Re: A must read: Homeless children, demonology, spirits and memes

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 23 Oct 2002 - 18:35:38 GMT

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    > http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/1997-06-05/feature.html/page1.html
    >
    > Excerpt:
    >
    > "On Christmas night a year ago, God fled Heaven to escape an audacious
    > demon attack -- a celestial Tet Offensive. The demons smashed to dust
    > his palace of beautiful blue- moon marble. TV news kept it secret, but
    > homeless children in shelters across the country report being awakened
    > from troubled sleep and alerted by dead relatives. No one knows why
    > God has never reappeared, leaving his stunned angels to defend his
    > earthly estate against assaults from Hell. "Demons found doors to our
    > world," adds eight-year-old Miguel, who sits before Andre with the
    > other children at the Salvation Army shelter. The demons' gateways
    > from Hell include abandoned refrigerators, mirrors, Ghost Town (the
    > nickname shelter children have for a cemetery somewhere in Dade
    > County), and Jeep Cherokees with "black windows." The demons are
    > nourished by dark human emotions: jealousy, hate, fear.
    >
    > One demon is feared even by Satan. In Miami shelters, children know
    > her by two names: Bloody Mary and La Llorona (the Crying Woman). She
    > weeps blood or black tears from ghoulish empty sockets and feeds on
    > children's terror. When a child is killed accidentally in gang
    > crossfire or is murdered, she croons with joy. "If you wake at night
    > and see her," a ten-year-old says softly, "her clothes be blowing
    > back, even in a room where there is no wind. And you know she's marked
    > you for killing."
    >
    > The homeless children's chief ally is a beautiful angel they have
    > nicknamed the Blue Lady. She has pale blue skin and lives in the
    > ocean, but she is hobbled by a spell. "The demons made it so she only
    > has power if you know her secret name," says Andre, whose mother has
    > been through three rehabilitation programs for crack addiction. "If
    > you and your friends on a corner on a street when a car comes shooting
    > bullets and only one child yells out her true name, all will be safe.
    > Even if bullets tearing your skin, the Blue Lady makes them fall on
    > the ground. She can talk to us, even without her name. She says: 'Hold
    > on.'"
    >
    > A blond six-year-old with a bruise above his eye, swollen huge as a
    > ruby egg and laced with black stitches, nods his head in affirmation.
    > "I've seen her," he murmurs. A rustle of whispered Me toos ripples
    > through the small circle of initiates."
    >
    I was so impressed that I went to the site and printed the article out. Many thanks.
    >
    > Regards
    >
    > Jonathan
    > http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/
    >
    >
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