Demons, Giants and Astral Projection 🔮 Spiritual TikTok

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

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[@Jeff-sr6fx]

If the video released a few minutes ago... Are you time travelling?

[@ericdere]

@@Jeff-sr6fx _uploaded_ yesterday and automagically _published_ today?

[@josiahgill1176]

Amen

[@StephenConti-t6j]

Father God in Jesus Christ name please show Emma dreams and visions and show your child what is coming next most HIGH God in Jesus Christ name amen

[@vforwombat9915]

i prefer news that's in the air. fewer gophers.

[@felixcorona13]

When a dark presence approaches me it usually turns out to be my cat 😂

[@isazarts3159]

The prince of darkness just wants some treats!

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Same! I have a black cat because I'm a spooky witch boy. When I see a shadow moving around the house at night it's her. It still scares the shit out of me, but only because I have glaucoma and can barely see in the dark anymore; and the fear is that I'll trip over her and kill myself by accident, not that she is going to offer me infernal gifts. I'd rather infernal gifts from her lord Satan over the dead animals she leaves on the front porch to let me know she loves me.

[@svenleeuwen]

Lucky you!

[@darthinfimus4450]

Cats! Why did it have to be cats?

[@SumNutOnU2b]

Well, that tracks. Everyone knows cats are all demons.

[@wolfh9831]

They aren’t just afraid of statues, they’re also afraid of education.

[@AB-80X]

Not as long as it teaches absolute nonsense.

[@JZsBFF]

When I first heard about the internet many moons ago, it was presented as soon to be the absolute source of knowledge, guiding us into a new age of enlightment. I guess that idea didn't age very well, did it?

[@Thelastunicornlover]

Facts💯

[@princegobi5992]

@@JZsBFFright, we could have had it all

[@wimleybuckets]

Imagine how disappointing it must be to be a demon, with all those fantastic powers, yet any idiot can order you around as long as they say _Jesus_ first. I'd rebel against God too if I was saddled with that shit deal.

[@nickonerd]

Tbh he only works for those who have powers worthy of his, and yeah it's all myth.

[@FirePhoenix39]

I don’t know why these people aren’t taking advantage of the free labor either. “In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior… make me a BLT sandwich, demon!”

[@sovietdoge.7369]

​@@FirePhoenix39 "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YE! NO MAYO!"

[@holaguacamole4058]

even whackier is thinking anyone can command God by asking nicely "God, please do this 'cuz I want, amen".

[@thoughtsofelizabeth]

The keys of Solomon are actually about how to compel demons, among other things. I haven't read them, yet, though. I believe that there's some mythos of Solomon using demons to build the temple. Never read the keys of Solomon and been decades since I read the Bible so i need to check my sources.

[@panqueque445]

"I don't have the app installed" I consume TIktoks through reposts on other social media apps, like a civilized person

[@BestAnimeFreak]

Exactly xD That's also how I consume Twitter xD

[@ohhello1809]

@@BestAnimeFreak and reddit lol

[@valolafson6035]

My sister just sends me the ones she thinks I'll like. It's fine.

[@BahamutEx]

compilations on youtube :3

[@Thelastunicornlover]

Me too🧐

[@Vikingjay65]

“I’m going to be watching TikTok in a web browser…” I haven’t laughed this hard in a while. Thank you for this.

[@Mad_Elf_0]

"I wish for children to be raised secular, please" -- as someone who was raised secular and who raised my own child secular, all I can say is "Amen to that". ;-)

[@aislynnmari]

As a secular mother, this comment gives me hope and peace

[@StarlightEdith]

I agree with you in most cases, but as someone who was raised secular, I personally wish I had been raised religious. My parents are “religion is stupid and everyone who believes in it is also stupid” atheists and having “religion is evil” on one side and “you’re going to hell for not being Christian / being gay / etc” on the other (thanks, school!) it gave me horrible self esteem issues. I was stupid for being religious, but also the wrong kind of religious. I was rejected by both sides. I used to be jealous when kids at school would talk about going to church because they had a community, they had somewhere to belong. I am now working on conversion to Judaism (which my parents do not support) and I intend to raise my children Jewish as well (not forced though)

[@Mad_Elf_0]

@@StarlightEdith Fair enough, and I hope Judaism works out for you. Can I make one request though? Could you *please* refrain from performing any irreversible cosmetic surgery on your children's genitals, at least until they're old enough to give informed consent? Not sure if you would consider that as "forcing" anything.

[@HungryWarden]

@@Mad_Elf_0nobody said anything about surgery, I hate how annoying these stupid idiots are.

[@Thelastunicornlover]

@@StarlightEdith❤️❤️❤️

[@blueredingreen]

A demon moving your bed and then putting it back when you firmly tell them to. Ah, yes, I think I know that one. That must be the "angsty teen" demon.

[@BrickNewton]

I now picture the demon looking and behave like 'Kevin' the teenager character on the Harry Enfelid Show. If you haven't seen it it's hilarious.

[@rojh9351]

@@BrickNewton That’s so unfair! I hate you! I’m going to my room.

[@wereoctopus]

The astral projection guy is probably just a grifter, but I love his absolute confidence that he is *actually* opening a portal and not imagining, dreaming, or being fed false sensory impressions by an evil demon.

[@AECRADIO1]

Too bad he does not project, and STAY THERE!

[@ohhello1809]

yea he's literally just lucid dreaming lmao

[@PaladinMesser]

“I don’t f**king get Tic Toc.” *old lady glasses adjustment while looking at computer* 😂❤ Love it!

[@ivanpetrov5255]

Have you tried Tic Tac Toe - I believe you'll at least have fun with that.

[@CraigJudd]

Emma's reaction to TikTok is very similar to my own.

[@msjkramey]

The TikTok hate is silly. I don't use it that often but it's fine. I'm not a big fan of Instagram but I don't throw a fit about it

[@Kawamura2]

@@msjkrameyThe reason people get bent out of shape about TikTok is because it's one of those things where unadulterated uneducated stupid happens, and the audience is children, so they believe things uncritically, for the most part. Yeah, I don't want kids exposed to that crap, which is why most of us hate TikTok.

[@msjkramey]

@Kawamura2 there's plenty of educational materials and other valuable stuff on tiktok. That's like saying youtube is dumb and full of kids just because you can find skibidi toilet on here

[@claratalbot7613]

Fun fact: The evil eye is actually a symbol used to protect people. It's just that some people hear the word evil eye & assume it is something like a hex when it's more for warding against negative energy or the evil gaze that set upon u wishing u harm

[@everything_is_illuminated619]

Oh wow, that first guy gave me flashbacks. I was raised fundamentalist Southern Baptist and I used to have terrible nightmares as a kid and my mom would tell me it was evil spirits trying to torment me and she would tell me to tell the demons "Get behind thee Satan! You have no power here!" 😢 Definitely didn't help with the nightmares. Who tells their 6 year old that demons are trying to torment them!?!?

[@Jogjosmowwdkfs]

My mom didnt tell me it was evil spirits. She said it was *satan himself* come to torture a 6 year old with nightmares

[@oldschoolman1444]

That's straight up child abuse!

[@popechucky]

As a former Pentecostal/ Evangelical I can sadly relate to you … these people seem to see devils, demons, and every other crazy thing behind every blade of grass…

[@willgary8792]

​@popechucky their all powerful God seems to b incapable of ever protecting them...from anything....at all

[@jsmith3798]

Yikes.. I am so sorry.

[@melissaspradley8901]

I always assumed you were mid 20s-ish but you had some real elder millennial energy here with your rage against TikTok and I'm here for it.

[@L0rdOfThePies]

I was getting big millennial energy

[@charleslipscomb2567]

Wait until they see a football referee making hand signals. "He's worshipping Satan!" "No, you idiot, he's calling the offense for holding!"

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

No, clearly Satan /s

[@kerianhalcon3557]

Would pass interference be the sign of pushing the demon away? Or Jesus away?

[@TbearMuhahah]

Yeah, absolutely. It feels familiar, I saw this hand signals somewhere but I don't remember it. In the football matches. Good point, referees do this all the time.

[@PurpleWind64]

Clearly Satan wants the other team to win. He's got money riding on them.

[@samkirkby7010]

“Cassius talks … I wish he didn’t” perfect

[@chuckoneill2023]

The late, great James Randi called Astral Projection "Half-Assed-tral Projection".

[@MrGorillafist]

James Randi was such an icon. Rip you wonderful man 😔

[@adamwhite2364]

My crazy ass monster in law was talking about astral projection once and then my wife called her dad (they'd divorced decades earlier) to try to tell him about the craziness, but what he heard was "asshole projection" so that's how we've referred to astral projection ever since 😅

[@andrewjenkins9965]

He was just upset because he couldn't do it.

[@Snuggles_the_Unholy]

​@andrewjenkins9965 Upset that he couldn't project his asshole? Hell. I can do that. But I need Taco Bell first.

[@austinluther5825]

I actually met him once! Got his autograph and I framed it.

[@DivisibleByWaffle]

Turns out demons are just friendly guys who want to help change up your decor :(

[@AECRADIO1]

The sneak in and throw your clothes around...demons have a messy life.

[@Alba-pc6bz]

​@@AECRADIO1because they don t like your style?

[@alexs.5871]

Priest's feng shui was probably off

[@JZsBFF]

Sounds like employees of a furniture moving business to me.

[@JZsBFF]

@@AECRADIO1 I had a demon in the washing machine once. All my white wash turned kind of bluish. I never caught the bloody devil though. I think he escaped through the drain.

[@isaacbenrubi9613]

We all know that Emma's aura isn't so much a color as much as it is just a little guy.

[@LordTails]

A very silly little guy apparently

[@PuffsDragon]

I would of thought of her aura as more of a lil yellow duck.

[@happymaskedguy1943]

Small Duck Energy

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

The demon stuff scares me. Not because of the demons themselves, oh no, but because of what people will do in fear of them. Look at the 8 Passengers situation. It's scary!

[@blakksheep736]

What is it?

[@AD-dg3zz]

I shudder to think how many supposed "demon posessions" were actually due to things like autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, psychosis, sleepwalking, or literally any condition that's known to induce "abnormal" behavior. How many people, especially children, were forced to undergo exorcisms? Which likely involved getting forcibly restrained and being screamed at by a stranger for hours. Being subjected to such stressful conditions would most definitely make the symptoms worse, and it would only confirm everyone else's beliefs that it's due to demon posession, thus ensuring that the cycle of needless abuse continues.

[@AJPemberton]

@@AD-dg3zzit was a lot worse than just being restrained and screamed at. People died horrible deaths due to such beliefs.They still do in some places.

[@Shampyon]

@@blakksheep736 8 Passengers is a KZbin channel about a family. The mother has been convicted of multiple counts of horrendous child abuse, motivated by religious extremist beliefs including demonic possession. She literally starved her kids because she thought it would drive demons out of their bodies.

[@AD-dg3zz]

@@AJPemberton yup, literal torture. And people would often lie just to make it stop.

[@casey_lee9804]

“Act like a grandma, look like a newborn goat “ is how I’m going to tell my age from now on

[@ZachariahWiedeman]

The hand sign TT trend was hand motions she *left out* during the last two notes/beats after banging her fists together. If I remember correctly, you put your two fingers over your opposite shoulder (on one beat) and then raise them in the air (similar to the statue of Baphomet depicted). It *seems* very much like something you'd see a K-Pop boyband or girlband do, in fact, I always assumed that's where that came from. She's saying that part is the "demonic" part - anyone who is on TT would recognize the trend without seeing her complete the hand motions.

[@Chasardous]

"Nothing is nothing and everything and everything" this dude is a straight up genius

[@kensmith5694]

Yes, I happened to be eating a salad for lunch while listening to his word salad. I think the leafy greens where smarter.

[@sovietdoge.7369]

​@kensmith5694 Of course they were smarter, why would you insult leaves like this?

[@advorak8529]

He truly is - he has had his brain and spirit and soul spaghettifyed by the black hole, so now he is a very high strung individual, stretched beyond his breaking point … and totally broken.

[@khzmusik]

I am totally stealing "you look like a newborn goat" as my next pickup line.

[@MargoJen]

Good luck with that.

[@AlthorDhoom]

Lol. Covered in fanny mucus and stinking @@MargoJen

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

pls report back your findings

[@fabrislemos]

"Demon, clean my house in the name of Jesus!" It would be quite useful if it weren't a load of BS.

[@mikearchibald744]

In the name of Jesus.....give me your money

[@purplepedantry]

It's like a Homestuck quote... 'Well, you are the one with the cursor, so just do whatever you think is the right thing to do! also, fix my bathroom.'

[@StephenConti-t6j]

I don't think you want a demon in your house

[@AnotherCraig]

​@@StephenConti-t6j No, I get it, you're totally right: TWO DEMONS. Wait no why stop there!! Dude I am going to invite ALL the demons! Right now!! ...Nothing. I got ghosted by demons.

[@MattdeFreitas]

@@StephenConti-t6jtrue you don't but I'm 55 yrs old and have never had demon in my house. But hey at least I know what to do now if one does happen to turn up, and worse, move my bed! The liberty of those demons eh!

[@DaveB-hg7el]

I truly can't understand why there's so many people who insist on believing in things that are demonstrably not real. It's not their attempts to escape reality for a little while that I can't fathom, it's their refusal to use the tools our modern world has made available to them. Instead they rely on stories from decades and centuries ago for their foundation to build on. Peace 💚

[@AB-80X]

How can anyone dislike or be afraid of a little Baphie? Ours sleeps between my wife and I

[@charliemallonee2792]

Gotta leave room for Baphie.

[@N_IRL]

The myth of consensual bedtime: You: I consent Your wife: I consent Baphy: I don't! Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[@AB-80X]

@@N_IRL Assumptions assumptions...

[@Thelastunicornlover]

🥰❤️

[@johnhmaloney]

I'm nearly twice your age and have been feeling horribly out of touch because I don't get TikTok. This video made me feel a lot better.

[@nindie2011]

Me too. I have never been able to work Tictoc out and gave up with it.

[@Pushing_Pixels]

I got a whiff of what it was like from seeing it on other media and uninstalled it from my phone without opening it. It just seems like all the worst parts of Twitter, KZbin, and Instagram melded together, then re-designed to be as addictive as possible.

[@vihuang4215]

Nah cuz everytime i watch a video about religion and shit, there's always a ad for “do you want to get closer to god?” like… no… not really…

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

The ad algorithm is really awful. Like, I'm AGAINST religion, stop trying to convert me with these cringy Evangelical Christian preachers. Just because the topic of the video I watch is "Christianity" doesn't mean I'm interested in being part of their weird cults...

[@somedude2486]

I watch a lot of political content, I'm always getting turning point usa, prager u, and Hillsdale ads, 😂 I'm a leftist lol.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

Yet God is everywhere, so how could we get closer to God? 🤔

[@mekannatarry1929]

He/it's everywhere, but all you have to think--don't even have to do anything--is "nah, not interested", and he melts away apparently lol.

[@davidkeller6156]

I watch a lot of video interviews and lectures on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament and history of Israel. Some of the channels I watch on are run by atheists. What do I get in the ads? Commercials for Christianity. I’ve no interest in returning to Christianity, but I find it disturbing I get these ads on an atheist channel.

[@philliparnold6762]

This is why when I see bipartisan support in Congress to ban tiktok, I actually say, "yeah probably not the worst idea."

[@palaeo-arty1410]

So the demon burst open the window, moved the bed, then put the bed back and closed the window. It's almost as if it hadn't even been there in the first place...

[@DrachenGothik666]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winnah!

[@austinluther5825]

A lot of these Christians and spiritual people would probably freak out hearing my kids joke about being demon babies and laughing like maniacs. They are very cute demons, though.

[@jimgillert20]

Now remember Casper was friendly but his ghostly trio uncles were constant trouble.

[@patrickcardon1643]

"Just shut up" is about the shortest, most to the point reply you can give to those idiocracy cultists ...

[@MravacKid]

"I'm going to be watching TikTok in a web browser" so, you're in your 40s, like me. :)

[@Wix_Mitwirth]

Let's face it, Baphomet was likely chosen to freak out xians intentionally. I love it.

[@raezzordaze8021]

A kid. They said you look like a kid. Not a newborn goat..... hey, wait a minute!

[@lillia5333]

She is a silly little guy with great hair and a nice aura.❤

[@petercoo9177]

Oooooh, I get it now! I genuinely didn't understand what Emma was talking about there!

[@ianbabineau5340]

Disclaimer: black holes are not known to be a safe form of inter dimensional. Please consult your doctor before astral projecting.

[@alisaurus4224]

There are so many paintings & statues of Jesus making that EVIL hand sign

[@pauliemurphy4787]

Jesus is nothing but a zombie devil !

[@BrainWavesVillain]

Astral projection teacher says you need to imagine yourself outside the body. Yes that is called imagination not astral projection. And then they fall asleep and dream about what they imagine.

[@blueredingreen]

The problem is that "spiritual" stuff inevitably ends up at pseudoscience and more harmful things, because there's no way to draw a line between harmless and harmful if you actually believe the things. It's a broken epistemology, so even the "harmless" things are not actually all that harmless. Note: this doesn't include, for example, meditation where you realise that you're just doing that to relax and calm your mind with no beliefs about supernatural effects.

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

You've put my opinion into words pretty much perfectly, thank you

[@ivanpetrov5255]

The biggest problem is "spiritual healing" - at best, you're getting scammed out of some cash, and at worst, you put off real medical treatment until it's too late.

[@msjkramey]

How is there no way to draw a line between harmless and harmful? If it is detrimental to your wellbeing, it's harmful. If it's neutral or positive, it's harmless or good. Not that complicated

[@blueredingreen]

@@msjkramey You can obviously classify something as harmless or harmful, but you can't draw a line by saying say "I'm going to believe this because it's harmless, and I'm not going to believe this because it's harmful". That's not how beliefs work. You just become convinced that something is true, and that generally happens indiscriminately across harmless and harmful beliefs. You could also have something that shifts from harmless to harmful, e.g. if someone thinks meditating helps their "spiritual health", that may initially be harmless, but it could fairly easily transform into thinking health problems are caused by "spiritual" problems, at which point they may choose pseudoscience that purports to deal with the "spiritual", above traditional medicine that doesn't.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@msjkramey Because if your epistemology is completely detatched from empiricism you have no way of independently determining whether something is harmful. The destinction of whether something is harmful or harmless can only be made if your epistemology is based on empiricism, and in that case you wouldn't believe in any of this stuff in the first place.

[@TGabes_Gaming]

I’ve never connected better to emma than when she talked about how people our age don’t necessarily vibe with TikTok. I have no time for that shit 😂

[@amandakorbe3773]

Every time you say 'pastor', my American ears hear 'pasta', and I get hungry...

[@ianbabineau5340]

This eye thing sounds like if someone believes it, they would start to obsess over it.

[@AlexSamaras]

Funny thing about "55555" from the good luck crystal dude's thing... all 5s is text speak for laughter in Thailand, because the number 5 in Thai is "Ha" so "55555" is "Hahahahaha". 😁

[@patchvonbraun]

When there's Mercury in your Gatorade, you know it's going to be a bad month....

[@MinionofNobody]

I started experiencing sleep paralysis when I was in my early thirties. At the most basic level, sleep paralysis is a state in which people experience exceptionally vivid nightmares, often coupled with a partial awareness of the waking world, and the physical inability to move. It is frankly terrifying. In the U.S., people who experience sleep paralysis tend to have one of two types of dreams during these incidents. One type of dreams involves demons. The second type involves aliens. People who experience sleep paralysis in other cultures tend to dream about whatever their culture predisposes them to dream about. I experienced alien dreams and demon dreams when I first started suffering from sleep paralysis. As I learned more about it and later became an atheist, I generally stopped experiencing both types of dreams. I still have sleep paralysis and it is still terrifying but it doesn’t usually involve demons or aliens. The story about a demon bursting in through the windows and moving the bed is the kind of thing I would expect a preacher to experience during sleep paralysis. This is especially true if this was an early sleep paralysis experience and he had not yet learned to differentiate between what was real and what was dream in that bizarre state. The obvious alternative is that he just invented the story.

[@RichWoods23]

Then if I ever have sleep paralysis, I'll probably dream of going to a football match and my side will lose.

[@MinionofNobody]

@@RichWoods23 Only if the aliens transported you there because you would be paralyzed.

[@Emperorhirohito19272]

Sleep paralysis is just the state where your body is asleep while your brain is awake. It doesn’t have to come with hallucinations, it often does if you get it while waking up but not if you get it while falling asleep.

[@TessellatedHeart]

@@Emperorhirohito19272 yep I've only ever gotten it at the falling asleep stage, but it's plenty terrifying without hallucinations. Wanting to open your eyes and move and not being able to is scary.

[@molybdomancer195]

I had sleep paralysis once and it was scary. My dream was something in my room using my voice to tell my mum I was ok. As soon as she went away something terrible was going to happen. I don’t know if the something was a demon or an alien. I woke up with my mouth opening and closing as I was trying to scream. Luckily for my parents my vocal chords were still paralysed otherwise they would have been woken up by me screaming my lungs out.

[@jermM.]

Does everyone else watching love that word 'discernment' as much as i do?

[@killminewin4733]

Dude was out here trying to one up decades of scientific research and hypothesis with "it came to me in a dream..."

[@nregames8447]

I love how this super powerful terrifying demon is supposed to be so scared of the word "Jesus" that it'll do anything you ask without hesitation. aren't they supposed to be enemies aha, why would it care?

[@robsquared2]

Just remember: if you see a demon, drive it out with the power of contacting a mental health professional.

[@BrickNewton]

The only demon I know that is real is the Dodge Demon car. Wouldn't fit in my bedroom though.

[@enderger5308]

Also if you hear, smell, or feel one. -Someone with a disorder adjacent to Schizophrenia.

[@CrankyQuokka]

I do love an angry Emma 😂 This sort of content is why I wouldn't care if TT got wiped out. Sadly, there are a lot of good people on there too. A couple of my favourite creators started on TT, debunking all this tripe, before growing into successful KZbin channels. PS, the family picture was adorable 😊

[@Gerbilsarefriends]

I also don't have tiktok, because the amount of bullshit there, would break my brain through anger at dumb people... I just can't...

[@wrongtown]

Yet you're on KZbin...

[@LittleMonkey425]

You’d be surprised that tik tok is not all full of bs

[@Scatscar1985]

I DON'T TRUST ANYONE who has Coolio's hairdo. That is all.

[@ojrmk1]

Once I was laying in bed in the middle of the night, and all of a sudden I saw my apartment door was open and a dark figure stood there. I started upright and immediately grabbed the first thing to hand (an adjustable tablet stand) and swung it! But of course, just like the "demon" it was a figment of my imagination and a very easily explained neurological blip. Weird how these demons don't approach in broad daylight when people are well rested.

[@crankydragon]

I was sitting on my bed one day when it suddenly began to shake like a gaming controller. Was it demons? No, it was fucking earthquake because Oklahoma is way into fracking. I don't even live in Oklahoma. I live in fucking Arkansas!

[@BrickNewton]

I live in Christchurch New Zealand and had earthquakes that devastated the city (still rebuilding over a decade later) and we had a religious leader saying it was because we angered God...cause of the gays apparently! Yeah, nothing to do with those tectonic plate fractures beneath the city.

[@mirandarensberger6919]

I once met someone who insisted that the real danger of fracking is that it will wake the nephilim. Just when you thought people couldn't get weirder.

[@katthawthorne1027]

Bold of that TikTok user to assume there is anything *simple* about me closing my eyes and drifting off to sleep.

[@praetor2997]

Conflating dreaming and astral projection is... yeahhhhhh. I agree Emma. More coffee.

[@KreeZafi]

Regarding the demon moving the bed, isn't it very convenient that the person just randomly decided to make the demon come back and remove all traces of it ever being there? Replacing the bed and closing the window. Leaving no physical sign that anything happened.

[@gornser]

What's amazing is that these creators can do all this with a straight face

[@kellywalker1664]

And it's not because they're poker faced. 🤤

[@MrMrprofessor12345]

Grifters get by on confidence and audacity

[@carlpeberdy9086]

"Making shit up for clicks" sums up a great deal of what is wrong with humanity in the modern world.

[@stevenalexander6713]

I would also tell the demon to make my bed before it leaves, because I hate doing it myself.

[@somecreeep]

I'm confused by the giants guy. He says "if it were to get out, it would kill religion as we know it," then proceeds to tell us about how a religion claimed these things were real. Why would evidence for something mean people stop believing in it? You can't just conflate two conspiracy theories like that. "THEY don't want you to know it because THEY hate our religion" does not mesh with "This will singlehandedly disprove our religion"

[@lokitukker]

If a demon comes into my room and remove it and command it to come back for the replacement of my bed, I would command it to do the dishes too.

[@jonaskollinger3676]

That first story is literally how medieval priests got into summoning demons.

[@jeneeba1313]

9:20 so we can expect this man to be "disappeared" by "the powers that be" soon, right? Because he discovered The Truths??? What a sacrifice he's making...

[@frankdocter]

Nah man. He’s moving to Antatica

[@jeneeba1313]

@@frankdocter Perfect! They'll never find him, since "the government bans all civilian travel to Antarctica to hide their secrets", but nobody has banned Antactica yet!!!

[@thoughtsofelizabeth]

Did anyone notice that he wrote "whole" for "hole"?

[@Golems_victory]

I’d say as malefor feed him to my golem, after all it’s a better punishment and my arch nemesis Spyro had no chance to pull his mate free so...yeah 😈😜😂 edgy argument and joke lol

[@crazydicelady6117]

My husband started painting his nails, and it has made him so happy. Added bonus? I never have the patience to do my own nails but him doing mine is really kind and intimate.

[@HeyItsJayHobson]

"I hate TikTok - what's happening" - me on TikTok, every time I try. lol

[@brackencloud]

I tried training to lucid dream a couple years back (basically its about dream journaling, and stuff) biggest regret in many ways. Simply lead to much more vivid dreams. and me dreaming things that leaves me confused about real life. Simple confusion like "oh, im gonna go grab the new drink i put in the fridge" and its not there, because it was a dream

[@____thecommenter1569]

The one with the "hand signs" was a qna trend where they would clap to the beat (with the question in text above them) and then swipe down when the trumpets play (to reveal the answer in text above them)

[@nregames8447]

"You see that ludicrous display last night?" "What was Sagittarius thinking sending Leo on that early?" "Thing about Pisces is, they always try to walk it in"

[@direktive4]

how to tell if someone's a grifter: they're outside of their home but always never around others like king liar; inside a car, walking around some field that looks like where the finale of Se7en was filmed with no one around. maybe because anyone within earshot would rightfully think they're absolutely nuts?

[@runewolf77]

Dang if we can just tell demons what to do like that, y not tell them to do ur chores and everything 😂

[@RobotsEverywhereVideos]

I'd appreciate these people trying to find magic in mundanity more if they weren't so mental

[@l0rf]

Oh yeah, there's value in trying to just find joy in everything but they're taking it to cultic extremes.

[@JaapZeldenrust]

4:50 - I think the hand sign thing is actually hinting at the idea that Catholicism is satanic: the gesture is also how Catholic priests do blessings, with thumb, index and middle finger extended.

[@wadeheaton123]

Three fingers. European counting style. Father, son, holy spirit.

[@Davidson0617]

I love how the demon does what its told like: "oh, my bad" 😄

[@arrjee3176]

From Wikipedia: "Hypnagogia is the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep, also defined as the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. Its opposite state is described as hypnopompia - the transitional state from sleep into wakefulness." These states may lead to some pretty wild phantasmagoria; my first experience had me convinced I'd had a religious vision until I researched the phenomenon.

[@josephkernycznyj3144]

100% agree Emma. Tiktok is baffling, and complete sh*t.

[@TessellatedHeart]

It might feel that way if you only consume it through youtubers sharing the craziest stuff they can find, but Tiktok contains multitudes. I never get this kind of nonsense on my feed. My feed is full of cooking videos and sustainable gardening tips. I've learned a lot of valuable real life skills on that app, it really all depends on how you shape the algorithm. And of course it can lead people down rabbit holes and that can be problematic, but that's a potential problem with all social media really.

[@taylorswan8587]

Is it though? I like my tiktok feed that’s full of recipes and music

[@shannernanner]

@@TessellatedHeartI totally agree

[@unholydriver4987]

When the astral projection guy started the second phase of his "tutorial", all I could think was, "Man, some people just can't handle smoking weed "

[@matthewcrosby3542]

As a Reiki practitioner... thank you Emma! Im in it to help people to relax, not for the money.

[@Tepic]

Astral projection otherwise known as dreaming!

[@AB-80X]

Or your average Ket overdose…

[@magnusgreel275]

The 'newborn goat' commend actually made me lol. Very well delivered.

[@firbolg]

Your aura is grand! And if a demon came to my bedroom, I would get a beer for them and ask them to stay and chat! 😂

[@Chris-b5k9n]

Hypnagogic hallucinations are an apt description of many of these experiences.

[@HappyKat-wc4ld]

Yep. I have a lot of them if I go to bed when I'm not already half asleep and passing out. I hate them. I have less of them if I ignore sleep hygiene, and leave a light on and listen to the TV or KZbin on very low volume. Otherwise I might see something scary in the dark, or hear voices saying nonsense. Would much rather hear the TV than my brain short circuiting.

[@daydays12]

that there are so many loonies on the net is scary

[@67jeffbustos]

I love your videos! You are such a breath of fresh air and it's so nice to see someone with actual intelligence doing reviews of these topics. Keep up the good work.

[@blitz3391]

I definitely agree with you Emma. Getting someone to touch me during a massage is as uncomfortable as my hairdresser touching my hair. Revolting!

[@wellingtonsmith4998]

and I thought I was the only one

[@thomasdendtler4077]

Then why go? Hairdresser, I get, it's necessary. But if you don't like being massaged, why get massaged?

[@blitz3391]

@@thomasdendtler4077 That was a joke...

[@RichWoods23]

@@thomasdendtler4077 "Hairdresser, I get, it's necessary." No, it's not. I haven't had my hair cut for more than forty years. It reaches a certain length and thickness, and that's it. It's been getting shorter and thinner the older I get, because the strands are weaker, but it's still more than shoulder-length and I don't even have a bald spot yet. Yes, some women have told me how jealous they are! And I've saved loads of money that I've been able to spend on things other than the barber.

[@lunarbeetl3]

I think ppl forget that Black Holes aren’t actually “holes”, the black space you see is the massive object it just has no light because it absorbs it. So if you were to go close to one you would die by being absorbed into its surface (event horizon).

[@mjjoe76]

“Newborn goat”. I see what you did there. And I agree with your stance on TikTok. There is some quality, but it’s mostly garbage.

[@RickLeMon]

I figure that if something on TikTok is any good, it will end up on KZbin.

[@Rekeronse2543]

I made Sloppy Joe’s while watching this and finished plating my Joe’s just in time for the outro :) until further notice u r now The channel to cook to in my mind

[@MargoJen]

I can’t have sloppy joes without tater tots. Aahhh, childhood memories.

[@Rekeronse2543]

@@MargoJen omg you’re right! I have to get some 🤤

[@xerofelix7090]

36:21 When this guy breathed deeply, I flinched. I don't know why, but I was expecting him to suddenly scream incoherently at us! 🤣

[@NeilPro42]

"Nothing is nothing and everything is everything" technically correct

[@sensiblechucklemonthly]

Omg I am so sick, and this is the perfect thing to distract me from my woe. Happy Saturday, y'all!!! 💖🫶

[@twt2718]

The Baphomet statue was install at the Arkansas state capitol! The Supreme Court said if Arkansas allowed christian monuments, they had to allow ANY religion’s monuments😂. They did it to themselves🤣

[@geoffreycat1763]

Yup DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - "A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol (Baphomet) at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.He told the conservative website The Sentinel that “my conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”A document made public Tuesday charged him with felony third-degree criminal mischief." Cassidy was in court on March 15 and his attorneys are seeking to dismiss the charges. Trial is ongoing at this time.✌️

[@twt2718]

@@geoffreycat1763 That’s freakin awesome🤣… and he confessed by saying “the voices in my head told me to…”

[@l0rf]

Hi Emma! Astral Projection sounds like a very fancy metaphor for daydreaming. And your take on TikTok is very fitting, I've also no interest in that hellscape of an app. Also, that guy talking about astral projection is really just the meme about pre-scientific method reasoning; "it came to me in a dream".

[@AB-80X]

That, or one hell of a commercial for a charter vacation...

[@martinpecar7683]

"Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive" DARN YOU Emma, you got the song stuck in my head again!

[@GlassSpiider]

I really like the part where the aura thing just briefly turned you into Yosemite Sam with the cascading expletives, it was such a joyful refutation of the goofy and problematic misinformation and uncanny parasocial engagement TikTokkers have with each other and the platform Why yes, I *am* An Old, hello 👋🏻

[@TheUnmade]

TikTok is what drove me off of most social media. Dropped Facebook, Instagram, and the rest two years ago, and it’s such a relief. 😂

[@CodeNameX001]

21:23 I think the guy just confused black holes with wormholes. Wormholes are tunnels through spacetime. Black holes are just singularities. Touch a black hole and you're just spaghettified and eventually, theoretically, compressed into the smallest form of matter before even that is pressed to the point that it tears itself apart.

[@RichWoods23]

I'm afraid your black hole description is a bit off. Black holes aren't a physical body which can be touched; the event horizon is simply the boundary in space beyond which you can no longer communicate with or return to anywhere outside the black hole. You won't be spaghettified until the tidal forces are strong enough, which is more likely to happen sooner for a small hole (even outside its event horizon) than for a large one; you could travel safely into a supermassive black hole, for example, until you get closer to the centre (assuming you were protected against the radiation generated by the accretion disc, anyway). Your remains won't be compressed but torn into an ever-lengthening string of disconnected subatomic particles. And it's even arguable as to whether what remains of you would ever reach the centre, because space and time are flipped. Also, a rotating black hole might not have a singularity at the centre but a toroidal structure to spacetime where the circle within the toroid is a sort of smeared singularity. But you'd be beyond caring by the time you could identify that, and you wouldn't be able to tell anyone that their hypothesis was correct anyway.

[@axel1957ll]

Happy world atheist day people !!!

[@thejoker-pd9df]

Well, in his defense, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" was already used

[@corvaec.kalvidae8822]

Ohhhh the crystal guy! I watch him to fall asleep sometimes cuz *soothing voice + nature sounds* = knock me the fuck out lol