It's good that you can see how your "hypothetical" scenario isn't in the interest of harm reduction.Now, while "try to get on anti-psychotics" isn't the best harm reduction, I was actually referring to a 'hypothetical' scenario.
I thnk you're an ignorance enabler. How about that?
I don't mind (cos it don't matter ) - one man's ignorance is another man's demon. I did put 'demon-enabler' in comedy quotes though. Maybe the bit of you that thinks there are real demons is not real, but you've actually been 'possessed' by some bit of your subconscious that found it evolutionarily adaptive to tell your consciousness stories that it 'knows' to explain the world, as a way around the crushing insignificance and loneliness of living in the ego.
Of course i don't know what's really real, but if we're betting, i'll give you long odds on the demons; as would any sophisticated esoteric reading of the tradtions from which the demons originally derived (it's usually obvious these things were metaphorical/mythical, not literal (as is clear in buddhist traditions)). Care to have a go explaining why the people who gave you the term 'demon' didn't even recognise that they were malevolent entities that would possess you until a bunch of repressed christians with a sharpened axe to grind came along?
(edit: just had a quick skwiz at that youtubelink you posted above as proof of demons - that seems to be going further than demons and is talking about the good old devil himself - do you actually believe that shit? (and what about the super-devil? )
But I do believe in demonic possession (using the currently popular term even though it's not the same as the original meaning of the word daemon) and demonic infestation and oppression. There are too many cases for them all to be fake.
You do know about mental illness, right? How can you tell the difference between "real" possession and just plan old delusions? Persecution is a well known delusion of people with schizophrenia and other illnesses. There are exactly zero cases of demons being proven to be real. In an age of overwhelming video documentation and scientific progress how is that possible?
You do know about mental illness, right? How can you tell the difference between "real" possession and just plan old delusions? Persecution is a well known delusion of people with schizophrenia and other illnesses. There are exactly zero cases of demons being proven to be real. In an age of overwhelming video documentation and scientific progress how is that possible?
that lack of evidence doesn't disprove Jasons theory.
Yes this thread needs an excorcism. Mods?