is much more scientific evidence to support that conclusion, than the case where demonic possession is real.

I once played demon possessed while holding onto an Ouija board when religious people kept bugging me while trying to convert me and anytime they’d mentioned god or Jesus, I’d hiss and hold on tighter to the board. Wink wink!

Developed by a nasty person by themselves.

Check this guy out. He's been exposed several times for being a fraud...

Duh.

Something you see coming out of the south end of a north bound horse.

I know l have my demons. ?

Great material for horror movies etc, but demons only exist figuratively as in the biblical sense and the mythological sense. They are not entities or illnesses..they are figments of other people's imagination..not mine.

"Demon Rum'..... maybe.

I can think of many answers....
(sarcasm) Awesome excuse to do crazy stuff
(Crazy) Let that SOG possess me then see what happens
(Non sense) I am the demon
(funny) been there and still here
(Non believer) not possible for obvious reasons
(Serious) Really?????

As someone who struggled with severe psychiatric issues that went undiagnosed for nearly a decade bc in the Bible Belt church leaders and Christian pschologists haven’t upgraded their rigorous (yet totally legit as they assure everyone) med school curricula to include things like depression and schizophrenia as being distinct from demonic possession, I gotta say I’m a bit jaded/leaning in the sceptical direction regarding the demon possession thing. I will acknowledge that there’s plenty out there that will not be uncovered in my lifetime, but if I come across someone who appears to be having a mental breakdown from imaginary voices screaming at them, my initial instinct is more like “Hey! That person needs a doctor and medical care...” instead of “Quick! Everybody come lay hands on this guy and pray super hard so this scary demon monster doesn’t steal his soul forever...”

Well, If a demon ever possesses me it better pay rent. Demons can be such free-loading ass holes.