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Little_Mary
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Can Satan “get in your head”? Can he get you to think evil thoughts against your will?
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MS_SURVEYOR
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Can Satan “get in your head”?
Yes he can. Every moment of your living life he can.
Can he get you to think evil thoughts against your will?
NO! That’s where ones faith in Jesus, Mary, in the Bible, with prayer, keeping the Commandments, going to Mass, taking Communion, resisting those thoughts with every fiber of one’s body and Soul.
It’s a WAR! A battle every second we live.
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fred_conty
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Satan can present thoughts to us. But we have the option of retaining them or of replacing them. Only if we entertain them is it a sin. One why of dealing with his temptations is to
think about a mystery of the rosary such as the annunciation. Picture it in you mind.
However the devil is only one source, the other two are the world and our own flesh.
We also need grace to resist temptations of all sorts. So this necessiates praying for that grace to strengthen us to resist. For without God(grace) we will fall into temptation and sin.
Just a few thougts.
think about a mystery of the rosary such as the annunciation. Picture it in you mind.
However the devil is only one source, the other two are the world and our own flesh.
We also need grace to resist temptations of all sorts. So this necessiates praying for that grace to strengthen us to resist. For without God(grace) we will fall into temptation and sin.
Just a few thougts.
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MS_SURVEYOR
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Very well put Fred.
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Aelred_Minor
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This is consistent with my understanding of the situaiton.
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bscastro
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Similarly, our guardian angels can present “good” thoughts to us as well. That’s why I’ve started praying asking my guardian angel to protect me as well as praying for St. Michael’s protection.
God bless,
Bryan
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Bezant
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No.
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Maria1993
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From someone who has been there and went through a rough patch of that. Yes he can. Sacraments, Prayer, Rosaries, and a blessed St. Benedict medal and trust in God will help.
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AlanFromWichita
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Satan works by manipulating our thoughts. That’s what he does. He tempts, accuses, and lies. Not much more, but for most people it’s enough.
Listen to the Sermon on the Mount. Not just with your head, but with your mind relaxed and your heart and mind open. Let Jesus speak the Beatitudes into your soul just one more time, or at least I can imagine doing it one more time (and that’s just as good). These will negate satan’s ideas before they even hit you, after a while of practice and not being afraid.
Alan
Listen to the Sermon on the Mount. Not just with your head, but with your mind relaxed and your heart and mind open. Let Jesus speak the Beatitudes into your soul just one more time, or at least I can imagine doing it one more time (and that’s just as good). These will negate satan’s ideas before they even hit you, after a while of practice and not being afraid.
Alan
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Robert_Sock
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Indirectly, yes! One example is our hyper-sexuality whereby the intensity of our libido forces sexual thoughts and masturbation.
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Robert_Sock
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Satan can also affect the illusions within the world we live in. The tendency is for our thoughts to follow the fantasy.
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AlanFromWichita
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Yes. And I’m convinced Jesus taught us that following the fantasy and actually going there are similar, in a mystic sense.
Alan
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Skygor
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Some comments on the nature and powers of creatures:
One distinguishing trait of Animals as opposed to Vegetables is Movement. Animals can move, including the most primitive sponges, sea anemone, starfish, coral etc. But then again plants move too. Watching a fast forward tape shows plants moving and creeping. Another easy way to show this is turn a plant next to a window 180 degrees. It will be facing the opposite direction, but in time will turn to the window. Vegetables have motion but purely based off of the chemistry and physics of the plant cells. However an Animals power of motion is on a complete different order and kind than compare to Vegetables.
Man has the gift of Intelligence. Animals have intelligence too such as dogs learning several words or apes sign language etc. But Man’s Intelligence is on a complete different order than mere and lengthy memorization. Angels have Intelligence too and on a completely different order than Man.
Thus while Angels cannot read Minds, the Heart/Soul of a person, a person’s dreams, or the future; they certain can make very very accurate and precise guess’s on a situation. Ironic how simple Minerals such as water can torment them.
One distinguishing trait of Animals as opposed to Vegetables is Movement. Animals can move, including the most primitive sponges, sea anemone, starfish, coral etc. But then again plants move too. Watching a fast forward tape shows plants moving and creeping. Another easy way to show this is turn a plant next to a window 180 degrees. It will be facing the opposite direction, but in time will turn to the window. Vegetables have motion but purely based off of the chemistry and physics of the plant cells. However an Animals power of motion is on a complete different order and kind than compare to Vegetables.
Man has the gift of Intelligence. Animals have intelligence too such as dogs learning several words or apes sign language etc. But Man’s Intelligence is on a complete different order than mere and lengthy memorization. Angels have Intelligence too and on a completely different order than Man.
Thus while Angels cannot read Minds, the Heart/Soul of a person, a person’s dreams, or the future; they certain can make very very accurate and precise guess’s on a situation. Ironic how simple Minerals such as water can torment them.
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knightbird111
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From my experience Satan works off of societal norms, stereotypes etc…
Satan tries to make one believe something false to be true. He will use the television and people around you to convince you that something is real. Once a person starts to really believe in the lie that is when they are vulnerable and their mind starts to create fears etc…
You are always going to fear that which you do not know, whether it be you are inexperienced or scared to approach that area.
Generally fear then brings on anger, hate, psychological problems. The only way a fear can leave is when one faces it and that is very difficult to do but it is for the best.
It is like I had a friend who always talked about the world ending, I did not realize this but I started to develop a depression. When I read the newspaper it only had bad news. I started to believe my friend. This was Satan playing with me. He will use anyone and the media to fill your mind with poison. I had to end our friendship
Usually Satan hits hard during childhood and preteen years because everything is new to you.
My best advice is to live like an Amish person aka the simple life. Bash the TV, do not read newspapers etc…if you follow the world you will definitely be vulnerable to Satan’s tricks.
Will people hate you because you are not following the world, yes but at least you will have mental peace.
This society encourages making friends, networks etc…I say do not bother. Friends in my eyes are a liability. Most of these people are not even your friends.
Friends make drug addicts. You hangout with a group of people they are going to get you to conform into what Satan wishes to do with you.
Don’t get me wrong friends can be helpful but again be careful who you make friends with.
Satan tries to make one believe something false to be true. He will use the television and people around you to convince you that something is real. Once a person starts to really believe in the lie that is when they are vulnerable and their mind starts to create fears etc…
You are always going to fear that which you do not know, whether it be you are inexperienced or scared to approach that area.
Generally fear then brings on anger, hate, psychological problems. The only way a fear can leave is when one faces it and that is very difficult to do but it is for the best.
It is like I had a friend who always talked about the world ending, I did not realize this but I started to develop a depression. When I read the newspaper it only had bad news. I started to believe my friend. This was Satan playing with me. He will use anyone and the media to fill your mind with poison. I had to end our friendship
Usually Satan hits hard during childhood and preteen years because everything is new to you.
My best advice is to live like an Amish person aka the simple life. Bash the TV, do not read newspapers etc…if you follow the world you will definitely be vulnerable to Satan’s tricks.
Will people hate you because you are not following the world, yes but at least you will have mental peace.
This society encourages making friends, networks etc…I say do not bother. Friends in my eyes are a liability. Most of these people are not even your friends.
Friends make drug addicts. You hangout with a group of people they are going to get you to conform into what Satan wishes to do with you.
Don’t get me wrong friends can be helpful but again be careful who you make friends with.
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Michael_Mayo
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You are reminding me of St. John of the Cross when he speaks of disarming Satan by going the way of forgetfulness and emptiness of all thoughts.
Chapter 6 book thee describes the benefits and protection of this emptiness.
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Of the benefits which come to the soul from forgetfulness and emptiness of all thoughts and knowledge which it may have in a natural way with respect to the memory.
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“BEFORE we treat of the proper and fitting means of union with God, which is faith, it behoves us to prove how no thing, created or imagined, can serve the understanding as a proper means of union with God; and how all that the understanding can attain serves it rather as an impediment than as such a means, if it should desire to cling to it.”
and Chapter 6, #2
“2. In the second place, it is freed from many suggestions, temptations and motions of the devil, which he infuses into the soul by means of thoughts and ideas, causing it to fall into many impurities and sins, as David says in these words: ‘They have thought and spoken wickedness.’ And thus, when these thoughts have been completely removed, the devil has naught wherewith to assault the soul by natural means.”
basilica.org/pages/ebooks/St.%20John%20of%20the%20Cross-Ascent%20of%20Mount%20Carmel.pdf
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feed_me
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All I know is this, and allllll to well cause I deal with them personally. Satan and the other fallen angles speak to you on a level beyond normal sound. So when they talk to you, their words get stuck in your head, and they hit that area of the brain that causes you to obsess over them. So you end up constantly repeating them over and over in you head, and they are hard to get rid of because your brain is forced to be severely addicted. It’s like dealing with a sever addiction of repeated words that won’t go away.
Btw, I know personally because I deal with them constantly. Please consider this, and not brush over.
Btw, I know personally because I deal with them constantly. Please consider this, and not brush over.
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jsaldar
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Yes, It’s called temptation.
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Apologista
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That kind of sounds like OCD - which is partly from one’s own mind and can be very upsetting. I’d say it comes from Satan in the general sense that any illness in this fallen world would.
Satan also manipulates us with our desires and sometimes it’s only in retrospect that we see how he pulled the wool over eyes. By “desires” I don’t mean just sexual. I mean anything - like a need for friends, belonging, keeping up with the crowd, acceptance, anything that can become a disordered desire or addiction, that we’d do things we normally wouldn’t for the “rewards” we think it will bring.
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feed_me
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It is still a blessing that I can actually hear those voices of them speaking so I do know the difference between them and me.
That part sucks the most. Especially if I pray to God about having a lifelong partner, and when I leave the house, I get everything but what I asked for, = married women, hookers, immoral women, exe. I mean I know God has a since of humor, but seriously.
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Fragile
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Deception through Inception?
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