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Guess What Drugs and Illegal Substances Are Showing Up in Chicken?
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So, here is the deal. We create hellish conditions for our livestock, then we drug them to keep them numb. Then we drug them again to wake them from their pharmaceutical stupor. Then we drug them to grow faster. Then we drug them so their flesh will look healthier. Then we drug them to withstand the disease epidemics that our overcrowding has created.
Then, of course, we drug ourselves every time we take a bite of factory-farmed poultry.
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Stopping Alien Abductions by Screaming Jesus’ Name
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Through the research into the case testimonies it was found that some of the experiencers were able to stop or terminate the experience. There was a recognized commonality in the method that was used among the Christian experiencers. The experience was shown to be able to be stopped or terminated by calling on the name and authority of JESUS CHRIST. Not as a magic word but by their allegiance to and personal relationship with Him.
We also found that by sharing this with other experiencers we could help them also stop their experiences.
This is called repeatability.
The UFO community has been looking for that repeatable event that research demands to verify the data. We have documented this in our research. There is no other documented repeatable event recorded in any other UFO research. Not only has it been shown that the experience can be stopped or terminated in the name and authority of JESUS CHRIST, but we are able to help you stop the experience.
Doesn’t sound like a good safe word or phrase does it?
I hope this was a proper scientific examination of the widespread alien abduction problem, what did the control group shout instead, Shazam?
Dr. John E. Mack is more impressive to me.
It’s not that surprising, if I saw an alien I would shout JESUS CHRIST! too. Or CHRIST ON A BIKE, even JUMPIN’ JEEEEEEEE-HOSAPHAT!
Taking the report at face value – but rejecting alien abduction as essentially a hallucination – it’s reasonable to assume that this phenomenon is true. Faith in a higher power essentially translates as trust that something will save you. Therefore, invoking that faith during a subconscious-dominated experience will remind the brain that all will be well, and the Bad Thing will Go Away.
It would be interesting to see some actual research on this, e.g. whether faith is effective in fending off nightmares.
i (and a lot of my family members) have a sleep disorder called “sleep paralysis” – a form of narcolepsy. Being a black female raised in the deep south, for years we referred to this as “witches riding our backs”. One of the symptoms is – you guessed it – you think you were kidnapped by aliens when you sleep. Also a lot of other wierd things (I still refuse to watch that stupid low-budget sleep movie). It wasn’t until I was in middle age that I went to see a sleep doctor and got diagnosed. This disease can do terrible things to your mind, and I have to admit a lot of times I’ve woken myself up by praying. Sometimes you have to use what you have. Wikpedia has a nice article on it with more info if you’re interested.
link to the wikipedia page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis. I like the wikipdeia page because it focuses more on the science of why this happens. Other sites (such as web md – NOT linked here) incorrectly attribute the problem to more of a psychiatric nature rather than a physiological/neurological problem. Since this started happening to me (and my sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and grandma) since we were very young, I doubt the psychiatric reasons given. I don’t think I was stressed out at 5 years old. A sleep study is needed to diagnose the problem. About 50% of my immediate family has had a sleep study done; the rest just self-medicate (think drugs, alcohol, and marathon running). One odd thing I found out from the sleep doctor is that if you have frequent bouts of sleep paralysis, you are likely to have a “sleepy” brain. If you take sleep medication, even over the counter meds, it makes your brain even SLEEPIER. So, instead of getting better, you are actually making the problem much worse. Treatment varies from behavior modification – staying awake all day so that you can fall asleep properly at night – to very light stimulants to help keep you awake during the day. I was drinking about 15 cups of coffee; the stimulant was less than that (and my teeth didn’t turn brown). Another odd thing – we tend to be adrenaline junkies and thrill seekers. Basically, we’re trying anything to stay awake. I’m still looking for the name of that sleep movie; I’ll post it when I find it.
Sorry for the long post. I’ve been reading this site for years and never posted. This is something I’ve been trying to get one of my sisters to get evaluated for, and I think it’s really important that people not feel like they have a mental illness, that they’ve been kidnaped by aliens, or that there are demons watching them sleep – when there is a somewhat simple solution to the problem.
@viv d: CBC radio had a documentary on this a couple of months ago. It seems to run in families. One family in Newfoundland has this same difficulty:
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/02/01/sleep-paralysis/
movie is “body snatchers” 1993 version . . . “they get you while you sleep” . . . not a good movie to watch if you already have sleep problems. Originally made in the 1950′s, remade not once but twice. I wonder why. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Snatchers_(1993_film)