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RiverRat427 said:
...so over the years I'm made a habit of certain things like picking my hairbrushes clean after use and the like. You can never be too careful.
Voodoo neighbors want a piece of you... literally.
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 RiverRat427
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You never know man, I remember hearing horror stories about people digging through people's trash or doing things like going to a ill-liked neighbor's to 'borrow sugar' or whatever and as soon as they get in they all of a sudden they have to use their bathroom REAL BAD. When you're like 12 years old and hearing things like that it sort of gets ingrained in you after a while to pick up after yourself. Especially someone like me who IRL generally pisses a lot of people off. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you and I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I'm sure now I sound like a loon but I don't care, I'm just being honest.
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I wouldn't say you're a loon. It's natural to be afraid. I know I've had similar fears in the past and still do from time to time. However, I don't think you have any real reason to fear these people. Imagine yourself confronting them with the full knowledge of your own omnipotence and see how that feels.
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RiverRat427
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Yeah I get that completely, I'm not fearful anymore at this point in my life. Now it's less about getting rid of any links to myself then it is just a habit, like a reflex. I don't bother trying to break it because I'm just so used to it it's just cleaner in my mind, like if I see people who have brushes so caked in dead hair that you can't see the 'body' of the brush through it or spying the occasional stray nail clipping on someone's bathroom floor, I can't help but get a little grossed out.
 Yeah, I guess I'm just a little tapped anyway.
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Edited by RiverRat427 (04/28/10 12:27 PM)
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MarkostheGnostic
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RiverRat427 said:
I've heard of that group before before but I'm not totally familiar with their cosmology or anything in detail. I could see the mechanics behind gathering the personal effects of all the members of a group together to 'enhance' one another but I'd still be wary of the motives behind said group, call me a pessimist.
All pop-culture occultism aside my intro to spiritual practice was an old school conjure shop (less on the love and light than most modern New Age shops) that one can find in pretty much any inner city, I'm sure they must abound where Markos is in South FL; and in such a setting hearing stories of people throwing curses left and right and the occasional discovery of a dead chicken on someone's doorstep is hardly a rare occurrence so over the years I'm made a habit of certain things like picking my hairbrushes clean after use and the like. You can never be too careful.
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RiverRat427 said:
I've heard of that group before before but I'm not totally familiar with their cosmology or anything in detail. I could see the mechanics behind gathering the personal effects of all the members of a group together to 'enhance' one another but I'd still be wary of the motives behind said group, call me a pessimist.
All pop-culture occultism aside my intro to spiritual practice was an old school conjure shop (less on the love and light than most modern New Age shops) that one can find in pretty much any inner city, I'm sure they must abound where Markos is in South FL; and in such a setting hearing stories of people throwing curses left and right and the occasional discovery of a dead chicken on someone's doorstep is hardly a rare occurrence so over the years I'm made a habit of certain things like picking my hairbrushes clean after use and the like. You can never be too careful.
I have more Voudun stories than I care to even relate. My first exposure was right after I moved to North miami out of grad school. I was poor and unemployed, and I didn't have a physician. Cleaning up the yard of the house my ex-wife bought, I got stung by a hornet. My arm swelled up like a hot sausage, so I went to the local small pharmacy run by a compassionate Haitian pharmacist. She gave me some Benedryl capsules when they were still prescription drugs back in 1983, and some Benedryl ointment, both of which brought the pain and inflammation down. The next time I visited that pharmacy, there was red candle wax with some chicken feathers still stuck to the molten mess on the threshold of the door. I asked her about it, and I don't remember what she said about certain disgruntled people in the neighborhood, but only days later, she and her pharmacy were gone! Cleared out!
When the Haitian husband of a White female Christian missionary (a friend of my ex-wife) got AIDS back in the 80s, he left his position as a Catholic eucharistic minister when  was knocking at his door, and hired a Houngan (medicine man) from Haiti. My ex and I carried this poor man up a flight of stairs 'cause he was about 85 pounds and too weak. The Houngan gave him emetics to 'cleanse the snakes and toads' from his belly. Poor Jocelin shit and puked himself to death in the next 24 hours while the Houngan fled back to Haiti.
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γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Gnothi Sauton - Know Thyself
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RiverRat427
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Yeah, I've heard about the 'Live Things' in people before. Snakes and frogs in stomachs, tadpoles in the bloodstream, spiders on the brain, etc.
The story you mentioned about the Houngan was one of the reasons I wasn't satisfied to have somebody else do my work for me and wanted to learn the way of it all for myself. For every worker/shop owner who'll burn candles on their altar for you there are a couple dozen who'll take it in back room only to put it back out on the shelves for sale again after closing time, and that's just with $4 candles . One could imagine all of the other profitable short-cuts that may be taken.
Edited by RiverRat427 (04/28/10 12:24 PM)
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