Abject Geekery

Archive for November 24th, 2009

Omar Epps and Pittsburg Steelers Head Coach Mike Tomlin do look an awful lot alike.  It was in Lookliker.com and Sports Illustrated.  It doesn’t take long before fiction replicates reality and the good writers of House let the none sports fans in on the joke.

I would post the photo here.  But that would save you the trouble of “Binging” it and seeing all the myriad of variations on the theme.

It’s been a long time since I gave this subject any thought, but as part of my scholarly journey into objective comparative theology, I spent a good deal of time studying cultural metaphysics and the occult as viewed from various religious traditions.

I believe think a conclusion that there are events and energies behind what we call “haunting” and/or “possession” is a fair intellectual pursuit… as are the nature of these events and energies open for equally fair debate.

In then end, as a more rational thinker… I cannot commit to any of these suppositions as part of my world view.  Regardless of that fact, Demonology is a tantalizing and even entertaining line of study for a genre geek like me, so I put together a reflection on the research I did.

Supernatural events are reported to follow a system of progression. In the following post, I will highlight the 5 stages of Demonic or Spiritual Influence.

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