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True but in certain countries you will see this all the time. I avoid wild swimming like the plague. I can barely survive in a swimming pool.
I have observed many Mormon superstitions revolving around Satan. Sorry in advance if you believe any of these: - Many uneasy or uncomfortable feelings are attributed to feeling his presence. For example, when people feel fear (like after watching a horror flick or someone tells a scary story) they assume it’s because Satan and/or his followers are present.
- Cravings caused by brain chemistry are credited to him. It is common for members to assume he, or his minions, are whispering in their ear tempting them.
- It is believed that he has power over the waters (as previously mentioned), although it’s never been clear on what that means.
- Buyers remorse, or cold feet, experienced by investigators has often been explained by crediting Satan’s influence.
- Being attacked by Satan – I had a SP tell a story about being attacked although he was ambiguous about what it entailed.
JAC wrote:
I have observed many Mormon superstitions revolving around Satan. Sorry in advance if you believe any of these:- Many uneasy or uncomfortable feelings are attributed to feeling his presence. For example, when people feel fear (like after watching a horror flick or someone tells a scary story) they assume it’s because Satan and/or his followers are present.
- Cravings caused by brain chemistry are credited to him. It is common for members to assume he, or his minions, are whispering in their ear tempting them.
- It is believed that he has power over the waters (as previously mentioned), although it’s never been clear on what that means.
- Buyers remorse, or cold feet, experienced by investigators has often been explained by crediting Satan’s influence.
- Being attacked by Satan – I had a SP tell a story about being attacked although he was ambiguous about what it entailed.
- Life’s inconveniences that crop up when you try to attend the temple. Satan doesn’t want you to go.
nibbler wrote:- Life’s inconveniences that crop up when you try to attend the temple. Satan doesn’t want you to go.
I have direct personal experience of this… I can’t really go into it fully on this forum but just before and after my endowment, I had some strange experiences. The police wanted to speak to me the day I was due to go, I had the worst car crash I’ve ever experienced (as a driver) the next day and I even had poltergeist-type phenomena in the house the week before. There was a cluster of very odd events around that time.
There were other things as well – I went into a bar and I was asked to leave because of an incident which had happened several years previously. I had been in many times since then without any trouble, but suddenly the barman banned me. I could flag this up to coincidence, but that was odd too – why ban me for something so long ago, and which was an unprovoked attack on me at the time? (Briefly, I had been sitting having a meal and someone came into the bar and started shouting at me.)
It was odd – trouble really did seem to arise around that time. The police thing turned out to be nothing important in the end, but it was upsetting at the time, because the note made it sound like they wanted to arrest me.
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