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Do you believe in the devil

Mint Aero

And where's he at these days? Some say she rose again....

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vicwatson

Joined the British army

JoseWasntReady

He hangs out in obscure areas of Ireland. Mad for crashing card games.

Badly Drunk Boy

...And for the musical interlude, here's old Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds with "Up Jumped The Devil".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J3QHzbK9jY

Samaris

Mint Aero wrote: »

And where's he at these days? Some say she rose again....

vicwatson wrote: »

Buried in Killarney

Well thank you, both of you. I've had that damned song in my head all morning now!

Although at least it got me off Sk8r Boi.

osarusan

No, but I do believe in the divil.

Mesrine65

Boots Electric is the Devil \m/

the evasion_kid

He's in Syria...running around jabbing people with his pitchfork

gormdubhgorm

No I don't believe in the devil. But the song is catchy.
I don't believe in God either because John Lennon had it right. " God is a concept by which we measure our pain"
I think the creation of the myth of the devil was initially designed to instill belief in the myth of God, and create a fear of the consequences of not believing in the God/believing in other variants of God.

Nowadays the "Devil" is used as excuse for "Gods" laziness or inaction. Or if one group do not like another. The myth of God is only viewed by people where there is a happy coincidence, joy, relief or a bit of luck. The myth of the Devil is needed to explain misfortune, unhappiness or cruel happenstance.

cml387

I believe the leader of the current transport strikes is the devil.

Luascifer.

Skylinehead

ScienceNerd wrote: »

A man of wealth and taste, by all accounts.

He's been around for a long long year, I believe.

topper75

He rode around in a tank I heard.

Always piss myself laughing at that image.

[Deleted User]

valoren wrote: »

But who prays for Satan?

Mark Twain

He said, "I can't believe I'm asking, but Sir Galahad please tell me -
What is it that makes you want to go to Heaven?"

In Heaven there's no lamb chops,
Queen Guineveres for hand jobs,
Marijuana, Kenny Rogers or ecstasy.

No pillaging, no rape
perhaps you've come by some mistake
to me? This seems more error than knight errantry.

Josh Ritter.

Lavinia

I think "the god" and "the devil" is in every single one of us and us only. It is our free will choice if we will live one way or the other, or any mixture of it in-between, ultimately a path of trial and error, and boi, we have so much more to learn to live well. Some are closer to it, some so much further down...

HensVassal

He's in Miss Jones

dd972

Isn't his greatest achievement convincing everybody he doesn't exist? That and getting on Man Utd's badge.

harry Bailey esq

Mint Aero wrote: »

And where's he at these days? Some say she rose again....

Who said its a he? I was convinced i woke up beside lucifer himself this morning,but with lady bits.

the groutch

He's in Georgia

Mesrine65

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Who said its a he? I was convinced i woke up beside lucifer himself this morning,but with lady bits.

I've become disturbingly aroused at this :eek:

Ruu

Doing some car insurance thing I think.

12Phase

Isn't it the Divil in most of Ireland anyway?

mahoganygas

I don't believe in the Devil.

I do believe in the Devil's Threesome.

ToddyDoody

Isn't there an Irish surname... Divilly... that can be traced back to the Divil?

Stigura

He's among us. Just after starting a thread denying the existence of Black Holes.

harry Bailey esq

Mesrine65 wrote: »

I've become disturbingly aroused at this :eek:

Shes back to her usual angelic self now,ive chided her on the cloven feet,she swore she'd see a chiropodist (at my expense naturally

) but Im sure everything is gonna be aaaaalright!

Arghus

As a kid I was convinced of The Devil's existence. I remember one evening, when I was about five or six, at home watching the evening news. The headlines were flying by. I didn't really comprehend what I was watching, but I was aware that I was watching footage of pain and suffering from some far flung war that was going on at the time. I remember that some of the footage was focused on images of children, probably in refugee camps. They were about my age. The thought of something as awful as this as being just a fact of life for some poor bastards, who were just like me, made me instantaneously doubt the idea of all knowing and ever loving God, "God's a f!cker", thought I.

Of course, almost immediately afterward, my primary school religious education and weekly mass going sent thoughts of guilt flying back into my head - If God did truly exist, and everyone said he did, I'd actually committed a terrible sin. Maybe the worst of all: I'd thought he was an uncaring arsehole! I was dammed for sure.

And even then I knew what dammed meant. They usually went softly, softly enough on us at school, in infants, when it came to religion; God seemed to be a lot about Jesus and The Apostles, coloring in and singing songs, but I could read between the lines; I knew at the back of all this messing about there was some pretty heavy stuff. Stuff like Hell and The Devil. That's where God sent ya if you displeased him, and there was no coming back from that - You were goosed forever, with no chance of escape. So now I'd ruined my chances of eternal happiness because of some spontaneous thought I'd had while watching the TV. How could I have been so stupid?

So for the next few years I existed in this weird dual state - 95% of the time I was a usual happy child, but, whenever the subject of anything religious came up, I'd remember, with frustration in my heart, that I was going to Hell.

That was a bit of a bummer. It was weird, being able to go about most of the time without a care in the world, and then to occasionally be reminded not to forget that, someday, I was bound for The Pit of Fire. Contradictory, I know. But when I was a kid death in general was such a hard to grasp idea and I knew that Hell would come after my own death - which was supposedly ages off. So, it was easy to ignore potential eternal damnation sometimes, and to be, in the back of my mind, totally convinced and petrified of it at other times.

So growing up it was stuff about The Devil and Hell that sent the fear up me in a big way. I could watch horror movies all day long, as long they were about murderers, aliens or even ghosts. But, if there was even a hint of The Quare Fella involved I’d have to give it a skip. Ghost Stories about random meetings with Satan used to unsettle me deeply and I was always deeply frightened by tales of possession. I figured that if such things were real, the fact that I was so freaked out by them made me susceptible to my own bout of head spinning and pea-soup spewing. The Devil and his diabolical ways could smell my fear.

Crazy stuff. By the time I hit double figures I was beginning to realise that it was all phoney-baloney nonsense. There is one good thing about having to sit through mass week after week as a child: you get to focus on how stupid it all really is. The Devil is a personification of all the evil that lurks in the heart of man and a fairy story drummed into you from a young age to keep you in check and put some fear into you. And it works, but it has no business being told to children to be accepted as fact.

12Phase

It also demonstrates quite clearly that telling children frightening lies about mythical figures can cause serious psychological issues.

Ally Dick

He hasn't gone away, you know

RWCNT

Of course I do, same as anyone who's met my ex-girlfriend's Ma.

RobertKK

According to John Boehner, former speaker of the house in the US congress, Ted Cruz is "Lucifer in the flesh".

...and he probably wears Prada.

The flying mouse

Ah all you unbelievers...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist .