Snake handling to show your faith in God, I find just out there. I am a christian, and I consider my faith to be strong, but I also feel that God gave me enough since not to mess with venomous creatures, isn't that why we have common sense
Can you believe this goes on in United States? I am shocked at this belief.... Don't really have an opinion... just plain speechless.....
Seems to be a common practice up dere in dem dere hills..... Guess this proves that beliefs are different from place to place..... I am from the south too.... but, have never seen or heard of this until recently...... They call it old time religion..... Maybe I find it strange because I don't understand it.......
I am curious to when and why this ever even started? and if you choose not to handle the snakes in their church what do they think of the members who don't? do they feel that they don't have enough faith in God?
I watched this video, and found it to be so strange that I would add it to my blog, I could not imagine keeping my dead loved one for a year or more living in my home as if they were still alive before burying them. Makes me glad that our rituals pertaining to death is much different.
Another video I decided to add to this blog post, the rituals of Aghori. This video is about 8 minutes long but it is CRAZY. They take the menstrual blood of a female statue and wipe it on themselves. Who in their right mind would wipe blood from a female genitalia on themselves?
They the ash and bones of dead bodies in their rituals..... I know Crazy right? yes I said the same thing. They eat their meals from a human skull ....... and they eat rotting human flesh..... all this while sitting a dead corpse....
These photographs served less as a reminder of mortality than as a
keepsake to remember the deceased. This was especially common with
infants and young children; Victorian era childhood mortality rates were
extremely high, and a post-mortem photograph might be the only image of
the child the family ever had
The earliest post-mortem photographs are usually close-ups of the
face or shots of the full body and rarely include the coffin. The
subject is usually depicted so as to seem in a deep sleep, or else
arranged to appear more lifelike. Children were often shown in repose on
a couch or in a crib, sometimes posed with a favorite toy or other
plaything. It was not uncommon to photograph very young children with a
family member, most frequently the mother. Adults were more commonly
posed in chairs or even braced on specially-designed frames. Flowers
were also a common prop in post-mortem photography of all types.
The effect of life was sometimes enhanced by either propping the
subject’s eyes open or painting pupils onto the photographic print, and
many early images (especially tintypes and ambrotypes) have a rosy tint
added to the cheeks of the corpse.
Later examples show less effort at a lifelike appearance, and often
show the subject in a coffin. Some very late examples show the deceased
in a coffin with a large group of funeral attendees; this type of
photograph was especially popular in Europe and less common in the
United States.
The practice was known as Memento Mori. Some photography studio
had frames designed to pose dead babies up and resident make-up artists
who specialized in painting open eyes on the eyelids of dead children
to make them appear as though their eyes were open and still alive.
As gory as this may sound, these pictures surly show how much these people and children were loved by their family.
To me this would be a sad reminder, but I suppose if you had no pictures of your loved ones this would be better than nothing. It just breaks my heart to see all these little children. It should remind us to thank God for medicines that we have today.
Ghost or Spirits are always a curiosity of people they want to believe, because that would be proof of life after death and it somewhat comforts us that we or our spirits live on after our physical bodies go back to the earth our souls live on, in a possible spirit world.
There are many people believed to be sensitive toward the spirit world, which means that they attract spirits. I believe this is true, whether you try to be or not. I believe that there is something on the other side and many have had real experiences. From hearing voices of their passed loved ones, to smelling their perfume, to seeing them. I find this to be so true!!!!
This picture was found in The Daily Mail, as one of their top paranormal pictures. There was no details pertaining to the picture, but if you look close to the picture that is zoomed in you can see a transparent figure with dark eye watching the little girl on her walk through the woods.
There was no information on the picture above or below.
Many people believe in spirits, many do not. I feel if you believe in God then there has to be life after death. Understanding the spirit world is something we will never understand. Some say spirits are not what they portray themselves that it's the devil,leading us to believe that it is our loved ones etc.
I myself do not understand the spirit world as I feel it was not for us to understand, and I feel going out meddling in the spirit world could possibly cause problems with the living world.
Now I am not saying that it would just that it could be a possibility, looking at the pictures that people have taken and surprisingly caught something or going out and looking for them, is there choice. I do enjoy looking at them, for it does fascinate me.
This photo was taken by an Indianapolis
Star reporter. This is the Nicholson
Mansion being moved. In the top
window, a little girl can be seen staring
out at the workers. They are sure there
was no little girl in the house on that day.
In 1959, Mabel Chinnery was visiting the grave of her mother in a
British graveyard when she took a picture of her husband, who was
waiting alone in the car.
It wasn't until Mrs. Chinnery had the film developed that they realized her husband hadn't been waiting alone after all. The picture shows a person
wearing glasses sitting in the back seat, and Mrs. Chinnery immediately
recognized the figure as being her mother -- the mother whose grave she
had just visited.
A photographic expert who examined the print
determined that the image of the woman was neither a reflection nor a
double exposure, even going so far as to stake his reputation on the
fact that the picture is genuine.
On November 19, 1995 Wem Town Hall in England caught on fire. The fire
raged on all through the night until the building was nothing but
rubble. As firefighters battled the flames, a local citizen, Tony
O’Rahilly, decided to snap some pictures of the event. In one of his
photographs there appears to be the clear image of a little girl
standing in front of the inferno. No one remembered a young girl being
at the scene and there was definitely not a young girl in the burning
building. Some believe this is the ghost of a young girl named Jane
Churm who, in 1677, accidentally started a fire that destroyed many
homes in the town. Jane also died in the fire.
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I know that a lot of pictures can be doctored, I examined these pictures and found them to be real, there are a lot of pictures circulating the web that are not real ghost pictures.
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I love to hear stories of people's experience of the spirit world, if you compelled please do so.......
