The Difference Between Fallen Angels, Demons, Aliens, Jedi, and the Watchers

The Watcher Files ^ | By Sherry Shriner

[BenLurkin]

Doesn't look too bad . . .

Meanwhile . . .

[BenLurkin]

[NewRomeTacitus]

Since seeing the "Prophecy" movies angels scare me. If they're real why should they have any benevolence toward we far frailer beings who hold the treasure of free will that they were denied?

If angels are to be believed then demons must be considered. It's especially disturbing that most of these concepts preceded Christianity (Zoroastrianism, etc.).

[sully777]

[sully777]

Since we're on a religious freak out...

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Salvador Dali's The Temptation of Saint Anthony

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Whoa!! Someone forgot to take their meds.">

Or maybe they took someone elses too!

[grey_whiskers]

...and I don't especially like the Keyword list either.

Let's not give GREYS a bad name. (See my screen name).

Cheers!

[Salamander]

Well, *anything* played by Chris Walken later just scares me on general principle.....:D

The bright side is that the *good* angels who did not rebel understand and accept God's will for us and "watch over us".


I absolutely believe in demons.

Years ago I read a couple of books on comparative mythology [one of which was "Angels, Aliens & Demons" and the other was called "Men In Black", if memory serves.

Both books focused on the possibility that *all* world culture's mythologies of devils, fairies, elves, etc. were based on the actual existence of demons.
Demons are/were smart to to "shapeshift" to fit any given particular culture's mythological bent and technological progress.

For us, they appear as 'wise and powerful aliens' from other planets.
For the Irish, they were fairy of the Sidhes...to the Indians, they were great spirits...and so on and so forth.

If that's what they're doing, it's brilliantly evil, really.

But then we have this;

Do not neglect to show hospitality
to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:2

I'm sure I'm not the only person who's ever had a seemingly random "stranger" do something spectacularly kind or generous for no *apparent* reason...a stranger who made us feel awed or peculiar in their presence.

Makes ya wonder....

[Salamander]

*Never* eat any little brown mushrooms.

[Salamander]

http://besmirched.tripod.com/eyes.html

[alexander_busek]

>>I'm sure I'm not the only person who's ever had a seemingly random "stranger" do something spectacularly kind or generous for no *apparent* reason...a stranger who made us feel awed or peculiar in their presence.<<

Occam's Razor: Don't look for a complicated, implausible reason when a simple, rational one will do.

Maybe you simply met a benevolent person who merely felt like doing something nice. No need to invoke the Supernatural.

[BenLurkin]

You are correct of course but . . .


. . . there are times I can't help but think that Mrs. Lurkin is an angel assigned to my pathetic case.

No mortal being could have put up with me for the last 20 years!

[Salamander]

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

W. Shakespeare

[sully777]

Ping...

'Tis the oddest thread to be sure
Rastafarian yet demure

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"JABBERWOCKY"

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


"Beware the jabberwock, my son.
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun


He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.


And as in uffish thought he stood,
The jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!


One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.


"And has thou slain the jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.


'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


Alice Through The Looking Glass

[Salamander]

I'll see your Jabberwocky and raise you one "Second Coming";


The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[Enterprise]

"Maybe you simply met a benevolent person who merely felt like doing something nice."

True. Nonetheless, it's nice to be there when they do these things.

[Enterprise]

"and I don't especially like the Keyword list either."

"Nancy Grace, Wendy Murphy" - lord have mercy!

[genefromjersey]

Can you imagine this poem set to music and performed ?

'Twas done ! It was a novelty song of the late 40's-early 50s-performed by somebody named Phil Harris.

It stayed on the charts for about 6 weeks, before fading into (blessed) obscurity...but every so often, the song will pop up in memory. AAARGH !!

[King Prout]

och, meh puir haid.

[Domestic Church]

Sorry, but that pix you pinged me to came up broken on my old system. What was it? This is the silliest thread I've read in years!