Witchcraft

[pdust]

do you believe in it?

i was gonna make a new account to talk about this so you didnt all think i was mad but the fact that we would have had the same avatar could have been a dead giveaway :P

anyway..... ive always had lucid dreams and often had what people refer to as sleep paralysis but ive always thought there was more to it than your brains awake but your bodies not kind of thing....if there was just the sense of paralysis i could believe it but the sense that something evil is in the room with me makes me believe its more than that... also i had this long before i heard others had it and after reading about it i find it completely weird that people throughout the ages from all different backgrounds and cultures can have the same experience of an evil thing near them

to cut a long story short a fortnight ago i gave someone a personal belonging of mine then later joked he was going to do voodoo on me

since then i have had night terrors a lot worse than ever before.... im not stressed, i dont touch alcohol or any drugs at all.... i spoke with a friend whos alim and he advised me to among other things play a recording of quran while i sleep... i did this for 2 or 3 nights and nothing happened. last night i forgot to put it on and it was back full force

so my question is simple.... do you believe witchcraft exists?

[Answerprancer]

Are jews, muslims, buddhists, etc a figment of people's imagination too?

[jomifl]

pdust, My remark was pro atheism inasmuch as if you had a mindset that required some evidence before you believed just about anything then you would realise that these supernatural forces that seem to worry you don't exist and you could perhaps move on to a more rational explanation of your problem and perhaps resolve it that much sooner.

[Answerprancer]

I take it you're satisfied by my answer to your implication of hypocrisy then, Jomifl.

[jomifl]

AP, witchcraft existing as there being self identified witches or witchcraft as works carried out by witches that operate in a framework other than that generally accepted as the real world, ie where the laws of physics etc. operate?

[jomifl]

AP, There is some ambiguity here as your understanding of the meaning of the word 'witchcraft' seems not to be congruent with mine. But C'est pas grave. :-)

[Answerprancer]

The question was "do you believe witchcraft exists?" to which I answered "witchcraft definitely exists" as in witchcraft practised by witches.
That is NOT a matter of opinion. Belief or non-belief of the religious practises IS a matter of opinion/belief but that was not the answer I was addressing.

[Answerprancer]

..ah you meant 'witches' as in pointy hats, warts, cackles and 'bubble bubble toilet trouble'!

[joggerjayne]

... or "Double, double toil and trouble"

:0)

[joggerjayne]

Although AP's loo orientated rewrite should be introduced at GCSE, I think.

[Octavius]

....Liver of blaspheming Jew

[Answerprancer]

I'd hoped someone might approve ;-)

[jomifl]

AP, I am quite happy with the idea that you know best what you meant and that you were not being hypocritical. :-)

[Answerprancer]

Ah good, so it's all back on again ..mwwah!

[jim360]

Didn't OP ask two separate questions? "Do you believe witchcraft exists?" (yes) and "do you believe in witchcraft?" (no).

[joggerjayne]

I love a happy ending.

[naomi24]

Pixi, I've given you a reasoned answer to your question, and I don't 'like' to come across in any way in particular, but do you really expect any rational person to take all this talk of magic, and spells, and Voodoo seriously? Why on earth would they? I wasn’t joking about feeling I’m experiencing the Twilight Zone – hence the :o/

Don't joke, you lot. You're in danger of being told to take yourself off and go do something worthwhile....

[Octavius]

joggerjayne, some people pay good money for that.




.....I'll get me coat.

[ludwig]

// ..take yourself off and go do something worthwhile.... //

Go do that voodoo that you do so well, perhaps.

[naomi24]

Haaaa! That's Jayne. She's the Voodoo expert! :o)

[Answerprancer]

Who do?