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   10/25/08

   MarkPogue

   This guy claims his talent is from God.
   
   "Let The Bodies Hit the Floor"
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=a54iqEr1flQ

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      10/25/08

      ekim941

      He looks like a Kung-Fu master.
      
      Proof that some people really want to FEEL something.
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      10/25/08

      timethief

      @MarkPogue & ekim
      
      Proof that some people really want to FEEL something.
      
      Yes indeed. The Benny Hinn performance in the video depicts people falling to the floor and writhing AKA as "being slain in the spirit". That kind of emotionalized hype is prevalent in charismatic cults derived from Penecostalism. They are all founded on cherry picking from New Testament writings (Paul's letter found in Ephesians) and deciding that the exercise of "tongue speaking" and other so-called "spiritual gifts" is the evidence of infilling by the Holy Spirit of God.
      
      BTW they also conduct highly emotionally charged performances for "casting out witches and demons" and "faith healing" performances that result in congregational members rolling on the floor depicting what they refer to as "holy laughter", "holy tears", "speaking in tongues" and "making prophetic utterances".
      
      (Sarah Palin has apparently embraced such a belief system and such behaviors as manifestations of true Christianity.)
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      10/25/08

      morgantj

      Oh my. that is disturbing.
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      10/25/08

      timethief

      @morgantj
      As a Christian apostate, who was fully educated in the faith in both a conservative evangelical fundamentalist college and then in a charismatic evangelical fundamentalist college, and who then rejected it all, I am frequently characterized as being a demon infected heretic when I provide such explanations. There's nothing that those who believe in this "stuff" would like better than for me to stfu, but I assure you that I won't.
      
      Talent On Loan From God
      I don't believe that talents are gifts from God. I believe successful people are focused people, who live in situations and in circumstances where their talents come to light as a consequence of their determination to succeed and hard working investments of time and energy into making their dreams come true.
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      10/25/08

      morgantj

      I meant the video is disturbing. What a hoax.
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      10/25/08

      timethief

      I agree that it's a hoax. Benny Hinn is a televangelist has grown extremely rich from conducting such "performances" called "Miracle Crusades". It's so concerning that so many people choose to surrender their capacity to think rationally and surrender their money to him and his emotion based so-called "ministry". And it's particularly concerning that so many who do appear to be poor, sick, elderly and/or psychologically incapacitated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hinn
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   10/25/08

   weblogian

   Some are born with great talent and power.
   
   I think everyone knows Superman, Spiderman and Batman........MANYMAN
   
   lol

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      10/25/08

      ekim941

      Are you implying that there is no sense in aspiring to greatness?
      
      Either you have it or you don't? Practice does not make perfect?
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   10/25/08

   morgantj

   We are shaped by our circumstances, our environment, evolution, causality, conditioned, etc... I do not give luck or god credit for our current state of being. It's dominoes all the way.

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   10/25/08

   dosox

   Hey your potatoes are getting burned.. check out before its too late...
   
   What did you say? :-)

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   10/25/08

   ThriftShopRomantic

   I recall reading an article a while ago (please don't ask me to source it, it is well out of my brain now) that said that it typically takes well-known authors 10 years on average of hard work before they hit it big.
   
   Ten YEARS of struggling with getting published and having a hit.
   
   Sure, we often hear of people who make it big with their first movie, book, etc. That Betty Grable being discovered in the coffeeshop idea.
   
   But most often, success requires a lot of practice and hard work.

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   10/25/08

   PotatoChef

   Has anyone read the article or watched the video that I originally posted?
   
   It has nothing to do with religon, Benny Hinn, or any other such nonsense.

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      10/25/08

      timethief

      @potato chef
      I'm sorry for diverging. Yes, I did read the article & watch the video.
      Summarizing:
      The premise is that, inborn talent doesn't explain high achievement, so what does? Researchers have converged on an answer. It's something they call "deliberate practice," but watch out - it isn't what most of us think of as practice, nor does it boil down to a simplistic practice-makes-perfect explanation.
      Deliberate practice is a specific and unique kind of activity, neither work nor play. It's characterized by several elements that together form a powerful whole. The greatest performers have consistently combined these elements, sometimes just by luck.
      But now that researchers have decoded the pattern, the path to top performance is becoming much more accessible. The elements of deliberate practice are each worth examining:
      (1) Deliberate practice is designed specifically to improve performance.
      (2) Deliberate practice can be repeated a lot.
      (3) Feedback on results is continuously available.
      (4) It's highly demanding mentally.
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   10/25/08

   MarkPogue

   I read the article. "Talent on loan from God" or "God" aren't mentioned.
   
   Perhaps you entitled the thread as such to gather more attention?
   
   I have talents, as do many other folks...and I do not attribute those talents as being from God.

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      10/25/08

      PotatoChef

      @MarkPogue..of course I entitled the page to gain more attention. But I never dreamed that people would take it to such an extreme. It seems a bit obsessive to me.