The Noble Pagan Forums - Friendlies and the Skeptic

Since this part of TNP seems to be a lil dry I thought I would start sharing some of the experiences I have had with spirits over the years.
This installment is Friendlies and the Skeptic.

Years ago I lived off of 60th and Lawrence. That house had "residents" there. Most of them were pretty benign and even helpful hence the term "Friendlies". Now my hubby's best friend was staying with us at the time and he was a resilient unbeliever. Mostly because anything he could not see or control he feared so if something "unbelievable" happened, it therefore did not happen.
So we got into this discussion about the Friendlies which of course he insisted did not exist. So I asked him if they could in some way or form PROVE that they are residents of my house would he at least ACKNOWLEDGE that there are things in my house. He scoffed and said yes.

Moments later I got some jibber jabber nonsense stuck in my head. Much like a bad song will do. I could not understand a lick of it and it was just LODGED in my head. I figured if I repeated it out loud I could "get it out of my system" ( it's what I do for those annoying songs). So I just started repeating the jibberish ( quietly).

Hubby's friend looked up sharply at me and said "What did you just say?"
I replied I had no idea and then just continued ( as it was stuuuck in my head).
He said"Wait....that sounds like Japanese!"

At this point I smiled. I had a good idea what was going on.......

I would like to take a moment to share a couple of things.
1- Hubby's pal is TOTALLY into Japanese while my handling of the language is more along the lines of Samurai, Sushi, Mitsubishi, Suzuki......you get the idea.
2- I have the ability to channel messages.

Anyways he went to his Japanese/American phrase book thing and started looking stuff up while I continued speaking what turned out to be fairly fluent Japanese ( still sounded like jibberish in my head and I had no clue what I was saying).

The messages were amazing. They all had the same base though the words and phrasing changed up some because I am pretty sure the Friendlies thought he was slow.....

"Look! Boy. Sanctuary. Look child, boy. Proof of an unseen rumour"

That was my favorite message. The rest were along the same vein though.

He was not happy. In fact he got all demanding.
"Yeah well if this is real then what am I saying?" and he started intensley speaking japanese at me. Like I would know?
At that point I was laughing too hard and I let him know that it doesn't work that way. They don't have to do anything further to "prove" anything to him.
He was very unhappy with the whole thing ( and was still trying to cling to some rational answer to disprove the Friendlies...which I might add irritated me because I thought the way they handled the whole thing was well done). He was hoping for levitating objects or ectoplasm. I told him it doesn't work that way. He said they should have tried harder.
I responded with "maybe that is all the strength they had. You should feel lucky that they took you up on your challenge in the first place because you damn well know I don't care enough about Japanese to even begin to want to learn to speak it!".

All in all he stuck to his tenacious unbeliefs. Which is kinda sad.

Personally I thought the whole scenario was pretty awesome.

C/S/

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That's awesome...Love that fact that they went to relaying their message in Japanese. =D

Unfortunately, some people will never/almost never be open to spirits unless a spirit manifests itself to them. Which can and does happen sometime, only if they want it to happen. It's sad that it takes something physical and/or visual before people will open their minds. (This can be said about a lot of other topics as well.)

I lost a friend to her being skeptical..that was over a conversation of whether ghosts/spirits were/are real. (There were two other friends that had the same experiences, one of the few situations where there is a lil more creditability to the story/experience.)