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Respect for the Dead

The Hammer

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Premium Member
I've(and those around me)have had enough experiences that if I were to negate them all, I'd have to consider myself foolish.

What gets me is how everyone gets a preconceived notion of what a 'haunted house' should look like. Old, falling apart... one of what I thought to be the most haunted places was a ranch style house, not too old, in good condition.

That could be a fun thread in its own right. Most haunted places you've known/been to.

Edit: @JustGeorge may I?
 
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The Hammer

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Premium Member
Agreed. Also, as @Nakosis suggests, it’s not so much about the dead as it is about the grieving family.
Just imagine, when you pass by a cemetery or a funeral home, that you were in there, grieving for your own recently departed mother/uncle/child/loved one.
Be quiet. Be polite. Be quiet.

For me it's a bit of both. Respect for the grieving living. But also respect for those who have passed this earthly realm.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
I've(and those around me)have had enough experiences that if I were to negate them all, I'd have to consider myself foolish.

What gets me is how everyone gets a preconceived notion of what a 'haunted house' should look like. Old, falling apart... one of what I thought to be the most haunted places was a ranch style house, not too old, in good condition.

My impression of a 'haunted house' was probably formed early, both from watching The Munsters and the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. I also watched a lot of Scooby Doo where they always found themselves in some haunted adventure.

My grandfather said that he saw ghosts. I don't think he would lie about that, but I wonder sometimes. I've never seen a ghost. I'm not necessarily negating anyone's experience. If someone says they saw a ghost, then okay, but even if they did, there doesn't appear to be much that I can do about it.
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
Staff member
Premium Member
My impression of a 'haunted house' was probably formed early, both from watching The Munsters and the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. I also watched a lot of Scooby Doo where they always found themselves in some haunted adventure.

My grandfather said that he saw ghosts. I don't think he would lie about that, but I wonder sometimes. I've never seen a ghost. I'm not necessarily negating anyone's experience. If someone says they saw a ghost, then okay, but even if they did, there doesn't appear to be much that I can do about it.

I always found it intriguing that various people would describe the same ghost at my old house/s, without being in communication with each other.

But largely, yeah. There's a ghost. So what?

I did have a ghost at one house I was fond of, though. She'd help me by holding doors and flipping Spongebob on for the then-toddler when it was time for lunch. My husband saw it all one day, and yelled at her, and then it stopped. I yelled at him; she was good help.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
If you are in a Cemetery or outside of a funeral home, don't blast music at top volume that can be heard outside of your car. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.


What other Respect for the Dead would you like to see practiced?
What about abandoning graveyards all together? Make organ donation obligatory and burn the rest. Filter out the heavy metals and dump the ashes.
Instead maintain a virtual cemetery. A site where to you can upload memorabilia, photos, videos, RF posts.
It would negate the need for new space (which is already scarce in some cities) and would do more for the memory of the dead than a grave. We have the technology now, why not use it?
 

Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
Rebaptising them a la the Mormons I find highly offensive.
So would you like to talk about why you feel this way? Do you actually think that if a deceased person who was a devout Catholic throughout his life suddenly, and against his will, becomes a Mormon if a post-humous baptism is performed on his behalf? I ask, because we certainly don't.
 

Rival

Si m'ait Dieus
Staff member
Premium Member
So would you like to talk about why you feel this way? Do you actually think that if a deceased person who was a devout Catholic throughout his life suddenly, and against his will, becomes a Mormon if a post-humous baptism is performed on his behalf? I ask, because we certainly don't.
No, I just think it's disrespectful and culturally insensitive.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
If you are in a Cemetery or outside of a funeral home, don't blast music at top volume that can be heard outside of your car. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.


What other Respect for the Dead would you like to see practiced?
"Using" the dead for occult practices, I find highly offensive. Like this one person I used to know who went to a graveyard to "absorb" the "death energy" but then got an attitude with me for praying for their well-being (I wasn't asking them to accept Jesus). And even with animals, like what Azealia Banks did with her poor dead cat (don't look it up if you don't know - it was sick).
 

The Hammer

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Premium Member
"Using" the dead for occult practices, I find highly offensive. Like this one person I used to know who went to a graveyard to "absorb" the "death energy" but then got an attitude with me for praying for their well-being (I wasn't asking them to accept Jesus). And even with animals, like what Azealia Banks did with her poor dead cat (don't look it up if you don't know - it was sick).

She (Azalea) had her cat taxidermied.... That's not that bad.

Also, death energy is a real thing and if you're attuned to it, I see no issues with harnessing it. That is separate from the Spirits of the Dead. Death itself is more of a God/dess depending on Cultural variant.

Anytime I call upon my Ancestors, and Spirits I'm literally working with those who have died, in some capacity.

I appreciate your response though, and can see how some find it distasteful or disrespectful.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
She (Azalea) had her cat taxidermied.... That's not that bad.

Also, death energy is a real thing and if you're attuned to it, I see no issues with harnessing it. That is separate from the Spirits of the Dead. Death itself is more of a God/dess depending on Cultural variant.

Anytime I call upon my Ancestors, and Spirits I'm literally working with those who have died, in some capacity.

I appreciate your response though, and can see how some find it distasteful or disrespectful.
She dug up her decaying cat's body, boiled it for a bit and that was it. I saw what it looked like afterwards and it still had decayed flesh on it. She's just a lunatic and has been for years. Anyway, that was just an example. Oh, and she has some little girl's skull that I'm sure she's using in her witchcraft.

Going to a cemetery and meddling with people you don't know that way is what the problem is there.
 

The Hammer

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Premium Member
She dug up her decaying cat's body, boiled it for a bit and that was it. I saw what it looked like afterwards and it still had decayed flesh on it. She's just a lunatic and has been for years. Anyway, that was just an example. Oh, and she has some little girl's skull that I'm sure she's using in her witchcraft.

Going to a cemetery and meddling with people you don't know that way is what the problem is there.

I read an article on, said it was a taxidermied cat. I didn't watch the video.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
I read an article on, said it was a taxidermied cat. I didn't watch the video.
That was now she described it. If so, that was the worst taxidermy job I've ever seen. No one but a sicko taxidermies a decayed body and then dismembers it anyway. I'm done talking about that. Lol
 

The Hammer

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Premium Member
That was now she described it. If so, that was the worst taxidermy job I've ever seen. No one but a sicko taxidermies a decayed body and then dismembers it anyway. I'm done talking about that. Lol

Idk, I've given serious thought to taxidermying my pets when they pass. Or at least holding on to the skulls.

I don't see issue with it.
 

The Hammer

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Premium Member
Not much different then this.
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And that's consider normal in many parts of rural America.
 

The Hammer

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Premium Member
Dude, I'm not talking about normal taxidermy here. What I was describing is not normal taxidermy at all.

Like I said I didn't watch her video. I read an article about what was done (if it's wrong so be it), but most **** on YouTube and TikTok is done for attention and is all fake, or blustering.

I don't pay it much mind.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
Like I said I didn't watch her video. I read an article about what was done (if it's wrong so be it), but most **** on YouTube and TikTok is done for attention and is all fake, or blustering.

I don't pay it much mind.
Well, I saw the screenshots of it. Anyway, she is besides the point and I think I made my point there.
 
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