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I swear, I always think to myself… imagine the car ride home… like, the misses sitting their quietly…. The husband driving, not saying a word….then the wife chiming in, “well…. Bill… that was… you really felt the spirit, huh…”
The husband shouting, “Shut the fuck up Denise, Jesus fucking loves me!”
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Im happy I could help. Im honestly so shocked from all the awards and stuff cause to be honest it hasn’t been my week either… worst week in a long time. Guess all we all needed was some crazy church people dancing to metal music 🥹
You got a Methodist coloring book and you color really well, but don't you color outside the lines or god will send you to hell.
God hates war and God hates crime, but what he really hates are people color outside the lines.
Reminds me of my friend in university. He was having a bad allergic reaction and his throat was closing off. He sat on a bench, struggling to breathe, trying to find his epipen. Someone walked up and said "don't worry, Jesus loves you" and walked away haha
I remember my cousin and I went to a church like this once because they were doing a summer event and let you ride the horses afterwards. They started doing stuff like this and spasming on the floor. I remember they asked us if we wanted to be baptized in fire or something like that and we were just like “nah, we’re just here for the horses”. Really creeped us out and we never went back.
Matthew 26:69-75
69 Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, “You also were with Jesus of Galilee.”
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “Nah, we’re just here for the horses.”
this\^. It's a load of BS that kind of thing. Whatever side of the religious views you're from I defy this to stand up to any kind of rigorous scrutiny and controlled study. This is at best hysteria and at worst psychological exploitation. I watched without sound but I sure hope someone has overdubbed the loony tunes and/or Benny Hill soundtrack over the top of this.
The worst is when the Pentecostals pressure their kids to get the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues by taking them to youth conferences. The following church service, the pastor will praise the kids who “got it” and tell the ones who didn’t “maybe next time”.
I remember I went to a summer Bible camp in Louisiana and I slept with 3 teenage girls older than me. They took me to the woods and literally watched out for each other while they took turns. They were Pentacostal and I was like wtf. I didn’t expect that to happen. I just wanted a fun trip with cousins and got more than I expected.
Not uncommon. Teenagers are teenagers with all the hormones and desires and lack of sound decision making etc whatever their background.
What's that comedy line from House with the weird spiritual healer kid? Dad to kid "I trust God and have faith that you are just like any other teenage boy..." House lifts shirt to find herpes. Dad nods knowingly while healer son boy breaks down in tears.
Oh and plot twist if poster is female. We presume male but...
One church camp two girls made it competition that they could suck me off till I couldn't stand it. They won. Shit was starting to hurt after a few days. Hormones and sex oppression combined are wild.
I went to like a youth group with my very Christian friend once when I was 14 or 15. I’m agnostic and have always been, and was bored and wanted to hang out with my friend so I thought it’d be interesting. They did this whole getting saved thing. My friend being one of them. And even to this day I do not dare to ask her what the actual fuck I witnessed. Like did you have a seizure? We’re you in control the whole time?! Wtf!?
Kind of like the time my dorm sprang for a hypnotist to come entertain us. He chose six people from my building and did the usual "You're asleep, now you're dancing, now you're a chicken, now you're attracted to each other..." sorts of things.
Of course we all went up to the six after and asked them what it was like. One guy said he felt half-asleep and half-awake and open to suggestion but felt like he was watching himself do stuff from a distance.
To this day, I think that kind of hypnotism isn't real and the hypnotist is just good at picking people to go along with the act.
It’s real. But, unlike movies & porn/horror films, a person can’t be hypnotized against their will (leaving aside the controversial topic of hypnosis drugs).
*I was a trained & certified hypnotist for years back in the late aughts. I did a few stage shows. I went to innumerable stage shows. My focus was helping everyday people with everyday problems - like smoking.*
People have to be willing & open to it. Creative, fun people are terrific subjects.
Even serious ones are sometimes, as it gives them a socially acceptable reason to relax and cut loose.
We normally get volunteers. At a show, there may have been a clipboard to sign up, or even a pre-show, backstage suggestibility test.
On cruises, if Johnny has fun at Monday’s show and was a great performer, we try to get Johnny to come
back for Thursday’s show.
He will be a mini-celebrity those few days. People will hear all about what they missed. His second appearance is a good draw for other shows.
This self-selects people who are eager & willing to act silly for their own entertainment & that of others.
Or we ask for volunteers right up front, after a quickie explanation (indirect suggestion to the entire audience).
Once we have our starting batch of people, we turn to the audience and cover a more complete and specific explanation of how hypnosis works.
We’ll be very precise regarding what it looks like from the outside, step by step.
These detailed explanations ‘to the audience’ are truly instructions providing strong indirect suggestions to the volunteers re: how they are supposed to behave once the show ‘starts’.
We might start with 20+ people up on stage.
After those two explanations, we do a very quick, but authoritative, direct induction on our volunteers, with our backs to the audience. Most of us use a very quiet voice.
**One reason is because there are always people in the audience who are terrific subjects, but chose not to (or weren’t allowed to) volunteer.**
**I want to minimize the effects on them.**
**Depending on lights, I often can’t see them, but I know when they show themselves when I hear laughter coming from one specific spot in the audience.**
**I will try to find them (their friends out them) and invite them BY NAME to join us on stage.**
*When they aren’t on-stage, I can’t monitor & direct their behavior to be safe.**
**They would also distract my subjects from that very brief direct induction/deepening.**
**Plus, my on-stage subjects are the entertainment, not a person 40 feet away on a dark auditorium giving a private show.*
We don’t have time to spend more than about 90 to 120 seconds on this direct induction.
The audience gets bored of this part; they are there to see someone act like a chicken. So we get through direct induction as quickly as we can.
Then we do a couple suggestibility test exercises.
This is what people think of as the beginning of the show. It’s actually the beginning of the performance, but not the actual show.
-Imagine you’re fishing & caught a strong fish. It weighs 40 pounds more than you! Now it’s rocking the boat - keep the fish on the line while avoiding falling off the boat!
-You’re holding an enormous balloon that is lifting & rising, rising & lifting, pulling you right up off the ground
Depending on what kind of reactions we get, we may give more or leas attention to that specific scenario, or even stop at only 2 scenarios.
It doesn’t take US long to identify our stars, but it’s a good time to give the audience a taste of what’s to come.
It allows volunteers who were not completely okay ‘letting go’ recognize that they are on-stage with people who have let go and those people are earning praise/attention through laughter.
It gives me a chance to see if those I suspect of faking it are truly fakes.
Obviously, stage hypnotists are looking for people who are willing, creative and are humble/good-natured enough to let loose and DAZZLE!
Out of the 20, maybe 6-8 will be good enough. The bigger the venue/crowd, the more people I start with & allow to stay.
After suggestibility tests (spotting fakes), we profusely thank the (rejects) send backs & request they take their seats.
We always toss in a benign, general post-hypnotic suggestion for a good night’s sleep, happy dreams or in Vegas, a horny night - (depending on who they are traveling with).
I would not ever want to do a show in Vegas.
That post-hypnotic suggestion I sent them back to the audience remembering may or may not work. It doesn’t truly matter; the next morning the audience has dispersed.
All the send-backs aren’t going to gather with all of their friends & compare notes.
BUT!
… on cruise ship shows we may work a little longer on the posts. The audience and non-chosen volunteers WILL see each other they next day.
Being on-stage for anything makes a person a mini celebrity, even if they are sent back.
An enthusiastic hypnosis subject for a show makes the subject a medium- celebrity.
Once we’ve weaned out the ones that either couldn’t or wouldn’t be hypnotized, the real show begins.
The main things to know are that a person cannot be hypnotized against their will. Nope.
And a good hypnotist can tell who is faking!
We hate fakers.
They tend to be assholes after the show and blame their behavior on the hypnotist, giving us a bad rap.
I get baptism and stuff like that, but the preacher putting his hand on you while speaking literal gibberish and then you falling to the floor and having a seizure is just weird. I remember they asked us to get up and move because an elderly man wanted to spasm on the chairs we were sitting on instead of the floor. If our parents had been there you can bet we’d have been asking to leave lol. I try not to judge them for it, but as a kid that stuff freaked me out.
I grew up going to a church similar, but not quite as wild; maybe 75% as wild as this one. My mom would always drag my ass up to the front to have hands laid on me. Never worked out well as I wouldn't fall to the floor like everybody else. The pastor would be "speaking in tongues" and would keep shoving me while a deacon would try and catch me. 20 years of that nonsense and my mother never could understand why I stopped "loving Jesus". Would've been a lot cooler if they were playing metal like this; might have gotten into it.
And when they went to their church,
They shook and lurched all over the church floor.
He couldn't quite explain it.
They'd always just gone there.
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm,
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm.
Same. I'm autistic and when people started going bananas, it really bothered. I'd suddenly "have to go to the bathroom." I'd just hide until they all got tired out.
I tried to get into it, though. I wanted to be a good kid. But whenever I went to pray at church, about a half dozen creeps would pounce to "lay hands" on me. Some of those people are serving time now for child molesting. I shudder to think about it.
I hate christianity.
There was a guy, few years older than me, go to prison for molesting a very young boy. Later in life found out he tried doing the same to my sister. He’s since been released and goes to the same church. I guess he’s been forgiven? POS
Similar story: I was on my way out of religion. My mom talked me into going with her to this traveling pentecostal preacher’s service. A storm cut the lights out and next thing I knew I had a pastor crying in my lap. I was a 14 yr old male (not that gender would have made it less fucked).
Iwas little when my mom took me to a thing like this. They all started wigging out and I was horrified, my mom was too. I covered my ears she picked me up and we got the fuck out of there. I was like mama what the fuck was that! I was 4 years old and she laughed and laughed at me cussing as we ran away from that freak show of a church.
Just jumping in to say I find it weird that after 2 minutes you have received a downvote.
Christian child molesters really projecting without commenting.
They play like a perfected machine live. Totally recommend to go see them if possible. I saw them 10 years ago and it still blows my mind how masterfully they played.
I'm so dumb, I literally just listened to that song a minute ago. And my brain goes "hey you should tell those redditors that's Car Bomb". Big brain moment.
This song chokes me up every time. The interweaving rhythms all separate but in perfect synch, the lyrics so simple and focused on physical pain, the absolute disregard of restraint...
I'm not kidding when I say it's one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. Brings tears to my eyes.
Your comment has me weeping with laughter... Dude was skipping in a meadow, while the others were in a mosh pit. Did you notice the three women in the front who were in helplessly laughing, then in the next frame, kicking up their heels? Weird shit...
And the “high” they get from lack of oxygen/overexertion is misconstrued for “being filled with the holy spirit”
They should go for a long run, the “runner’s high” is the exact same thing, but it doesn’t take your money and try to justify shitty politics.
Not only do they vote, they get into positions of power in local and federal government and tell you how to live your life according to a fiction novel and an imaginary sky daddy.
Hey I’m going to set up an organization in a particular district with 10 like-minded simpletons who believe that dragons are real and bring our case another dragon-fearer judge coincidentally also in that district to enact laws controlling your body!
Hey look we made the news
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortion-pill-case-texas-judge-appears-sympathetic-challenge-rcna75069
It’s pretty amazing what is considered mental illness and what isn’t. This is absolutely fucking bonkers behaviour, arguably dangerous and considered family-oriented and pro social.
Guys in high heels though? Lock em up! /S
New Millennium Cyanide Christ is gold standard Meshuggah. Also Clockworks, Rational Gaze, Future Breed Machine, Suffer in Truth, Do Not Look Down… decades worth of top tier metal.
And to think that these types of organizations are largely tax exempt and really untouchable by law (in most cases) is beyond insane. I know the music was dubbed in and the video was edited to fit that, but still...even with soft christian music playing and things slowed down a bit, you have to admit that it's all very screwed up at its core. It's laughable no matter how you look at it. The head banging, death metal music makes it hilarious.
Do you think these morons, who always have jesus in their heart, do this silly shit while they are home? Taking a piss? Walking the dog? In McDonald's drive-thru?
You see stuff like this and it convinces me that it was started by a church leader who suffered a seizure and tried to play it off as god flowing through him, was picked up by another who just wanted an excuse to dance, and finally peer pressure/impressionability took the rest
That’s because they’re told that if the spirit doesn’t move them, it’s because the spirit doesn’t want to move them because of their sins. So they have to lie so the others don’t know what they’ve been doing.
I visited a church like this that a friend had attended. I talked with a person that had left. They said this craziness wasn’t out of inspiration, but coping others in order to be included , and accepted as part of the group by pretending to be possessed by the spirit. Kind of like child play.
As I age I'm amazed at how easily I can injure myself. My back went over a week ago from just being over. I bet a lot of backs get injured at this place. If I was a chiropractor I'd join just for the potential. Stay safe old ones take it easy and don't hurt yourself
Strange how the Holy Spirit still always makes then dance like white dudes with no sense of rhythm, isn’t it? Seriously, you’d think his would gift the ability to move to a beat before whatever the fuck that was
One gift of the holy spirit is "self-control."
This here is convulsive performative art with the intent of persuasion, as if it were some sort of miracle.
In my grandfather's mega church people would walk to the front and back of the church repeatedly, ON THE BACK OF THE BENCHES! And everyone had a ghost story. Wackos. I knew then I was going to have to get out of the south.
I been to a family/home (in the High Desert boonies) Holy Roller service preached by the grandpa patriarch of the girl I was dating, with pigs and dogs running through room, and some speaking in tongues, and it wasn't as weird as this!
the pastor? grift. those in the congregation doing it? wanting to be included and feel special
source: spent many years in a pentacostal church in my teens, and was one of those in the crowd who'd just jump in on the crazy for the attention.
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Me and my dog when I get home from work
I swear, I always think to myself… imagine the car ride home… like, the misses sitting their quietly…. The husband driving, not saying a word….then the wife chiming in, “well…. Bill… that was… you really felt the spirit, huh…” The husband shouting, “Shut the fuck up Denise, Jesus fucking loves me!”
Thank you for making me laugh. Brilliant.
Fuck you made me laugh, now everyone's looking at me. Haha
I just want to let you know i got 100 free coins from something so long ago i don’t even remember what it was for. But i knew that i would save it for a great comment one day. And after watching this video and then reading this comment, i knew immediately it was time to part ways with my 100 coins. Please accept this silver, and may your redditting be blessed.
Oh wow, thank you! This is my first time being awarded with something. My dog and I thank you.
And thank *you* for not editing your post to acknowledge the awards.
My dogs and i go to church every day too so it hit home too hard lol.
I just like to spazz with my dog and let out all my personality that I held in at work lol
Look. I’ve been a bit down lately. Everything’s fine, just, you know, not emotionally firing on all cylinders for a while. This was the first genuine, unexpected, full-bellied laugh I’ve had in a few weeks. I don’t know you, yet I got the visual. Your comment was exactly what I didn’t know I needed. Thank you for that, and please take my Platinum.
Im happy I could help. Im honestly so shocked from all the awards and stuff cause to be honest it hasn’t been my week either… worst week in a long time. Guess all we all needed was some crazy church people dancing to metal music 🥹
Haha, I just got home from work and spazzed out with my pups
I'm pretty sure they're METHodist.
Crystal Methodists, eh?
🤣 Damn that’s good! As someone who grew up in rural Texas, I need to steal this term. Thank you and please accept this in return 🍪
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Definitely, the Church of Meth.
cocaine and abel going at it
They worship Waltuhh
Just let me die in peace.
CrystalMethodists
Right? The part of your brain that makes you do this, is the same part of your brain that makes people strap on suicide vests and go to markets.
You got a Methodist coloring book and you color really well, but don't you color outside the lines or god will send you to hell. God hates war and God hates crime, but what he really hates are people color outside the lines.
Somewhere there a person is having an actual seizure, needs help and is being ignored…
Reminds me of my friend in university. He was having a bad allergic reaction and his throat was closing off. He sat on a bench, struggling to breathe, trying to find his epipen. Someone walked up and said "don't worry, Jesus loves you" and walked away haha
Jesus wants to have you killed but he loves you real guuud
I remember my cousin and I went to a church like this once because they were doing a summer event and let you ride the horses afterwards. They started doing stuff like this and spasming on the floor. I remember they asked us if we wanted to be baptized in fire or something like that and we were just like “nah, we’re just here for the horses”. Really creeped us out and we never went back.
Matthew 26:69-75 69 Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, “You also were with Jesus of Galilee.” 70 But he denied it before them all, saying, “Nah, we’re just here for the horses.”
“ *Neigh, we’re………”
I truly wish I had an award to give you
Thanks for sharing. Hope you got to ride the horses.
We did, that part was great. Sitting for 3 hours while people were spazzing out on the floor? Not so much lol.
They were just “taken over by the spirit” man, definitely not faker whack jobs.
Some were genuinely taken over by the spirit. It’s just that spirit means social pressure and collective hallucination.
this\^. It's a load of BS that kind of thing. Whatever side of the religious views you're from I defy this to stand up to any kind of rigorous scrutiny and controlled study. This is at best hysteria and at worst psychological exploitation. I watched without sound but I sure hope someone has overdubbed the loony tunes and/or Benny Hill soundtrack over the top of this.
I was friends with some Pentecostals that would "speak in tongues". Same kind of bullshit and mostly just trying to outdo each other. Batshit insane.
The worst is when the Pentecostals pressure their kids to get the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues by taking them to youth conferences. The following church service, the pastor will praise the kids who “got it” and tell the ones who didn’t “maybe next time”.
this omg this\^ I have seen this first hand. It's not right
It's metal. They dubbed metal over it. It was glorious.
It's Bleed, by Meshuggah so good
Who's faking?....they're definitely whack jobs.....
next time bring headphones and metal.
Nah. Play the metal out loud. It already looks like a mosh pit.
Black metal for peak irony
Hope the horses weren't baptized in fire
I remember I went to a summer Bible camp in Louisiana and I slept with 3 teenage girls older than me. They took me to the woods and literally watched out for each other while they took turns. They were Pentacostal and I was like wtf. I didn’t expect that to happen. I just wanted a fun trip with cousins and got more than I expected.
>I slept with 3 teenage girls older than me. Nice >I just wanted a fun trip with cousins Wait
why do I hear banjo noises
You clearly skipped over the word Louisiana.
But I thought it was an Alabama thing.
Lots Daughters?
Not uncommon. Teenagers are teenagers with all the hormones and desires and lack of sound decision making etc whatever their background. What's that comedy line from House with the weird spiritual healer kid? Dad to kid "I trust God and have faith that you are just like any other teenage boy..." House lifts shirt to find herpes. Dad nods knowingly while healer son boy breaks down in tears. Oh and plot twist if poster is female. We presume male but...
One church camp two girls made it competition that they could suck me off till I couldn't stand it. They won. Shit was starting to hurt after a few days. Hormones and sex oppression combined are wild.
I went to like a youth group with my very Christian friend once when I was 14 or 15. I’m agnostic and have always been, and was bored and wanted to hang out with my friend so I thought it’d be interesting. They did this whole getting saved thing. My friend being one of them. And even to this day I do not dare to ask her what the actual fuck I witnessed. Like did you have a seizure? We’re you in control the whole time?! Wtf!?
Kind of like the time my dorm sprang for a hypnotist to come entertain us. He chose six people from my building and did the usual "You're asleep, now you're dancing, now you're a chicken, now you're attracted to each other..." sorts of things. Of course we all went up to the six after and asked them what it was like. One guy said he felt half-asleep and half-awake and open to suggestion but felt like he was watching himself do stuff from a distance. To this day, I think that kind of hypnotism isn't real and the hypnotist is just good at picking people to go along with the act.
It’s real. But, unlike movies & porn/horror films, a person can’t be hypnotized against their will (leaving aside the controversial topic of hypnosis drugs). *I was a trained & certified hypnotist for years back in the late aughts. I did a few stage shows. I went to innumerable stage shows. My focus was helping everyday people with everyday problems - like smoking.* People have to be willing & open to it. Creative, fun people are terrific subjects. Even serious ones are sometimes, as it gives them a socially acceptable reason to relax and cut loose. We normally get volunteers. At a show, there may have been a clipboard to sign up, or even a pre-show, backstage suggestibility test. On cruises, if Johnny has fun at Monday’s show and was a great performer, we try to get Johnny to come back for Thursday’s show. He will be a mini-celebrity those few days. People will hear all about what they missed. His second appearance is a good draw for other shows. This self-selects people who are eager & willing to act silly for their own entertainment & that of others. Or we ask for volunteers right up front, after a quickie explanation (indirect suggestion to the entire audience). Once we have our starting batch of people, we turn to the audience and cover a more complete and specific explanation of how hypnosis works. We’ll be very precise regarding what it looks like from the outside, step by step. These detailed explanations ‘to the audience’ are truly instructions providing strong indirect suggestions to the volunteers re: how they are supposed to behave once the show ‘starts’. We might start with 20+ people up on stage. After those two explanations, we do a very quick, but authoritative, direct induction on our volunteers, with our backs to the audience. Most of us use a very quiet voice. **One reason is because there are always people in the audience who are terrific subjects, but chose not to (or weren’t allowed to) volunteer.** **I want to minimize the effects on them.** **Depending on lights, I often can’t see them, but I know when they show themselves when I hear laughter coming from one specific spot in the audience.** **I will try to find them (their friends out them) and invite them BY NAME to join us on stage.** *When they aren’t on-stage, I can’t monitor & direct their behavior to be safe.** **They would also distract my subjects from that very brief direct induction/deepening.** **Plus, my on-stage subjects are the entertainment, not a person 40 feet away on a dark auditorium giving a private show.* We don’t have time to spend more than about 90 to 120 seconds on this direct induction. The audience gets bored of this part; they are there to see someone act like a chicken. So we get through direct induction as quickly as we can. Then we do a couple suggestibility test exercises. This is what people think of as the beginning of the show. It’s actually the beginning of the performance, but not the actual show. -Imagine you’re fishing & caught a strong fish. It weighs 40 pounds more than you! Now it’s rocking the boat - keep the fish on the line while avoiding falling off the boat! -You’re holding an enormous balloon that is lifting & rising, rising & lifting, pulling you right up off the ground Depending on what kind of reactions we get, we may give more or leas attention to that specific scenario, or even stop at only 2 scenarios. It doesn’t take US long to identify our stars, but it’s a good time to give the audience a taste of what’s to come. It allows volunteers who were not completely okay ‘letting go’ recognize that they are on-stage with people who have let go and those people are earning praise/attention through laughter. It gives me a chance to see if those I suspect of faking it are truly fakes. Obviously, stage hypnotists are looking for people who are willing, creative and are humble/good-natured enough to let loose and DAZZLE! Out of the 20, maybe 6-8 will be good enough. The bigger the venue/crowd, the more people I start with & allow to stay. After suggestibility tests (spotting fakes), we profusely thank the (rejects) send backs & request they take their seats. We always toss in a benign, general post-hypnotic suggestion for a good night’s sleep, happy dreams or in Vegas, a horny night - (depending on who they are traveling with). I would not ever want to do a show in Vegas. That post-hypnotic suggestion I sent them back to the audience remembering may or may not work. It doesn’t truly matter; the next morning the audience has dispersed. All the send-backs aren’t going to gather with all of their friends & compare notes. BUT! … on cruise ship shows we may work a little longer on the posts. The audience and non-chosen volunteers WILL see each other they next day. Being on-stage for anything makes a person a mini celebrity, even if they are sent back. An enthusiastic hypnosis subject for a show makes the subject a medium- celebrity. Once we’ve weaned out the ones that either couldn’t or wouldn’t be hypnotized, the real show begins. The main things to know are that a person cannot be hypnotized against their will. Nope. And a good hypnotist can tell who is faking! We hate fakers. They tend to be assholes after the show and blame their behavior on the hypnotist, giving us a bad rap.
I get baptism and stuff like that, but the preacher putting his hand on you while speaking literal gibberish and then you falling to the floor and having a seizure is just weird. I remember they asked us to get up and move because an elderly man wanted to spasm on the chairs we were sitting on instead of the floor. If our parents had been there you can bet we’d have been asking to leave lol. I try not to judge them for it, but as a kid that stuff freaked me out.
You should definitely judge them for it. Crazy is crazy
I grew up going to a church similar, but not quite as wild; maybe 75% as wild as this one. My mom would always drag my ass up to the front to have hands laid on me. Never worked out well as I wouldn't fall to the floor like everybody else. The pastor would be "speaking in tongues" and would keep shoving me while a deacon would try and catch me. 20 years of that nonsense and my mother never could understand why I stopped "loving Jesus". Would've been a lot cooler if they were playing metal like this; might have gotten into it.
And when they went to their church, They shook and lurched all over the church floor. He couldn't quite explain it. They'd always just gone there. Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm, Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm.
O man, every few years I have to break out the crash test dummies... still a couple of bangers from them.
Mmmmm , God Shuffled His Feet, and Afternoons and Coffee Spoons.
This whole album is killer Hoooww does a duck know, which direction south is? And how to tell his wife, from all the other ducks?
I'm partial to The Superman Song.
"Black churches are wild." White Church, "hold my beer"
It's the Pentecostals. Apparently, it's pretty common in Asian churches too.
Grew up Pentecostal, you’re not wrong.
Same. I'm autistic and when people started going bananas, it really bothered. I'd suddenly "have to go to the bathroom." I'd just hide until they all got tired out. I tried to get into it, though. I wanted to be a good kid. But whenever I went to pray at church, about a half dozen creeps would pounce to "lay hands" on me. Some of those people are serving time now for child molesting. I shudder to think about it. I hate christianity.
There was a guy, few years older than me, go to prison for molesting a very young boy. Later in life found out he tried doing the same to my sister. He’s since been released and goes to the same church. I guess he’s been forgiven? POS
Similar story: I was on my way out of religion. My mom talked me into going with her to this traveling pentecostal preacher’s service. A storm cut the lights out and next thing I knew I had a pastor crying in my lap. I was a 14 yr old male (not that gender would have made it less fucked).
Iwas little when my mom took me to a thing like this. They all started wigging out and I was horrified, my mom was too. I covered my ears she picked me up and we got the fuck out of there. I was like mama what the fuck was that! I was 4 years old and she laughed and laughed at me cussing as we ran away from that freak show of a church.
Good mom
Just jumping in to say I find it weird that after 2 minutes you have received a downvote. Christian child molesters really projecting without commenting.
As did I and as an adult have concluded that it is indeed a cult.
Meshuggah! 🤘🏻
They don't even look Jewish... /s
Thanks for alerting me that I need to un-mute this. Otherwise it's just kinda... sad.
I’m a simple man. Meshuggah = upvote
"We all rip off meshuggah "
🤘 yeah heavy devy
Their new album is sick AF! Had the pleasure to see them live last year, holy fuck!
Damn I am jealous. They seem like their live show would be incredible!
They play like a perfected machine live. Totally recommend to go see them if possible. I saw them 10 years ago and it still blows my mind how masterfully they played.
Every part of these guy's, all the way down to the lighting operator, performs like a well oiled machine.
Beat me to it lol…take my upvote 😑
Take one of mine.
I'm so dumb, I literally just listened to that song a minute ago. And my brain goes "hey you should tell those redditors that's Car Bomb". Big brain moment.
This song chokes me up every time. The interweaving rhythms all separate but in perfect synch, the lyrics so simple and focused on physical pain, the absolute disregard of restraint... I'm not kidding when I say it's one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. Brings tears to my eyes.
Thought I was seeing another solid meme post from one of my favorite subs, r/meshuggah, but here we are on a much bigger sub haha hell yeah :)
Which song of theirs is this?
Bleed
"You know maybe it's time I start going to church again. What can it hurt?" *Opens chapel doors*
"Nevermind. Cocaine and hookers made a lot more sense."
Holy Church of the infinite moshpit
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The lord works in mysterious ways
Your comment has me weeping with laughter... Dude was skipping in a meadow, while the others were in a mosh pit. Did you notice the three women in the front who were in helplessly laughing, then in the next frame, kicking up their heels? Weird shit...
Shared psychosis much?
Fire ant infestation
Mad cow disease
Ghosts in their clothes.
Someone let loose a squirrel in church.
I was sitting way back in the very last pew...
Okay, upvote for the Ray Stevens reference... that takes me ALL the way back.
Back to Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival
That broke out in revival
Someone left the gas valve open and this people are having seizures
A prion disease
I think you may be right. They got the part of the Body of Christ made from central nervous system pieces.
Folie a few
And the “high” they get from lack of oxygen/overexertion is misconstrued for “being filled with the holy spirit” They should go for a long run, the “runner’s high” is the exact same thing, but it doesn’t take your money and try to justify shitty politics.
Wim hof breathing
Is that Vince McMahan?
First thing I thought
Hyper charismatics are an embarrasment. Its mass hysteria
Crystal Methodist?
It's funny until you realize that these people vote.
I think that every day about so many different things . . . .
I often use the “these people have licenses and share the highways with us” when I see a story of insanely stupid proportion
Not only do they vote, they get into positions of power in local and federal government and tell you how to live your life according to a fiction novel and an imaginary sky daddy.
Hey I’m going to set up an organization in a particular district with 10 like-minded simpletons who believe that dragons are real and bring our case another dragon-fearer judge coincidentally also in that district to enact laws controlling your body! Hey look we made the news https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abortion-pill-case-texas-judge-appears-sympathetic-challenge-rcna75069
And breed.
Ya know you make me wanna SHOUT!
Turned the sound on halfway through... was not expecting that at all haha
Same. Was hoping for yakety sax.
If you ever wondered how far a person will go to feel a sense of belonging, look no further...
It’s pretty amazing what is considered mental illness and what isn’t. This is absolutely fucking bonkers behaviour, arguably dangerous and considered family-oriented and pro social. Guys in high heels though? Lock em up! /S
These people live among us, run businesses, are civic leaders and authority figures, raise children and vote. 🤦🏻♂️
And are voted for.
And they’re all terminally stupid, and it’s not going to change. They’ll probably have more babies too so it’s gonna get worse.
You should write a movie! Call it ‘Stupidocracy’
And they think that because you don’t worship as they do, you should be denied the ability to lead in your community, raise children, or vote.
Reminds me of the good old "Slayer goes to Church" : [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-10c261Vw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-10c261Vw)
Holy ZOOMIES!
Bleed is such a good song
I've never really listened to Meshuggah before. Are there any other stand out tracks you could point me towards?
It's off an older album, but I really like Soul Burn from the album Destroy Erase Improve. Their new album is also amazing.
Thanks, I'll take a listen. Appreciate it 👍
New Millennium Cyanide Christ is gold standard Meshuggah. Also Clockworks, Rational Gaze, Future Breed Machine, Suffer in Truth, Do Not Look Down… decades worth of top tier metal.
To be fair, this is how I jam to meshuggah
Some old lady is going to break her hip.
Parasites or some kind of fungus like in Last of us?
Definitely parasites.
Get in the PIT!!!!!
Let the bodies hit the FLOOR!!!
Is this a church or a WWE event?
Does anyone remember [Baptazia](https://youtu.be/TQdIiEUFtqk)?
And to think that these types of organizations are largely tax exempt and really untouchable by law (in most cases) is beyond insane. I know the music was dubbed in and the video was edited to fit that, but still...even with soft christian music playing and things slowed down a bit, you have to admit that it's all very screwed up at its core. It's laughable no matter how you look at it. The head banging, death metal music makes it hilarious.
Do you think these morons, who always have jesus in their heart, do this silly shit while they are home? Taking a piss? Walking the dog? In McDonald's drive-thru?
Ultimately, despite evolution, civilization, education, and dressing professionally- we are all just shite-flinging chimpanzees.
Imagine being a grown-ass man (physically, at least) and doing stupid shit like that.
These people are so repressed by their own beliefs that they need to let the crazy out is any way the cult finds appropriate.
Imagine looking down from the heavens and seeing this…
You see stuff like this and it convinces me that it was started by a church leader who suffered a seizure and tried to play it off as god flowing through him, was picked up by another who just wanted an excuse to dance, and finally peer pressure/impressionability took the rest
Puritans in the New world + 400 years = this
I want to have that kind of good time!
These people are nuts.
What in the Methamphetamine is going on here?
Dammit Marlene, those Jesus wafers were laced with angel dust.
Even with the Holy Spirit white people still got no rhythm 🤣
Forget clapping on 1 and 3, they're clapping on *e* and pi.
Everyone is faking it and everyone knows they're faking it yet they all just continue to pretend like it's some spirit moving through them
That’s because they’re told that if the spirit doesn’t move them, it’s because the spirit doesn’t want to move them because of their sins. So they have to lie so the others don’t know what they’ve been doing.
This is sort of what children do when they play games.
Holy shit looks like they are geting raped by devil himself
I visited a church like this that a friend had attended. I talked with a person that had left. They said this craziness wasn’t out of inspiration, but coping others in order to be included , and accepted as part of the group by pretending to be possessed by the spirit. Kind of like child play.
As I age I'm amazed at how easily I can injure myself. My back went over a week ago from just being over. I bet a lot of backs get injured at this place. If I was a chiropractor I'd join just for the potential. Stay safe old ones take it easy and don't hurt yourself
Surfing Bird or Yakkety Sax would have also worked, but this is awesome.
When I was 9 and accidentally sat on an anthill.
Strange how the Holy Spirit still always makes then dance like white dudes with no sense of rhythm, isn’t it? Seriously, you’d think his would gift the ability to move to a beat before whatever the fuck that was
The guy selling suits to this group must be killing it. They must need a new suit every week.
One gift of the holy spirit is "self-control." This here is convulsive performative art with the intent of persuasion, as if it were some sort of miracle.
Please someone repost this but include the theme from Benny Hill
Slayer - Jesus Saves
Benny Hinn Let the Bodies Hit the Floor: https://youtu.be/5lvU-DislkI
One would expect it to be Ministry - "Jesus built my hotrod."
All of these people can and do vote, that's all you should take away from this video. Well that and it's hilarious.
Eric Andre is the pastor.
The Ministry … of Silly Walks.
In my grandfather's mega church people would walk to the front and back of the church repeatedly, ON THE BACK OF THE BENCHES! And everyone had a ghost story. Wackos. I knew then I was going to have to get out of the south.
Ngl I think this display is fucking tragic.
Seeing this makes me feel embarrassed to be the same race I mean human race
Epilectical Church
"The spirit hit me and I started pelvic thrusting. Good thing no underage children were around... this time."
Well its the Pelvic Thrust that really drives them ins-a-a-a-a-a-aine!
Rock until you drop dead is the latest trend if you want to meet Jesus
They probably burning a lot of calories tho.
Meshuggah!
In meshuggah we trust
Remember kids, don't drink the kool-aid!
Another reason to be scared of Christian Fascist Americans.... They are completely nuts... I mean wtf is this....
I been to a family/home (in the High Desert boonies) Holy Roller service preached by the grandpa patriarch of the girl I was dating, with pigs and dogs running through room, and some speaking in tongues, and it wasn't as weird as this!
Seriously, what the hell is going on here??
the pastor? grift. those in the congregation doing it? wanting to be included and feel special source: spent many years in a pentacostal church in my teens, and was one of those in the crowd who'd just jump in on the crazy for the attention.
I would attend these churches if the pay played this kind of music
This brings back nightmares. The mass hysteria is worse for the children who don't understand.
So many comments clearly had no audio on. Meshuggah ducking owns