Posted on 06/24/2014 5:04:49 AM PDT by tired&retired
Three American friends have been taken to hospital after reportedly becoming 'possessed' by evil spirits while playing with a Ouija board. Alexandra Huerta, 22, was playing the game with her brother Sergio, 23, and 18-year-old cousin Fernando Cuevas at a house in the village of San Juan Tlacotenco in south-west Mexico. But minutes into it, she apparently started 'growling' and thrashing around in a 'trance-like' state.
They restrained Alexandra to prevent her from hurting herself, before treating the three with painkillers, anti-stress medication and eye drops, which seemingly worked.
Victor Demesa, 46, the director of public safety in the nearby town of Tepoztlan, said: 'The medical rescue of these three young people was very complicated.
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“Why don’t you believe that?”
Simply this:
It’s been around for a thousand years. Millions of them have been sold since the Parker Brothers marketed it. AND - If there was anything to it at all, don’t you think the military (pick a country) would not exploit it?
Believing there is anything at all to it is akin to believing in witchcraft.
The two Ouija boards I played with in my younger years apparently held no demons or evil spirits.
“I don’t believe in the Ouija board”
The power is not in the board, but in where you take your thoughts when you are working with the board.
A stop sign at an intersection has no power over you. But your choice of action when you see it does.
No. Haven’t read that, and I don’t believe you can call up the devil.
“The two Ouija boards I played with in my younger years apparently held no demons or evil spirits.”
It is wonderful that the purity of a child’s soul protects them from harm when they wander off the path. We tend to lose that as we get older.
That’s why you must be like a child in order to know my Father.
Why would they? The military, much as I respect the troops, is secular (especially today's military). They would naturally have the same response you do---they would dismiss it out of hand.
Also, I don't know what use they could make of it.
< "Believing there is anything at all to it is akin to believing in witchcraft."
And that has a Biblical basis.
I had to laugh out loud at the nervous priest thing. I can imagine that is a dicey one!
You can surely allow the devil into your heart just as surely as you can let Jesus in. Good v. Evil is up to you. Free Will my friend.
“You can surely allow the devil into your heart just as surely as you can let Jesus in. Good v. Evil is up to you. Free Will my friend.”
While I agree, it appears that evil chooses us and stalks us while Jesus gives us enough rope to get ourselves in trouble and then it is up to us to choose Jesus to save our sorry arse.
Some, but I work more with soldiers and vets. I go where the path leads me. I am not on a mission.
I can agree with that. It a darn good thing He does not mind rescuing us. I am a rather slow learner at times. Gotten better with age. :)
“So I am guessing you do prison ministry? How interesting and terrifying all at the same time.”
The greatest number of murders are those who chose an abortion. No matter what they say they believe, their soul always carries self judgement.
The Bible says ‘stubborness is as the sin of Witchcraft’...so there is something to it, if God is against Witchcraft.... calling it a sin.
The frothing of feminazi's reminds me of Dante's Inferno.
We must be careful calling something “witchcraft.” Basically that is what the Pharisees called the work that Jesus was doing. The untrained eye cannot tell the difference. The difference is in the purity of motive of the doer.
“We must be careful calling something “witchcraft.””
What about calling something loony?
Why do they always call a priest? Why not a minister or a rabbi?
I do that after two beers. :-)
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