# Inigo will now ramble a scary ramble about DEMONS! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736 "2005-02-01T05:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/21 "2005-02-02T13:45:28Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > But in all seriousness that has nothing to do with this, my dearie. I believe you. I know many people who believe in demons and angels. Most Christians do, at least a little bit. My mom believes my homosexuality is caused by a demon. The belief in demons who prey - either physically, spiritually or mentally - on unsuspecting humans is one I find disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/22 "2005-02-02T16:37:07Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > The belief in demons who prey - either physically, spiritually or mentally - on unsuspecting humans is one I find disturbing. Dude, what else do demons do in any legend except prey on the unsuspecting human? I assume from this that it’s not the creature itself that bugs you, but rather that someone could actually believe that something that nefarious exists bodily and not just as a spirit? Aphids are oblivious of the ravenous lady bird that preys on them even while their neighbor is being quite noisily gobbled…not that being noisily gobbled is necessarily a bad thing, but I digress…why should it be disturbing if a human “aphid” gets a suspicion that perhaps we have lady birds in our midst? Is it the condition of the **mind** that can believe this that bothers you? Or is the **belief** too far removed from your own and therefore disturbing? Or is it perhaps dangerous to start believing that humans are not spiritually homogenous (yet another excuse for persecution), but are instead a collection of biologically similar & compatible bodies which house completely different spiritual types of beings? Because I DO believe that last proposition. I’m not levelling an attack at you, I’m genuinely interested in why you (and presumably others) have a problem with he OP, and what that problem is specifically. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/23 "2005-02-02T19:15:40Z")
I’m a materialist. I don’t believe in demons, spirits and souls, except as metaphor. But it all comes down to physical reality. And there is no physical evidence for the existence of any of the above. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/24 "2005-02-02T19:41:02Z")
Oh. Then just say you think it’s all horse shit, tell me to buy you a beer and stop baiting the crazy people! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/25 "2005-02-02T19:47:08Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > I’m a materialist. I don’t believe in demons, spirits and souls, except as metaphor. But it all comes down to physical reality. And there is no physical evidence for the existence of any of the above. **Homebrew** you’re going to make the Demons cry! And I don’t want to be around Inigo Montoya when that happens! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/26 "2005-02-02T20:16:22Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > Oh. > > Then just say you think it’s all horse shit, tell me to buy you a beer and stop baiting the crazy people! 😛 What’s on tap? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/27 "2005-02-02T20:26:38Z")
Well, if you were a _believer_ there’d be Pete’s Wicked Ale, Old Nick, Blackened Voodoo Lager… But for you, Budweiser. Nice, concrete, consistent. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/28 "2005-02-02T22:33:02Z")
:referendum referencia: [The Excorcist V: Iohannes Paulus the Holy SEE](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=298387&highlight=excorcist) It seems that the Pope has the Flu. My prayers for Him. I am the Holy Not SEE…and with that sacrilege I will remove this illness and devour the demon that infects. He will recover. This is called naming the demon. CCC ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736/29 "2005-02-02T23:16:46Z")
We’ll SEE about that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inigo-will-now-ramble-a-scary-ramble-about-demons/287736.md?page=1)