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Creepiest video ever…ok maybe today.
Oh, the suspense! I couldn’t even tell, until about :08 or :09 what book she was talking about. The Bible? Get out of here. And her emotional intensity just draws you in and keeps you there. I could watch this all day.
Just the suspense that just maybe it wouldn’t, couldn’t possibly be THAT book, kept me so drawn in especially by all her charisma, charm and exuberance. I thought maybe, just maybe this was an excerpt from “the Blair Witch Project III”. In the end, I felt so utterly let down to find out she was talking about “Eternity for Dummies”!
A very special book to introduce you to a very special friend – for people who don’t have real ones.
“…help prepare you for death…” – Um…. Hate to tell you this, but that’s something that’s gonna happen to you one day, ready or not. Preparation isn’t going to make much difference!
By “prepare” she means “scare the shit out of you no matter what you do because you’re going to hell because you can’t satisfy an all-perfect creator because humans are deplorable, you included, so you’re going to hell no matter what you do when you die.”
Bonus points if she’s a mormon, because their heaven only has limited space.
She doesn’t appear to be Mormon–there’s a link to her website in the info tab over on YouTube. From what I can tell, she’s “Penecostal”(her spelling, not mine).
penecostal. Is that a new one?
Pennecostal? FSM prepares her for death?
Not really true. Jehovah’s Witnesses are the ones with limited heavenly space. Mormons believe in three tiers of heaven (terrestial, telestial and celestial), as well as “outer darkness” (not hell). Outer darkness is where, I believe, adulterers, murderers and deniers of Christ end up.
The celestial kingdom is for temple-worthy, good and faithful mormons (although temple-worthy, good and faithful mormon men who never married are ineligible for celestial glories). This is the kingdom where you sit on the right hand of god and can eventually progress to become a god. There are mansions and glory and blah blah blah.
The telestial kingdom is one tier down. All those who were good and righteous (but not mormon), or all those mormons who accepted the truth but didn’t stay on the straight and narrow (weren’t temple-worthy, faithful and active members) end up here. There are mansions and glory and blah blah blah, but no sitting on the right hand of god or progressing to godhood. Maybe god visits, I don’t know. Supposedly there is visiting between the tiers for celestial beings (in case a loved one ended up in the terrestial or telestial kingdom), but those in the terrestial and telestial don’t remember their earthly life. So they wouldn’t remember those celestial siblings or spouses.
The terrestial (from what I could gather) is pretty much exactly like the telestial, but with a different class of people — thieves, rapists, the unkind, unfaithful and unholy. The type of people other religions shuffle into hell, but mormons shuffle into segregated heaven.
It’s all made up fantasy regardless, but you were technically wrong that mormon’s have a limited space in heaven.
I think I may have flipped the terrestial and telestial. I always do that.
She doesn’t seem real excited about the Good News. I bet she isn’t that fun in the sack either.
She uses words I don’t know the meaning of. What is “holy?” She mentions “sin” too. These are concepts I’m not familiar with. These foreign words sound like they belong to a cult.
She plagiarized from the Gideons Bible, when she said it tell about “the doom of sinners.” Also, she should know that its Revelation, not Revelations. Even a good ol’ agnostic like myself knows these things.
Well – that settles it then.
One – she’s a lousy bookseller
Two – all the promises are for her – so none left for me.
Three – an eternity with her? As spunky, lively and endearing as she is? NOT! No way. I probably would look for something to commit suicide with, within the first 10 minutes of THAT eternity.
She’d be more fun than eternity spent with Patsy Robertson and Jizzy Swaggart! But not by much!
Wow that lady needs to chill the frick out!!
A very special book of perpetual lies.
It is not a book of lies, it is the people who read the book, don’t follow anything in it and then beat up their unbelieving neighbours with the book just because they don’t believe in what it says. When they open the book and tell people how to live by it, while the whole time not following it, they are not only hypocrites but also liars.
She went from “a special friend” to “sinners will be DOOMED!” Yeah, a very special book, indeed. Who is this crackhead?
His name shall be called Christianity.
Boy, up until about 1:39 I was on the edge of my seat as to exactly WHAT book she was talking about. What a cliff-hanger!
The bible is a self help book? Jesus died for us? Nonsense!
The second book should be called: How to get crucified in 10 easy steps before you get 34.
Oh, THAT book! I can see the joy in her face at telling people about THAT book! What’s her problem…..a massive yeast infection? She appears as one who has NEVER experienced an orgasm! If she were reciting Shakespeare, as she does “god’s word”, she’d be BOOed of the stage. Loosen up lady and get a life!
As for finding friends, there’s nothing better than Facebook. I wonder if we can find Jesus’ page, and not the one DONE for him. After all if God is powerful enough to cause oil spills, he must certainly be able to create a Facebook page just for his DEAD son! The only good thing about THAT book is that it makes great kindling for a wienie roast….just don’t forget the marshmallows!
So Michael, what’s the difference, where’s the contrast of natures between ‘you’ and ‘them’, really? I’ve been reading your numerous comments for some time now w/o responding. I value each and every persons journey in this life, yours included and love to see the ‘formation’ occurring, was hoping to see and hear something (someOne) different in you but I can not tell you apart, your nature and tone is the very same. You talk like an unbeliever, you’re cynical, sarcastic and demeaning (what other conclusion could possibly be drawn from your numerous comments in agreement with ‘them’ as you ridicule those attempting to ‘live by faith and not by sight’?).
You even dis-believe the very things that they dis-believe about ’scripture’ calling it pointless. Sure, you’ve asssumed various titles, ie ‘gnostic’ and ’spirit-filled’ but those are just that, mere titles, it means nothing w.o a transformed nature, is mere ‘religion’. And while its true that many of the ‘desert fathers’ were mystics, gnosticism (in its true essence, which is a falsehood) by its holding to an ‘imperfect Being’ in duality is not ‘in the (singular) Way’ of Christ, is actually devoid of Truth (Himself) and will keep you wandering in the desert of human reasoning in perpetuity-if you allow it to.
So where is the distinction friend? Christ always brings a separation (then a restoration) and manifests a wholly (and holy) disparate nature resulting in a discernible contrast.
The only thing different is that you acknowledge the realm of Spirit (at least textually via this medium). You do not however, abide there in it, instead you live ‘from’ the very same aspect of your being (the soulical) that ‘they’ do, that being the Self. If you’re trying to ‘fit in’ here you can forget it so long as you acknowledge the existence of the realm of Spirit, that is what the earthly man is ADAMantly opposed to, utterly rejects.
Where has your journey taken you Michael, seriously? Would you be willing to discard the old country (as Abraham) and ‘journey’ with God to a ‘new land’ that He promises to reveal to you, in you? I wish you all the very best and, contrary to your thinking am your biggest supporter here because you obviously desire to ‘journey’, to live by an unseen reality (ie the truth) but have not yet ‘arrived’ (not that I have fully arrived either by any means) no, I am no ‘better’ than you, only ‘different’ yet that difference makes all the difference…in the world.
What if there were ‘another Way’? Warmest regards in truth, in love, in candor to a fellow traveler in time.
I believe michael has gone pretty far on the journey, maybe even farther than you!
That’s because his journey (so far) has taken him to the same place where you’re at.
I think that’s just your lousy perspective. Jesus told you your opinions, I think michael knows he’s found what you’ve found in his own way, because that’s how finding jesus tends to work. He just says it differently in words you don’t like, he’s not soft like you are. Doesn’t make it any less of a battle of wackaloons all up in here.
Nasty, aren’t they? You won’t find any respect or consideration from these folks. They are as loving as the religion they so very despise. I wonder, if they got hold of the minds of this world as the religionists have, would they be just as ruthless in stamping out all free thought? They are far too closed minded to any possibilities of any kind of spirituality. The acts of love, respect and consideration are in fact a spiritual act and they can not be established by mere words. Give them a break and lets hope they grow up…..spiritually!
Gnostic fight?
We don’t know.
…and we don’t care.
… other than for pure morbid curiosity! :D
JC: “realm of Spirit” lol – please define what the word “realm” is to you. Is it a place? Is it the same as the soulish realm you spoke of awhile back? You and your “realms” and “unseen reality” I’m sorry but you really sound crazy when you start talking about realms and unseen reality. You could probably write an Epistle to the Americans as Paul has completely brainwashed you.
Regarding this woman – the worst thing a believer could do is read her book – the bible! Doubts might start creeping in when they get to the part where God pays off a victorious battle tribe with virgins and gold shekels.
I recommend all Christians buy a telescope, look at the Andromeda galaxy, contemplate the trillions of life forms that must be just in that one single galaxy, then read the bible.
One of my greatest faults is trying to put into words exactly what I feel. Spirituality can not be expressed in words to the same degree it is lived. Perhaps my words are more corporeal than I’d wish, but how else could I put my thoughts across to people. I apologize if it sounds like I’m proselitizing…..I hope I am not. Still, there IS another way and from my experience of over 30 years, it is an intensely private and solitary journey to discover the eternal spirit. Until discovering this blog only recently, I have kept silent to every one I know. I do NOT pray in public (not even to say “grace” at the dinner table) nor do I allow anyone to know anything about my spiritual quest. I think that in commenting on this blog, I have stumbled into a hornet’s nest and I really should have not bothered to in the first place. All I did want to do is open up the mind to the possibilties of a spiritual dimension to our human existence. Religion belongs to our physical existence and it is this that I abhor. I first started out wanting to get to know the Eternal that existed outside of this corporeal universe. As was said in the Gospel of Thomas: “The kingdom is within and without”. Whether or not you choose to believe what I say, I have found the Eternal. I didn’t create it……it has made me(spiritually). There is more to this life than following a bunch of rules, breaking one of them and then being eternally punished for doing so! I know it has been said far too much but God is Love. But not any god this world has ever conjured up. I’ll tell you something said to me by the Eternal: “don’t look for me in this world, I am no where to be found”. The Eternal also said: “give into the spirit…..think with the spirit”. Not an easy task and although I fail ocassionally, I press onwards determined to think not with my mind but with the spirit.
My apologies to all those that have been offended by my words and comments. I do care and respect all those who do stop by on this blog and offer their views!
My condolences.
Thanks for you condolences!
You are welcomed, love.
When she talks about friend, I wonder if the subject is open for consideration. I wouldn’t mind Adam as a friend cause anybody running around nude is really cool, but just until his battleaxe shows up! Thanks. lady, you’ve really “helped” me out…..of the closet! As for sin, she must be referring to the “Social Insurance Number” that we have up here in Canada? And finally, lady, I suggest a bottle of prune juice and a cake made with “Exlax” icing…..you really need it!
Her lack of vocal and facial expression is bizarre – overmedicated? Clinically depressed? Perhaps the victim of a small stroke? – note how her mouth opens more on one side that the other.
Couldn’t take my eyes off that Bob-Ross-Tastic background of happy trees and happy mountains! I want to live there!
…book? what? huh? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Known as “The Painter of Light”, that is clearly a Thomas Kinkade painting; a painter whose kitchy, classless crap has been a favorite of evangelicals for a long time, as one can find his cheap, china-made shit filling Christian gift stores all over the country.
(Oh, and he recently was busted for a DUI
http://law.rightpundits.com/?p=1809)
Everyone knows that Frank Frazetta is the real painter of light, especially Rembrandt-esque light that falls on wobbly female bits.
Talk about a god…Frazetta was a painting god.
Whenever John C goes off his meds, the first thing he loses is the ability to end a freakin’ sentence. It’s called a period, JC, use one once in a while. And go easy on the parentheticals, too. My eyes glaze over about 2 lines into your “thought offering”.
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Shouldn’t you have said: “my eyes GLAZED over”…..past tense! You ended the sentence without making a conclusion. I know I make a lot of typos, we all do. It’s the essense of the thought that we try to express and sadly we trip over keys in our determination to get it out before we forget what we want to say. What does “freakin’” mean? I thought it was “frickin’”, a polite way of saying “f*cking”. But I could be freaking wrong!
Don’t quit your day job, JC; comedy is not for you.
Maybe it wasn’t comedy. Maybe it was Morse code:
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What surprises me, is that no one has considered to what audience she is speaking to. Could it be a room of gay people, socialists, atheists, liberals and free thinkers, abortionists, anarchists……who could possibly be interested in sitting through this exciting book endorsement seminar? No one in the audience is booing or heckling! It is much like our gay pride parade that is marched through the gay part of town. Gay people here want the citizens to see how they live. They should march past a monolith Jesus temple to get the point across. If she really wanted to endorse her “self help” book, she should visit a gay bar with live strip shows and flaming drag queens. As it is, the only people that will ever listen to her are the people who already have looked at the damn thing! And with all that exuberance in her voice and demeanor, would anybody be rushing out to get the book? Is that the best they can do?
Michael,
1) No, the present tense “glaze” is correct, denoting that every time I read one of JC’s posts, the same thing happens. I did indeed end the sentence with a conclusion.
2) “freakin’”…a commonly used term – get out more.
3) Yes, getting the essence (check your spelling) of your thought across is important, and we all make occasional typos; but the nice thing about posting messages here is that you get the opportunity to check your work before hitting the “Post Comment” key. You are under no time constraint.
I have been properly corrected. I wished no harm. I ain’t went to school in so long and I dun’t know how to tipe, so be patient with me. Music History in University doesn’t teach much beyond telling the difference between Mozart and Haydn. What puzzled me was how all my fellow class mates couldn’t determine the difference. It is so easy!
This woman is so anally retentive I can’t imagine she’s ever passed anything larger than a Tic Tac, bless her scared little heart. Kudos to her, though, for spreading the blandness of her gospel in such a witty, clever way. She’s bringing in the sheaves in untold numbers. The response to her charisma must be overwhelming. No doubt Jesus will be adding an extra bump to the vibrator she’s going to get in lieu of a crown when she passes through those pearly gates one day…and here she’s thinking she’ll be spending all eternity doing nothing more than mealymouthing praises to his holy name. Quelle suprise!