...whenever I watch a film which portrays magic of some description (ie The Lord of the Rings, also the excellent ''Shrek' films, esp part II) I have to stop watching because I experience a band of severe pain on my forehead.
I spoke to a Christian friend about this today, and she can watch ie 'The Return of the King' without experiencing any ill effects on her body at all.
I need to pray against witchcraft powers in order to get released from this pain.
I am intrigued about why I should get this pain, and others dont Could it be that I have some 'witchcraft' holds in my body already which are providing a sort of 'landing pad' for this heinous stuff? Could I be 'spiritually sensitive' - if such a condition exists?
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Yeah. All that stuff.
You are clearly a spiritually sensitive type with witchcraft holds in your body, which are a launching pad for pain induced by films depicting magic.
I'm thinking maybe St John's Wort might clear this up?
"also the excellent ''Shrek' films, esp part II", and with that statement, your opinion has officially been voided.
Just because watching a TV hurts your eyes and gives you what normal people call a headache , not a fucking 'band of severe pain on my forehead', doesn't mean that you're being affected by 'witchcraft powers'.
Fucking moron!
"I am intrigued about why I should get this pain, and others dont Could it be that I have some 'witchcraft' holds in my body already which are providing a sort of 'landing pad' for this heinous stuff? Could I be 'spiritually sensitive' - if such a condition exists?"
It's possible, but more than likely you're just a nut.
Sounds like epilepsy. A minor case of it, at least.
Either that, or you're a sensitive landing pad for demons. Whatever's more logical, I guess. Blah.
What is Allergy to Computer Animation and Special Effects called? ...'cause that's how the makers made the stuff you see in the film. All done on the computers. Nope, Dreamworks and Weta guys don't do any eldritch rituals in the render facilities.
The RenderMan protocol may sound like Satanic gibbering to the uninitiated, what with all those Projections and TransformBegins and occult-shaped Polygons and ObjectInstances and especially the ominous WorldEnds. But that is not magic! It is just sufficiently advanced technology!
For head ache take an Aspirin or something like this. You'll see, you can watch movies with witchcraft with no problems - oh, I guess the answer you wanted to hear was: Oh my, you must be so much more of a Christian than I am, since even a scene in a movie can connect you with demons, you must be very well connected with christ too ... you suffer so much more for the savior than i do ... blahblahblah
There is no such thing as an excellent "Shrek" film after the first one. And I have a hard time making it through "The Return of the King" without a headache myself, the movie is about an hour too frigging long(although the "Paths of the Dead" and the cavalry charge at the battle of Gondor almost makes up for it).
The most likely cause is that you distrust the concept of magic, and thus expect a reaction when you see it. You probably got a headache or something when you were watching Shrek, and have now connected the two events so that when you see magic on screen, you have the reaction. It's pretty normal, and I've had it happen to me once. My scalp got itchy while I was eating finger food, and because of it I ended up itching whenever I ate food that was greasy and required me to use my fingers. It's stopped now, but it was annoying back then. I feel that what you are describing is the same phenomenon.
I would imagine you only need glasses, since demons don't exist and if they did, they'd have better things to do than attack random Christfags through popular cinema. Pop some Midol, head down to the optician and get over it.
I need to pray against witchcraft powers in order to get released from this pain.
Or you could go to a qualified physician and start taking tests to find out what's actually wrong with you. One of my cousins died of brain cancer, so I can't urge you strongly enough to go and seek medical treatment.
Well, you'd have to ask Warren Ellis if the similarity was intentional. It could be a simple coincidence: the guy has a rather stereotypical fundie minister look, and the eyepatch evokes images the guy going through the orbit to pierce the hole in his own skull, icepick lobotomy-style.
That sounds like a nasty headache. The fact that your friend can watch the same movies and *not* get the headache suggests (to me) that you ought to see your doctor to rule out any neurological problems, then get thee to an optometrist(?) for an eye exam. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH WITCHCRAFT.
Besides, why would one of us even bother to ::snicker:: hex you with headaches? First of all, there's the Threefold Law, essentially stating that whatever a person does, for good or ill, will return three times over. Second, it's silly.
"I experience a band of severe pain on my forehead."
No you don't. You got a headache while watching a movie, get over it.
Get your eye sight checked, for christ sake. could do the trick.
where has the common sense gone from this world!?
No, you're just paranoid. If you believe strongly enough that something is going to hurt you, IT WILL. That's where psychosomatic diseases come from. Fictional magic cannot harm real people.
@Michael: The concept of a witch pre-dates the Romans by centuries. Circe, the witch who inhabits the island Aeaea in Homer's Odyssey , was written about over 3000 years ago. The story of Jason's wife Medea is similarly ancient.
The Romans, and later the Christian church, twisted this idea of the witch as a powerful woman into an ugly hag chanting curses over a cauldron full of nasties, because they feared the consequences that tales of beautiful, highly sexual, powerful women might have on society.
How old are you? Three?
Idiot.
As a student of chemistry, I have to mention that a headache described specifically as "A band of severe pain across the forehead" is one of the symptoms of carbon monoxide(CO) poisoning. You might want to check your fireplace, it's no trifling matter.
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