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"If You Punch Someone Really Hard In Their Fake Boob, Will It Explode?"

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VanDessa
07/10/09

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So, what is most disturbing is the packed house. I confess sometimes I wish I could feel this elated about anything besides pizza. But only sometimes.

One day anthropologists will look back at footage such as this and ask "WTF was going on in that century?"
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queenieinmanhattan
07/10/09

@VanDessa: Salem Witch Trials? First and Second Great Awakenings? None of this charismatic stuff is new, not in the slightest. But, yes - I agree. It's fascinating stuff, anthropologically speaking.
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shorty63136
07/10/09

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It's an exercise in joy from the Holy Spirit. Seen it quite a few times in my own church. It's got a good chunk edited out so it's hard to see what was being talked about initially.
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LawFairy
07/10/09

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It's the power of the Holy Spirit! Can't you feel it??!

(No, seriously. These people actually believe that they are being filled with the Holy Spirit and that's why they act this way. Sadly, I have seen this in person).
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funnyface
07/10/09

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It's a Charismatic (like Pentecostal, Assemblies of God) thing. Sorta like being "slain in the spirit" aka falling down at a Benny Hinn event, or speaking in tongues-- they see the uncontrollable laughter as a sign of the Holy Spirit taking them over and giving them joy. (Though I grew up Presbyterian, and we don't go in for these shenanigans.)
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MizJenkins
07/10/09

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...the FUCK?!?!?!

The editors giveth and the editors taketh away. I'm going back to look at tutus again.
GAH!
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
07/10/09

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Why were there two guys holding up the pastor-guy? Maybe he was in his cups, and the congregation found this hilarious? I don't get it, and also I experienced a very strong fear response while watching. And the dude doing the worm, or whatever it was, made me feel like having a seizure. Actually the whole thing made me feel like having one. And FTR that is not an overstatement. Some things, like this video, make my brain run around in panicked circles with it's hands clutched to its face, going "Oh no! Oh No!! Oh NO!!!" And now it seems I can add "scary megachurch videos featuring members of the congregation doing the worm" to my list.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
07/10/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: well-said. I grew up in a Christian cult and this scares the shit out of me. I seriously have goosebumps and feel slightly nauseous after watching that.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
07/10/09

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oh hai, I has the willies.

we can has cute aminals now, plz?
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
07/10/09

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They are just praying to the Virgin Mary Jane.
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t-yo3
07/10/09

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Christ almighty, that was horrifying. It's kinda weird that a video of a bunch of people full of "joy" and laughing hysterically can make me so scared (almost typed "sacred") and sad.
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rhoswhen
07/10/09

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Quite frankly, this scares the crap out of me. WHY DID THOSE PEOPLE MELT OUT OF THEIR CHAIR!? Get them to a friggin hospital!!
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Dodgergirl
07/10/09

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I think somebody baked something "special" into the communion bread...
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wtfox?!
07/10/09

@Dodgergirl: Pot wafers! Then the entire congregation descended on the Taco Bell next door.
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Dodgergirl
07/10/09

@wtfox?!: This is probably why Anna N. posted this at 4:20
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wtfox?!
07/10/09

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I am going to do this from now on: Go up to people, cry "Joy! Joy! WOOOOOO!" at the top of my lungs and then hit them over the head.
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BabyJane
07/10/09

@wtfox?!: I'm shocked that you're not doing it already? Hop to it!
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wtfox?!
07/10/09

@BabyJane: Usually I just hit them over the top of the head without introduction, but the "Joy! Joy! WOOOOOO!" adds a little something, I think.
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BabyJane
07/10/09

@wtfox?!: It really does.
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KiddyKat
07/10/09

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I think they're all supposed to be possessed or in some hypnotic trance...maybe both.
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AnotherJenn
07/10/09

@KiddyKat: Kind of. It's a variant of being "slain in the spirit," which is when the Holy Spirit supposedly overwhelms you so much that you lose control of your body. It's basically just mass hysteria, obvs. It does look really freaky and I have a hard time understanding why it's supposed to be so great, but there you go.

No kidding- I visited a church once where someone passed out for real in the middle of the service and no one helped her for at least five minutes because they all thought she was just slain in the spirit. She's really suffered a sudden drop of blood pressure and got a bad concussion.
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foodandshoes
07/10/09

@AnotherJenn: Seconded on the mass hysteria. And then when you are one of those people who are not easily suggestible (I mean this in a hypnotism way, not to insinuate that faith communities are necessarily brainwashed) and you wind up at an Evangelical Bible Study camp and the children of the corn look askance at you because you aren't overcome by the spirit with wailing and crying and speaking in tongues and the like, that may be why you, as an adult, go to a very High Church Episcopalian Parish to get your weekly dose of Jesus without all of the theatrics and balderdash.

Although it wouldn't kill them to sing a hymn written after 1650.
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Lymed
07/10/09

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Does this mean LOL is religious?
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JennaW
07/10/09

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OMG! Did you see who that was? About half-way through the clip, Ted Haggard shows up. This may have been his church with a guest speaker or when he was a junior pastor.
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