The Illusion of Perception

Psychology

It’s about how the “package” looks and less about what’s inside.

In reality, what we know today, was that most of what was happening before the audience’s eyes was a lie.

One example is Joice Heth, the purported 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington, but really a slave in her 80’s. People paid to see her because they wanted to believe and because the context by which the lie was told was so illuminating, surrounded by props, lights, and excellent writing.

TB Joshua, a Nigerian megachurch pastor, and televangelist, claimed to heal the lame by the touch of his hand before his untimely death this year. He played on the sad reality that people who claim to want to know the truth would rather believe lies when it comes to what they want.

He packaged his services as a star-studded event at fantastic venues worldwide to “anoint” paying guests with his power of healing and prediction. Attendees would flop around, fall to the floor, cry, and scream before jumping up and claiming all their troubles had gone. This was captured on film to sell and promote.

Just before he died, YouTube has banned his channel for trying to remove demons from a man whose family turned him in for being gay, a “condition” that T.B…

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