Yay, a new thread :hehe:

Post something about you, for example, a favorite something or an interesting tidbit :yay:

I'll go first:


My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate

well, today I skipped my anthropology class...

eck...now I have art history...

...any news about anything at all? :devil:

So I told you all in the "what are you thread" that I didn't like my church and there were reasons why.

Besides the crabby old ladies that sit behind me that talk smack about everyone and in a loud-enough-for-everyone-to-hear-but-we-think-we-are-whispering voice. A lot has happened in the past 15 years of my church.

It all started when they hired our Pastor, Dan. He was a nice guy, his wife was nice and they had two kids around my age. His sermons were soooo boring and about 45 minutes long. Horrible. Things went on normal for a few years. Then you started hearing rumors that his wife was going up to church member's houses and cussing people out because they were not supporting her husband. I don't think a preacher's wife should do that.

Then the big thing happened. The Pastor and his wife thought that we should build on to the church. Now my church has an old part, which is where the sanctuary is, and then a newer part with classrooms. They wanted to tear down the newer part, and put in a much bigger part. They said for more classroom space with our expanding ministry, but everyone knew that they wanted to keep up with the other churches that were expanding because they *needed to.

Right now the church is divided into the Pastor and the people that agree with him, and then everyone else who thinks it's dumb. My Grandma was the church secretary at the time and the pastor wanted to sell bonds that we had to pay for the building. She wouldn't let him because if they did that, we would be out of a lot of money.

They took 3 votes at different times to decide about building on. The third time they changed the way you counted the votes from the number of votes to percentage and won the new building.

Right after that, my Grandma died, so my pastor sold all the bonds.

It took forever to get the building up because we ran out of funding because a lot of the rich members left. It's actually still not finished. The part that isn't finished is all the classroom space for all the expanding ministry. But the real reason we got it, the reception hall, was the first thing finished.

About 3 years ago, that pastor and his wife left and we hired a new one. This guy was awesome. He had really good sermons and he was such a nice guy. Well, a family in the church that was good friend with the former pastor didn't like him and told the Deacons that if they didn't fire him, they were leaving. They told them this after they stopped coming to church.

So the Deacons FIRED HIM. For ONE family!!!! They don't even give a whole lot of money to the church!!!!

Now we are looking for a new preacher, and that family that wanted the old one out, still hasn't come back.

That's why I don't like my church. I wish my parents would leave it, but there isn't really any good churches around this area.

Following my reading of the protection thread I have come up with a question that I am sure someone will have the answer to if they read this, or at least a small insight.

I remember that obsolete said something like this "Thought is key" well in the teachings of withcraft and wicca the mind is a great tool, it is the source of visualization and thoughts. I ask this, exactly how powerful is the human mind and what are the limits of its powers?

I just thought I'd see your thoughts on this are (collectively).
For a while now I've been experiencing some fairly odd thought processes, beside my usual paranoia. I'll have extremely unorthodox thoughts and ideas, with no clue where they're coming from. Not that this is necessarily bad, mind you, just unusual. Slightly more so is that from time to time, mostly when I've been up for a good amount of time, but not always, for some reason I find myself assigning personalities to inanimate objects, without meaning to, or sometimes even realizing I'm doing so. Occasionally I'll converse with these "personalities". This would not be so bad if they weren't so boring. I've also from time to time had mental images of people, and once in a while perceived snippets of conversations I've never heard, never heard of, don't recognize, and am not connected to in any way. They usually make no sense, though they use coherent words in a coherent order. Most of the time it's just a sentence or two. And the odd thing is that I don't actually see or hear any of these, but merely have a mental image, if you will, meaning that as far as I can recall I can still see visually, even concurrently with these thoughts. It might also be worth mentioning that some of these images and such are more or less impossible, so it's not like I've seen them anywhere. I've also had some funny personality shifts, ranging from feeling benign and optimistic to darkly nihilistic. I figured I'd post this here since "paranormal" is probably the closest section to "parapsychology". Just wondering what you think. Call it scholarly interest.

Source: NASA

I was wondering, what are everyone's thoughts on magickal or psychic protection?

Do you feel it necessary or is it really just a mental prop?

Does anyone here practice magick without using any form of defence?

If you do use protective magick, what kind of rituals or spells do you perform? And how effective are these?

Thought there may be general discussion about the Olympics - so here's a thread for it.

Here's some sneak peaks of the Chinese holding a rehearsal. These guys should do a good job of the opening - after all they invented fireworks and they are good at getting a lot of people to do the same thing at the same time.