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Eutychus you unconscionable bastard. I just followed that link to Theresa Dedmon's bio; I don't suppose there's any chance that God will release a Spirit of How To Write In English upon her exalted personage any time soon?
For crimes against language alone she should be cast into the outer darkness, before we even get to the "over-realised" spirituality bollocks.
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I am currently browsing the net prophetically, to release the Spirit of How To Write In English upon our dear sister in Christ.
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I think the difference, Schroedinger's Cat is that most artists, musicians, poets, novelists, playwrights, sculptors, and origami practitioners don't consider their work to have the kind of cosmic significance that is being claimed in this instance.
Absolutely - most artists produce their art, and either consider it to be total crap or need to have others to stroke their ego and convince them that it is good and worth something.
There are comparatively few who consider their own art to be significant or important. At least until others have told them it is.
This level of masturbatory indulgence sucks. The fact that it is clothed in spiritual terms makes no difference. If, say, Tracey Emin were to claim that her Unmade Bed was so good it would impact the whole of the UK, most people would have laughed at her. And she is talented, her art does have an impact.
This piece is moderately pleasant. The artist is OK, but not special. And yet she claims a significance to her work that would attract ridicule and claims of an ego beyond even most artists. And yet in Christian circles, she is tolerated and approved of.
The problem is that this is far more widespread. If you put spiritual words around monkey spanking, it becomes something to be lauded, not ridiculed.
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Originally posted by orfeo:
I'm planning an interpretative dance for Slovenia, ...
Just don't do as a priest of another diocese did at their 150th anniversary and do the dance clad in lycra. He was rather overweight and the sight was...odd. And though you, as I recall, are not overweight, and a reasonably fine figure of a man (so my wife says)...no lycra.
But dance on...Slovenia can use all the help it can get.
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The church I go to is celebrating its 150th anniversary in a couple of weeks. The thought of Fr Matthew clad in lycra doing an interpretative dance is...interesting ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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I used to know the very sensible editor of a particular magazine that was popular for a time in certain charismatic circles. He used to regularly receive doggerel poems from people who claimed to received them 'from the Lord.'
He quipped that as he tossed them into the wastepaper basket he would say, 'The Lord gaveth ... and the Lord taketh away ...'
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My biggest problem with this is that I have an old friend who:
a) is deeply involved in these kinds of churches
b) has, in recent years, taken up painting as a hobby (some may say an infatuation)
c) is foolish enough to buy all this crap
Fortunately, there is now an ocean and a continent between us. But I have a nasty feeling that she will start 'prophetic painting' and expect us to appreciate her 'prophecies' when we next see her. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I quite liked the one with the dancer twirling in glory. Although it did look like someone drowning in a whirlpool of doubt and detritus to me.
I fear I am not anointed.
Actually, I'm positive i'm not anointed ...
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Sorry to get all Purgatorial in spite of myself, but are you sure you aren't? There's a verse in 1 John 2 that says all believers are anointed and that God's anointing remains in us.
That's one of the things that annoys me about this lot. They are trying to corner the market on the anointing when in fact the Holy Spirit has been poured out on all flesh. Ezekiel for one had some decidedly Hellish things to say about people who tried to do that.
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Because this is Hell, and my last post above linked to a picture of an asshole, I thought I should link to a real artistic picture of a group of assholes. The picture of this sculpture is obviously not true to life though, because no one is getting redeemed and the drowning people will be us not them.
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I can't get past this line in the "About" section of her website:
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She activates churches in how to touch their community through creative expressions and love.
What does this even mean?! I can't figure out what "activate" means in this context.
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no prophet—disappointing NSFW-link checking Hellhosts since 2010.
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
I can't get past this line in the "About" section of her website:
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She activates churches in how to touch their community through creative expressions and love.
What does this even mean?! I can't figure out what "activate" means in this context.
Honestly, I don't know what it means either. My Enigma machine isn't calibrated for Bethelspeak. But taking a rough guess, I'd suggest it means something like "she'll get you to do artsy stuff you can show off to your local community who will like it". Though if so, the evidence is pretty slender I must say.
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
What scares me is that I can just see these people ten years down the line, when real life has hit them hard, right in the face, and I'm afraid their faith is going to completely vanish. It looks like a delusion to me. They need a strong dose of reality if they're going to develop a Christian faith that will last long term. (wish I could take them round the metro area for a week or two, shadowing a pastor)
A friend's Mom attends Bethel. Just before the real estate crash she invested her life's savings into local residential properties because someone at the 'church' had a 'prophetic' revelation that Bethel would attract so many people that real estate values in Redding CA would skyrocket.
She lost everything in the crash. Still a Bethel believer.
There is no 'real life' for those who have bought into this shit, only 'testings of their faith' and 'rewards for their faith.' Nothing is concrete, nothing is absolute, and nothing is real outside of the Bethel-zone reality.
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It's the fruit cake zone once again.
When will the church start distancing itself from this rubbish? She's so far up herself that it's surprising she's not 99% invisible -- there's a distinct lack of humility in claiming that you can impart anything, yet it's plastered all over the web site.
Perhaps the minor in Bible Studies needs to become a major - or rather a real life encounter with God is necessary to do the trick.
I pray for people taken in by this bilge but hey it's just Bethel's latest marketing ploy. The fact that they move from thing to thing suggests that they are trying to keep one step in from of exposure. They just make the work harder for the rest of us.
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Originally posted by irish_lord99:
A friend's Mom attends Bethel. Just before the real estate crash she invested her life's savings into local residential properties because someone at the 'church' had a 'prophetic' revelation that Bethel would attract so many people that real estate values in Redding CA would skyrocket.
I seem to remember reading a secular news article that said the town council were quite pleased at all the business Bethel was attracting to Redding, which as I understand it is not the wealthiest of locations...
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There is no 'real life' for those who have bought into this shit, only 'testings of their faith' and 'rewards for their faith.' Nothing is concrete, nothing is absolute, and nothing is real outside of the Bethel-zone reality.
That's well-put and corresponds to the mindset of our friends here who are now into it. The whole thing is a complete distraction.
(nice to see you around by the way!)
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OK, I can't take it anymore-- can someone tell me what "releasing redemption" even means?
Like a flock of birds or something? Like a flask of ebola? what?
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
OK, I can't take it anymore-- can someone tell me what "releasing redemption" even means?
Like a flock of birds or something? Like a flask of ebola? what?
God was refusing to do anything for France until she finished this painting. Because God hates her and France, and so was letting then suffer.
Then she finished it and God to do something in France. However she actually made a very slight mistake so God is actually going to continue ignoring France.
Because her God is a vindictive little shit.
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RELEASE THE KRAKEN!
On a slightly more hostly note... folks, Hell is not an anti-Purgatory, it's more a Purgatory supplement or Purgatory with extra. You're perfectly free to say anything 'Purgatorial' here in Hell. The converse does not apply - you can't say Hellish things in Purgatory.
We don't say biting, nasty things peppered with swear words down here because we must. We do it because sometimes it feels bloody good and here is the one bit of the Ship where we may.
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
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OK, I can't take it anymore-- can someone tell me what "releasing redemption" even means?
Releasing things, like prophecy, "words"(or in this case redemption) is a charismatic affectation which is designed to lend importance to what they say and , of course, to themselves. Taking this particular usage, "releasing redemption" means.....nothing.
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What would really mess with their minds would be to sign up with my e-mail hosting provider. On the webmail's click-and drag facility for sending files from your desktop, the following message appears
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Release to attach
(More seriously, saying you are "releasing" something of course assumes you have the authority to do the releasing, too... more power trips)
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Originally posted by The Rhythm Methodist:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
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OK, I can't take it anymore-- can someone tell me what "releasing redemption" even means?
Releasing things, like prophecy, "words"(or in this case redemption) is a charismatic affectation which is designed to lend importance to what they say and , of course, to themselves. Taking this particular usage, "releasing redemption" means.....nothing.
That's a shame. I'd envisaged it as more like a sort of supernatural scratch'n'sniff technology.
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So, is it like the way a company releases a new version of software?
"Here'e the latest, greatest thing.... Ooops. Sorry, we've just cocked up. We'll install a fix once we've worked out where we went wrong."
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What do you think Alpha courses are for?
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Originally posted by Siegfried:
I can't get past this line in the "About" section of her website:
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She activates churches in how to touch their community through creative expressions and love.
What does this even mean?! I can't figure out what "activate" means in this context.
Honestly, I don't know what it means either. My Enigma machine isn't calibrated for Bethelspeak. But taking a rough guess, I'd suggest it means something like "she'll get you to do artsy stuff you can show off to your local community who will like it". Though if so, the evidence is pretty slender I must say. [/QB][/QUOTE]
I think it's supposed to mean more than that, that there is some kind of special spiritual radioactivity that is somehow imparted through the artworks themselves.
These people would probably be the first to criticise the Orthodox for their iconography but they are essentially making similar claims - albeit in a pretty cack-handed way.
I think there are extremes and superstition in the way icons are used/deployed in popular Orthodoxy - as indeed in popular Roman Catholicism - but the theology of iconography is rather more developed and nuanced.
Can anything good come out of Bethel?
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Isn't this a bit like the sort of thing the pagans get up to? Magic?
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There is, of course, a subtext to:
'She activates churches in how to touch their community through creative expressions and love.'
And translated from Bethel-ese what it is really saying is:
'Actually, she's not that good an artist. If she was she'd be teaching adult evening classes or art courses at a proper college or something so instead what she's doing is trying to make the most out of her mediocre talent by touting it around the kind of churches who are gullible enough to buy-into her super-spiritualised view of the world and thereby make some money out of them in a way that she couldn't elsewhere ...'
And more fool them for swallowing it.
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Originally posted by Penny S:
Isn't this a bit like the sort of thing the pagans get up to? Magic?
It's exactly like magic in that it assumes that correct manipulation of inanimate objects, or using the correct language, will systematically produce a specific result, independently of any divine agency, within the power of the operator.
Ironically, the best denunciation of this I've read is in Surprised by the Voice of God by Jack Deere, at that time associated with the Kansas City Prophets. Go figure.
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Originally posted by Eutychus:
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Originally posted by Twangist:
Prophetic balloon modelling anybody?
You tell me. Is Bethel and prophetic balloon-modelling strictly spiritually incorrect in Newfrontiers these days? Inquiring minds want to know...
Sorry missed this..
Some bits of the evil empire (well empires/spheres/whatever these days) formerly known as NFI seem to be more into that sort of things than others. TO be fair we have a good track record of slagging off some of the sillier emphasises of charismania teratorial spirits, representational repentance etc. However "Treasure hunting" has been taken up by some folk.
I've not picked up on Bethel stuff plugged at anything I've attended and have allways been pretty negative about it on here.
TBH I've heard more about Bethel from New Winey/Vineyardy types who seem to like it.
Need to find some dubious OT precendent to sell some crappy homemade CDs of bad blues guitar ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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I haven't had much close interaction with NFI in recent years but I have friends who are still involved and what Twangist has written chimes well with me.
I think that New Wine and Vineyard types are more likely to be seduced by Betheldom - partly because they lack the kind of Calvinistic rigour that is a feature of some NFI settings. I'm not saying that I'm entirely comfortable with all aspects of the Calvinistic emphasis - some NFI people combine both Calvinist and charismatic extremes - but generally speaking, as far as charismaticdom goes, a dose of Calvinism can and does provide some much needed ballast.
Even in New Wine and Vineyard circles, I suspect, there is a certain selectivity when it comes to what is taken on board from Bethel. The 'Treasure Hunting' thing seems to have struck a chord more widely than other aspects - perhaps because it gives the semblance of achieving measurable and quantifiable results.
After all, statistically speaking, if you go into the town centre on any Saturday afternoon the chances of you meeting a lady called Sharon in a Primark top whose son is struggling with his GCSEs is going to be quite high ...
My guess would be that most other groups who are exposed to Bethelism will take what they want and leave the rest. 'Treasure Hunting' in its turn will be replaced by some other fad in due course.
As for the art and creativity emphasis - in some ways this isn't a bad thing given that some elements within evangelicalism have always had a bit of a problem with the arts. If people get switched on to painting and drawing and expressing themselves creatively in some way or other then that's not a bad thing in and of itself.
The dross will fall away without us having to give it a nudge or take the mickey out of it.
'The dross you will always have with you ...'
What I think is sad about the whole Bethel thing is the potential for it to misdirect energy that has the potential to be used so positively. People get hurt by this stuff.
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misdirect energy
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Originally posted by Gamaliel:
misdirect energy
activating surely ....
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Come to think of it, this 'activating' business is probably the result of someone stumbling across a chemistry textbook and learning about catalysis. She's a catalyst, yo.
Which probably means that she points at a lot of things that were going to happen anyway and claims a bit of credit for them.
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Maybe it's like activated charcoal. We use it in our aquarium for fish shit.
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It strikes me that anyone who claims to be a prophet of God by that very act proves herself not to be.
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What do you think Alpha courses are for?
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Prophetic balloon modelling anybody?
I think I will propose a course of prophetic wanking.
TBH, a lot of this is not that different. Self pleasuring artists.
Isn't most art primarily just that?
No, but most modern art is.
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And is that bad in itself?
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Originally posted by opaWim:
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Self pleasuring artists.
Isn't most art primarily just that?
No, I don't think so. There are artists for whom this is a primary motivation. But there are artists who are driven to create. It isn't necessary about pleasure.
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And is that bad in itself?
In and of itself? Depends. If one's philosophy/religion is about not being absorbed in oneself, then this could be considered harmful.
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You have to be motivated by something.
Yes. And artists are as varied in their motivations as normal people.
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I think I will propose a course of prophetic wanking.
Thanks. Thanks a lot. Now trying to avoid thinking about the parable of the sower and the seed falling on various types of ground...
This mental image is not helped or in any way enhanced by your avatar being Snoopy. Gaah. It's been 'activated' and 'released' by the power of your talent with words. Bastard.
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Originally posted by The Rhythm Methodist:
Releasing things, like prophecy, "words"(or in this case redemption) is a charismatic affectation which is designed to lend importance to what they say and , of course, to themselves. Taking this particular usage, "releasing redemption" means.....nothing.
Linguistically speaking, that sure is how it comes across.
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Another practice of these deluded and grandiose people - which also registers a 9.8 on my bullshitometer - is "releasing the anointing". Frankly, I wouldn't want any anointing they were in a position to "release"!
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Poppies? They would look fine in my kitchen, but jeez, "God's redemption of France"?
Poppies, hunh? Well, you know what they make from poppies! Methinks she's getting high from paint fumes and maybe some other less savory things!
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Quite apart from anything else, poppies shows an amazing lack of imagination - something which i had always assumed was a prerequisite for any kind of artist.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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This thread needs cheering up. Bad painting of Barack Obama.
George w. Bush tried to paint Stephen Harper (Cdn PM).
And this one a photographer dressed up in all sorts of things is the happiest one.
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Penny S
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Originally posted by The5thMary:
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Poppies? They would look fine in my kitchen, but jeez, "God's redemption of France"?
Poppies, hunh? Well, you know what they make from poppies! Methinks she's getting high from paint fumes and maybe some other less savory things!
Wrong sort of poppies. These are the sort that are used in remembrance of the dead of WWI, so maybe there was a trace of thought about that - at least that's what I assumed.
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