This Cannot Be Real, Can It?, Djinn Manifestations caught on film Options

I was surfing for information regarding Djinn and found this website...
This cannot possibly be real, can it?
http://www.creepyhollows.com/manifest_djinn.shtml

This post has been edited by Sunshine: Feb 16 2008, 10:10 PM

Vagrant: this incident not only proves (what I see) as a fundamental truth about human nature, but that you're a decent person and you're honest. Like you said, you could have just collected the $300 and passed go.

Frankly I don't trust any stories about manifestations, spirit messages, etc. unless I know the person/s involved *really* well or unless I experience the phenomenon firsthand. That's not to say these things don't happen--having lived in haunted houses before and coming from a family where Weird Shit Happens I know all too well they do. I've just seen way too many people that are like you said--willing to delude themselves over the smallest little thing. Why this is I don't know, maybe they want to believe, maybe they don't want responsibility for their own actions, maybe they don't have or never were taught critical thinking skills, I don't know. *shrug* Your guess is as good as mine.

This having been said, I know from experience djinn/spirits/etc. are out there. Some are friendly, some are hostile, some are indifferent, and a lot of them are as oblivious to our existence as we are to theirs. I'd much rather summon one within the confines of a triangle, interview it, politely command it to do what I need, and then let it go than to imprison it into something and continually coerce it into doing what I need. Forcing any form of conscious entity to perform tasks at gunpoint is only efficient over the short term.

My $5...

This post has been edited by Darkmage: Feb 29 2008, 02:01 AM

Vagrant: this incident not only proves (what I see) as a fundamental truth about human nature, but that you're a decent person and you're honest. Like you said, you could have just collected the $300 and passed go.

A lot of people seem to have done just that. A quick search in "completed items" on Ebay turns up 157 results for "Djinn Ring" and they seem to be selling for anywhere from $30 to $300. Most are listed as "haunted." Item #170196067361, the "Haunted Warlock Elite Master Eye Ring Jinn Je Mnoi Di" is probably the most absurd listing I have ever seen, capping out at $202.50. I can hardly believe Ebay will let this sort of thing be sold at all, given the bogus sales pitch and the ghostly vapors in the pictures.

Got an old car or some of granny's bric a brac? Juice it up, add some ghosts, and now it's marketable!

A lot of people seem to have done just that. A quick search in "completed items" on Ebay turns up 157 results for "Djinn Ring" and they seem to be selling for anywhere from $30 to $300. Most are listed as "haunted." Item #170196067361, the "Haunted Warlock Elite Master Eye Ring Jinn Je Mnoi Di" is probably the most absurd listing I have ever seen, capping out at $202.50. I can hardly believe Ebay will let this sort of thing be sold at all, given the bogus sales pitch and the ghostly vapors in the pictures.

Got an old car or some of granny's bric a brac? Juice it up, add some ghosts, and now it's marketable!

Hi I had a thought while reading all of this; If a gullible person with no spiritual senses, is so desiring to have a "pet spirit" isn't it possible that a real malignant spirit looking for some poor soul to "thresh like wheat", possibly actually show up at the buyers home and indeed wreak havoc. Or even an "astral nasty" or larvae of some sort? could this account for a very fewcase of the reported "effects" (i'm not refering to a light out of the corner of their eyes or wierd shadow)
I understand whats at work here is pretty much likee "plecebo effect" in Pharmacology; If you belive it 's affecting you, it will/can-(in some people). People even get healed by known fraudulent treatments just because they so believe it to be working(btw which is a good thing to be healed regardless of how)
I've seen this mechanism at work even with something like fake LSD; where people;who had tripped beforeand really wanted to get off, started to trip on plain blotter paper w/some design on it!!
this of course was in the late 70's. Someone bought a sheet it and turned a group on. some did start to get off even with mild halucinations! The more experienced people of course knew within a half hour it was bunk, and after telling them it was bunk, their trip ended abruptly. I just never thought "the Plecebo Effect" would be use in something as rediculous as "pet spirits" or genies in a bottle!!
Just a thought from the Lightning Storm
Ps that was one hell of an experiment Vagrant, thanks for taking time to share all of that with us...
Peace and Light