# Have You Ever Encountered a Demon or an Angel?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 5, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115 "2016-07-05T09:31:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einstein_was_a_Hippie)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/1 "2016-07-05T09:31:07Z")
Have You Ever Encountered a Demon or an Angel?
I would like to hear your story of any encounters you may have had with what you believed to be a demon or an angel.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/2 "2016-07-05T09:40:00Z")
> [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](#):
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> Have You Ever Encountered a Demon or an Angel?
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> I would like to hear your story of any encounters you may have had with what you believed to be a demon or an angel.
Nup. Neither.
But with a caveat, what’s your definition of an angel or demon??
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/3 "2016-07-05T09:40:41Z")
Yes, and I married her.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/4 "2016-07-05T09:56:28Z")
No. Mythical creatures have been unsurprisingly absent from my life. Not an alien, ghost, lake monster, nor large-footed forest-dwelling primate has ever crossed my path.
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### Author:  [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einstein_was_a_Hippie)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/5 "2016-07-05T09:59:35Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> Nup. Neither.
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> But with a caveat, what’s your definition of an angel or demon??
I guess whatever you believed was or thought might be a demon or an angel.
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### Author:  [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/6 "2016-07-05T10:10:16Z")
> [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](#):
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> I guess whatever you believed was or thought might be a demon or an angel.
In the words of Alan Partridge, that is actually more vague.
What do you mean when you say “angel” or “demon” are you being literal, figurative, speaking from a specific religious standpoint…what?
This is the dope, such airy-fairy open questions won’t wash sunshine.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/7 "2016-07-05T10:16:53Z")
No, my life has been unsurprisingly absent of the nonexistent.
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### Author:  [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einstein_was_a_Hippie)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/8 "2016-07-05T10:27:44Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> In the words of Alan Partridge, that is actually more vague.
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> What do you mean when you say “angel” or “demon” are you being literal, figurative, speaking from a specific religious standpoint…what?
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> This is the dope, such airy-fairy open questions won’t wash sunshine.
Oh, sorry about that:
Did you ever have an encounter with a being that you thought was an angel or a demon, in the biblical sense, at the moment of your encounter?
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/9 "2016-07-05T10:44:11Z")
> [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](#):
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> Oh, sorry about that:
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> Did you ever have an encounter with a being that you thought was an angel or a demon, in the biblical sense, at the moment of your encounter?
Ah, much clearer.
No.
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/10 "2016-07-05T11:11:03Z")
> [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](#):
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> Did you ever have an encounter with a being that you thought was an angel or a demon, in the biblical sense, at the moment of your encounter?
and then did you marry her? Or at least “know her” , in the biblical sense ? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/11 "2016-07-05T11:18:54Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> Yes, and I married her.
I see what you did there.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/12 "2016-07-05T11:32:28Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#):
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> I see what you did there.
…and what he very wisely _didn’t_ do.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/13 "2016-07-05T11:42:34Z")
> [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](#):
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> Did you ever have an encounter with a being that you thought was an angel or a demon, in the biblical sense, at the moment of your encounter?
No. Did you?..
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/14 "2016-07-05T12:43:44Z")
In a poll of 158 Dopers, there were nine reports of [experiences with angels and demons](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=625053&highlight=paranormal).
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/15 "2016-07-05T16:44:18Z")
POld joke: One Sunday Satan appeared at the pulpit of a church. All of the parishioners fled, except one old man.
“Do you not fear me, the Prince of Darkness,” Satan thundered.
“Nope. Been married to your sister for fifty years.”
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### Author:  [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/16 "2016-07-05T16:46:52Z")
> [@Einstein\_was\_a\_Hippie](#):
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> Oh, sorry about that:
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> Did you ever have an encounter with a being that you thought was an angel or a demon, in the biblical sense, at the moment of your encounter?
As such things don’t exist, no.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/17 "2016-07-05T18:01:56Z")
No, I haven’t.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/18 "2016-07-05T18:08:38Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> Yes, and I married her.
"Please, make up your mind… "
(Someone here might actually get that.)
Nah, I know someone better than any angel: A two-year-old niece who loves to accessorize and can gobble blueberries by the handsful.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/19 "2016-07-05T18:32:22Z")
Met a couple of retarded girls. Maybe age four or five. They looked at me with such angelic sweetness that I wept, knowing this would be as close as I would get to experiencing the Divine.
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### Author:  [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-encountered-a-demon-or-an-angel/759115/20 "2016-07-05T19:09:52Z")
Well, once while helping someone set up holiday decorations an angel (of the plastic light-up kind) tried to kill me by falling on me.
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