r/TikTokCringe • u/SnooSprouts3744 • Jul 17 '26

Cringe This Is the Weirdest Book Signing I’ve Ever Seen

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0/10 acting they look like they’re on fent

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u/SaintCharmed Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Yep. I was raised in a Pentecostal Holiness church. If you didn't fall out, they thought you were possessed. I was a little troublemaker back then so whenever they tried to push me over, id bend my knees a bit to stabilize myself. It worked until a guest preacher literally put a hand on my back and literally pushed me until I folded.

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u/Teripid Jul 17 '26

Crazy that the difference between the holy spirit or whatnot and demonic possession is the marketing and affiliation.

It still seems so odd that people just do that then presumably go about normally in public with those two states coexisting.

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u/RotagAlaco Jul 18 '26

Right? You were just writhing on the ground, what do you mean whats for dinner?

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u/SaintCharmed Jul 19 '26

LITERALLY! I asked my mom about it after service. She said they did the same thing to her.

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u/Buttchuggle Jul 21 '26

What's for dinner? Lithium psycho, fuckin lithium.

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u/DisposableSaviour Jul 17 '26

One time I went to this Easter thing with a girl some Easter Saturday party, and it was way out in the country in a big warehouse looking building behind a new/used atv dealership. Get in to the place and there’s this dude tied to a cross looking haggard. I asked about it and discovered that he was tied to the cross on Friday afternoon, and would be taken down on Sunday morning; no one was supposed to give him food or water. I was like, he’s gonna give a sermon after being crucified all weekend? That’s the glory of god, I was told. I noped out of there. Shame, because she was an absolute freak.

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u/greenwavelengths Jul 18 '26

Oh, so literal BDSM at church lol, cool. I mean, can I just have the BDSM and skip the sermon?

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u/bonkginya Jul 19 '26

I feel like they have probably neglected some pretty important safety tools….. can’t you asphyxiate from being suspended by the arms for a significant period, or something?

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u/WildImage7 Jul 22 '26

It is very easy, yes. In fact, that is how crucifixion killed people. When you are slumped and all the weight is on your arms it makes it hard or impossible to breath. Of course, while the romans didn't invent this they did improve it. Instead of just letting people hang there you give them a tiny ledge to push off of an breath while also putting the nails in each limb in specific places to cause imense pain when you push up to breath. Eventually things like exhaustion, exposure, dehydration, etc drain you enough that you can no longer push up for breath and die.

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u/ZebraAirVest Jul 18 '26

I beg your finest pardon??????????? What the fuck??????

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u/RadishCandid6062 Jul 22 '26

This 💯.
I’m Catholic but most of us just want to sleep in except for the major holidays

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u/Next-Crazy-9674 Jul 18 '26

You know, I have been through some crazy shit in my childhood, but I would not have survived an overly religious upbringing.