I was in Atlanta a couple years ago, and they definitely referred to all soda as coke at the restaurants i ate at. Might be different there since Coke is headquartered in the city.
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damn, @CycloneEngineer! What an experience.
Makes my ghost stories seem tame - not sure how I would survive experiencing my wife being pulled out of the bed by her leg - damnā¦
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Youāve been overrun by Yankees if you say soda. Iāve lived in West Texas south of Abilene, on the border in Brownsville and McAllen, in South Texas around Corpus, and now Iām in the Houston suburbs. Itās been Coke in all of those places. Where you at?
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Itās still Coke here in central Texas. Unless youāre a transplant.
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Scary stuff. Glad you got out of there. I have had a several ghost experiences but nothing like that.
The house I grew up in we could hear somebody walking through the house and he slammed the back door when he would go outside. Lived with it for years, and we finally learned who the guy was. A couple months later my dad awoke one night to see a man standing in the doorway watching them sleep. My dad was not to scaring type. He jumped out of bed, grabbed a gun and searched the whole house and outside because it was so real. Nothing. After that we never heard Martin again.
I have ran over/thru a ghost on highway in Indiana. Early 20s black hair, square jaw, nice looking young man, wearing a blue jean jacket wearing a backpack. I can stil see the image plain as day.
Have been awaken from a dead sleep with panic to flee the area on several occasions. An old man once told me that was my guardian angel warning me something bad was about to happen. Always listen to your guardian angel. I believe in my heart he was right.
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and thatās why nobody suspects of it!
Words to live by.
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I guess I was lucky with the house I grew up in because it was just creepy things and nothing overtly malevolent. It was a school house that burnt down in the mid-1800ās and was rebuilt. My mom, brother and I all three had stuff happen that was weird - constant footsteps all through the house, our toys would randomly turn on in our closet, things like that. One night footsteps came up the basement steps at about 2 AM and the door opened and shut but nothing was there. My mom died in that house when I was 15, immediately after which the only presence we felt was a calm one and we werenāt really creeped out after that.
We knew it was a school house that burnt down during the Civil War and was rebuilt, but I always thought it was empty and/or everyone made it out. I found out after we moved that kids had burnt up in the houseā¦
Iāve since lived in 4 places where several people had died (bad luck??) and had always felt watched, but never had anything super creepy happen. Current house is new build and neither my wife nor I have had anything happen.
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From doing more research after āthe eventā, it seems as though most calm spirits will leave/or at least stop doing creepy stuff if you ask them to.
Itās to the point now where I wonāt watch horror movies that deal with satanism, demons or demon possession. I firmly believe you can open doors to that world through some of that.
Normal slasher films/ghost stories/thrillers are all good though.
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Fuuuuuuck all of that - I wonāt watch any of them. haha
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I donāt believe in spirits / demons, but I am not interested in watching horror movies. I donāt know why anyone would subject themselves to those movies where things pop out at you. I already have anxiety, I donāt need to add to it.
To me it is amazing anyone likes those movies, but to each their own I guess. Maybe it is a lot of teenagers that like them?
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This is the logic I used to finally get my wife to quit watching them. She has crippling anxiety and would watch them (and murder shows) when I would travel 60% of my time for work. Then call me at 2AM absolutely outta her mind scared.
I avoid sad/dramatic movies for the same reason. The world can be depressing enough on its own, I donāt need movies/shows to pile onto it. Comedies and action movies are pretty much it for me.
My grandmother could have totally taken care of this for you. Not sure of the exact steps, but having watched her do variations of this multiple times.
You start on a sunny day, preferably in the morning.
- Open all the windows and doors, closets, drawers, and all hidden spots.
- Turn on all the lights and run lights to any super-dark corners
- Clean the whole house and throw out junk and debris. Burn the crap if you can.
- Baked/cook smelly food that didnāt involve flesh of an animal ā so spicy bread, curry, jalapeno rice, whatever. (Apparently, spirits canāt eat and are repulsed by food, said grandma.)
- Walk around with white candles praying loudly for protection, rest for the spirit (if possible) or expulsion of the spirit (if rest not possible). Poke into every possible hidey hole with flashlights and candle
- Kids read aloud (if old enough, if not, just listen to adult) ā bible stories of their choosing simultaneously in every room
- Pray as a group.
- Leave empty, but lights on and wide open. (This is when you throw out all the trash.)
9ā¦ Come back around noon, close it up.
Seemed to work.
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What about the book of Enoch, the book of Jasher, and the book of Adam and Eve? Are those all discredited because they were excluded from the Bible at the council of Nicaea? The book of Enoch is especially detailed in pre-flood history.
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Iāll be your shield maiden In Valhalla.
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I really wish I read this before taking sleeping medication as I now desperately desire to go down a Wikipedia-hole. How Iāve never even come to hear of Nephilim is either a reflection of poor education or me just tuning out whenever religion was the topic.
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The council of Nicaea (which I just looked up, BTW) has zero to do with Judaism, and, ergo, is meaningless to a Jewish person.
As for the remainder of your post, I think I was (once again) completely unclear and mislead you.
The Rabbiās issue was not the validity of the Torah section, but rather that discussion was forbidden, as there is much knowledge in the Torah and Talmud that the average person must be prepared to know. Not forbidden, exactly, as nothing in the Torah/Talmud is forbidden. Just unwise to study if not prepared. Think of a six year old playing with a loaded shotgun.
It is the type of knowledge that, when one looks into it, the knowledge notices you, and looks back.
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Guys, you are creeping me out with all these stories, good thing I sleep with my dog.
Itās fun in a way. Like roller coasters. Adrenaline, the rush of overwhelming feelings. Makes you feel alive for sure ahahah
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I definitely didnāt suspect THAT ā¦ whatever floats your boat I guess
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Dudeā¦donāt be judgy.
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