Well, they didn't cause any accidents, so I guess that's good.

[badstar]

So I just went out to XS to get coffee and danishes for me and Gavin. Bummer, they were fresh out of danishes...I wanted a peach one (XS makes danishes with fresh fruit, not the pie filling glaze stuff that you usually see.)

On my way out, a car pulled up to the opposite curb, and two women got out. There was no radio playing that I could hear when they got out, but the driver reached back in the car and turned up what sounded like a gospel music station. Then they started yelling unintelligibly, and the one on the curb side fell to the ground, writhing around, still yelling while the other proceeded to come over to the sidewalk and dance around, yelling. The one on the ground looked like she might be having a seizure or convulsion, the other just baffled me. There was no one else around, so I crossed the street to ask if everything was okay, and if the one on the ground needed medical help or something. The one still standing paused only to tell me that it was okay and she was on fire for Jesus and the spirit had hit her.

I responded saying that you think Jesus and the spirit would pick a time that she wasn't driving a car?

Oh, but it was okay, because the spirit and Jesus "let her pull the car over before she had to do this."

Nice of them not to cause any accidents on a major city street. I walked away, still able to hear them yelling by the time I had gotten back to my front door.

Okay.,...so one of three things going on here:

1. Two people desperately seeking attention

2. Two people desperately delusional

3. Jesus and The Spirit care about the safety of other drivers and pedestrians, but not quite so much about that of their followers.

Comments

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I don't know if I would be appalled, laugh or both...

[seaya.livejournal.com]

That's a common religious practice. Actually, interestingly enough, some theorize it is a cultural practice that originated in African Traditional Religions. Like being "mounted" by the orishas.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm aware of this, thanks. There are traditions of varying types of possession all over the world and throughout history. But that sort of thing does traditionally tend to be more likely to take place in a ceremony held for such purposes, not so much by the side of a busy city street where one has just managed by seconds to pull one's car over to the curb in order to avoid causing a twelve-car pileup before falling down convulsing with the spirit.

[shockwave.livejournal.com]

Scary people make life so much more interesting. :)

[mallyns.livejournal.com]

Sometimes people can tell if they are going to get hit with a seizure, usually by seconds. It is rare and not something that can be done every time. My cousin has maybe done this 2 times in 30 years.

Jesus people can be freaky. I would have called the cops.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

you know, if it really was a seizure, it would all make sense...but that it was two of them? Granted the one seemed to be more in control of her faculties than the other...I dunno...lol

[mallyns.livejournal.com]

One might have been faking it. I don't know. I still would have called the cops, but I'm a bitch. :)

Still even faking it, rolling around on a street/sidewalk. Eww!