Oh my gosh I am crying... wow this really hit me.

[_krose]

Personally, I don't like the message so much. It would be much better for the girl to finally stand up and defeat the negative aspects in her life herself. That would be an empowering message.

Perhaps it's because I don't believe in demons that cause people to be self destructive, or in angels that protect them. Certainly we should seek help from family and trustworthy friends, but we need to be strong in ourselves to overcome difficulties.

[_JonasS]

I think it is supposed to be that God wants you to ask for his help and when you try, really try to fight your demons but are stuggling he will fight them for you and help you through it. I didn't like that her demons could stop God because God should be all powerful and it looked like he didn't want her to go away from him, but then I guess it was her choice. I didn't too much like the religious idea of it, but just the overwhelming vision of what can happen in our lives is a bit much. Maybe if she wasn't in Gods control the way she was at the start she wouldn't have been so easily manipulated. I makes God look bad, but I think the difference was that she was happy.

[_JonasS]

I guess you would have to be there to know Krose. I don't think outside demons do it, but I do think the demons within us and our feelings and what we tell ourselves makes us want to self destruct and we don't need to feel that way, we do it to ourselves. But I do believe their is a way out and that if we let ourselves heel we will, it may take time. I had an experience when I was feeling low a few days ago. I was crying and wasn't sure why, I felt like I just wanted to vanish. I was getting upset at minor things building up and I was confused. And when almost as low as I could go I felt this presence beside me, I couldn't see anything, just felt like someone had come close to me and sat next to me and said, That's enough! You are doing it to yourself. God doesn't want you to hurt or suffer. I had never thought I was doing it to myself but I listened on and I was intantly soothed, I didn't really believe it, but the feeling was soothing and I felt cool. I don't know what that was, but I needed it, perhaps a figment of my own imagination, who knows, but it helped. I felt loved and I felt that I was my own demon and I didn't need to be.


Pirate.

[_JonasS]

Oh I should say... this was going on for about a month befoe I felt the presence.

[_krose]

Pirate, if that's what works for you, more power to you.

I remember the swings of emotion when I was around your age and younger, including times of being very low, which I had to work through. I'm glad that kind of thing is well in the past, and hope it stays there.

I just want to see more messages that promote self reliance and finding inner strength rather than looking for mystical help. I'm sure you're not surprised that I think those 'presences' are all internally generated anyway. I would like to see more people believe that they are strong themselves, rather than giving credit to some invisible outside force. Just some thoughts.

[_Seven]

I agree that it was great clip. A lot more powerful than the videos over at
http://abrandnewyear.LDS.org

I was thinking the same thing.
I had to go back and watch it again because I wasn't feeling it the first time and didn't finish watching. I can see why you were moved by it now.
Lifehouse is one of my favorite bands and that's an awesome song.

[_Amaterasu]

Hi, Pirate, I saw that clip almost 2 years ago I think. I didn't watch it this time all the way through. I don't remember what I thought of it at the time, yet, I think it was something like how you saw it that she was confronting different things or people and attempting to resist their influences.

I had some AMAZING serotonin rushes about that time, too, and then I desperately attempted to get rid of them. I could make myself just go there, yanno. I don't do that anymore. No good!

[Guest]

At my office, we waste too much of our time doing YouTube mashups, where you play a video in one window, and the audio from another in another window.

As I suspected, the video can be immensely improved (or totally ruined) by listening to it with any of these songs playing in the background (turn off the volume in the original video's window):

Everything

Everything (she wants) (the crowd noise is an especially nice touch, and a lot of the motions seem to match up, especially at the 1:30 mark)

If you start the video when the music starts for this video (at :10) , the beats mach up for their puppet dance at :25.

[_Ray A]

Here's a good one with no angels or demons:

Hanging by a Moment

[_Seven]

At my office, we waste too much of our time doing YouTube mashups, where you play a video in one window, and the audio from another in another window.

As I suspected, the video can be immensely improved (or totally ruined) by listening to it with any of these songs playing in the background (turn off the volume in the original video's window):

Everything

Everything (she wants) (the crowd noise is an especially nice touch, and a lot of the motions seem to match up, especially at the 1:30 mark)

If you start the video when the music starts for this video (at :10) , the beats mach up for their puppet dance at :25.

That was great.

Our emotions are so easily manipulated by music.