Sunday, May 26, 2013

Little devil



This pic reminded me of an incident when I was in 6th or 7th grade. I became interested in demonology. (Harbinger of things to come!)

I took a book from the local public library that provided diagrams




and one afternoon while my mother was cooking dinner, I offered to summon a demon on the kitchen floor. She freaked. Did not find it funny.

I was banished, with my books, to the basement.

Harbinger* of things to come!

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*A redundant sentence, strictly speaking. Harbingers are only of things to come.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Speaking of supernatural matters, I wanted ask how you, as a fellow ex-Catholic who still has strong Christian tendencies, observe Sundays. Attending Mass feels a little awkward, especially since I do not consider myself Catholic. Private observance seems like the most spiritually honest route: reading the Mass readings, some red wine and bread. However, my new-found love for the Divine Liturgy makes me want to keep attending those. And is it wrong for me to continue to receive Communion when the Church considers me in a state of mortal sin, even if I don't?

Thoughts?

-Sean

OreamnosAmericanus said...

Once I left, I gave up the liturgy and, with it, communion. Didn't seem honest.

I experimented with other things, the Episopalians, the Gnostics. Nothing finally "took."

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Ex. I've just been trying to work out what to do with myself on Sundays. I think I'll try to observe it as best I can at home.

-Sean

Anonymous said...

Hmm.. your story reminds of when I was a similar age, when I had this odd phase where I decided that I ought to pray to God and Satan in equal measure for the sake of "balance". It got rather complicated to figure how to do this...should the two times of prayer be very separated in time, or could one follow right after the other? And what prayers went to whom? Clearly prayers about "good" things should go the upper guy, and "bad" things to the lower, but it wasn't clear what the line between the two was. Are perfectly selfish wishes which harm no-one "bad"? Are wishes to harm others when there's a good case they deserve it "good"?

Eventually, to simplify things and to save time, I somehow took the notion of fusing God and Satan into one being in my mind ( not sure now how I figured that was valid) thus more easily praying to that.

Prob about a year from then I'd quit any praying altogether.

--Nathan

Anonymous said...

Hmm.. your story reminds of when I was a similar age, when I had this odd phase where I decided that I ought to pray to God and Satan in equal measure for the sake of "balance". It got rather complicated to figure how to do this...should the two times of prayer be very separated in time, or could one follow right after the other? And what prayers went to whom? Clearly prayers about "good" things should go the upper guy, and "bad" things to the lower, but it wasn't clear what the line between the two was. Are perfectly selfish wishes which harm no-one "bad"? Are wishes to harm others when there's a good case they deserve it "good"?

Eventually, to simplify things and to save time, I somehow took the notion of fusing God and Satan into one being in my mind ( not sure now how I figured that was valid) thus more easily praying to that.

Prob about a year from then I'd quit any praying altogether.

--Nathan

Advocatus Diaboli said...

but then that must be why you are homosexual! idolatry and demon worship! looks like paul was right!

OreamnosAmericanus said...

;)

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