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Wow, what's with all the demonic activity affecting users on this board the last couple of weeks? If that's you in the pic, go see an exorcist. Sounds like some Hellish denizen is obsessed with you, might be due to you coming back to the fold and that might be making it unhappy. Not a full blow possession but if you don't nip it in the bud it could turn into one.

>>699828

Returning to the Lord and rejecting Satan really pisses off the demonic forces because it means the Lord triumphed they therefore consider it a priority to make those people fall again.

>>699784

>>699828

Don't jump to conclusions, many times sleep paralysis can occur without any real demonic activity. However, get a priest's opinion.

>>699840

I'm starting to think I might have a really top notch guardian angel, I got back into the faith after a bout of alternatively atheism and being around woo-types, also encountered a demon for sure (blood red eyes in a dark hallway type) but I'm not being harassed like this. Heaven help all the anons on this board!

>>699842

Fill me in on this Smiley. He must have been before my time on this board.

>>699849

He doesn't believe and tests spirits to his own standards, draw your own conclusions

>>699849

BO of /fringe/

>>699837

There's a difference between sleep paralysis and "paralyzed in bed with stuff grabbing me". One is a mental condition. The other is an external attack. That said, he should see a traditionalist priest, yes.

>>699849

Basically what the other two guys said. Heavily involved in /fringe/. I think there might be an ED page for him, I don't care enough to look myself but I'd be surprised if they didn't.

>>699784

This stuff definitely happens. Dreams and shadow people all of 5 years ago when i reverted.

You see it alot with reverts and converts. Every couple of months, youll even see people on /r/christianity mention weird experiences converting.

The phenomena is a type of the sign thats contradicted: as a person approaches holiness, the devil does what he can to attack the person. Follows from the prophecy at the beginning of luke where jesus is prophesied over as an infant in jerusalem.

>>699978

May never know. ED has been killed by cloudflare.

>>699995

Disregard that. It's at .rs now.

I've never experienced anything like this. I converted to Orthodoxy last year. Is it a sign of poor faith? Like the demons don't see the point in targeting me? Or is it something like >>699847 supposes, where the Heavenly Hosts themselves are taking extra measures to protect me? I know God has intervened to save my life more than a few times (bad drunken car crash, heroin overdoses, miraculous stop before sliding off a mountain), but I don't want to delude myself with 'spiritual' pride that I'm more special than anyone else and thus warrant more protection than others. I certainly deal with my metaphorical demons every day (i.e. addictions, which I am steadily overcoming) but never any real demonic manifestations like those described here.

>>699999

Most people don't experience such things. I wouldn't worry about it.

>>699999

>I converted to Orthodoxy last year. Is it a sign of poor faith?

They don't seem to be targeting me, and I got into some crazy stuff. I think it depends on a variety of factors, some of which are obvious (opening yourself up via Ouija, drugs) and others that are the occult of the occult, so to speak. I'd say, thank the Lord you've been protected so far!

That said, we have like a half dozen to a dozen threads on this type of stuff up right now. Some people are not in the same boat you are it seems.

>the drug stuff

Good luck with that too, anon. I'm pretty straight but I've seen a lot of people get messed up care of their addictive personalities. Keep healthy and orderly, you can do it!

>>700000

Seems to be rather common here. I wonder if it's as rare as you say it is, or if people don't speak out about it because they don't want to be seen as believing in the supernatural (since that OBVIOUSLY doesn't exist, right, everyone at the watercooler?)…or if are embarrassed/afraid they'll be ostracized because they'll think other people will condemn them as unholy.

>>700054

> I'm pretty straight but I've seen a lot of people get messed up care of their addictive personalities. Keep healthy and orderly, you can do it!

Thank you, brother. I started a general thread for sobriety in the same fashion as the nofap thread after making this post and thinking about it some more… hopefully it takes off (or maybe hopefully it doesn't because nobody here needs help with that sort of thing but I doubt that).

As for the demonic torment, you are right - I AM glad and give praise to God that He has delivered me from evil, or at least direct temporal manifestations of it. Pray for me, a sinner as I pray for those in this thread afflicted by such things.

>>700235

A lot of that is because smiley used to spam this (and every other board with the "religion" tag) with esoteric, gnostic, super-sekrit knowledge and claim that anyone who didn't engage with his autism has "never read the Bible".

Also, accompanied his posts with mystical magical images. So, there's that too. But, he also has a very distinct posting style and always replies in threes.

>>700426

>gnostic

Well, I don't think anyone like that should be accusing people of lax Bible study…