Post by Einherjer on Aug 16, 2009 11:18:36 GMT -5
As some of you may or may not know, two months ago, I moved in with a friend and some guy I had never met before when my friend was in danger of losing her place because of various issues.
Now, I'm a very accepting person, and don't really mind religion, so long as it isn't thrown in my face. I think I can safely say most atheists are the same. I moved in with two religious people, and this does not bother me. My friend, whom I moved to help, is non-practicing Greek Orthodox. The random guy is a practicing Wiccan. Random guy has a very good buddy who is always over who is also a practicing Wiccan.
Funny thing about the random guy: he is 350-400 pounds and all he ever does is eat. He has fallen asleep at night with his hands in a bag of chips. I kid you not when I say that, if he is not working, he is sitting and eating while playing video games. He is, in a word, stereotypical. This information is important.
So recently, random guy has a very, very heavy dish for dinner that also happens to be extremely spicy. That night, he has a very strange dream where a Hawaiian deity is chasing him after a botched summons. He wakes up, and says that the house is possessed.
My friend, a female, was on the tail-end of her period. She made a comment after random guy related his dream about how she had been more horny than usual (no, not with either of us; she is a lesbian) and had been watching more porn than usual the last few days.
So the two of them agree that the house had recently become possessed by a mischievous spirit.
I will repeat myself:
Random guy had eaten a very heavy, very spicy dinner and fallen asleep very shortly after and had a bad dream.
Friend was on the tail-end of her period and was horny.
So they decide that we need to have a witch's ritual type of thing where they call out the spirit and cast it out of the house. Random guy's Wiccan friend is the "priest" for the ritual. Random guy's friend's girlfriend is present, as is another friend of random guy's friend.
Since I am a part of the household, even though they knew that I am an atheist, and even though I had not seen any sort of influence of this spirit, they wanted me to join them. OK, I figure, it would be a good chance to see what they do with this.
Yeah. I won't go heavily into the details, mostly because it was itself a massive stereotype, but basically, random guy's friend calls out the spirit (who random guy's friend says is named Will, which is funny, because my middle name, random guy's first name and random guy's friend's father are all William), my friend apparently becomes possessed and calls the "priest" a hack for asking his name without using a Ouija board, everybody but me feels some sort of pressure on their chest AFTER the "priest" mentions that the spirit is pushing on his chest, and the friend of random guy's friend says that he feels a presence, but cannot describe it or where it is coming from, at which point, "priest" asks if it feels furry ("yes") and if it feels very powerful ("yes") and if it feels like it is sitting right next to him ("yes") at which point "priest" says that the presence the guy feels is the "priest's" spirit guide, a wolf.
The best part? After the spirit was driven out, we went outside, where it was very, very warm and humid (90ish with 80%+ humidity). They took several 2-liter bottles of soda out there, and after they had sat on a table for a while as we did other things inside (cleaning up), we went back outside and they commented on how there was so much water on the table "as if somebody had been crying because they just lost their home."
Long story made shorter, the spirit is driven out, friend still watches a lot of porn while on her period and random guy still gets odd dreams after stuffing his face and condensation is now tears of a spirit who has been driven out.
All-in-all? A complete waste of two hours' time.
Edit ::I would also like to mention, the reason why the "priest" said I was unaffected? I have a little charm thing made for me by a Wiccan/Christian (not sure how that works) about 10 years ago. The "priest" said that this charm was too powerful and protected me.
Mind you, this was said AFTER the spirit ignored the several-dozen stones of power that were being used in the ritual.
Apparently, I have a charm that is more powerful than 30+ stones of power.
Now, I'm a very accepting person, and don't really mind religion, so long as it isn't thrown in my face. I think I can safely say most atheists are the same. I moved in with two religious people, and this does not bother me. My friend, whom I moved to help, is non-practicing Greek Orthodox. The random guy is a practicing Wiccan. Random guy has a very good buddy who is always over who is also a practicing Wiccan.
Funny thing about the random guy: he is 350-400 pounds and all he ever does is eat. He has fallen asleep at night with his hands in a bag of chips. I kid you not when I say that, if he is not working, he is sitting and eating while playing video games. He is, in a word, stereotypical. This information is important.
So recently, random guy has a very, very heavy dish for dinner that also happens to be extremely spicy. That night, he has a very strange dream where a Hawaiian deity is chasing him after a botched summons. He wakes up, and says that the house is possessed.
My friend, a female, was on the tail-end of her period. She made a comment after random guy related his dream about how she had been more horny than usual (no, not with either of us; she is a lesbian) and had been watching more porn than usual the last few days.
So the two of them agree that the house had recently become possessed by a mischievous spirit.
I will repeat myself:
Random guy had eaten a very heavy, very spicy dinner and fallen asleep very shortly after and had a bad dream.
Friend was on the tail-end of her period and was horny.
So they decide that we need to have a witch's ritual type of thing where they call out the spirit and cast it out of the house. Random guy's Wiccan friend is the "priest" for the ritual. Random guy's friend's girlfriend is present, as is another friend of random guy's friend.
Since I am a part of the household, even though they knew that I am an atheist, and even though I had not seen any sort of influence of this spirit, they wanted me to join them. OK, I figure, it would be a good chance to see what they do with this.
Yeah. I won't go heavily into the details, mostly because it was itself a massive stereotype, but basically, random guy's friend calls out the spirit (who random guy's friend says is named Will, which is funny, because my middle name, random guy's first name and random guy's friend's father are all William), my friend apparently becomes possessed and calls the "priest" a hack for asking his name without using a Ouija board, everybody but me feels some sort of pressure on their chest AFTER the "priest" mentions that the spirit is pushing on his chest, and the friend of random guy's friend says that he feels a presence, but cannot describe it or where it is coming from, at which point, "priest" asks if it feels furry ("yes") and if it feels very powerful ("yes") and if it feels like it is sitting right next to him ("yes") at which point "priest" says that the presence the guy feels is the "priest's" spirit guide, a wolf.
The best part? After the spirit was driven out, we went outside, where it was very, very warm and humid (90ish with 80%+ humidity). They took several 2-liter bottles of soda out there, and after they had sat on a table for a while as we did other things inside (cleaning up), we went back outside and they commented on how there was so much water on the table "as if somebody had been crying because they just lost their home."
Long story made shorter, the spirit is driven out, friend still watches a lot of porn while on her period and random guy still gets odd dreams after stuffing his face and condensation is now tears of a spirit who has been driven out.
All-in-all? A complete waste of two hours' time.
Edit ::I would also like to mention, the reason why the "priest" said I was unaffected? I have a little charm thing made for me by a Wiccan/Christian (not sure how that works) about 10 years ago. The "priest" said that this charm was too powerful and protected me.
Mind you, this was said AFTER the spirit ignored the several-dozen stones of power that were being used in the ritual.
Apparently, I have a charm that is more powerful than 30+ stones of power.
