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Friday, January 19, 2007
HELllo!!!! hahha i am currently in my dad's office... wells, i have got nth to do at the moment... so i did some wikipedia researches...its pretty i have to say! i leanrt much things online... haha i learn the omakse is (with protection) AND AND!! onegaishima if i am not worng meanz( a jap meal that is cooked specially but the chef! not in the menu)
-okay here are stories on exorcism,wordy but interesting!-
An exorcism at a convent in the small Romanian town of Tanacu resulted in the death of Maricica Irina Cornici, a twenty-three-year-old nun who said she heard the devil telling her she was sinful. With assistance from four nuns, priest Daniel Corogeanu bound Cornici to a cross, gagged her mouth with a towel, and left her for three days without food or water. The ritual, the priest explained, was an effort to drive devils out of the woman. Cornici was found dead on June 15; an autopsy found she had died of suffocation and dehydration. Cornici, who had a history of schizophrenia, reportedly had recently visited the convent and soon after joined the order. The Orthodox Church admitted that Corogeanu had been ordained as a priest without completing his theological studies, and condemned Cornici's death.
While many Americans likely think of exorcisms as relics of the Dark Ages, exorcisms have been (and continue to be) performed, often on people who are emotionally and mentally disturbed. Whether those undergoing the exorcism are truly possessed by spirits or demons is another matter entirely. Most often, exorcisms are done on people of strong religious faith. To the extent that exorcisms "work," it is primarily due to the power of suggestion and the placebo effect. If you believe you are possessed, and that a given ritual will cleanse you, then it just might.
ANOTHER ONE! A 2001 book on the topic, Michael Cuneo's American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty, found no reason to think that anything supernatural occurs during exorcisms. After attending fifty exorcisms, Cuneo is unequivocal about the fact that he saw nothing supernatural--and certainly nothing remotely resembling the events depicted in the 1973 blockbuster film The Exorcist. No spinning heads, levitation, or poltergeists were seen, though many involved some cursing, spitting, or vomiting.
This is not the first time that exorcisms have cost innocent lives. On August 22, 2003, an autistic eight-year-old boy in Milwaukee was bound in sheets and held down by church members during a prayer service held to exorcise the evil spirits they blamed for his condition. An autopsy found extensive bruising on the back of the child's neck and concluded that he died of asphyxiation. -HERE IS THE STORY OF THE BOY!-
On Friday, August 22, 2003, eight-year-old Terrance Cottrell, Jr., who suffers from autism, was wrapped in sheets and held down by church members during a prayer service held to exorcise the evil spirits they blamed for his condition.
According to the New York Times, "[h]is shirt was drenched in sweat when the church members who were holding him down, saying they wanted to rid him of demons, finally noticed that he was dead. He had urinated on himself, and his small, brown face had a bluish cast."
According to the medical examiner, there was extensive bruising on the back of the little boy's neck and it appeared that he died of mechanical asphyxiation from pressure placed on his chest. Pat Cooper, the boy's mother, told investigators that she held down one of Terrance's feet, while other women held down other parts of his body. Ray Anthony Hemphill, the preacher who led the spiritual healing service, held the boy's head and body down. Cooper said Hemphill's knee was pressed into the boy's chest at one point, but Hemphill, who weighs nearly 150 pounds, said that he at times lay on top of the boy, chest to chest. About two hours into the praying and the struggling, Hemphill got up but Terrance was still. -f************ STUPID PLS! LIE FOR 2 HRS- -SURELY DIE LAH! 150 POUNDS!!!CONVERT TO KG IS ABT 187.5 KG IF I AM NOT WRONG~- -STUPID STUPID STUPID!-
[In the past ten years, there have been at least four other exorcism-related deaths in the United States, two of the victims children.] -HAIS SO SAD-
-THIS PART IS DISGUISING!!! YIKES-
There are even more murders caused by belief in demons, such as those of Texas mothers Andrea Yates (who drowned three of her children in an effort to exorcise the devil from herself in 2001) and Dena Schlosser (who cut the arms off of her eleven-month-old girl while listening to religious hymns in 2004)!!!! -GROSS RIGHT-
A film about an exorcism death is scheduled to appear in theaters in September. The Exorcism of Emily Rose, starring Laura Linney and Campbell Scott, was "inspired by true events" -MEANING NOT TRUE PLS~- surrounding a priest accused of negligence resulting in the death during an exorcism of a nineteen-year-old woman. The real event reportedly occurred in Bavaria in the 1970s.
-HAHA I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS AT PINKO'S HSE WITH MEL,LL,PAPA,NAT,RED,WEI JIN,SHU WEN...BLAH BLAH! I RMB NAT FREAKING SCARED FACE!!!WT...HHAHAA I ENJOYED LAUGHING AT HIM...-
-LAST ONE~-
Dennis Rader's pastor sought permission to perform a jailhouse exorcism on the BTK killer but authorities wouldn't allow it, the Rev. Michael Clark told an Overland Park audience Sunday.
Clark believes demonic forces drove Rader to murder 10 victims in the Wichita area, he said at Holy Cross Lutheran Church.
In response to an audience member's question, the Lutheran pastor said he spoke at length with the Sedgwick County sheriff about performing the exorcism. The sheriff politely refused to allow it, Clark said.
"Dennis was influenced, I believe, by some kind of demonic force and that played a role in the choices and decisions he made," Clark said earlier in his speech, adding that Rader still had a choice in how to react to the demons.
Being possessed doesn't mean Rader is some type of monster, said Clark, the pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Wichita. Instead, he said there was something inside Rader that drove him to kill. Rader even recognized this when he wrote to the media, saying there was a monster inside him that he couldn't control, Clark said.
When the media and psychologists tried to explain what drove Rader to murder his victims, they only looked at answers that could be measured and tested, Clark said. They overlooked the spiritual forces.
A year ago, Clark said, he would have chased anyone out of his office who suggested that demonic possession was possible. He did not believe in that line of theological thought. Clark believed that Satan was the "personification of evil of the human condition."
But his dealings with Rader, who had become the congregation's president not long before his arrest, have dramatically altered Clark's belief in evil.
Clark first found out that Rader was a suspect in the BTK murders after a detective showed up at Clark's office in February looking for evidence. Rader last year confessed and was convicted of killing 10 persons between 1974 and 1991. He is serving 10 consecutive life terms. Rader called himself BTK for his preferred method to "bind, torture and kill."
Clark said Rader's evil was not only felt by the victims and the victims' families , but by Rader's family, those who knew him and the church's congregation.
"There were and still are a lot of people still in pain — there is no question about that," Clark said.
Clark accepted questions from members of the audience, one of whom asked if Rader had shown any remorse.
"I can't go there," Clark answered. "I would be betraying confidentiality."
In hindsight, nothing indicated Rader was a serial killer, Clark said. He was a respected member of the congregation and a church leader. Clark often would turn to Rader if something needed to be done.
When asked why God let Rader prey upon his victims and cause so much pain, Clark said God gave us free will to make choices.
"There are times where demonics enter our mind and our soul which causes us to make bad decisions," Clark said.
-WELLS THATS ALL! I KNOW MANY WONT READ...SOO YEAH WADEVA...THOSE ARE COOL STORIES ON EXORCISE!ITS REALLY SCARY I HAVE TO SAY AS THOSE WHO ARE UNDERGOING THESE PAIN ARE THOSE WHO LOVE GOD SOO...THEY ARE THOSE WHO ARE THE STRONG BELIEVERS...I GUESS ITS THE PRICE TO PAY IF YOU WANNA BE AN ANGEL...I BELIEVE ITS THE SAME PRICE THAT JESUS PAID BEFORE HE BECAME KING!-
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