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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Angels & Fairies
Good morning to All.
I thought this would be an interesting subject to raise, as most posts on here talk about ghosts. Has anyone had any experience with Angels or Fairies? I think it is nice that each and everyone of us has a Guardian Angel looking over us, also has anyone ever met their spirit guide? I have read other posts on a forum of how people have met and seen Angels and fairies. |
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Muse
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: North Northwest
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Re: Angels & Fairies
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Are you aware that you are posting at the JREF forum and do you know what the forum is about? We don't talk much about fairies and angels. If you haven't noticed that, perhaps you should read more about the forum. You can find it in the local FAQ. Thanks, and good luck. |
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Muse
Join Date: Mar 2004
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No, and no.
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Muse
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Wisteria Avenue, Huntingdon
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No.
BTW if Guardian angels exist do they even watch you while you're on the lavatory? If so, that's just strange. |
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Thanks for that Lavie Enrose.
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: ...somewhere over the rainbow
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Perhaps a better question would be - 'if we all have a guardian angel then what happens when we are attacked, mugged, murdered, in an accident, or commit suicide'?
I suppose our 'angels' just can’t be arsed some days? |
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 26,985
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Re: Angels & Fairies
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You seem to have made a presumption that such entities exist in the first place. However not everyone here is as convinced as you are that they do exist at all. But we are open to persuasion, so could you please put forward all evidence you have to support their existence (and you might like to review this evidence before you do post it here, because, like CSI, we can be harsh on badly presented evidence). Good luck! |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 44:57:19N, 73:16:18W
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Re: Angels & Fairies
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I'm quite serious. Like, there's the book that came home in a box of used books from a friend's used-book store (we distribute older and extra copies to libraries for her). It was by some twit who calls herself The Angel Lady, and it had a directory of such angels as Derek, the Angel of Public Speaking. I contributed it to the JREF library. I really, really find it difficult to imagine something that could trivialize the entire concept of a deity more thoroughly than this New Age angel movement. (Edited to misspell "thoroughly") |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Yorkshire,Uk
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Zep for goodness sake dont mention the E word!!
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Muse
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Wisteria Avenue, Huntingdon
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A bit of genuine history about Fairies, Robert Kirk's "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fairies and Faunes". A 17th century monograph on the Celtic version of fairies
Interesting, as at that point in time fairies were still a subject for academic debate. A lot of new agey "Faery" stuff draws on Kirk's little book but usually at second third or fourth hand (and crib from Katherine Briggs's work on folklore and her Dictionary of Fairies, without acknowlegment). The Secret Commonwealth |
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Summer worshipper
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Παρά θιν'αλός
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My Guardian Angel is Angelina Jolie. I want to do a lot of obscene things with my Guardian Angel. I have also met my Spirit Guide a couple of years ago but I couldn't get her phone number.
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"Robbing a bank is no crime compared to owning one" - Bertolt Brecht "Let it go and come to bed already, El Greco" - MoeFaux
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The 'Nati
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i had a guardian angel, but i caught it stealing money out of my wallet. that's the day i found out that external ballistics apply to angels as much as they do to everyone else.
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: St. Louis, Mo.
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During the height of the last "Angel Craze", with lots of books being published and lots of "sightings" being reported even in mainstream media, Rwanda descended in genocide.
Wonder what all those folk's angels were doing at the time? Maybe there just aren't eough to go around? Or maybe they only work for Christians. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cymru
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I think that the angel rules of engagement are:
- You must be Christian to have a guardian angel - Angels always work to protect you unless God is moving in mysterious ways - Angels work on the balance of probability, they cannot prevent individual incidents Which explains why so may angels were apparently not paying attention during the recent tsunami. |
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Muse
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Wisteria Avenue, Huntingdon
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But who watches the angels?
The big G knows they're not trustworthy, because they rebelled (the Bible and the Book of Enoch) so why does he put them in charge of watching humans without someone checking up on them? |
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THE Lisa Simpson
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That's not what you meant though.
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Muse
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Please -- somebody tell me that Janice is a ten-year-old girl and not a thirty-year-old nurse.
If I go to hospital, please let me not have a nurse who believes in faeries, talks about faeries, or is a faerie herself. |
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Muse
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 585
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I have an elf that lives in my head.
And I'm not talking about Middle-Earth fake Tolkien crap either, I mean little tiny beings that have lived along with us, hidden, since the beginning of time, who repair shoes at random. I'm really surprised that no one is pushing the whole idea of "elves are real and they are all around us." I thought of that idea years ago and haven't done a single thing to exploit it. Coming soon ... "Elves Are Real" by Red Siegfried. Only $19.99. There I go, being a sarcastic twit again. But seriously, if you want to see angels and fairies, I know I guy who can sell you some DMT. And you really will SEE them, if you believe hard enough when you take it. |
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Books are from the Devil and TV is twice as fast. -Master Shake |
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: ...somewhere over the rainbow
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Not sure about her age - but I could give you a pretty close guess with regards to her IQ. If she really is caring for the old then I dread to think of the crap she is filling those poor *souls minds with. *this does not imply that I believe in the existence of a soul. |
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Summer worshipper
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Παρά θιν'αλός
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I also happen to have a picture of hers: |
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"Robbing a bank is no crime compared to owning one" - Bertolt Brecht "Let it go and come to bed already, El Greco" - MoeFaux
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Temp3st - would love to know, how you came to the conclusion I am a nurse?? Just another stupid comment from one of your gang. Anyway, I feel sorry for the next person who joins and shows any interest in the afterlife, because I am sure you will treat them in the same manner. I'm off, had enough of the Zwinge camp.
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Summer worshipper
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Παρά θιν'αλός
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Damn it. Something I said ?
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"Robbing a bank is no crime compared to owning one" - Bertolt Brecht "Let it go and come to bed already, El Greco" - MoeFaux
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Supercalifragilisticskepticalidocious
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Above some Mexicans.
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Re: Angels & Fairies
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![]() My spirit guide is the menu in my favourite bar. |
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Banned
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Or you should lay off the sherry. |
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Forum ľ-Wit Pro Tem
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Waldo's Pond
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Re: Angels & Fairies
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Never having seen either, I have no reason to think that they exist. You, or perhaps others, may have experienced them, and so you might have reason to think they exist. If you think that others should believe in them you need to provide evidence of their existance, Wu's nonsense notwithstanding. Show us evidence, and do not make the mistake of dismissing our skepticism just because we do not immediately embrace your beliefs. We really want to see the evidence. If we seem to be dismissive, it is because we have all seen these types of claims before, and, without exception, each time the claimant has failed (or refused) to put up their evidence. And most of the time the reason given is not that the evidence is non-existant, rather it is that "it isn't worth my time because you won't believe it anyway." In short, it is the skeptic's fault that the evidence is not presented. It is never the claimant's fault. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: St. Louis, Mo.
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"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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post-pre-born
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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Problem solved.
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Atheistic Aesir
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Asgard
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I'm confused, are angels and fairies the same thing?
I've seen a book by the angel lady - lots of angel mythology with very little evidence of their existance. Maybe she realised that anyone buying her book doesn't care about evidence. |
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THE Lisa Simpson
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 123 Fake Street
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Angels and fairies are different. From wikipedia: An angel is a spiritual being which assists and serves God or the gods in many religious traditions. A fairy, or faery, is a creature from stories and mythology, often portrayed in art and literature as a minuscule humanoid with wings. |
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That's what the Internet does -- you get a free bonus prize of Stupid Lies with every box of Delicious Facts. - cracked.com Facts are satanic litter on the heavenly highway to blind faith! - Betty Bowers |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I think angels and fairies are just the old myths that people had in older times. They've been replaced by extraterrestials and UFO's now.
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power & profit - Thomas Paine |
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Scholar
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Old Bridge, NJ
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If this indeed is a true story, them perhaps we should really be asking ourselves where is Michael when we need him most??? |
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