Todd White - Street Healing (with an amputee!)

This guy is so clearly fake I don't even understand how Christian Broadcast Network gives this guy his own show. Todd White shows us how praying for Jesus can make sure both of your legs are the same length too! Not my best video but this guy was too absurd to pass up.

Just a few facts: 98% of people have slightly different length limbs. Anything more than a few millimeters is very rare, but does happen. However, the only two accepted methods to accurately measure the human body are with a person laying completely flat or when standing straight up. For obvious reasons, when someone is sitting down, their weight is often shifted slightly to one side or the other and it is impossible to get an accurate measurement in this position. This is an old chiropracter trick that they used to use to trick people into believing they needed to pay for anatomical adjustments. This is nothing new, but this guy isn't a chiropracter so it's *kind of* strange. He doesn't appear to be soliciting money on the spot so the only other logical explanation is that he uses this act to bolster his name to increase his audio CD sales (they ALL sell SOMETHING).

Here's an interesting and far more educated psychological analysis that I found online of this video:

This is pure hypnosis at it's unintentional best.

1) Induce confusion by behaving and speaking in a confusing manner ie. Sammy Hagar kneels in front of black hip hoppers. The cameras are a bonus.
2) Hypnotic pre-talk: If God where to heal you would know it immediately wouldn't you, because he loves you so much. The (implied) "because" is very important.
3) Invoke preprogrammed authority (God/Jesus) to instruct the Other Mind (aka. unconscious mind) what to do.
4) Ambiguous touch. "Let be SEE your hand." And he TOUCHES his hand. Brilliant! AND a compliance test. Each action requested that the subject complies with increases their trance and suggestibility.
5) Duel-induction technique with Todd's syrupy partner chiming in on a completely different topic (God loves you).
6) Implied command to close eyes and drop into the relaxation position of head flopped forward by the "hypnotist" doing it first.

The young man is now fully hypnotized, meaning his conscious mind is over loaded with information and he is so busy inside trying to find out what in his experience explains what is going on, that the Other Mind/Body Mind/Unconscious Mind is wide open to suggestions. Like:

6) RELAX. Note the thrice repeated direct command: "Back I command you (because) in Jesus name, Let him go, let him go... every muscle and tendon, let him go". Let go = relax.
7) Cold read: "I am hearing this FROM GOD your back hurts all the time RIGHT?" Yes!
Practical direction: Sit up straight and take that heavy backpack off.
9) Chiropractic treatment. This is a favorite of Christian healers because it is so dramatic and easy to do: lengthening legs. The unconscious now in full suggestibility responds to the command for the leg to grow relaxes the muscles that had been tensed up since the injury in an attempt to not feel the pain, and Viola! the leg "grows". It didn't actually gain any length the muscles at the hip simply relaxed on command.
10) Continued suggestions: "Come on man, is your back good? That's right, completely good." Classic leading. Telling the subject what he feels.

Source: http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php?topic=8667.0

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[pgnet54]

btw religion sucks big time.Jesus is awesome.Learn the difference before running your mouth.

[YourBrainOnReligion]

@pgnet54 Why don't you take a dose of your own medicine, doctor? Head on over to the dictionary and look up the word "religion" and let me know what you find.

While you're there, look up "cult" too.

Then, when it dawns on you how fucking retarded your comment is, go ahead and pretend you didn't write it and pretend you didn't learn anything. Maybe then you'll understand why I can so easily and remorselessly inform you religious fucktards that you're all stone-cold morons.

[DrHood2309]

amputee would be cool but I think Id wait until I knew for sure that it would happen before I risked stepping on someones emotions. But it aint impossible!

[DrHood2309]

this videos hilarious! Ive healed tons of people altho its been inactive due to lack of care of or concern but this videos clearly an attack on someone who must be making a difference. And btw... every penny on earth belongs to God! He made it all! And you too can be a healer soon as you get that chip off your shoulder! lol!

[spmcd2011]

@GStroowe There's a simple experiment to prove me and the whole of the scientific/medical community incorrect.

Find a subject with a leg shorter than the other (i.e the bone is shorter). Take the subject to a hospital and have that leg x-rayed. Measure the length of the bone structure.

Do your healing and then have the same leg x-rayed again and measure.

Why do think there is not one single instance of medical science that healers cause legs to grow?

[spmcd2011]

@GStroowe Why do you think that no medical doctors who have spent 6 years studying medicine agree with you?

Are these people all frauds (the ones that keep us alive).

You present no scientific evidence to back up your claims (measurements or bones pre and post) .

You rely on the gullible.

[spmcd2011]

@GStroowe you state 'Well I don't carry around a measuring stick, but it's not that difficult to eyeball it.'

Really, most people have a difference in their legs of less than1/2 inch. So you can see by the human eye 1.5 cm has grown on an object that is 80cm + . Pretty good vision by you. However, eyeballing doesn't mean it is true. Taking an actual measurement would confirm it to be true.

[GStroowe]

@spmcd2011 Well I don't carry around a measuring stick, but it's not that difficult to eyeball it. In the most extreme case the person's leg was about 1 and a half inch shorter than the other, and it grew out the full length! I've prayed for many people who have legs about half an inch short, which is still easy to see, and the leg grows to full length, or the hips come into alignment, which sometimes is the problem. You can go to my profile and watch "leg grows 2 inches". That was me praying.

[spmcd2011]

@GStroowe Care to provide us with some scientific evidence for this? Independent verification that you grew someones leg. I.e An accurate measurement of the leg before and after?

[GStroowe]

I'm not an author or a preacher. I'm just a college student, but I do the same things Todd does. It's in the Bible and it works. I've seen legs grow, arms grow, scoliosis healed, ADHD healed, all sorts of pain healed, and I've only been doing it for 2 years! God speaks to me. He leads me and tells me things about people just like Todd. Jesus said we would do greater miracles than He did (John 14:12). It's His way of showing his love to others through us.

[spmcd2011]

@IamaFreeWillOffering I asked you who deserves to be saved. A rapist and murder of children who repents, or someone who has never committed a crime, spent there whole life working for charities and looking after the homeless but does not believe in god. And you answered the non-believer. You have shown everyone here that you have NO morals and neither does your god.

[spmcd2011]

@IamaFreeWillOffering you state ' There are thousands of testimonies on YouTube regarding miracles'

Yep, personal testimonies, the type that you can't present as evidence. Why should I believe what you say to be true when you can't demonstrate it to be true. That my friend is being dishonest and lying to ones self.