# What is happening to this woman in this video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 26, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412 "2010-04-26T16:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/1 "2010-04-26T16:30:30Z")
[Clicky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLvV21tsdw&#t=1m08s). Things start out wacky with all the religious bullshit, but then after about 1.30 things go insane. What’s with the vibrating? Is she mentally ill, having an orgasm, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/2 "2010-04-26T16:41:07Z")
Same reason you and I might get weepy giving a eulogy. This woman is giving a fire and brimstone prayer to a secular Uni, she’s doing the lords work, good sir! Yeah, so, in review - nerves + emotion + holy spirit = kookiness. ---
**Author:** ![TheoS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TheoS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheoS)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/3 "2010-04-26T17:34:00Z")
No, no… I recognize this. Saturday night my neighbor asked me to stop by for a glass of wine while we watched the thunderstorms roll in from the West. Well, one glass led to another then we started into the bourbon. The next thing I knew, I was praying for my life and all those other people out there that never knew “him”. I was shaking and bent over etc. that’s what this is. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/4 "2010-04-26T18:33:35Z")
[Here](http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?page=world_15_1§ion=library) is what the secular humanists have to say about it. (Down at the bottom.) ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/5 "2010-04-26T18:41:31Z")
I think that she is extremely emotional. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/6 "2010-04-26T19:54:06Z")
> [@TheoS](#): > > No, no… I recognize this. Saturday night my neighbor asked me to stop by for a glass of wine while we watched the thunderstorms roll in from the West. Well, one glass led to another then we started into the bourbon. The next thing I knew, I was praying for my life and all those other people out there that never knew “him”. I was shaking and bent over etc. that’s what this is. So she’s drunk? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/7 "2010-04-26T19:59:10Z")
“iloveJesus420”? What the hell kind of username is that? “I want a user name that conveys my religious fervor, but also suggests that I might be amenable to torching one.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/8 "2010-04-26T20:16:55Z")
“I love roasting a bone, do-yeah hear me, and if roasting a bone is wrooong, I don’t wanna be right!” ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/9 "2010-04-26T20:19:21Z")
She was vibrating with the power of THE LORD! ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/10 "2010-04-26T20:19:41Z")
I do NOT want to have what she’s having. Loved the “Okay, we’ve HAD the benediction (and BTW call an ambulance, thx). Now could we get the recessional going?” ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/11 "2010-04-26T21:59:04Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > “iloveJesus420”? What the hell kind of username is that? > > “I want a user name that conveys my religious fervor, but also suggests that I might be amenable to torching one.” Or “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/12 "2010-04-26T23:26:25Z")
I used to be a Pentecostal in my early teens, and this is really just typical of the charismatic crowd from my experience. Charismatics are particularly interested Biblically in the day of Pentecost in which God sent his Holy Spirit down to fill the people and they began to speak in other tongues. I’m pretty sure she was whispering in tongues there. From the charismatic point of view, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and so overwhelmed by the power of God that she started shaking all over the place and probably lost consciousness. This has happened to me. It was a regular occurrence at the church I attended. Once you let the Holy Spirit in, you pretty much lose control of your body. The most memorable time I started shaking so hard that I fell and hit my head on the kitchen table. Thanks a lot, Jesus! I really don’t have an explanation. I’m not a believer in the supernatural anymore. All I can say is that it’s a part of the culture, and looking back on it I still am completely baffled by the intensity of the experience. I can say with 100% certainty, that shit is weird. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/13 "2010-04-27T03:49:57Z")
My guess is that the guy asking for an ambulance to be called is somehow related to what was going on. Best wishes, hh ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/14 "2010-04-27T04:28:25Z")
How rude. I wonder if she’d like it if I went to her church and asked people to repent wasting their time on religion instead of getting an education. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/15 "2010-04-27T08:28:52Z")
Like **olivesmarch4th** , I’ve seen examples like this at various ‘charismatic’ Christian events in the past - it’s pretty common. I realise that doesn’t explain it - maybe a good comparison would be to footage of emotional outpourings of grief you sometimes see on the news - sometimes, when people get caught up and overwhelmed by emotion, they lose full control of their bodies. For reference (and again, only to demonstrate that this is a fairly common/documented phenomenon), a somewhat similar set of mannerisms is performed by the character of the religious zealot woman in the movie _Edward Scissorhands_. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/16 "2010-04-27T09:02:51Z")
Is it weird that I got a chubby from watching that? Seriously, that was way more arousing than a prayer has any right to be. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/17 "2010-04-27T09:52:45Z")
Maybe, maybe not. It’s weird that you told us about it though. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/18 "2010-04-27T10:46:29Z")
> [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](#): > > Is it weird that I got a chubby from watching that? Yes ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/19 "2010-04-27T10:55:16Z")
The devil did it. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412/20 "2010-04-27T12:26:40Z")
> [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](#): > > [Clicky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLvV21tsdw&#t=1m08s). > > Things start out wacky with all the religious bullshit, but then after about 1.30 things go insane. What’s with the vibrating? Is she mentally ill, having an orgasm, or what? It could be many things, yes God can give one extreme pleasure that can even be way beyond what we consider a organism, OTOH it may have been a incubus trying to distract, or even reinforce that message. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-happening-to-this-woman-in-this-video/537412.md?page=2)