Aug 12 2008Sunday School: The Holy Ghost Church Rave

FIRST

I lol'd.

F***ing mental midgets.

Being a member of a Holy Ghost church is just an excuse for people to writhe around and act like a bunch of assholes.

Actually, it's not techno...it's Drum and Bass/ Jungle.

mmm...sacralicious.

They look as high as anyone I've ever seen at a rave. And they dance almost as well. Good job

I love the chick in the blue pushing a guy over the one lying down at around the 1:33 mark.

Why is it that all these church freaks can act stupid in their little service, but if someone who is not in there church tries to have fun and act up, oh heaven for bid!

Bunch of brain washed idiots. Deaf, blind, dumb and born to follow.

Matt

*minister rolls eyes*
Ok.. who put E in the sacrificial wine again?!?!

yay for convulsions.

i know that if the holy ghost ever took over my soul it would be in at creepy church dance off, no doubt about it.

#4. So is university. =D

I think that guy was actually having a seizure, and nobody was willing to help him.

The first guy on the floor - he seemed to be completely normal until 1:08.

Jesus H christ....

You'd think the holy lord jeebus could dance better. These guys suck. I want to see some "holy ghost" filled dude breakdancing and tearing shit up.

Fo sho.

Flashback to the Jesus labeled acid I took once. Oh my....

Frankly, this scares the shit out of me.

I really like the one kid in the front row (1:13), sitting, and most likely thinking, "God I can't wait till I turn 18 and can leave Idaho."

Well, seeing this is a first for me. I thought it was sinful to do such a forbidden dance? Or am I thinking of La Bamba?

God Damnit that's funny!

I think it would be shortsighted to say that people can enjoy themselves and not be criticized or shunned except when involved in a church activity. Considering churches are shunned and criticized constantly (as is the case with many of the previous postings). To say a church can do such things but will turn around and criticize and forbid another for practicing similar acts is simply showing their similarities to damn near every other group, organization, association, institution on the face of the earth.

Most institutions of any kind are used as some means of belonging and even isolation from those not like-minded. We do it with politics, religion, interests, etc. And in most cases it requires an amount of conformity. To be an individual is increasingly difficult when the already overwhelming amount of hive minded institutions is growing at a significant rate.

But to each their own. We all deserve the right to believe, worship, live as we choose as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others. This is not a rule that can be completely followed due to human nature, but we can simply try to stay as open minded, understanding and responsible as possible until a better, stronger, and more efficient species comes to take over and turn us all into nothing more than mere sources of energy and labor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfU-4Y4_akY

Hey, Poore Richard you say:

"but we can simply try to stay as open minded, understanding and responsible as possible"

Well f*** you, you donky f***ing whore. "We" can just go off and f*** onself with an attitude like that.

I'm going to be as against religious nut-jobs as I damn well care. And if God doesn't like it, he can come down here and f*** my arse. He can f*** your arse too, hey he can go f*** everyone's arse.

These wobbling freaks are there because it gave them a purpose and a social network the losers wouldn't not have had otherwise.

I say f*** the lot of them. The ones who fell over should have been given a right good kicking.

And another thing....

You who just read my post above and didn't smile...

You can f*** off too, and while you're there tell your friends to f*** off.

You hear me?

YOU HEAR ME???

Quick call the exorcist!!!!!

The track is Konflict - Messiah. The genre is drum n bass/jungle - or techstep to be precise.

Get it right.

I just want to second what Mia said. That's absolutely jungle music, not techno. Aren't geeks supposed to be really into specificity?

oh God, free us from all responsibility

in response to Poore Richard:

yes, this is true that religious groups such as this one (most of them, really) end up being similar "to damn near every other group, organization, association, institution on the face of the earth" as far as criticisms towards others are concerned. most religious groups around here like christianity and all of its many incarnations are supposed to be rooted in one simple rule: judge not lest ye be judged. i mean the very simple idea is to accept others regardless of their choices, no matter how against them you might personally be. it's god's job to judge them, it's your job to accept them. that's how it's SUPPOSED to work, no acceptions. THE PROBLEM HERE is that these religious nuts, no matter how extreme, end up almost ALWAYS being the FIRST TO SHUN AND CRITICISE. they're hypocrites to the most extreme degree, when they're the one group who shouldn't be. THAT'S the point.

so i say heckle and poke fun at the f***ers all ya want! look at them, floppin' around like fish 'cause they're excited about sharing the same imaginary friend.

If they ever need some extras for a Zombie/Night of the Living Dead movie, this would be a good place to recruit.

And, #8, yeah that's my favorite part too and it provided the needed comic relief for a video that was really starting to frighten me.

Finally proven:

Religion is an excuse to act like an idiot.

drum n bass ftw jump up

I'm mostly against how religious extremists invoke the name of God to justify their biases and hatreds. Which, ironically, is against one of the 10 Commandments:"Thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain". They think in terms of "God is on my side" not "I am on God's side" which is the most arrogant thing a person can think. I don't actually know anything about this particular group, but the audience shown in the video is EXTREMELY homogeneous. There's not one person in that room who doesn't fit the WASP type-cast, and that in combination with the insane flailing sends up a red flag.

Oh, and #25, I didn't smile because it wasn't funny. If you're going to be sacrilegious, be clever about it, you douche. And if you don't like it, you can come down here and f*** my arse. You can f*** your arse too, hey you can go f*** everyone's arse.

Praise the Lord, and pass the Acid!!!

You know what Poore Richard? Shush, just shush.
I used to go to a church do similar to this. Everyone there was brainwashed. They started off with a good old sing song (good times) and then turned the place into a bunch of nut jobs writhing around on the floor to prove they'd been "touched by jesus" and had been called to his service (bad times).

You were actively encouraged to come to the front and have a damn good fit out to show you were cleansed of inner daemons.

As the saying goes, I have nothing against the big man, it's his fanclub that spoil it for everyone else.

P.S. The only reason I went because after a good brainwashing the ladies want to share the poontang. : )

I also went to some churches similar to this one when I was younger, and even got into some of this type of thing for a while. Much less flailing and seizures, but lots of running around and falling down (they called it being "slain in the spirit.")

Honestly, I think it's kind of like hypnotism - not magical or anything, just the power of suggestion to someone who really wants to believe what's being said. The pastor suggests that some things might happen, and then you start to expect them to happen to you, and you start to want them to happen because it becomes a kind of proof of faith to you, some kind of justification for your beliefs. If you have an experience with God, God must exist, right? You really want to feel this - so a little lightheadness, and you want to fall over, a little burst of adrenaline, and you want to run around. You expect yourself to react in these ways, and you're kind of excited and willing to play along, so you lower your inhibitions and your body responds to what you're expecting.

And in an environment that can be so restrictive as church environments are, it can be a good thing to relax your inhibitions for a while. Since losing control of oneself is not allowed in most day to day matters, I think these kinds of churches create these "spiritual encounters" that have a sort of controlled chaos, in the name of celebrating God.

It's not near as creepy or unusual as people make it out to be - but it is kind of funny and strange from the outside. It's just the same stupid things anyone could do when excited or uninhibited - the only difference is these people have been trained to believe it's from God, which makes them consider it a spiritual experience instead of an emotional one. That's the only thing that makes it really strange and wrong.

techno techno techno! Wooo wooo (blows whistle) big fish little fish cardboard box.

You're all just a bunch of hateful bastards now aren't you?

it's not techno, it's drum'n'bass :D

Mmmmmh.. the guy with the red shirt is dying.

lol @6

sacralicious, indeed

@38 - That is reminiscent of Manson, another reason to make this creepy…

I'm starting to get more creeped-out by the posts that are fixated on the classification of the music ('drum and bass' - like that's in any way different from techno) than I am by the God-huggers. You're making them look like the sane ones.

thats DNB not techno mr geekologie writer!

thats ok i still love you

That's cool! I want to go to that rave church!

although my current church plays contemporary rock music is pretty cool too

dude its DNB not Techno ok. Oh wait, 2039482409823 other idiots have made that clear already.

you know these folks are the same people that feel they can inpose their beliefs on you in every day life. Wearing WWJD pins, holding group payer time and shuning you if you do not believe as they do.

Yes, I understand they have the right to express their beliefs, but in retrospect so do I and the count others like me! If I show up to work wearing a pin that says "There is No God", I give it less than 10 min before someone goes to HR and complains and I would have to remove it or worst lose my job, but I have no right to complain about WWJD pins now do I? is that fair?

I look around and see people wearing cross every day, but if I was Satainic and wore an upside down cross, that would not be exceptable. I ask why?

I fought for my country. I fought for yours, theirs and my freedom of reliegon. I am more than willing to give every one that right as long as I am granted the same!

I bet you any thing that the people in this church would shun me and hide their childern from me since I do not believe in a god of any kind.

Point of fact here though... Have I forced me lack of beliefs on any of you during this rant of mine? No. believe as you will and I will believe as I please.

thank you

Lol haha that is techno and Its jungle beats not jungle music And one more thing Jungle beats and DNB are forms of techno!!!Dance and electronica are also techno ginners.But I've also heard it as the opposite just resently.

@45 Your right!!!!

#4: agreed.

And as recently posted, drum & bass IS a form of techno. People who don't know this are perhaps too young, ignorant, or stupid to remember the first techno music and electronica, then its subdivision into other sub-genres (house, trance, progressive house, drum & bass, jungle, operatic, etc.).

Oh and about this article: eh, I think they're crazy...not because I'm catholic, but because I'm fairly organized in my insanity (method to my madness if you will). But to each their own. I can't say I disagree with Poor Richard. Everyone else who's "hating" on him are insecure, self-centered, ignorant, and a bit cro magnon-ish.

I wouldn't be too rash to judge, but honestly, I have had similar experiences with churches where it seemed the 'finding of the spirit' entailed something very eerie and unsettling. And as I said these institutions, all institutions bear very hive minded relentless conformity, to the point that its more or less like a mass of brainwashed individuals.

As an individual you have your rights to your individual beliefs, life, practices, etc. as long as they do not infringe upon others. Most of these institutions do not typically follow this as a rule, in fact their very existence implies otherwise. I merely meant we should allow others to believe and worship as they choose but that does not mean in any way that it should have to mean the sacrifice of their individual ideas, beliefs etc.

You ask why satanism and atheism is frowned upon...read your history books, your in a country that has very puritanical backgrounds and killed off others who performed anything remotely pagan. But there are countries where the opposite is true, again this is simply the case of all mankind, it does not apply to any one belief or religion in particular.

Anyways, if you're looking for a faith, why not try a something different, one not so used up, something like we live in a giant egg, earth, birthed from a galactic snake that feeds on worlds. You can wear a pin designating the belief and form the church of Yngmerisohl.

I shouldn't say all groups of worshippers and believers bear this fate, some are well rounded and true, but many become corrupted or are corrupted from the beginning and have in mind to establish themselves through control and power.

It makes me sad to hear so many hateful people. I understand you have a good reason, but it's still sad to hear your bitterness. I agree, the church can be a hurtful organization, and I have seen lots who are hypocrites and lots who hate the "sinners" who they're supposed to be helping, forgetting that they were once "lost" too. Think of it like the way people look at the poor or the fat. So many people are disgusted by them, even if they were once like them. It's not right; it's very wrong; but it happens. Because ALL people are sinners.

PS-These people scare me a little.

Would you people just shut the f*** up and LOL at the wiggly crazies or f*** off already?

Thank you.

Hahahaha, quoting Dr. Hibert I'd suggest the following medicine: Lots of fire!

I f***ing LOVE the guy in the front row who's just sitting there with his arms all crossed and shit. LOVE THAT KID.

Now I want to jump around and convulse. But I won't.

bwahahahahaha

btw poor richard is a CHUMP
go elsewhere u F4G

38, Jess. I dig your admission in such heat. Cool story. I can see how that could happen.

Another thing - why are people assuming that these people are the ones that get all crazy narrow-minded or hypocritical? They could be pretty relaxed and interesting people who just like to run around in church. They don't have to be people that push their beliefs on anyone else - all you know is what you see - they go to a church where people sometimes convulse on the floor. Jumping to conclusions is - dare I say it - narrow-minded and bigoted?

Anyways, I agree there are people who ARE narrow-minded and hypocritical - but I don't think they are limited to a certain religion, or to a religion at all. And I think the best way to deal with them is on an individual basis when you interact with them, not to rant about them on a blog about geek stuff.

GOD is dead science killed him if he ever existed at all and fools pretending to be filled with jesus probably met with jesus the hispanic male prostitute last night in the rectory (read rectum) man am I glad my family is only slightly religious or I might have to shoot myself
(best thing I ever saw was starship troopers in provo utah opening night empty theater 4 minutes in they all just got up and left couldn't figure out why then realized they were all morons oops mormons)easy enough mistake

Apparently jesus and rave are inseperable.... I made an animated gif of a raver touched by the holy spirit at a party here in phoenix just recently!

http://www.clixbagoftricks.com/v/gifs/misc/sillyraver.gif.html

OMFG.. I still prerfer the drum and bass one.. Thats why I'm always right the back..

@ Mr poo rich.. who are you to judge? If you want to pass judgement i have one too.. and that is your a nuckle head!

I feel sorry for the only guy in the room not flailing around like an idiot. What if a friend of yours invited you to go to church with them and this is what it was like??? What would you do???? I think I would die from laughter.

i love jesus and jesus love me i rave for god

WTF - these guys are f***ing insane - bring on a EXPERT EXORCIST

The funny thing is none of this stuff is biblical. There's a tendency to say they're "following the Spirit", but they're really following a chili dog. They go by their feelings. Like a bunch of hippies or something. They don't actually follow a true Christian doctrine. It's just traditions set up by pentecostal heretics. It says in the bible that God is not a god of confusion. But people don't want to take the time to study and interpret what's really being said, or check what the full context is (Literal, Cultural, Grammatical, or Historical), So you end up with whatever you want. And because they don't know what it says, it has no life giving potential, so they have to "spice it up" and make it interesting (like rave dancing and holy-rolly-fun time in the middle of the sanctuary). If they don't people would leave, along with their tithing money.

god holy rave i love the holyland

Wise men are silent; fools talk.

rave heaven i am raver rave of jesus i love the holyland i love word of god i keep on praying in the rave club i keep on raven of lord jesus god blessed the holyland from northeast legend no1raver

I GO TO MILLFIELD PENTECOSTAL IN SUNDERLAND I RAVEING FOR JESUS RAVE HEAVEN I AM RAVER ALL THE TIME GOD BLESSED THE HOLYLAND I LOVE GOD TV AND THE WORD OF GOD I KEEP ON PRAYING TO GOD IN ALL RAVE CLUBS

big shout out to christian ravers all around the world i love the holyland rave heaven i am a raver no1raver northeast legend god blessed the rave

JESUS IS HOLY RAVE HEAVEN I BLESSED THE HOLYLAND I KEEP ON PRAYING FOR THE CREW HARDCORE HEAVEN I KEEP ON RAVEN FOR LORD GOD IT IS ALL POWERFUL

jesus in the house i am a raver rave heaven mix God has blessed me for do it word of god is powerful i keep on praying for the MCs and DJs and RAVERS ALL AROUND THE WORLD I LOVE THE HOLYLAND GOD HAS BLESSED YOU

rave heaven i am a raver all the time god has blessed you

jesus has rave i love jesus i love the holyland