“Was this demonic possession, or was it epilepsy?”
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"People say God is dead; but how can they think that if I show them the Devil?"
One of Jennifer Carpenter's best roles!
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I'm currently watching "The Exorcism of Emily Rose".... I saw it in the theater with my girlfriends when it came out. We went there a little buzzed from cocktails at dinner before the movie. After, we went on home all paranoid. It was a good time. Movies like this make me feel a certain spooky way. Am I Agnostic?.. or Atheist?... I don't know, but I am in fact a baptized Catholic. I was baptized when I was a baby. I left religion ages ago, but there is still a part of me that gets spooked by the thought of demonic possession, and other religion related things that can't be explained. I've not been without effort to connect with something beyond this realm that explains the origin of creation.. but I never found it through Christianity, Buddhism, or any other form of religion I learned about. I think maybe the whole demonic possession thing trips me out, because there is a fundamental part of my being that hangs on to those old Catholic teachings from my upbringing. 👻☠️🎃
I have so many paid for streaming services, when I find a free one, I like to share it with people. There are commercials on here, but it's not too many.
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Back pain got me like
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SUMMARY: A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
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This game used the audio recordings of Anneliese Michel? It has a girl’s slow death under negligence because of her epilepsy and psychosis (using the brain scans to debunk it makes no sense it was the 70s and even doctors, their machines, and their medicine were ill-equipped. The "proof" was her acting strange around religious iconography, having different personalities, and eating bugs and urine. Nothing as supernatural as 'speaking in different tongues' occurred and her parents were deeply catholic so they're inclined to believe it's the devil. If you look at the dates, it coincides with the rise of the satanic panic.)
So, Airdorf mixed it into a video game boss battle. Yeah I’m not fucking with this game anymore what a sick joke.
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Honorable Mentions - Male
In this installment of honorable mentions, Tom Wilkinson is in second place, behind Matt Damon, with seven entries.
His honorable mentions are In the Name of the Father (1993), Priest (1994), In the Bedroom (2001, with Sissy Spacek), Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003, with Scarlett Johansson), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, with Jim Carrey), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005, with Laura Linney), and Recount (2008, as James Baker).
Tom passed away Dec 30, 2023 of an undisclosed cause, at age 75.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose - 2005
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7 movies tag game thingy, tiny @toadstool32 tagged me owo
we deadass had a movie party last night for Halloween shit and then we just watched a bunch tonight SO
1: Skinamarink. Just finished it. Holy shit.
2: The Others. Nicole Kidman, g o d.
3: Signs. Fun fact, I only saw that for the first time at the end of '22.
4: No One Will Save You: I HAVE NEVER SEEN SHIT SO FUCKEN
UNIQUE LONG LEGS MCGEE IS MY NEWEST FRIEND.
5: The Haunting of Connecticut. Watched it for the first time today! Genuinely not what I expected since I'd grown up with the story sort of.
6: The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Y'all are getting horror and nothing else fuck you.
7: Train to Busan. I'm absolutely dragging my roommate down with me, I've seen it and he hasn't and he will NEVER be ready enough.
Anyways I'm not tagging anyone but if you see this and wanna do it, post it and tag me so I can see :D
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The Telegraph | 'God told us to exorcise my daughter's demons. I don't regret her death'
By Elizabeth Day
27 November 2005 • 12:01am
[...] From the very beginning, Anneliese's life was governed by fear. Her family was deeply religious. Her father had considered training as a priest and three of her aunts were nuns. But the Michels had a secret.
In 1948, Anneliese's mother gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Martha, bringing such disgrace on her family that she was forced to wear a black veil on her wedding day.
When Anneliese was born in 1952, her mother encouraged her to atone for the sins of illegitimacy through fervent devotion. But when Martha was eight, she died from complications arising from an operation to remove a kidney tumour. Anneliese, a kind-hearted and deeply sensitive girl, must have felt ever more strongly the pressure to do penance for her mother.
She found herself increasingly surrounded by evidence of sinfulness and increasingly anxious to be rid of it. While other children in the 1960s were rebelling testing the limits of their freedom, Anneliese slept on a bare stone floor to atone for the sins of the drug addicts who slept rough at the local train station.
In 1968, aged 17, she began to suffer convulsions. Although initially diagnosed with grand mal epilepsy, she started experiencing devilish hallucinations while praying. By 1973, she was suffering severe depression and considering suicide. Voices in her head told her she was damned. She asked the local priest for exorcism and was twice refused.
But gradually, Anneliese slipped further into the abyss. She would perform 600 genuflections a day, eventually rupturing her knee ligaments. [...]
In 1975, her third request for exorcism was granted by the Bishop of Wurzburg. "I don't regret it," says Anna Michel firmly. "There was no other way."
We shall never know if there was. By this stage, Anneliese had refused further medical intervention from the Psychiatric Clinic Wurzburg. Her symptoms have subsequently been compared to schizophrenia and should have responded to treatment.
There has also been speculation that Anneliese might have been influenced by the release of William Friedkin's The Exorcist, in 1973. But whatever lay behind her disturbance, the exorcism could have caused Anneliese to believe her own hallucinations. [...]
Her parents buried her next to Martha at the outer edges of the cemetery - ground normally reserved for illegitimate children and suicides. Even in death, Anneliese was not free of the sinfulness she fought so hard to repent of.
Today, the 2000 inhabitants of Klingenberg are unwilling to speak of Anneliese Michel. A gentle enquiry to passers-by is greeted with hostile glares and a shake of the head. "The town is ashamed," says Christiana Metzler, 42, who works in the tourist office. "I was at school when it happened and there were a lot of things covered up. People don't want to talk about it. There is a feeling that it was the parents' fault because they were so religious they didn't see what was happening. Sometimes Catholic pilgrims come to her grave because they think she can save lost souls. But there are not many of them. Now there is this film coming out, we are worried it will all be stirred up again."
It is a past that the Church is ashamed of, too. In 1984, German bishops petitioned Rome to review the exorcism rite in the light of the Michel case. Although their recommendations were not adopted, the Vatican published a revised exorcism rite in 1999 - the first update since the 17th century - and has introduced a qualification in exorcism that maks priests undergo medical training.
"I wouldn't have carried out the exorcism [on Anneliese Michel]," admits Fr Dieter Feineis, the current priest at St Pankratius Church in Klingenberg. "But both Anna Michel and her husband remained absolutely convinced that what they had done was right. The view of the Church is that it is possible to be possessed, but in Germany there are no more exorcisms."
In Italy, however, it is a different matter. According to the Italian Association of Psychiatrists and Psychologists, half a million Italians seek exorcisms each year. There are about 350 practising exorcists worldwide. Earlier this year, a priest and several nuns in a Romanian Orthodox convent in Tanacu believed that Maricia Irina Cornici, a 23-year-old nun, was possessed. They carried out an exorcism ritual and tied her to a cross, pushing a towel in her mouth and denying her food or water, She was dead three days later. [...]
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Six Sentence Sunday
tagged by @lesbianlotties thank you 💖💖💖 of course these come from the behemoth, like we were all expecting that right. also it’s seven sentences 🤷🏻♀️
“You can be as close to me as you want,” she said. “As close as you want.”
He leaned into her side and she wrapped an arm around him. “Normally I’d sing,” she said, “but my voice is…”
“It gets pitchy when you’re drunk.”
“Exactly. I’d give myself a headache.”
tagging @blooming-violets @sigurism @lilolilyr and anyone else who would like to! apologies for the shorter taglist, a lot is happening rn lol
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