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Originally posted by LUXUS
reply to post by maung
There are stories about keris that rattle in the scabbard to warn the owners of danger and also people who bought old keris which only brought them bad luck so that they had to have the keris removed from the house. There are similar story’s about Tibetan daggers (phurba) also like keris sometimes made from meteorite metal.
BTW what is the Indonesian name for those stones?
"So, I suppose we could test this and prove it to be real? I wonder why none of these people take James Randi on his offer? He will award 1 million dollars to anyone who can prove the supernatural to be real. No one has been able to do so."
"How does a demon consume energy again? What does it gain by doing this?"
"If the slave is greater than his master, why is he a slave? "
In Islam, it is said that humans are made from mud and clay. Angels are made from light. Jinn are made of smokeless fire. Jinn have the ability to shape-shift into animals, remain invisible, or show their true form. They are said to whisper ideas of sin and back-sliding into the ears and hearts of mankind.
One without fear is one without demons.
Originally posted by Hydroman
reply to post by Sahabi
Thanks for your replies. Could you tell me what Jinn are exactly? Where they come from? How they got here? What their purpose is? Same thing with demons...?
Originally posted by Hydroman
So, I suppose we could test this and prove it to be real? I wonder why none of these people take James Randi on his offer? He will award 1 million dollars to anyone who can prove the supernatural to be real. No one has been able to do so.
Upon seeing the phony announcement, and apparently without properly checking things out, Randi decided to give one of his annual psi-mocking "Uri Awards" to this receipt of a phony grant. Thus, on April 1, 1983, Randi's Discover news release gave a "Uri" in the funding category: 'To the Medtronics Corporation of Minneapolis, who gave $250,000 to a Mr. Stillings of that city to fund the Archaeus Project, devoted to observing people who bend spoons at parties. Mr. Stillings then offered financial assistance to a prominent young spoon-bender who turned out to be one of the masquerading magicians of Project Alpha -- a confessed fake." In this incredible award statement, Randi managed to falsely identify a major corporation as the funding source (when no source was ever mentioned in the original announcement), escalated the award from $217,000 to $250,000, misdescribed the purpose of the phony award, and falsely claimed one of his associates had been offered funds!
reply to post by LUXUS
A jinn can be attached to an amulet by knowing the name of the spirit, to know its name is to have power over it. The one who made the amulet would have summoned a jinn and then bound it to the object by writing its name on it along with its task. Only when it completes its task will it be free.
And isn't that why many things were attributed to the works of gods, because they didn't realize or understand that it was natural phenomena?
Originally posted by Sahabi
The energy outside of human perceptions was not even measurable until the advent of scientific technology, yet it always existed.
We have five senses, not just one. We can use the other senses as well to detect things, or other scientific/technological means. In the future, who knows what we'll be able to understand with newer technology and knowledge that we don't understand today?
Originally posted by Sahabi
Do your eyes see reality, or is your brain merely deciphering photonic information? Does this mean that without Light nothing exists?
All this mystical mumbo jumbo is simply people wanting to claim something is at fault beyond themselves and simple randomness of life.
Originally posted by Arsenalwa
reply to post by Hydroman
Your questions cracked me up throughout this thread, dude! Just had to say it
Why are you so interested in learning about all that though? You obviously don't believe much of it.