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Autoerotic asphyxia.In the case of Pastor Gary Aldridge, this meant being hogtied, wearing two wet suits (complete with a face mask, gloves, slippers, rubber underwear, and a head mask), and having a dildo up his anus. And I kid you not, the church issued a statement asking the public to "refrain from speculating" on his death.In plain English, death by masturbation. Or, as Fox News would put it, he died of a natural cause.

You don’t remember the “Backmasking,” scandal in the late 1970s?The “Backmasking,” scandal came about from the fact that a vinyl LP could be played backwards for a few seconds by pushing the turntable by hand while the stylus was engaged into the grooves.A group of Evangelicals got hold of this and believed that the random, odd and inadvertent sounds of a vocal played backwards contained hidden Satanic messages.From Wikipedia:In early 1982, the Trinity Broadcasting Network's Paul Crouch hosted a show with self-described neuroscientist William Yarroll, who argued that rock stars were cooperating with the Church of Satan to place hidden subliminal messages on records.Also in 1982, fundamentalist Christian pastor Gary Greenwald held public lectures on dangers of backmasking, along with at least one mass record-smashing.During the same year, thirty North Carolina teenagers, led by their pastor, claimed that singers had been possessed by Satan, who used their voices to create backward messages, and held a record-burning at their church.Allegations of demonic backmasking were also made by social psychologists, parents and critics of rock music, as well as the Parents Music Resource Center (formed in 1985), which accused Led Zeppelin of using backmasking to promote Satanism.The fact is, that you can play any vocal backwards and find patterns that sound a little bit like forward spoken phrases. You could search out the hymnal archives and sooner or later find something that, played backwards, sounds like it could be interpreted as a Satanic message.Backwards, manual playback on a turntable is at the wrong speed, which helps to elicit the sensation of something spooky. The fact that the backwards speed is unstable, moving slightly sharp or flat, makes it sound even spookier. The fact that Hollywood movies used this effect to evoke spooky background scenes seemed equivocal to some who couldn’t seem to put this 2+2 together. Yes, we’ve already associated speed manipulated, backwards playback of audio with spooky Hollywood scenes.The fact that none of these conspiracy theorist had even the slightest blinkin’ idea about how audio works and could even conceive of such nonsense is, in fact …… a little spooky.

Your original question is : What is the nicest thing that a complete stranger has ever done for you?IntroductionThis is based on my true story, when my daughter went missing when she was 16 months old.I was in United States. It was toughest times and trails of my life.I was lost being in deep pain. I walked into a place not knowing where I was heading. I realized later it was a church. It was 7.30 am, service had not started.A couple, Mike and Cherry, walked up to me and welcomed me.Mike said “ Can I pray for you brother?”I was surprised, thinking who they were and what they wanted from me?Tears went rolling as the couple lay their hands on me, without knowing what was going in my life. After praying, they looked into my eyes.Mike hugged me and asked me, if I would like to sit with them? It was too late to withdraw.I quietly sat with them. The entire time, I cried sitting with them. The worship songs as they healed filled me in tears.The Pastor Gary, did not move his eyes away from me in the entire sermon and said later “ God will listen to your prayer and you will find your loved one.”I was shocked as to hear the words. At that point, my heart accepted all prayers.ConclusionI found my daughter after 2 months. It took us 6 months.I brought my daughter to meet Pastor Gary; Mike and Cherry to take their blessing.I never forget even though 9 years have passed of how some group of strangers in a foreign land said prayers for us.They told me later, they always prayed for me and believed God would listen to their prayers.No doubt God works in mysterious ways. From that day, I never denied Christ or any faith.