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I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
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I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
Hello everyone.

My mom (a protestant christian) called me today and said at some church a foreign guy is making miracles. Although I'm an atheist ( and told her about it many times), I had nothing fun to do at the time I decided to go and watch. People stood in line and the guy 'healed' them. My mom said he cured her bad back, according to her her back used to hurt because one of her legs was shorter than the other, and he lengthened it to match the other leg. She pushed me to him to be healed from my skoliosis, I told him about my back pain, he asked me to sit down, straighten my legs, he took my feet in his hands, and showed me that one of my legs was shorter than the other by 1-2 cm. He started saying in the name of jesus heal him etc. and... well, the length difference between my legs dasappeared, while the crowd around gazed in awe. He told me my skoliosis would disappear in some time. Whatever.

It was about 3~4 hours ago and I'm still wondering what's the trick. I was in trance, I know people in trance experience loss of body sensations, anastesia, but (I think) I had visual control and I didn't notice him trying to pull my 'shorter' leg.

I'm sure somebody experienced with hypnosis can explain that.
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
The whole leg shorter than the other is a famous scam by faith healers. I believe Derren Brown did a show about that where he trained someone to pretend to be a faith healer and the retards believed him.
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
The trick wasn't in making your legs of equal length, the trick was making you think they weren't of equal length in the first place. If you never noticed it before and your doctor never noticed it before, you should be skeptical of the diagnosis. Don't feel bad about being fooled, magicians fool us all the time but do us the courtesy of letting us know they're tricking us. Similar tricks without the caveat are at the root of many a psychic's or faith healer's career.
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
(June 12, 2012 at 11:01 am)frankiej Wrote: The whole leg shorter than the other is a famous scam by faith healers. I believe Derren Brown did a show about that where he trained someone to pretend to be a faith healer and the retards believed him.

This.



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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
If one if your legs was 1-2cm shorter than the other, you'd notice. You really would.
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
I'm just wondering at what point you are suddenly going to change your religious views to Christian siting this as a miracle and urging the rest of us to open our hearts to Jesus.

Or perhaps I'm just too suspicious Dodgy
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
(June 12, 2012 at 11:56 am)Darwinian Wrote: I'm just wondering at what point you are suddenly going to change your religious views to Christian siting this as a miracle and urging the rest of us to open our hearts to Jesus.

Or perhaps I'm just too suspicious Dodgy

I was asking what's the trick, because subjectively it felt really *magical* lol

Before my 'turn' I really wanted to videotape what he was doing or ask him whether he can make an amputated hand grow back, but I knew my mom would get really really pissed so I just went with it.

Next time I'll go to faith healing by myself Big Grin
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
Next time, scream in "agony" while he's doing his thing. Big Grin
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
(June 12, 2012 at 11:51 am)Tiberius Wrote: If one if your legs was 1-2cm shorter than the other, you'd notice. You really would.

Americans are hopeless with metrics. 2 cm is almost an inch. You couldn't stand without listing to one side. The Divine Tiberius is quite right. You would have noticed that long ago.... and your freakin' doctor should be fired if he missed that.
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RE: I've been "faith healed". Hypnosis techniques?
I'm American, I know how much a cm is, lol. Although I will admit to having to use cm measurements a lot at school.
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