Do you believe you have ever seen or met an angel?

Nope not yet.

I think the likelihood of entertaining an angel is small, so that's really not the primary reason for doing it. I suspect that helping others is typically its own reward, and to be commended.

If this is in a figurative sense of *extremely* kind people, yes. Otherwise my answer is no.

If I had, I didn't know it. But I hope that I was nice...

Satan is an angel.

I believe in angels as messengers of God, but I have never seen one and I don't think they usually fly around where people can see them just for no reason, unless they are doing it to help some body.

Do you entertain Satan in your home?

Satan/Lucifer/The Morning Star is believed to be a fallen angel.

What about "Maybe, not sure"?

No, they don't exist. They're just part of the Christian mythology.

??? I know.

Ahh...I guess I misinterpreted your comment to bill. Sorry about that!

No; don't believe in them.

No, but I'd like to.

yes, i am sure i have met a number of angels through out my life.............

probably

I'm not sure...

My best friend's niece tragically died at the age of four. Melina was her name, The week before she died, she was dressing the x-mas tree with her Dad and she asked him what an angel looked like. He said that he didn't know so she framed her face, smiled and told him that they looked like her. In her coffin, her mother had put a one of Melina's recent drawings; she had drawn the house and a cloud with a window. She explained to her that the house was Mom's and the cloud was Melina's.

So I'm not sure...

We assume all strangers are Satan and don't entertain any.

My mother, moments after she died

Her name is Susan

yes, 2 days before my father died.

No, I havn't seen one. I keep an open mind about them. But I generally don't believe that people have seen them.

I met two of them - strangers - at THE lowest point in my life. They came seemingly out of nowhere. They had just the right words....just the right timing....and just as my tears were drying up...they excused themselves, and I looked up, and started to walk over and look to see where they had gone, and I could not see them. I have never been able to make sense of the encounter. They were my angels - whether they were real angels or not.....

No, but I have met a few aliens.

No. I doubt an angel would want to meet me.

i think that we've all met a few aliens or two

weird little story here..
i was going through the grocery store w/ my boy, he's 2 1/2, he was saying hi to everybody..'hi mommy lady', 'hi daddy man', 'hi grammy lady' etc...then w/ a few people,(a daddy man, 2 mommy ladies and a grammy lady), he said 'hi monster'....weirded me out i tell ya

He must just be very empathic...(unless he just said it to ugly people )

weird little story:

when I was on antidepressants, but actually a few times other than that time, I used to walk around and feel the way people was or felt at the time very very much.I could tell you that it was very easy to notice who the good ones were and who the bad ones. Of course I don't really believe in good/bad ones, life is not a movie, but there were a few people that just seemed to be full of negative emotions and thoughts...negative vibes...

but that said, since your child doesn't seem to be scared or hurt (which would account for him being very empathic), maybe the people you've met were really ugly...or aliens .

I'm like ABBA, one of my favorite groups, in their song, "I Have a Dream"--"I believe in angels".

No, and I dont believe that they exist

they were all so normal looking, not ugly by the definition of what ugly is, but aliens...hmmmmm, taking it into consideration

weird about the antidepressants...but i suppose, don't they play w/ neurons or something in the brain, and maybe they just aroused a part of you that wasn't 'normally' aroused? i totally believe in 'seeing' those energies, totally, i have no doubt in my mind that you were able to see them, none at all

w/that said...i am glad that you had a chance to experience that though, for whatever that is worth

I didn't see them, just feel them.

Yes, though some of them were pretty hard to deal with, it's really fascinating.
I have the same kind of thing all the time actually, but it's more weak and it needs me to be stressed and/or excited or really powerful emotions or people I know very well to work...and anyway it's weaker so much that in normal circumstances I can't tell between that and normal intuition.

(that's what i meant by 'seeing'...feeling)

I 'suffer' from the same type of thing. sometimes i'm so sensitive to others energies, (usually around my 'female' time), that i cannot handle being w/ them for they are so overpowering. but for the most part i've found it enjoyable, excpet when one is all over the place so to speak, it's hard to keep up and maintain my sense of balance.
but i do agree at times it's difficult to tell between what is normal intuition and actually feeling where the other is at..

(oh btw...i keep forgetting to tell you this, but on a survey a while back you had posted a link to a site where your music is at, you have a lovely voice and your lyrics are so soulful...i really do hope that you keep on w/ your music, even if it 'doesn't get you anywhere', for you really have a gift, even it that gift is to reinspire folks like myself who need a little kick once in a while or whatever the case....anyhow...i just really like your stuff)

I think you just nailed it. I think it may heighten your intuition. I've been on anti-depressants for a while and there are times when they make me feel this way too. And not just about a certain individuals. (Although, I've felt what you are describing, also...) It could be that you wake up in the morning and you feel that something is just "off"...and you can't put your finger on what it is....like something that is not good is going to happen to someone close to you today and you can't figure out who. And then, bam....you find out later who it was.
I don't know whether it's the antidepressants or not.... I really just think our intuition is so much stronger for some reason somedays. Who knows?

What antidepressant were you on? I was on effexor and I never tried anything else, so I don't know if it happens with all of them.
Of course it just enhances something you already have in you.

I feel in a similar way when I'm stressed, anxious, very happy, or a few days before and during my period, and I think maybe a few times when I was drunk...

Thanks a lot.

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cool...thank you for the link

No, I've never seen an angel.

*bright lights appears*

"Mandy, is that you??"

Right now, it's wellbutrin in the morning and amitriptyline at night....that combo seems to be my life saver....I have tried probably 9 or 10 different ones and nothing has worked this well.....the wellbutrin is the same thing as zyban that people use to quit smoking and it helped me to quit!
And yeah - I think when I am super-stressed I seem to be even more sensitive to things.
I read on the internet something about "highly sensitive people" and I think I might be one of them. You can check it out at http://www.highlysensitivepeople.com/ They say that HSP's have a heightened awareness of their environment, and are highly intuitive, tend to worry, are often introverted, and are usually meticulous people that are less productive when closely watched. There are alot of other characteristics named on the website that I won't go into here...but it's worth checking out. At least for me, reading it gave me alot of insight into how I relate to the world.

Thanks for the link. Actually I share many of the same traits, aside from a few like the violent movie thing. I love violent movies with a purpose (such like horrors or drama) a lot, and your average shoot-shoot-kill-kill violent movie bores me but it doesn't bother me one bit; or the arranging of furniture, I like to leave everything as it is if I can.

I was wondering when someone around here would mention that website. I actually bought one of the books. Pretty interesting. I definitely fit many of those characterisitics as well, but I dunno...Seems like there's a name for everything these days, if that makes sense.

funny you should say that....those were the two things I thought didn't fit too..... I just went to see Kill Bill recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. Violent movies never really bothered me except for maybe Natural Born Killers - now that is one that I could NOT sit through. And I'm not much for arranging and re-arranging. My mail sits on the counter for weeks before I go through it.

This is true.... so was the book any good? what did you think of it?

I don't entertain strangers, but I entertain a whole lot of notions.

Ah I love that one! I don't find it so violent either..

or maybe I do but I like it. Actually I have a fascination with violence, especially if it's extreme and used in a paradoxical/philosophical way with a dash of humor.

It was very validating to read it. Truthfully, I haven't finished it yet, but it had it's good and bad parts. I think it's wonderful to know that there are many people out there with the same sensitivities as I have, but the cynic in me has to wonder if the whole HSP thing is more of a marketing ploy than anything else. I skimmed parts of the other book, which is primarily about relationships, and it was more intriguing to me than the first one, mainly because my husband and I are very different with regards to this sort of thing. I actually just looked closer at the link you gave, which isn't the website that I first saw. Stupid me! Here's the one I'm talking about: http://www.hsperson.com It's the website of the author of these books I'm talking about. Anyway, if you think you might be interested in checking out the book, I'd be happy to pass my copy along to you, if you're cool with it. JustJulie is sending me a nice one, and I'd love to pass along this to you, if you're interested.

*shifting in my seat a little bit* *looking down, then back up with eyebrows raised*

should I be worried?

I would love to...thanks! ....Really the website is as far as I've ever gone reading about it but it certainly seems to ring true with me. Now that I think about it.....I posted something in the phobia survey about not wanting to go into Target stores because it was just too red. Perhaps it's not a phobia at all, but more of a sensitivity to all the red that I just don't like. Interesting.
Maybe the book will shed some light on it?
My email is blountj_us and it's @yahoo.com (I don't connect them together in case anyone scans for them) If you will send me a message - I will send you my snail mail address.

I know what you mean about Target! Totally. I have the most trouble at the grocery store, and at movie theaters. You should have mail soon!

No.
I'm not violent at all I think. Wait I am but I don't act it up because I don't want to hurt people. Unless I can't really do anything else, but I would probably have a shaking/crying crisis of some sort before that. I think most people are like me actually; you think about hitting someone but then you don't and do something else: yell, cry, leave the place.
When I was little I used to feel violent when I was angry, and I did everything not to be violent...so I started crying as a safe way to deal with emotions and the other kids saw it as weakness while they had to be thankful for me not being really violent. I was once or twice, but never much...it's not like I cut people in pieces, I'm not cruel, more like I probably try to beat them on the head with a rod...

and I'm strange: I love violence (or better the representation of violence... thought I'm attracted but hate the real thing...same old story...)but I hate when someone is mean. It makes me feel physically sick. Rage I can deal and I'm even fascinated with it, repressed rage...bad bad bad.

sure...i was just kidding....I really like those kinds of movies and things too and I guess my husband really appreciates it b/c I don't favor the typical "chic flicks". But I think it's healthy for us to be able to relate it and not act it out....... I mean it's just like playing violent video games for some people....hey -- I played Diablo for a number of years every day after I came home from work and I can't tell you how great it was to kill those little demons every night! what a stress reliever!

Yes.

No. I don't believe Angels if they exist turn up at people's homes unannounced at dinner time.

Wow, that is totally freaky. Was that monster guy freaky looking? Or did your son just pick up some vibes off of him? When is your sons birthday?

Do you not believe in angels at all, or is it only in the biblical sense? I only ask, because I remember you saying that you believed in faeries. Could angels not be a form of spirit?

he's a cancer, but close to the leo cusp...

the people he called monsters were totally 'normal' looking, i mean one was even a sweet looking gramma...so that's what freaked me, well that and i've been reading FAR too much about such things...
but you know though, although i personally didn't feel anything from those folks, (i'm USUALLY a pretty good 'reader'), i'm sure he must have, for it is believed that children are far more sensitive to the unknown rather than us adults. us adults have been 'trained' to NOT see the unknown, like faeries or what have you, but children and animals can indeed see/feel such things for they are innocent and haven't yet been 'trained' to not see them......
so...definitely something to his words i'm guessing

No, precious......you're standing in front of a mirror and seeing your own angelic reflection

Oh yeah!!!!

No

I said I believed in faeries? I must have been on a weird day when I said that!

I dunno - I dont believe in the idea that anything is watching over me, be it biblical, spiritual or anything else. Nothing looks after me but myself. If there is such an entity, mine should be sacked

Well, to be honest you didn't say you *believed* in the them... I think it was more of a superstition

http://surveycentral.org/survey/9711.html

Oh my goodness, that was years ago! And I still clap to make sure I dont kill a fairy too!

I'm weird that way. I can remember what somebody said to me two years ago, but I'm always forgetting to pay my bills on time !

Oh, well