it's a theatre company staging a hell house word for word from the kit that they sell (which even comes with a recipe for 'aborted fetus prop' made from meat), but not actually trying to convert you.


should be funny as hell.

has anyone been to one of the real ones where they are trying to convert you?


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i've heard of those...never been to one, though. it'd be fun to go, at least for the high giggle factor.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i wish i could go high. i want to be able to notice all the details though, and weeded up, i will just be too silly to pick those up

OMG! Take pictures!
When I worked at the newspaper a church down the street from us used to have those every year. It scared the hell out of me!

cborgman said:

oh man...they'd get contact highs from all the folks who pass through there all smokey-okey.

lawd, show these misguided souls the error in their funny cigarette-loving ways...and send me down some holy burger king. amen.

applekisses said:

it's an actual off-broadway "show" by professionals, so pics are gonna be a no-no. actors equity thing.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I've read of the evangelical Hell Houses. They sound exceedingly bizarre.

Have a good time.

cborgman said:

it was frikkin AWESOME!

the people in our group were mostly mortified by the techniques employed by the real evangelical versions, and were disturbed. ryan and i and another few people couldn't help but laugh at the insanity of it and the bad writing. (the script is word for word from a real hell house script)

i think my favorite was the abortion scene, which in the second half they take you into a big pink tent kind of thing made up like the inside of a womb, and there is a woman dressed up like a fetus sitting in the middle and this giant pair of forceps comes in and aborts her, pulling her out of the room and into hell.

just awesome. we are going back next week

has anyone been to one of the real ones where they are trying to convert you?


several times ...


interesting and disturbing on many levels all mixed together in the same timeframe

Mach said:

having seen the one last night, which is fairly straight-forward in it's presentation, sticking to the script, and not playing it for laughs, just not trying to convert you at the end, i really want to go to a real one just to see.

i think it would incredibly interesting and disturbing. i have seen the documentary "hell house" where they followed one from beginning to end, and it was terrifying the way they are brain-washing people in really shady and decietful ways.

cborgman said:

I am not easily swayed by others opinions ... for those that are

these places could seem very frightening indeed

I just think how it again proves that many religions use deep seeded fears to try to show you that you need to join them

which to me is quite odd really ... who would want to join any group based on fear ?



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Mach said:

ask the republicans and deeply right-wing christians, cause i have never understood that.

cborgman said:

not ALL republicans. you should know better then to generalize.

purplerein said:

you're right.

i meant the republican leaders, i should have specified.

cborgman said:

purplerein said:

forgive me?

cborgman said:

always, and forever.

purplerein said:

IrresistibleB1tch said: