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03-05-2009 , 06:12 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC3rgurhqmg&e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ4WOOceGis&e

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03-05-2009 , 06:20 PM

Bulletproof Monk

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its essentially a drug festival without drugs

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03-05-2009 , 06:36 PM

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omg just got to the cellphone bit... so awesome rofl

all - watch til the end of the second vid

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03-05-2009 , 06:37 PM

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these are incredibly entertaining/disturbing to me

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03-05-2009 , 07:23 PM

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There was an interesting BBC documentary a few years ago where they looked at faith healers. They showed the people getting "healed" at the services. Then, when the adrenaline went away, their symptoms would come back, sometimes worse because they exacerbated the symptoms when they thought they were healed.

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03-05-2009 , 10:24 PM

bluesbassman

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The girl who has an orgasm at about 4:50 into the first video made me camed.

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03-05-2009 , 10:40 PM

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Any idea what it was called?

I advise everyone here to check out James Randi's YouTube videos. He is best known for exposing faith healers, most notoriously Peter Popoff, who was fed information about crowd members by his wife backstage. He had a British show in the early 90s that invited the professors of all matter of new age claims to be tested (where they basically all failed).

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03-05-2009 , 11:16 PM

devilset666

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[ x ] mass hysteria

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03-05-2009 , 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by bluesbassman

The girl who has an orgasm at about 4:50 into the first video made me camed.

i got a semi, not gonna lie to your guys

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03-05-2009 , 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by devilset666

[ x ] mass hysteria

ICWUDT

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03-05-2009 , 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by kurto

There was an interesting BBC documentary a few years ago where they looked at faith healers.

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Originally Posted by Autocratic

Any idea what it was called?

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03-05-2009 , 11:56 PM

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LORD HEAL THESE PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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03-06-2009 , 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by rizeagainst

LORD HEAL THESE PPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE

fixed

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03-06-2009 , 12:41 AM

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A video about James Randi busting up the faith healer scams a little bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo

His other videos are great if you like psychics and their ilk getting pwned.

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03-06-2009 , 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by rizeagainst

these are incredibly entertaining/disturbing to me

Same, I dont think I've ever 'WTF'd so hard in my life.

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03-06-2009 , 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Autocratic

A video about James Randi busting up the faith healer scams a little bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo

His other videos are great if you like psychics and their ilk getting pwned.

James Randi rules

the vids in the OP are so ******ed I can't actually watch them

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03-06-2009 , 01:29 AM

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Marwan

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I don't have a cellphone

, can I get blitzed using my home phone instead?

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03-06-2009 , 02:01 AM

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i just cant watch this stuff. it hurts

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03-06-2009 , 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Autocratic

A video about James Randi busting up the faith healer scams a little bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo

His other videos are great if you like psychics and their ilk getting pwned.

i love his total pwnage on the Tonight Show...how could anyone believe his bs after this.

"I dont feel strong tonight." lol

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03-06-2009 , 02:21 AM

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"Yes, we heal terminally ill people!"

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03-06-2009 , 02:42 AM

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good videos. I like the snake handlers the best.

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03-06-2009 , 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Autocratic

Any idea what it was called?

I found it. Though it was produced by HBO. It is called "A Question of Miracles" directed by Antony Thomas.

Here's some interesting excerpts from some reviews of the program:

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But viewers expecting an ugly expose - complete with hidden earphones, "spotters" up in the wings and actors faking their infirmities - will be disappointed by "A Question of Miracles." For one thing, Thomas essentially accepts what we see on camera: that the people on stage are genuinely ill. After touching the healer, nearly all of them respond ecstatically (Hinn's subjects often faint away, having been "slain in the spirit"). Later, they proclaim that they have been cured. More remarkable, reports Thomas, is that the majority of those interviewed several weeks later continued to believe that God had healed them - though the producers interviewed their doctors and in every instance the seekers' physical problems remained. .....

Here, technicians demonstrate how they are able to lead volunteer subjects into intense religious experience - without any religious content at all. "Neuroscience," Thomas contends, "not only offers an explanation for the vision of the faith healers, but for everything happening in the minds of their followers at every stage of a faith-healing event." And they can, they claim, reproduce it in the lab.

Cribbed from http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2..._of_mirac.html

And the part that I remember striking me the most...

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Among the devotees who sought a miracle from Hinn that evening was 10 year old immigrant Ashnil Prakash, afflicted with two brain tumors. Although his impoverished parents pledge thousands of dollars to Hinn, Prakash dies seven weeks after the Portland event.”

An interview with Prakash’s mother and father following his death shows the parents continued an undeterred allegiance to the faith healer. As the couple discuss their child’s succumbing to the tumors, no allusion of any measure is expressed of Hinn being culpable of perpetuating false hope. The couple sees themselves, not Hinn, as a possible cause that their son did not receive a healing. The father suggests his son’s death may be a result of generational curses or sin of either himself or his father. When the HBO interviewer asked where he arrived at such a notion, the father responded, “Pastor Benny.”

(taken from http://www.pfo.org/hinnhbo.htm)

What I remember was the sad christian faithfuls... who when their healings didn't work (and in the case of the family above, their child dies (I beleive after the parents stop medical treatment) they blame themselves for not being faithful enough. All encouraged by the preachers, of course.

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03-06-2009 , 02:36 PM

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What I remember was the sad christian faithfuls... who when their healings didn't work (and in the case of the family above, their child dies (I beleive after the parents stop medical treatment) they blame themselves for not being faithful enough.

so disgusting. you'd think these charlatans would feel a twinge of guilt at some point, but they never do (atleast not until their indicted.)

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