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Eryiedes
reply to post by sulaw
Pish-posh.
Don't agree with the way the world is going?
Blame the devil.
It's so much easier that way.
Removes all responsibility for people actions or inaction.
And FYI (I don't know why I have to keep saying this) I have indeed looked into it in depth in my college years and guess what?
It was B.S. then and it's B.S. now.
Go watch your "Haunted Mineshaft" show and leave reality to the people with a functioning understanding of science, reason and evidence.
-Peace-
edit on 22-11-2013 by Eryiedes because: Typo
Eryiedes
reply to post by sulaw
Since you asked, my degree was in Architectural Engineering but x-factor and paranormal studies I chose as my electives throughout college since I still believed in god, until the final year when psychic surgery destroyed the instructor's credibility and ended it as a choice for electives.
The rest of your post is is just obfuscation.
No factual evidence exists to lend credence to the existance of demons.
None...as in "presenting evidence of demons in a court of law will land you a straitjacket".
The day that changes, your arguement may hold some water but until then, you're just wasting my time.
-Peace-
sulaw
An elective in psychic surgery... And you expected that to be real, and it destroyed the instructor's credibility? I'd say it was destroyed prior to taking that class.
So you don't feel left out and we can play "who's is bigger" I'm a Engineer in Chicago w/ a jack of all degree in all construction trades, so logical deductions and using scientific theory is not layman to me, trouble shoot a low pressure boiler and you'll understand more.
So, honestly speaking and /asshats left on the rack. Where did your paranormal studies leave you?
OkieDokie
Thanks for posting this. My family had been following this case and I had not seen that they had found what is believed to be the missing Jamison family. They went missing shortly after we moved over to this area, Eufaula being about 30 miles away. I know this thread has moved more towards the whole bickering if demons are real or not, but this case is strange enough without harping on that one aspect. The demonic was just one of several bizarre things that was brought up when the family went missing.
Eryiedes
reply to post by sulaw
Since you asked, my degree was in Architectural Engineering but x-factor and paranormal studies I chose as my electives throughout college since I still believed in god, until the final year when psychic surgery destroyed the instructor's credibility and ended it as a choice for electives.
The rest of your post is just obfuscation.
No factual evidence exists to lend credence to the existance of demons.
None...as in "presenting evidence of demons in a court of law will land you a straitjacket".
The Vagabond
Wow, lots to read there.
So according to the articles, the victims were involved in multiple lawsuits, disability claims, and other questionable legal/financial matters, to the point that they seem to be scam artists.
The husband was alleged to be looking into some other source of money that he didn't want to involve his wife in.
The wife bought a gun privately before the disappearance, and it is apparently unaccounted for, along with a mystery briefcase the wife was seen carrying.
They both lost a lot of weight before-hand and started acting strange- talking about demons/spirits, driving mom out of town and kicking her out of the car, supposedly even doing the paranormal activity style trance walk and stare thing on camera.
The truck sounds kind of staged- keys locked inside, none of the basic pocket items being carried on anyone's person, an 11 page hate letter left behind (how does a letter like that end up in a car that the couple drives around in trying to buy a new house together? doesn't that kind of thing tend to float around the house until it is thrown away at the end of the fight?).
All of this sounds like drugs or some other risky business to me. Why is the money still there then? Well who says its all of the money? Maybe they didn't take their cut to a meet and were only robbed of the actual buy money or drugs or whatever they might have been handling. Maybe they skimmed off the top and got caught.
But on the tinfoil side, this is part of a cluster of disappearances that David Paulides deals with in Missing 411 and talked about on Coast to Coast AM, it does have lots of interesting paranormal facets. A lot of his cases almost seem as if people were lured into danger in places where there shouldn't have been anyone with an opportunity to do so. The area does have a tradition of legends about outlaws and wildmen lurking in the caves. Go any way you like here- did the guy make a deal with the devil and not want to involve his wife? Did nature not want their crap and decide to deal with them?
And then there's the simplest possible explanation- they were bizarre people who went to see about some land, finished, went back to the car and found they had locked in their keys, or maybe thought they'd lost the keys outside the car, so they walked for help or to look for the keys and got lost or injured and froze to death?
Logarock
Eryiedes
reply to post by ldyserenity
Morning,
Religious people can't be reasoned out of their position with facts because religion wasn't inflicted upon them with reason & facts in the first place.
You are wasting your time...but it is your time to waste.
-Peace-
Oh sure. That's why Duke University had during the 70s and may still have a department that did actual research on demon possession with real live demon possessed people to study. I happen to know of a specific case. Let me tell you they understood it wasn't a joke.