Leavaros
I think you mean "sheer power of will" or "sheer willpower". I would be quick to remind you that sheer willpower isn't going to stop a wildfire, or a twister, and similarly, I doubt it will stop any spirits who really want to have a go at you.
Even so, you're the second person who has told me--and I agree with--that communing with spirits is [like] praying. Funny how there is a kernel of truth to that--what is considered unholy in one church is commonplace in the next.
Not to say that banishing spirits is altogether a bad thing--far from it, I think--but it isn't very...diplomatic. Do you use spirits and dispose of them? Do you treat them with open hospitality or open hostility? I must wonder. One can be very strong, but have little power, and one can be very powerful and have little wisdom.
I try not to use tools that will end with an exorcism.
Love and Vale,
~Leavaros Dapple
Even so, you're the second person who has told me--and I agree with--that communing with spirits is [like] praying. Funny how there is a kernel of truth to that--what is considered unholy in one church is commonplace in the next.
Not to say that banishing spirits is altogether a bad thing--far from it, I think--but it isn't very...diplomatic. Do you use spirits and dispose of them? Do you treat them with open hospitality or open hostility? I must wonder. One can be very strong, but have little power, and one can be very powerful and have little wisdom.
I try not to use tools that will end with an exorcism.
Love and Vale,
~Leavaros Dapple
Luna-wa says :
agreed that you need more than willpower to stop a fire, but as i see it, things in the spiritual realm are easier to get a handle on, confidence of abilities is the key, i KNOW i am good with spirits, i KNOW i have the power to banish or call them, and i KNOW that if something happens i can protect my own.
banishing is only a last resort, if a spirit would outright harm someone i care for then YES i will banish him/her, but thats not to say im hostle about it... i ask the spirit first to leave kindly and not to return, that i value the insight it has bestowed upon me and my friends but it is no longer welcome here, and if it pursues me then i just expend energy and send it on its way the not so nice way.
and i just though i might add this,
some may not use them out of caution and i applaud this, if you are unsure you will surely be taken advantage of.
i myself find the boards to be a bit like trying to attract one small particle of dust and getting a bunch of fluff
i use my tarot cards more of a chance to reach the person or spirit you ate trying to reach
but i cant stand when people dismiss them as evil... because it is a tool that was perverted as evil by movies. its not like the those horror movies say, just like witches are not green skinned evil ugly women. please be real... we cant dismiss one myth as stupid without dismissing another as well
and you'd be brain-missing not to listen
