(August 15, 2011 at 1:31 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Undoubtedly you had a powerfull experience.
But you were having a lot of attention payed to you and were in a situation were your inhibitions were lowered and lets face it there was an expectation that something like hat would happen. How many times have you seen people react like that to preachers of the snake oil holy roller kind.
Possibly. I've seen people 'react' at meetings and have always been skeptical of their 'reactions' e.g 'speaking in tongues' (I think they subconsciously make it up), falling back when the pastor touches them (I've never fell back). I tend to be more 'guarded' and more inhibited when I attend meetings, because I know that dodgy stuff can go on at these meetings. I've seen it, and it makes me wary. I've had folk pray for me before, and I find that quite 'harmless' and hence why I didn't expect to happen, what did happen. But, it's possible like you say.
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