Here’s irrefutable proof the Holy Spirit embodies people — how else could they be laughing with such holiness?
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Fools.
Do these people think this actually impresses their god?
Yes, yes they do. This sort of stuff took place at my church. People got ‘slain’ out in the ‘spirit’ all the time, and there was lots of speaking in tounges. heck it even happened to me. It definately felt a lot like God at the time. the feeling alone was enough to hold on to my beliefs even though all rationale facts contradicted the bible (and even the bible did really)
At the same time I prayed to God for an answer to how to explain away the evidence of him being real, I looked into research done on this as it presented itself (All the contreversy of Palin drudged it up by the boat load.) Theres some evidence that it may be linked with a very mild form of sycsophrenia, and while under the spirit believers have siginifigantly reduced brain activity in there frontal lobe. I don’t know if thats true or not. But from personal experience I can tell you that it feels very real, and there is scriptures used to say that its from God. I don’t believe it is God, I can still talk “in tounges” which is gibberish really. It can definitely get you buzzed like they are in the video.
Urg….ok…I admit to going to a Kenneth Copeland Ministy Bullcrapcrusade….
…I know…thirty lashes from his Noodleness….
It seemed like I didn’t want to be left out of what was going on….and when you see some of these people laughing you just can’t help yourself…
…man…I want to purge my lunch now.
Freaky!
If you were god, wanted to create a religion, wouldn’t you want a better class of people in your church?
Not at all. According to the Bible, God only reveals himself to the weak-minded.
Well…
I have to ask: was anyone paid for their participation? Like red t-shirt & suit man.
Jack Dee can also get people laughing like that. Tommy Cooper could, too.
If anyone pissed themselves laughing, would that be holy water?
I get like that sometimes. But it takes copious amounts of beer. This actually looks cheaper. In fact it looks very cheap.
Gibbs does that head smacking thing in Navy NCIS (although tuned to a more dignified style, befitting the Navy). I always wondered where it came from.
I note that people are trying to get away from him. If he came at me like that he’d have a chair sticking out of his head. See all the people trying to run away at 2:37 – but they’re trapped.
Note the demoniacal laughter at 1:47. So whose side is he on? And does he have a white cat?
The closing message says it best: “Everything is TERRIBLE!”
“I get like that sometimes. But it takes copious amounts of beer. This actually looks cheaper. In fact it looks very cheap.”
Actually it’s more expensive…about 10% of all you earn…this includes stocks and bonds..
Two thoughts:
* Lots and lots of beer.
* I didn’t necessarily mean just cheap in the monetary sense :-)
It’s pretty ironic that the program is called “Everything is Terrible.”
Oh how I wish religions nuts only used their powers to laugh harder. This world would be a much better place if that was more commonplace.
This is a clear display of mass hypnosis. People behave like that because when they come to this place they already expect to behave like this subcounsiously. People are already in hypnotic trance or very close to hypnotic trance when they sit their.
If you want to see clear through all these religious techniques you should learn about hypnosis.
Not so sure about mass hypnosis, but cerainly mass hysteria.
Either way it gives a clue to the origins of the religious experience of spirit possession. People have always been able to achieve this kind of mass surrender of the senses to the group, which then takes on its own, seemingly autonomous dynamic. In the absence of psychological theories available to us today, it would be but a short step to attribute this mass “hypnosis” to the influence of a deity. Such would be the origin of the gods men worship.
What’s the difference between this and tribal witchcraft?
I grew up in Pentecostalism and this vid is an example of why I am so fascinated with the emotional aspects of religious practice.
That may be the scariest nonsense that I’ve ever seen in my life.
The irony, of course, is that they would absolutely rail against people going to the bar and acting in the very same way.
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these sheep are exactly the one’s I want to contact when I start my religious investment ponzi scheme….
doesn’t it seem more likely that the devil is making them laugh? that’s usually what religious people go to when they act out of character.
Well at least they’re having a good time. I will admit that his laugh is pretty creepy at times.
OMG Absolute and total batshittery!
This is exactly the kind of church my parents dragged me to as I grew up. Talk about scary. 10 years old and people doing this shit around me. At 12, I was expected to be just like them and if not, I was rebellious and head strong. My mother, the religious glue of the family, had planned a great future for me, I’d be one of these preachers.
I’m very glad I didn’t fit in and stayed, rebellious. I look at this crap now and feel nothing but pity for the deluded people that believe they are actually doing what is claimed. Yes, they do believe it, and so much more. They are to be pitied. It is clearly a mental illness, spread by the previous generation and infecting the next.
God that looks so fun! I remember when we had a similar experience at church. It feeds off itself. I guarantee everybody at that church had a great day and likely did very little to be selfish. Regardless of the motivation, the source of the hysteria, what they think it means or where they think it comes from, that’s a pretty sweet ride man.
It’s troubling only in the way that it likely is solidifying their faith in an imaginary god and could even solidify some form of religious militantism in their actions one day, but that looks like a damn fricken good time. I also feel kind of sorry for them too regarding the delusional perspective, but at the same time.. I’m not exactly falling over in hysterical fits of laughter every day. Couldn’t we all use that a bit?
@ Karl.. I’ll admit I felt left out if I didn’t feel drunk in the spirit like others around me all the time. I longed for it. In a retrospective and less naieve sort of way, I’d like to be able to get into fits of laughter and bliss for no reason with tons of strangers without the influence of drugs or alchohol. That’s one of the good things about the community of Christians I’ll conceed.
Yeeesh! Couldn’t even finish watching it.
I actually thought it just kinda looked like fun. Have you guys ever been to a Blue Man performance? There are things that make you laugh like that and the crowd just feeds it until it is fun and funny and exhausting. They were being joyous. I have a lot of problems with religions and their encroachment on secular spheres but I just think this is an example of communal joy. It’s like a set a music fest that gets the whole crowd someplace fun. Communal joy shouldn’t be ridiculed.
This guy, Kenneth Hagin, and his family run Rhema Bible College in Tulsa, OK. It has many students from all over the world. Sad.