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Wildy84
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to ask some advice but before I get into that topic I want to give you all a brief background with regard to a friend and myself. So please read on carefully and to detail.
Both myself and my friend are Catholic. However we both have different views and opinions on how we see ourselves as to what degree of depth in faith we each have.
I was raised by my parents to attend mass every Sunday weekly and grew up with that and religious education at school teaching me everything they could about God, Jesus etc. Eventually when I was in my mid teens I stopped goin to mass (not instantly mind you, I just sort of gradually stopped attending a mass here and there and before I realised, I hadn’t went to mass in years, however I still tried to keep God with me. I am now 35 and have gone back to attending mass again ever since my daughter was born last year and have been continuing to do so now ever since for over a year.
My friend who is 33 yrs old, grew up much the same way I did with his Mother attending mass and much the same way taught also (He was an alter boy when he was younger). Similar to myself he lost interest in attending mass when he was in his teens also but the difference is that he still after all these years hasn’t went back to mass properly (He comes with me usually for every Easter and Christmas mass) however he does try to keep somewhat a sense of his Catholic upbringing at heart and he does say to me on ocaision that he needs to start going back (even tho he has told me he found sitting at mass boring) especially now that he has children of his own.
So that’s as I said a brief background into both of our religious backgrounds, now onto the summary of the topic.
My friend and I like any other average person, enjoy watching a range of various programmes on TV together that we both have an interest in, including Ghost programmes such as Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventurer’s and the like and even watching Youtube videos of things “claimed” to be caught on camera (although in this day and age everything can be faked).
We therefore have over time, been looking towards setting up a “social paranormal investigation group” with other friends of ours who wish to be a part of it.
So, here’s the question,
Unlike some other paranormal investigation groups out there, who try to communicate with spirits by calling out to them or do stupid stuff like seances and all that wicca guff, (our religion has taught us that much to avoid all that), we want to set up a paranormal investigation group instead where we strictly only use camcorders and sound recording devices (to capture noises, potential voices) to gather evidence “should it present itself”. We strictly do not wish to call out to or speak to spirits and try to make contact with them as we know that is against God’s wishes and also because we don’t believe in doing that because of it.
Would it therefore be ok to do paranormal investigations where we are running the group on purely “if we see something and it got caught on camera or recording device” of it’s own accord?
Thanks for taking the time to read and any good answer would be greatly appreciated.
I wanted to ask some advice but before I get into that topic I want to give you all a brief background with regard to a friend and myself. So please read on carefully and to detail.
Both myself and my friend are Catholic. However we both have different views and opinions on how we see ourselves as to what degree of depth in faith we each have.
I was raised by my parents to attend mass every Sunday weekly and grew up with that and religious education at school teaching me everything they could about God, Jesus etc. Eventually when I was in my mid teens I stopped goin to mass (not instantly mind you, I just sort of gradually stopped attending a mass here and there and before I realised, I hadn’t went to mass in years, however I still tried to keep God with me. I am now 35 and have gone back to attending mass again ever since my daughter was born last year and have been continuing to do so now ever since for over a year.
My friend who is 33 yrs old, grew up much the same way I did with his Mother attending mass and much the same way taught also (He was an alter boy when he was younger). Similar to myself he lost interest in attending mass when he was in his teens also but the difference is that he still after all these years hasn’t went back to mass properly (He comes with me usually for every Easter and Christmas mass) however he does try to keep somewhat a sense of his Catholic upbringing at heart and he does say to me on ocaision that he needs to start going back (even tho he has told me he found sitting at mass boring) especially now that he has children of his own.
So that’s as I said a brief background into both of our religious backgrounds, now onto the summary of the topic.
My friend and I like any other average person, enjoy watching a range of various programmes on TV together that we both have an interest in, including Ghost programmes such as Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventurer’s and the like and even watching Youtube videos of things “claimed” to be caught on camera (although in this day and age everything can be faked).
We therefore have over time, been looking towards setting up a “social paranormal investigation group” with other friends of ours who wish to be a part of it.
So, here’s the question,
Unlike some other paranormal investigation groups out there, who try to communicate with spirits by calling out to them or do stupid stuff like seances and all that wicca guff, (our religion has taught us that much to avoid all that), we want to set up a paranormal investigation group instead where we strictly only use camcorders and sound recording devices (to capture noises, potential voices) to gather evidence “should it present itself”. We strictly do not wish to call out to or speak to spirits and try to make contact with them as we know that is against God’s wishes and also because we don’t believe in doing that because of it.
Would it therefore be ok to do paranormal investigations where we are running the group on purely “if we see something and it got caught on camera or recording device” of it’s own accord?
Thanks for taking the time to read and any good answer would be greatly appreciated.
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