What I learned when I met a real life exorcist
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My late writing partner was several years older than me, he often told the story of how when he was 11 he was jumped when he came home from school by his parents and two priests who strapped him to a chair in their front room and carried out an exorcism on him, because one of the Nuns at his school was convinced his bad behavior was the result of possession.
Said bad behavior was having a large vocabulary, asking "blasphemous" questions about bible passages and being caught with a copy of Dr. No in his school bag.
Well in to middle age he still found the most disturbing part about the experience was that he parents went along with it.
LenHazell53
Level 9
Aug 26, 2018
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I agree with him,that Was/IS the disturbing part!
Superstitious old bats who think kiddy diddling is more socially acceptable than basic human rights. Good times.
ScientistV
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Aug 26, 2018
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What you can't deny about the thing is that for a moment she believed she was better and she felt better. Of course the "demons" returned and she believes what she is doing now being an evangelical is helping her. There is something comforting about the idea of pain leaving you and focusing your mind on that thought can alter to varying degrees how you feel. What we deem to be true has a strong effect on us for good or bad sometimes. Of course coping with day to day reality this is not always going to work. Sometimes you have to fix the roof do other things etc besides go off in a daydream imagining life is all well. I saw a little kid that would talk about being followed by a sort of malevolent spirit or so she said and maybe it was dramatic play..Anyway her mom taught her to say get behind me Jesus and the child insists that it makes the spirit away. Because mom is credible to that child and her suggestions are powerful. Whatever belief you hold has the potential to effect you in a very powerful way.
thinkwithme
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Aug 26, 2018
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