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Haunting in Indiana leads to family’s exorcism, child’s levitation: Reports
New York Daily News ^ | 1/27/14 | Nina Golgowski

Posted on 01/28/2014 11:50:18 AM PST by BlatherNaut

A Gary, Ind., mother of three claims demons caused her 12-year-old daughter to levitate and her 9-year-old son to walk on a hospital ceiling — accounts supported by medical personnel and police officials, according to a shocking report. For Latoya Ammons, the late night footsteps, the creaking of a door and wet footprints left by a shadowy male figure through her living room were merely child's play when that was all her family had to endure. But then things turned violent.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; evil; exorcism; haunting; indiana
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To: Boogieman
"It didn't happen" is a way of rejecting the evidence, and not a measured or reasonable one, either.

Don't bother answering, please. I have to draw a line here.

81 posted on 01/29/2014 12:54:15 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Sanity is the adequate response of the mind to the real thing: adaequatio mentis ad rem.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“It didn’t happen” is a way of rejecting the evidence....


There’s no evidence to reject!


82 posted on 01/29/2014 1:31:17 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: dmz

I’ll rephrase it for you, because I really think you might learn from a sincere discussion of this:

It takes a significant amount of superstition to believe in metaphysical naturalism.


83 posted on 01/29/2014 1:36:45 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: BlatherNaut
I'll bet they all refuse to take polygraph tests.

I know, I know....but police use this technique to smoke suspects out all the time. Beating a lie detector test can be done, but it's rare.

Leni

84 posted on 01/29/2014 1:38:39 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: madison10; gusty
I do not understand why CPS took the kids away from the mother.

You need to put yourself in the position of authority when this family starts to tell their story. The family went to them with their story after first going to the church (initially denied), the police (crazy bunch), etc.

What would you do if you were suppose to make an assessment of a family who insists they have ghosts, are all possessed by demons, etc. If you go clinical, there has to be some mental illness going on here.... AT First. But after police, DCS and the church investigated, all reports along with several witnesses (many of whom were named in reports but refused to be interviewed), included a conclusion of "Paranormal Activity."

Ironically, I have met Athiests who "believe in evil spirits, ghosts and the devil" but not a "god." That's a mind bender there.

85 posted on 01/29/2014 9:09:58 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: reasonisfaith

I’ll rephrase it for you, because I really think you might learn from a sincere discussion of this:

It takes a significant amount of superstition to believe in metaphysical naturalism.

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It might be a tad presumptuous on your part to think I’ve never had those discussions.

I have no problem with your amended statement at all. Silly to think we can quantify and compare the amount of superstition to believe x or y.


86 posted on 01/30/2014 5:54:05 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz

My apologies for being presumptuous, and for not being clear. I was referring to a general quantification, not a numerically measured one.

But let’s not miss the point: the commonly held assumption that science disproves things like faith and the existence of entities beyond the physical world is a bit superficial.

If I again seem to be condescending and it upsets you, this is not my intention. I admit sometimes I try to illustrate the fact that the commonly held assumption is not necessarily the most well thought out view. I think this is necessary largely because the left—whether in a political context or on matters of faith and science—often presumes to have the intellectual advantage when in most if not all cases the leftist view comes from at least a mild to moderate deficit in the analytical process.


87 posted on 01/30/2014 10:43:57 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: VAFreedom

He’d be blurry like Bigfoot.


88 posted on 01/31/2014 12:15:46 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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