Category Archives: Barmy cults

Anthony Robbins, the snake handler of self help

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21 people were burned at an Anthony Robbins Unleash the Power Within event when they attempted to walk on hot coals. Evidently, for the 20 burn victims that followed the first, the power within that was unleashed wasn’t common sense.

From here:

Nearly two dozen people were treated for burns on their feet after walking on hot coals during a motivational seminar conducted by self-help expert Tony Robbins in San Jose, Calif., local media reported.

Firefighters treated at least 21 people for burns to the soles of their feet, several of them second- and third-degree, on Thursday night, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News. None of the injuries was life-threatening, the report said.

It was the first night of the motivational seminar called “Unleash the Power Within,” a four-day Robbins event attended by some 6,000 people, the Mercury News reported.

 

Satanists say theft of sign was a hate crime

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A couple from the Church of Satan has complained that someone stole a “Vote Satan” sign from their front porch.

Normally I would have sympathy for the victims of vandals curtailing the free expression of religious zealots but in this instance, I do believe that the outraged Satanists don’t have much of a case. The eighth commandment says: “Thou shalt not steal”. The Church of Satan says: “Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!”

Fair enough: if Satan represents not just theft, but all the sins, the hapless sin-loving Satanists should encourage the vandals in their endeavours – making sure they are out of the way before the hoodlums move on to breaking commandment number six in their quest for further “emotional gratification”.

From here:

A Satanist couple in Mountain View, Calf., says they’re the victims of religious discrimination after someone stole their “VOTE SATAN” poster from their front porch.
Luigi and Angie Bellaviste belong to the Church of Satan, reports CBS News, and have their home decorated with satanic paraphernalia, including a black Christmas tree, skulls and the numbers 666.

But someone recently made off with their most prominent display, the election-style sign hanging from the front of their house. And they want it officially dubbed a hate crime.

“I feel like we’re being treated unfairly because it’s not a so-called mainstream religion,” Luigi said.

The end of the world – again

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From here:

Doris Rosado watches her teenage daughters, Ninette and Kiara Mongrut, get the numbers “666” tattooed on their wrists, beaming with pride. The number typically conjures up biblical symbolism tied to the Antichrist, but this St. Catharines, Ont., family belongs to a obscure Christian sect for which “666” is a positive symbol of their group’s messianic leader.

“They wanted to do it,” Ms. Rosado, 45, said at the St. Catharines tattoo parlour where her daughters were inked. “But now it’s more important because we’re counting down… I’m so proud.”

For this family, and other members of Growing in Grace International, these tattoos are a way of demonstrating their faith as true believers of Jose de Luis de Jesus — who they fervently believe is the second coming of Jesus Christ — before a day of reckoning they believe will wipe out most of humanity.

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To spread the word, Growing in Grace put up billboards in Toronto this week featuring Mr. de Jesus.

“That day, the body of Jose de Luis de Jesus, who is a human like you and me, his flesh is going to be immortal…. He’s going to be living forever. And that will happen to him, but also his followers.”

But, said Mr. Poessy: “All those that are not believers are going to be destroyed.”

Growing in Grace International is not the first to prognosticate that the so-called end of the world will come this year. The Mayan calendar famously picks Dec. 21, 2012.

But Mr. de Jesus also predicts that the “transformation” will endow him, and his loyal followers, with superpowers, such as the ability to fly and walk through walls, said Axel Cooley, the bishop’s daughter.

This is, to use a tired cliché, a win-win situation: if Mr. de Jesus is wrong – and I can’t see how a man careless enough to glue two of his fingers to his forehead could be right about the end of the world – we’ll all still be around on July 1st and his followers will be lined up to have their tattoos removed. If he is right, destruction is a more appetising prospect than seeing Mr. de Jesus flying and walking through walls.

The added benefit to his being wrong is that, on July 1st, we can all enjoy watching him try out his newly acquired superpowers.