Satan @ MindSay 
Dixie currently feels:
Alone
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Currently playing:
- Mario Party 4
- Pokémon Diamond
Currently listening to:
- Bring Me The Head Of Christ - Paths Of Possession
- Heart For A Heart - Paths Of Possession
- Promises In Blood - Paths Of Possession
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Times cried: None
Wounds inflicted: None
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Yeah, Paths Of Possession.
I've been clearing out some of my downloads folder - and I'd downloaded their full Promises In Blood album. And I love all of it.
Though, it's very Satanic. Some of the songs make me laugh nervously, thinking to myself: "...They can't possibly get away with saying that..."
They're great - even better than Cannibal Corpse - which is to be expected, Paths Of Possession is made up with the same vocalist, I think.
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OH MY WORD, THAT LITTLE WHORE!!!
I just won a battle game, then another 100 coins on the lottery scratchcard - silly cow Peach only goes and gets a fortune space, and swaps her THREE coins for my TWO-HUNDRED-AND-SIXTY-ONE.
MARIO PARTY 4 PISSES ME OFF SOMETIMES.
ARGGGGGHHH... I'VE GOT A MAGIC LAMP AND I CAN'T EVEN AFFORD THE FUCKING STAR!!!
PEACH, GO FUCKING DIE!
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In other news... *Breathes heavily*
...In other news, I had a 105 minute Geography GCSE exam today.
Paper 1, and it was PISS.
It was ALL about the National Parks, and all the questions had really obvious answers.
The inserts we got were funny - we got this photo of a bloke in black combat trousers standing on a hill overlooking a river with his hands on his hips.
Made me laugh. :)
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OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!
NOW DAISY GOT A FUCKING FORTUNE SPACE - AND PEACH AND YOSHI SWAPPED COINS!
NOW YOSHI HAS MY FUCKING COINS!!!
...Mwah! Yoshi landed on a battle square.
I might get enough for another star...
Yeehaw, last turn, magic lamp, 25 coins.
I don't care Peach, Yoshi - I'm gonna get the happening star and the mini-game star. Keep my fucking coins, I'm still going to win!
MWAAAAAAH!!!
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Sammie, Miraan and I were down the aisle after school.
I kept threatening to squirt them with my bottle of "exam water".
I can't complete an exam without a bottle of water on my desk.
It's one of few things we're actually allowed to take in with us, so I take advantage of that, and I do so.
I fill up my bottle with fresh water from the drinking fountain outside the exam hall before I do every exam.
We were having a laugh as usual, but today we were swapping letters around in people's names, making them sound weird. :)
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...LMFAO!
ALL THREE OF US WON THE COIN STAR!
Anyway, DK wins, with 5 stars and 10 coins, mwah ha ha. :)
Now I just have to beat Shy Guy at a game of Archaeologuess, and I get my present. :)
(Yes, I had to read that off the screen, there was NO WAY I could spell it. :D)
Wheeee, and I win. I get my present now. Onto another board!
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On the way home, I soaked Sammie and Miraan with a quick squirt of my water bottle.
Miraan got his revenge though, he grabbed it off me, tugged my collar - then tipped it all down my back.
So it went down my neck, down my shoulders, down my spine, and ended up absorbing into my underwear.
I was cold and wet and sad. :(
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I came home and had a quick game of iSketch with Miraan, Adam and some randomer who came in of his own accord.
Oh, and I ate 3 bags of crisps - Flamin' Hot Monster Munch, Cheese & Onion French Fries and Quavers. :)
Tomorrow, I have the English paper 2.
I'm not worried though, I was dreading paper 1 and the literature paper, and they were both piss.
Dixie currently feels:
Bored
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Quote of the day:
"Eee, imagine if some Christian came in here now? They'd try to EXCORISE your Playstation!"
- Adam
And this came about, as I was playing Haunted Tomb on Spyro 3 - and the game crashed just as I was charging a glass jar.
My gem number had froze in the top left corner - 5666.
With 666 supposably being the number of Satan - who's existance, I still question from time to time - Adam blurted that out, and I proper laughed for ages.
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As we go...
Adam's been here since 2.
It's now half 10.
He's staying the night. - For the first time in our 10 year friendship.
He's got this DS hacking cartridge, which you can download games onto.
He says he'll never have to buy any of the games again - because he's cheap. :P
So far, I reckon he's downloaded about £390 games today.
And the cartridge itself was only £40. :)
Rofl, he's complaining that I'm advertising his piracy.
Oh well, such is life. :P
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So today, whilst he's been sat beside me playing on his DS - I've been giving my 12-year old Playstation some hardcore time.
So I've had a shot at Spyro 3 - and gone from 8% to 77%.
I've done the first 5 missions on Hogs of War.
I had a quick go of Final Fantasy VII and mastered a few Materia crystals.
I'm getting the urge to play some Harvest Moon: BTN.
Best bargain I ever got - only £7.
Though, Pikmin was £8.
But Pikmin's nowhere near as good as BTN. :)
I've done another 10 battles on Mt. Battle on Pokémon Collosseum with Emily the Espeon and Volvic the Typhlosion.
They're both on level 82 now.
But Mt. Battle is so strenuous and boring - I just want to rip my skull out after a while.
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So Emily...
You asked me to blog - and here I am.
I don't really know what to say. :)
Well, as I mentioned to you - please let us both stop dwelling on the crappy past.
I try to forget things that have happened in my past alone - so can we put everything that's happened in our joint-past behind us?
All the tripe things, of course.
Let us not forget some of our wonderful moments...
- The day we started FoG...
- FoG's first anniversary...
- Christmas 2007 - our first VC...
- New Year's Day - the candy cane caper. :)
- And how can you forget the "I want an Echo...", before falling into my door and manically laughing?
Can you remember?
We laughed at every little thing....
- We still do.
We were always there to comfort each other...
- We still are.
When we'd had a crap day, one was always there for the other....
- We still are.
We'd share our secrets, share our feelings, share everything with each other...
- We still do.
We promised we'd always stay by the other's side...
- We still will...
We might have matured Emily...
We've gone through all the tough times together...
We've made it through, we're still alright...
We're older,
We're wiser...
And our friendship is so much stronger.
she's going to be a manager.
dear lord.
Living in the world of Jehovah's Witnesses is to live in a haunted world. A world not haunted by ghosts, or spirits of the dead, but Satan and his evil demon army. To a Jehovah's Witness, demons are around every corner, and relish inhabiting inanimate objects, hoping to "trojan horse" their way into a Witness home.
I remember nights where I was paralyzed with fear. I would break into a cold sweat, feeling an eerie presence in my room. Random, everyday noises would confirm my fears. I would pray silently to God, even whisper "Jehovah" out loud, as many Witnesses believe that uttering the divine name will "scare" demons away.
These irrational beliefs evolved into full-fledged urban legends shared exclusively by the witness community. Us kids were constantly warned with stories of the couple that went to see The Exorcist at the theater, how they tried to leave and felt in invisible force holding them down. There was another tale of the Smurf doll that was taken into a Kingdom Hall, lept up from the child's hands, and ran out of the building, much to the bewilderment of the congregation. The most famous stories of all, of course, were of the Ouija Board. After playing the game and deciding it was "demonic," the Witness family would attempt to burn it. Surprisingly, the board resisted burning, but when it finally succumbed to the flames, a chilling, audible scream came from it--proof positive of demon inhabitation.
My personal favorite is the one obviously designed to be a stern warning to rebellious young Witnesses. An elder is getting his hair cut at a new barber shop. As the barber is cutting his hair, the shop empties, and the barber's personality completely changes. He asks the elder if he is a servant of Jehovah, to which the elders responds affirmatively. The barber replies, "Your God Jehovah killed our children with the great flood, now we're going after your children!" The elder flees the barber shop, hair half cut.
Often in Jehovah's Witness folklore, there are a set of rules regarding demon/human interaction:
- Demons cannot invade the home of a Jehovah's Witness without the Witness's consent. Thus, they often look to inanimate objects as their "trojan horse," waiting for a Witness to unwittingly buy it at a garage sale.
- Demons have a strong aversion to the audible pronunciation of "Jehovah." Often, repeating it enough will cause them to run away from you, as they are afraid you will attract Jehovah's attention.
- An object inhabited by a demon must be removed from your home and burned in order to keep it away permanently. A tell-tale sign of a demon-possessed object is it's resistance to burning, especially if the material is normally very combustible.
- Another common avenue for demons to enter your home is through heavy metal or rap music, or by drug use. Often, young people are said to have had to burn their "bad" music and tape collections in order to curb the demonic harassment.
Every once in a while, I still have episodes. My rational brain turns off and I regress back into the world of demons and angels. I sweat bullets and freeze in my bed. I close my eyes, and crack them open half expecting to see a ghoulish, tortured face staring back at me. It never happens. It's happening less and less, but the intense fear of these creatures still haunts me, and still will for years to come I'm afraid.
Whenever I have an episode and force myself to snap out of it, to realize that I'm just in my bed and it's dark, I vow to never raise my children this way. I'll never try to scare them into a belief system with threats of physical attacks by demonic spirits. I will teach them that Satan and his demons are just like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny: pure mythology.
We’re told by the apostle Luke that Jesus was tempted to receive all the kingdoms of the world. Here is the temptation from Satan:
“To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”
Jesus didn’t tell the devil that he was full of beans—or words to that effect—that he was making a bogus claim. He simply said, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.”
There’s a lot going on here. The big issue is that Satan was offering Jesus a devilish shortcut to receive what He will someday have anyway, rule over all the kingdoms of this world. It was, however, being offered up front, without having to face the giving of His life in order to take the punishment that was righteously coming to us.
Think with me about this for a moment. All the kingdoms of this world have been given into Satan’s possession. Do we really believe that? Surely this doesn’t include the United States, does it? I’d like to think it doesn’t. But it’s difficult for me to get around what Isaiah says about nations: they are like a drop in the bucket, like dust on the scales, as nothing—as less than nothing.
He didn’t mention any exclusions.
Here is what brings me a great deal of distress and conflict: is it possible that God raised up the United States—this country I have loved from my youth, this country whose ground I wanted to kiss after having been abroad as a missionary—to show us that, even though we were given the most ideal circumstances and the best possible form of government by man’s reckoning, we would, after all that gracious help, still find ourselves a people thankless, unbelieving, ungodly and therefore sliding into degradation; that there is absolutely no kingdom of peace but His and that it will never be accomplished by mankind?
Could it be that this country really is "less than nothing"? Could it be that—I almost can't write this—that we are, simply like all the rest, the possession of the prince of the power of the air?
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