dead_black_eyes: "Secret Agent Man" (I hate people when they're not polite)
dead_black_eyes ([personal profile] dead_black_eyes) wrote in [community profile] savetheearth2014-02-21 07:49 pm

Entry #A-4: "Ante" [February 21, Text]

Though the police and the Blood Keys obviously represent a threat to many numbered individuals, I have a question about organized religion, and what pulses might mean when framed within certain philosophical contexts.

No matter how natural it might feel, if there really is another being nudging its way into an existing consciousness, changing a person's aptitudes, physical attributes and even their personality... there have to be at least a few churches that would consider that demonic possession, right?

Has anyone tried to reconcile what's happening with influential religious practices, and do we have any resources for assisting anyone who might wind up the subject of an attempted exorcism? Those still happen today, they can be extremely dangerous, and I'm concerned about the possibility of frightened numbered people seeking out such assistance, or being subjected to it by their families and communities. Thinking you're crazy is one thing, but sincerely believing that the devil is wielding you as an instrument is another entirely. Probably not something that the FAQ page can successfully assuage, for the most tenaciously convinced.
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[personal profile] drama8om8 2014-02-22 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Since past me was an actual legitimate in-real-life Jesus, I can totally offer my super holy magical Jesus powers for cleansing people who are dumb and deluded enough to think they are being possessed by demons.

Because that's dumb.

Really super dumb.
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[personal profile] charcoalfeather 2014-02-22 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[The video is a bit murky. Rakka had to use her tea to open it.]

Well, you already know that I think I'm becoming an angel. I don't think I'd be in much danger of getting an exorcism for that, would I?

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[personal profile] scramasax 2014-02-22 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[He cannot tell if the second paragraph is strictly a lead-in to the first. Debates and tries to detach opinion from this before writing it, mitigate the awkwardness...]

We don't know that other being couldn't be a God, then again...
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[personal profile] dragon_blossom 2014-02-22 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
if we can figure out a good argument against it tell me. im worried itll happen if my parents find out.

ive tried not to think too hard about how i feel about it
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[personal profile] mysteltinn 2014-02-22 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
I was actually talking about this a little with someone a few days ago! To be honest, just because something isn't included in a religion doesn't mean it's COUNTER to it. At least that's how I've been thinking of it.

Anyways, if someone was all alone or really suspicious it could go really bad for them. If my sister hadn't been with me and pulsed at the same time I'd probably be in a hospital or something... And if I'm really looking at it from the outside we are kinda cult-y.

Oh! And since you were asking everyone else: Hi I'm Owen, I'm 15 and we haven't talked before!
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[personal profile] hollowleg 2014-02-22 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
... crap. I didn't even think about that. I don't want religious nutcases after us too!
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[personal profile] icy_heavens 2014-02-22 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Great. That's something I never even thought about. My family isn't religious, at least. Still leaves other people if they see anything, though.

[And he even uses one of his abilities semi-frequently because it's useful. He tries to be careful about it, but . . .]
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[personal profile] ursoreckless 2014-02-22 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
It might matter if your family was following the Christian doctrine but some of us aren't of that belief.
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[personal profile] dododo 2014-02-22 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
It has actually happened before, so that's not a bad idea.
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[personal profile] shortspoken 2014-02-22 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Exorcisms are dangerous? Even outside the realm of bad horror movies?
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[personal profile] chalicejoker 2014-02-22 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
At this point, I'm more worried about exterminators with delusions of grandeur than I am priests with holy water.
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[personal profile] wonk 2014-02-22 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
is that rly a concern this is locke city not the bible belt
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[personal profile] synonymouswithdookie 2014-02-23 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
i don't know why but that really creeps me the fuck out for some reason
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[personal profile] soulsborderline 2014-02-23 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Past-me or alternate me or whatever referred to things she regularly fought and killed as "Angels", but I'm pretty sure that was a codename.

Pretty sure.
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[personal profile] occasus 2014-02-23 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Holy shit
you're saying we're posessed


that makes so much sense
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[personal profile] shiromadoushi 2014-02-23 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Bored at work, huh?
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[personal profile] dominateartimus 2014-02-24 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't, but I've spoken to Dr. Francis Fell who teaches Theology. [Who originally reacted poorly to the whole concept of angels and demons existing.] He could help out, but I'm not sure if he's still a part of the network.

There might be a chance that someone's other self has worked for the 'devil'. So, I wouldn't strike that out as a possible thing.

[Not like he's trying to indicate that he received a 'pulse' about working for Lucifer.]