EPTUncontrollable Shaking - Page 2
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Lucktar
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On May 24 2009 11:15 floor exercise wrote: I see I'm not the only one who immediately had an image of Inc shaking his gf with the ferocity of a paint mixer I fucking rofl'd. Well done, sir. | ||
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PH
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In some youth conference thing (that was actually pretty fun, even despite my cynicism and growing disillusionment at the time), there was a point where there was some prayer session thing that was pretty interesting. Anyway, it got pretty intense (not in like the Jesus camp way, but like just in the atmosphere and your level of emotional involvement), and weird shit started happening. The whole shaking thing happened to various people, as well as LEGIT speaking in tongues, including several people whom I knew very well at the time. NONE of them were the types that would bullshit. I really can't and won't say whether it was truly God or if it were a product of the intensity of the stadium at that moment, but in any case, this kind of thing very definitely happens. It's also BS'd a lot, and I've seen that quite commonly as well. At one point (I think two years ago?) I was at some retreat (I was at a low point in my spiritual/religious life)...I hadn't even signed up for this. Basically as soon as I came back home from college for the summer, my mom said she'd signed me up for a retreat and had already paid the registration/expenses fee...so I had no choice but to go. They had a session thing where they would try to get you to speak in tongues or whatever...it was reeaaally interesting. Once again, the people in the room with were mostly people I either knew from before, or had gotten to know reasonably well over the course of the retreat...and none were the types that would BS this kind of thing; they were the types I could talk to and share stories about partying, drinking, drugs, rock music (lol jk), whatever other vices...blah blah blah. One girl started singing...like just notes (no words), but it was very fucking eerie...for the rest of the night, after that, she would randomly start singing without restraint, and unable to control that shit. It was weird. Dudes who were in similar situations as me (forced to come, or guilt tripped by the nuns (the Korean nuns in my area are the nicest and most generous people you will meet...you just can't ever say not to them)), and who had the "too cool" state of mind started doing the whole tongues thing. One thing I noticed was that no two people really sound alike when they do that. It's generally considered to be abstract prayer...worshiping without words, in a sense. Once again, whether it's brought about by God, or whether it's a consequence of intense emotional involvement at that moment is something I'm not sure about myself. As for me, the retreat had been quite a refresher, in religious terms. I was excited about being a Catholic for the first time in a while, and I was looking forward to that. I really tried my very hardest in that prayer session thing, and nothing ended up happening...apparently I collapsed or something: I had been sitting at one point, then found myself on the ground with someone placing a pillow underneath my head. I don't know to this day what happened. Anyway, these are only two of several experiences I've had with such things. I don't consider myself a Catholic, or even a Christian now, but those and like experiences aren't something I can just forget and sweep under the rug. I've been witness to many situations where such occurrences were obviously fake and/or bullshitted, but I assure you, those two I wrote about above were fucking real. I consider myself an agnostic, right now (I don't think you can either prove or disprove a god entity), but still...those are trippy experiences to look back on. EDIT WOW, that's a long post...I hope it doesn't come across as preachy. I just don't want this type of shit to be immediately brushed off as fake shit that only super-hardcore jesus freaks do. | ||
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EsX_Raptor
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And I agree with you, sometimes it is real. But I'm thinking that the shaking and shit is something else. My faith in God increased one day when I was very young, and ironically, it wasn't from an act of God himself. I had a set of stolen by me Yu-Gi-Oh cards stacked and stored on top of my closet. I was the only person in the house throughout the 5 years I lived in it that could get up there. One day I started noticing that the cards were exactly as I left them, except for the fact that they were shuffled. Everyday. I even once took a specific card and placed it on top of the stack, by the next day that same exact card it was in the middle. I took that shit and threw it away in my neighbor's trashcan. Since then, I believe that Satan exists, and if he does, so must God. This is a true story. | ||
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Speake
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ima go check that out | ||
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PH
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On May 24 2009 13:05 unSpeake wrote: I remember reading a really interesting article about the body basically "losing control" in certain situations. Another scenario described in the article was about how religious folks cause people to pass out with hand touches or things of that sort. It seemed to boil down to self-induced hypnosis. I can't seem to find the article but if you're really curious search something like "religious hypnosis" Yeah, that's probably the best explanation. I still think there's something beyond the purely natural that is responsible for it. It would take a powerful amount of mental energy to be able to do that, after all. | ||
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Foucault
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lol me too floor exercise busts out some neat one liners | ||
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