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Old 10-06-2016, 09:54 PM
 
Location: London
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A place I used to work at had a stack of ancient Playboys and other mags. I read an article in one from 1975 that was an interview with Carlos Castaneda. He said that he was driving with Don Juan to LA and when they got about 50 miles out of town Don Juan flipped out. He said that he wouldn't go anywhere near LA because there were too many evil spirits.
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Old 10-24-2016, 09:56 AM
 
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OP is on to something. Everybody can feel the horrifing spiritual energy in the atmosphere if they just focus their level of concious to the maximum present time in space per nano-seconds. It's simple universal quantum physics really. Whenever I'm in LA, I always feel a powerful supernatural undercurrent of evil. Just pure sinister gore demons loosely wondering.
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Old 10-24-2016, 10:56 AM
 
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A place I used to work at had a stack of ancient Playboys and other mags. I read an article in one from 1975 that was an interview with Carlos Castaneda. He said that he was driving with Don Juan to LA and when they got about 50 miles out of town Don Juan flipped out. He said that he wouldn't go anywhere near LA because there were too many evil spirits.
Wait.

Wait wait wait wait wait.

You READ the articles?

There's evil here at work, to be sure!!
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Old 10-24-2016, 06:36 PM
 
Location: La La Land
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Wait.

Wait wait wait wait wait.

You READ the articles?

There's evil here at work, to be sure!!
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Old 10-25-2016, 10:47 AM
 
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I feel that when I fly/drive into Detroit. There is usually a grey cloud cover and a depressing Midwest feel.
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Old 10-25-2016, 01:01 PM
 
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You should read Morgan Richter's books, especially Wrong City and Demon City. Explains all about LA.
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Old 10-25-2016, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Downtown Los Angeles, CA
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I wonder how many of those feeling "extreme evil" are LA Natives.

Coming from out of town I could understand how the underwhelming realities of LA could come across as twisted or cruel when compared to the sunshine & stars that the media exports. It's a big city filled with an incredibly diverse crowd all looking to survive...just like you. If you came in expecting to see nothing but friendly & beautiful rich people farting rainbow fairy dust into crisp ocean air, you're certainly going to question what's up.
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Old 10-25-2016, 02:10 PM
 
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I wonder how many of those feeling "extreme evil" are LA Natives.

Coming from out of town I could understand how the underwhelming realities of LA could come across as twisted or cruel when compared to the sunshine & stars that the media exports. It's a big city filled with an incredibly diverse crowd all looking to survive...just like you. If you came in expecting to see nothing but friendly & beautiful rich people farting rainbow fairy dust into crisp ocean air, you're certainly going to question what's up.
I honestly felt a lot more menace the (many) times I had to walk through NYC than anywhere, so far, in the L.A. area.

In NYC I felt as if some"thing" or someone was actively preying and that danger was lurking everywhere. I would feel a darkness come crushing down as soon as I crossed the bridge (or came out the tunnel) and could not WAIT to get my job done and high-tail it out of there.

Sure, I could just be a psychotic, paranoid mess but OTOH, since I don't feel that way in other places, I have to feel it's more likely that there's something, anyway, specifically to do with New York that made me feel that way. Or else something that just hit me, personally, in a very wrong/bad way. It could be the same for the L.A.-dislikers.
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Old 10-25-2016, 04:35 PM
 
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I wonder how many of those feeling "extreme evil" are LA Natives.

Coming from out of town I could understand how the underwhelming realities of LA could come across as twisted or cruel when compared to the sunshine & stars that the media exports. It's a big city filled with an incredibly diverse crowd all looking to survive...just like you. If you came in expecting to see nothing but friendly & beautiful rich people farting rainbow fairy dust into crisp ocean air, you're certainly going to question what's up.
I've lived in LA for a decade, and I grew up in OC. And I've got to say that when I moved to London, England, in the 1990s, I always felt this feeling of despair or hopelessness in the background the whole time I lived there. These days, I feel it here in LA sometimes, too, but not as bad as over there. And in LA, we are not so post-Christian and fatalist as England. Most people here still have some hope that good things may come if you really try.

But then there are those time I leave LA for the mountains or the beach and find some quiet and sunshine, and I think that the way we live here in the city is just not the way humanity was supposed to live.
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Old 10-25-2016, 06:00 PM
 
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Amsterdam's city flag has three x's in its coat of arms.

Parts of Russia's has co-ordinates that are 60°0′N 166°10′E.

Newark, New Jersey proudly calls their hockey team the New Jersey Devils.

Barack Obama once used a Ouija Board to see if his crush Michelle liked him.

What happens when somebody dies? They go to hell if they are bad. There is a neighborhood in New York City called HELLS KITCHEN.

What do you call somebody with a contrary opinion? A Devils Advocate!



Coincidence? I think not.
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