Worlds!
Do not disregard a Nation for its State.
For if you hold an Adult Knowledge of legends from the start,
than wise you are to History loosing footing;
Changed.
A Falsehood, A Mystery, Mythology is good.
Thinking these things are ways to change,
the truth of worth or definitions of words.
Nature of which will bring Countries to sing,
down to their knees is what this brings.
The tune will be in a breeze,
"Save the State thereof, please."
It is not just what has been said.
The pointed fingers, the already dead.
But, casting children out of Villages now?
Saying they are possessed and should be....
Not Blessed?
As a Human, in what is called "A Race."
To the finish, I will be screaming to whom is below, above and/or sideways,
"ERASE!"
"For they have had a taste"
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Live in Nigeria, today, this condemnation of what has happened to me when I was young is happening again as we speak. Just as it was then and as it was for me, people just turn away and say that it is none of their business, until......it happens here.
Which it already has in the 60's and I am sure before. The problem I have, is, it looks as if it has never stopped.
courtesy Rev. Bob Larson
Rev. Bob Larson, Exorcist-For-Hire,
"Will Rid You Of Your Demons At Airport Hilton Today"
By Tim Elfrink Fri., Jan. 14 2011 at 9:00 AM
Been feeling a bit odd lately? Did your last date with a Oujia Board end with your roommate babbling in ancient Assyrian and levitating off the ground? Had any head-spinning vomiting moments this month?
Don't worry: Rev. Bob Larson is here to help. America's top exorcist-for-hire is in Miami today, and he'll kill your demonic possession for the low price of $495. Riptide caught up for Larson for a chat about the life of an exorcist. Click through for a Q&A.
Larson, who rose to prominence with his syndicated Evangelical talk radio show Talk Back, turned his focus to exorcisms in the 90s. He says he studied the craft with the Vatican's top demon-slayers and now runs an Arizona-based church focused on exorcisms.
Now he has books, DVDs ("Do You Have a Demon?"), even an online DemonTest that claims to figure out your vulnerability to Lucifer's minions. (Riptide is too scared of the answer to give that one a shot).
Larson is holding a free seminar on exorcisms at the Hilton Miami Airport tonight at 7 p.m. He's also available for private one-on-one exorcisms, but those will set you back $495. (Intrigued? Possessed? Call 303-980-1511 if you're in the market.)
New Times: Do you find a lot of people wanting exorcisms these days?
Rev. Bob Larson: I seldom ever am in a city where I don't do one or more live exorcisms. There's a lot of need out there.
Just read the headlines over the weekend about what happened in Tucson. That's an obvious example of something more than just an ideological or a schizophrenic act. A psychotic person might do something like shooting a politician. But to put a bullet in 9 year old girl? That's pure evil.
In a case like Jared Lee Loughner, though, isn't there obviously mental illness at work?
Mental illness is obviously involved. But the vast majority of schizophrenics and or psychotic people don't commit mass murder. Something else is at work inside of them.
My reason for referencing Tucson, really, is that's a vivid illustration of what's bubbling underneath our culture, ready to explode at any moment. The number of people walking the streets with demons is far more excessive than most people realize.
Let's back up and talk about your background. Exorcisms are usually associated with Catholics. How did you get involved as an Evangelical?
I've been to the Vatican, actually, and I've met with the chief exorcist there. We are in agreement on almost all the issues. I'm very familiar with the Catholic rite. Our ceremony isn't dissimilar, except it's not quite so formal and ritualistic in tone. But the basic facts and information is essentially the same.
The root of the ritual is to find out who the demon is and how it got there. And then to use the authority of Christ to cast it out. The basic elements are still there.
What kind of things do you see doing exorcisms? Is it ever Hollywood-style paranormal stuff?
I've see everything. I've seen levitation and supernatural languages. Materializations and dematerliazations. In general, what I see is a troubled person who is also experiencing supernatural phenemona in their lives. And not knowing what to do about it.
Last Friday night, in my last seminar, I did an exorcism of a huge guy, 6'4", 200 pounds, trained to kill in the Army Special Forces. He had a demon that had been in the family bloodline for four generations, and it was wanting to use his training to kill people.
Even though he himself was a really nice guy when he was in his own right mind. But this evil was embedded in him and his family for four generations.
Don't people like him need mental health care or drug treatment more than an exorcism?
When you've done as many thousands and thousands of exorcisms as I have, it's not that difficult to determine whether it's a psychotic issue or a demonic issue. You can spot it quickly. If someone has a mental health issue, I tell them that all the time, that they need to seek medical care for that problem.
You can spot immediately a person who has a mental health issue. It's clear from how they talk. It's quite different from a possession. Almost always, the demon overtakes the person, and the demon speaks in the third person and addresses you in a state of consciousness in the part of the person. That's different than someone who's delusional and talking crazy and saying things that don't make any sense.
Occasionally, of course, you find people who are both psychotic and have demons. In those cases I don't deal with it until they've been properly treated psychiatrically. I'd be happy to do an exorcism, but you have to go back to your psychiatrist first.
How did you get started doing exorcisms?
I'd sort of been doing it behind the scenes for quite a while. For 20 years I did a nationally syndicated radio talk show, and they'd call me up and other voices would start speaking out of their bodies on the air.
So I'd start dealing with it on the radio. Then twelve years ago I decided to go public. The subject, as long as it was in the backroom behind closed doors, it wasn't being faced by society. The peole who needed help wouldn't reach out to find it. They weren't aware of the possibility. By my doing my work in public, I'm making people aware that there's help out there.
Anyone reading this who is aware of a friend or relative or family member who is spiritually tormented or tormented some kind of way that may be supernatural should talk to us. Or also people who are just curious. They should come to the seminar tonight. Often, the people we're doing the most exorcisms on are not those coming thinking they need to get an exorcism.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/01/rev_bob_larson_exorcist-for-hi.php
www.globalpost.com
Nigeria witch children find refuge at center
Children called witches by preachers are outcast but a center cares for them.
Toby Binder January 25, 2012 19:41
EKET, Nigeria — More than 100 Nigerian children have been branded as "witches" by church
ministers and have been cast out by their families and shunned by society.
Some of the
children pariahs have suffered violence from their families and from others. The campaign
against the "witches" has been pursued by some zealous preachers associated with small
Christian sects that also incorporate some animist Nigerian beliefs.
Those who identify the "witches" are encouraged by evangelical pastors, according to
human-rights groups in the area. Drawing on the community's fears, preachers sometimes
denounce specific children as witches, leading the young ones to be abused, abandoned and
even murdered.
Now, one local group provides refuge for children who have been forced out of their
communities. The Nigerian non-governmental group Child‘s Right And Rehabilitation
Network, has taken in 160 children scorned as “witches."
“So many people here believe that children can be possessed by demons that there is rarely
any action taken against those who claim to deliver the children in violent exorcisms,
says Sam Itauma, of CRARN.
His organization looks after children who have been abandoned or abused after being
accused of being witches. As one of a few in the community who supports the ostracized
children, he is often verbally and physically attacked.
Stella is one of the children now at the center after she was accused of being a witch.
Abandoned by her family, vulnerable and frightened, she wandered the streets in
southeastern Nigeria, struggling to stay alive.
Stella was found by Jehu Tom, a network rescue officer who lives at the center with 160 other
children who have been branded witches, blamed for all their family‘s woes, and abandoned.
Before being pushed out of their homes, many were beaten or slashed with knives, thrown
onto fires, or had acid poured over them as a punishment or in an attempt to make them
“confess“ to being possessed.
In one case, a young girl called Uma had a three-inch nail driven into her skull.
So-called witches are identified by powerful religious leaders from local churches where
Christianity and traditional beliefs combine to produce a deep-rooted belief in, and fear of,
witchcraft. The ministers spread the message that child-witches bring destruction, disease
and death to their families. And they say that, once possessed, children can cast spells
and contaminate others.
The religious leaders offer help to the families whose children are named witches,
but at a price. The churches hold evening exorcisms, where the pastors attempt to drive
out the evil spirits. Only they have the power to cleanse the child of evil spirits, they say.
The exorcism can cost the families up to a year‘s income.
But some children are thrown out of their homes.
By the time the children are found by the rehabilitation group, they often have come to
believe that they are witches — even if they aren't sure what a witch is. “Can you fly at nights?
Then fly!” Itauma tries to provoke the new arrivals at the children’s home.
At the refuge, they are safe and attend school. Many remain traumatized by their experiences.
At the center, they make first steps to become integrated back into “normal life,“ and with luck
,
they may be reunited with their families and communities. That is the network's aim.
“The children belong back to their families,” said Itauma, “but as long they are not safe there,
we take care of them.”
nigeria/120117/nigerias-witch-children-find-refuge-at-center
Living back in the burning time
LEONARDO LEPSCH
Thursday, 03 June 2010
The children of Niger Delta, in Nigeria, are being victimised by attacks of unscrupulous pastors-witch hunters. The attacks are similar to the ones regarding the Middle Age witch burning which caused the death of many in the Inquisition time. However, now the victims are mere innocent children who are unjustly targeted for their supposed mischievous behaviours and branded as witches by religious leaders.
The Pastors or Prophets make families believe that any unfortunate situations taking place in the heart of the families is due to the children mischievous behaviour, who possessed by evil forces -cast spells, bring about diseases and death. The religious leaders brand the children “witches” and demand that they must be exorcised. The exorcism costs a lot of money for the families – up to a year’s income.
When the families cannot afford to pay the required fees the result is tragic. The children are, in many reported cases; murdered, poisoned, drowned, buried alive or even abandoned on the streets by their own families in an attempt to drive the evil out of their souls.
The religious leaders are extremists which ideas originated from the fusion of Christianity and traditional African beliefs that combined, produce prejudices against witchcraft. But what is hidden behind these religious practices is a highly lucrative scheme to make money from the abuse of poor and innocent families.
Local agencies say that in only two states of Nigeria around 15.000 children have been stigmatised and one thousand murdered since the attacks started a decade ago. There have been also an alarming number of cases in Democratic Republic of Congo.
So far, there are three NGOs fighting the problem; Stepping Stones Nigeria, who fights for the children’s rights; The Orphanage CRARN, that rescue stigmatised children from the streets; and The Way to the Nations fighting the ignorance of the people about the gospels.
Least you forget the relative?
Never forget "The Twin."
Love will desire truth.
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"A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.
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"A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.
____Seneca.
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