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Grab Bag Beliefs

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I had a conversation with a man, I will call Tony. The conversation started among a group of us, about a recent murder where a self proclaimed witch murdered a man. The murder was rather brutal, and from what the news said, was more about not being in control of ones reality than it was about witchcraft.

Tony said he had been told as a child there used to be a lot of witches around here. I mentioned I knew two people who have witches in their families and live in the area. I said witchcraft is alive and well in our state, and has been for hundreds of years, if not longer.

Tony said he is a Catholic and does not believe in witchcraft, the boogie man, old stories, demons, the devil, or anything like that. He said all he believed in is God. Well it is hard to argue with someone about their beliefs. Beliefs are after all are what one chooses to believe, right or wrong.

Tony is partially correct in his beliefs, though he is also wrong in his beliefs. I did not question him further or comment on his beliefs because each of us believes what we want to be true, and we don’t change our opinions until we want to. This does not change the we could be wrongs.

It is impossible to believe in any God, especially a Christian God, and dismiss all other supernatural possibilities as non-existent. That is a major flaw in ones understanding. Especially when a God uses physical and non physical angels and other beings to do work on the earth, and in the heavens.

The greater flaw in Tony’s belief is dismissing everything, such as the Devil, and demons, deciding they do not exist. It would be different if the Christian bible made no mention of the Devil, or demons, but they are in the bible along with Angels, giants, and various other named and unnamed entities.

Christianity is a religion that wraps itself in the supernatural by default. God does not exist in a form anyone can see or touch. If one believes God exists, then one should be prepared to accept other things we can not see or touch also exist.

One last comment made by Tony is a sign of an unbalanced belief system. Tony mentioned that people who practice witchcraft, even though he does not believe in witchcraft, are evil people. I hear this said often in christian religious circles, people essentially saying,  “People not like us are evil”.

These types of people believe there are two types of people in the world. How can people who do something one does not even believe in be evil? Tony should have said misguided, silly, or maybe ignorant, but evil? Where does evil fit in where there is only room for God?

It is interesting how many people decide to define their world. People hold beliefs that are often have conflicts in their very foundations. People see the face of Jesus on a cookie. The outline of Virgin Mary when the sun shines through a room at a certain time. Yet these same people can’t imagine them actually appearing in physical form. For them it just could not happen, God and the Virgin Mary don’t do that!

Yet people often choose conflicting beliefs. Beliefs such as: I choose to believe in flying saucers and ufo’s, but nothing religious. I choose to believe in God, angels, and demons, but not ghosts, or other spirits. I choose to believe vampires exist though no record of one factually exists. I choose to believe even though there are billions of stars and in an untold number of solar systems, though only Earth has life. I choose to believe when I die, that is the end of me, even though I saw a ghost once.

Many of us shut out beliefs we don’t care for. When man went to the moon for example, many people believed it never happened, it was a stage production. Yet those same people put their belief in a pill to cure them of almost any illness. What if the pill isn’t even made of sugar?

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Ghosts, vampires, and imaginary playmates

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Over the years I have seen many strange apparitions. Halloween is only a few days away and it feels like a good time to write about them.

As a child I had two imaginary playmates. Playmates that were always in my backyard. The first wore a white sailor’s uniform. The second wore a sailor’s work uniform, which was blue jeans and blue shirt. I did not know about uniforms of course, or what they were, but the youngest man told me. There was a third figure, but it stayed out of site, and the two men told me not to go looking for the third figure. I do not know if it was a man, woman, or something else. I could tell it watched me sometimes, but I never tried to talk to it, or go see it there in the woods.

They would walk out of the woods into my back yard, or sometimes they were already standing out on the grass. They never stood, say in the picnic table, the clothes line pole, or walked through them. It never seemed odd to me as a child that these two men were always there. Or that they would talk to me, and I could talk to them. They also never played with me, just told me things and talked with me. Occasionally, they would tell me it was time to go into the house, but never anything of importance.

They went away after a few years, and I never knew why. I remember waiting for the snow to melt, and the ground to dry up, so my parents would let me play on it. I went out in the yard, and waited for them to come out and play with me, but they didn’t show up. I was kind of sad, my only friends had left, and I had no one to play with. I made it through not having them around without any lasting effects.

There were the vampires, demons, and ghosts that every person sees at one time or another in my life. I have seen three figures crouching in a bedroom all in western dress from a previous period. In England one morning, I drove in my car behind a woman riding a bicycle up a hill only to have her disappear on the back side of the hill. This with the road sunk six or seven feet below the cornfields’ on both sides of the road! There was a ski trip with a black dog with boar tusks sticking out the sides of its mouth, on the very top Mammoth Mountain. This was February, and there was over twenty feet of snow on the ground, not to mention six thousand feet of altitude from the nearest car, and miles from the nearest house! There were other sightings over the years, but enough of this for now.

What is most interesting about every apparition I have ever seen, is the forms they have taken on. There was never any Alien, any Chucky, or Freddy. They were all things I have either seen in person, picture, or imagined. As I grew through the monster phase so did what I would see, as they changed back into human form, with the exception of the dog and a few others.

I know that anything I see will always be what I have seen, or imagined. Not because I am seeing what really is, but because what it is either projects itself as something found in my memory, or my mind changes what I see into something that I can comprehend. I think that for whatever it is I may see, it is easier for it to take an image from my mind and project that image. I think this may be true from both an energy conservation standpoint, and my comprehension ability. I can not see what I have never imagined. I know we have much more to fear from flesh and blood human beings than anything that appears and disappears.

The next time something appears in front of you, do not get scared – get curious – unless it is Halloween, then RUN!

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