Cultish: How I Met Jesus at Burning Man, Pt. 1

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  • Опубликовано: 2 дек 2024

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  • @ApologiaStudios
    @ApologiaStudios  2 года назад +7

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  • @SusieQ3
    @SusieQ3 2 года назад +97

    I was in HS in the early 2000s, in a small town in Texas, and I knew about and wanted to go to Burning Man. I thought it was just a fun music festival. I don't even remember how I found out about it, but I remember talking to my mom about going, but she wasn't on board at all. Praise the Lord for giving me a good mother and for Him keeping me out of that scene!

    • @Weissguys6
      @Weissguys6 2 года назад +6

      🙏❤️🙏

    • @aliyahherbert4411
      @aliyahherbert4411 Год назад +2

      I am from Trinidad and i have wanted to go burning man for years and something keeps stopping me and now I I learning why.

  • @leahannewoods6170
    @leahannewoods6170 2 года назад +52

    I did the same as him. I got into the new age firstly from Eckhart Tolle, eastern mysticism from yoga, etc. So blessed to not be a part of any of that anymore! I’m a Christian now.

    • @angeldotexe1337
      @angeldotexe1337 Год назад +4

      I got half way through the power of now and had to stop, was boring me to death. I ended up watching more Eckhart than reading. I never really understood his message but it was soothing to fall asleep to due to his voice. I never knew at the time it was concidered new age but I can see it being a gateway. I am Christian now too and jesus is better than any of that nonsense.

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      @MonicaSĪGÑofJõñãhYUNIS Год назад

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  • @MrRudePolite
    @MrRudePolite 2 года назад +40

    I completely get where will is coming from. I was a dj in the Bay Area and I 100% understand the layers of dj culture that he’s talking about. In fact I just gave away my be here now book a year or two ago. I’ve actually been invited to go to a festival in sf in a couple weeks as a backup dj, but I’m not so sure about that these days lol. The whole new age festival scene is a racket, and Will absolutely nailed it because there’s always someone whos more enlightened than you because they seem totally free. I’m really embarrassed by my actions at festivals and such these days. acting without shame is an illusion. God has a way of bringing to light what’s in the dark.

    • @willspencerpod
      @willspencerpod 2 года назад +5

      Thanks for your comment. I’m glad I got out of the DJ scene before it became woke. I can’t imagine what that was like.
      Also yes the New Age “enlightened” seem very free, don’t they? They’re always so beautiful, and they have so much money. Wait… beauty, status, and money as markers of virtue? No different from the regular world. Amazing right?
      I also regret many of the things I did during my time as a DJ and in festivals but repentance is a real thing. Thanks again.

    • @pysq8
      @pysq8 2 года назад +1

      God would love to forgive you and remove your embarrassment. We're all prodigal sons 😍

  • @Mary-1000
    @Mary-1000 Год назад +6

    I worked in a popular photo lab in Marin County in the late 90s and we'd see hundreds of burning man photos. I never quite understood what the point of it was even though I was into the New Age and Tarot as well. It never did appeal to me as I'm a bit phobic about doing psychedelics and it was very apparent that that was a big factor in the festival. I'm very thankful to know Christ now, it's been a rough road and I'm loving listening to my brothers and sisters in Christ that are truly kindred spirits as many of them have walked a similar path to myself. God Bless you bigly for what you do on this channel.

  • @dr.Kurynovskiy
    @dr.Kurynovskiy 2 года назад +27

    Nooooo........don't end now! I'm hooked & can't wait for the rest. This is a great show and you guys do a very nice job with it. Better than Rogan or Friedman in my book because you're based in the Lord glorifying Jesus very eloquently.

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      A bit odd a cult trying to analyse another cult tho, no matter how silly the concepts of identifying a group as a cult.

  • @eviefriend3976
    @eviefriend3976 2 года назад +14

    I enjoyed this. I was Wiccan for 15 years before coming to Christ. I had a large tarot collection and loved studying about it.

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      How is your new cult better?

    • @pysq8
      @pysq8 2 года назад +2

      @@davidfrisken1617 she said Christ, not churchianity

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      @@pysq8 Huh? "Christ" by definition was a charismatic leader of a cult. Having had a "charismatic leader" is the prime prerequisite of labelling a group a cult.

    • @pysq8
      @pysq8 2 года назад

      @@davidfrisken1617 what makes a leader charismatic by your definition?

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      @@pysq8 I don't normally have personal definitions and considering words don't have meaning but are tools we use to communicate concepts, I generally consider people to be using the general usage.
      That said, nicely proportioned boobs seem to keep my interest for a period of time.

  • @YquemHurley
    @YquemHurley 9 месяцев назад +3

    I've attended 9 times and have yet to see a fight break out. Not saying it doesnt happen, but its not a common thing like a typical party or club scene. I definitely feel alot more safe there then I have anywhere else.

    • @crystallovesion
      @crystallovesion 2 месяца назад

      I've been 9 times too, my first burn was 2000 followed by 2001 2002 2003 2013 2014 2015 2016 then we went to the plan B renegade burn in 2021 good times! But nothing fulfills like Jesus!

  • @outdoormedia77
    @outdoormedia77 2 года назад +6

    Black Rock city is named after the Black Rock desert in which the dry lakebed resides. I’ve ridden my motorcycle out there a few times it’s beautiful place.

  • @dynagaming2693
    @dynagaming2693 Год назад +2

    As someone who grew up in a traditional Christian household, I had that "rebellion" that a lot of kids do. My parents weren't the type to recite Bible verses while punishing us, but we went to church every Sunday, my father was part of the worship team, playing various instruments. What we went to was what you'd consider a "mega church." Things got political, and since my family didn't have a ton of money, we were looked down on and lost positions within the church to people who tithed more. This was my biggest disillusionment with religion. So eventually I graduated high school, and determined there was no God. No God, no Jesus. I thought, "I'll just do whatever I want." Then I got into drugs. First it started with weed, then it delved into psychedelics. I can't tell you how much I discourage anyone from doing psychedelics. It will offer insight, but some things in your mind are best not explored. I had a bad acid trip, and never touched it again. During this trip, I felt a profound sense of emptiness. And even after the LSD wore off, it messed me up for a long time. I STILL feel this come up from time to time. After meeting my wife and having my son, we decided to return to church. A small church right down the street from my house. I finally understand what true fellowship is. I've since come to realize there is in fact a God, we can't just be specks floating around in the universe where there's nothing left after life. What's the point, otherwise? Since returning to Christianity, I am not nearly as depressed as I was when I was indulging in drugs and alcohol. I still have moments where I feel that profound sense of emptiness and loneliness, but I'm not sure if it's a side-effect of my LSD use or if I continue to suffer from bouts of depression that I have throughout my entire life. Regardless, I'm glad to have let go of these vices, and my return to following the word of Jesus.

  • @funnycatvideos1848
    @funnycatvideos1848 2 года назад +8

    Just listened on Spotify, couldn’t wait. Excellent stuff

  • @YquemHurley
    @YquemHurley 9 месяцев назад +2

    Its only called Black Rock City because its held in the Black Rock desert Nevada.

  • @amberkennett7544
    @amberkennett7544 2 года назад +7

    I’m a graphic designer and I remember in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s seeing it featured in Print Magazine. It looked cool, but a bit out of control. Glad I never pursued going.

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      Why what do you find so bad? Can't be worse than torturing children as this cult channel glorifies?

  • @AllCityWorld
    @AllCityWorld 9 месяцев назад +1

    It’s 2024 I started going in 2018. It’s the one place where as a black man I felt very welcomed as opposed to everyday America. Now there’s over 1500 different camps. Out of that maybe 3-5 are sex related. The other 1495 do so much more. Sex is not expected or promoted, & consent to engage with anyone even if there’s some form of attraction is emphasized. Many people don’t do any drugs and many people don’t have sex. Some people just go to dance and enjoy the music. There’s also a section for children, there’s a quiet section away from the music. He’s painting a very obscure picture of what burning man is for many.

  • @aleksandragieralt7370
    @aleksandragieralt7370 2 года назад +5

    I'm not sure if this is the case, but from my understanding the burning man statue is inspired by the Celtic pagan practice of burning a wicker statue as a sacrifice to their gods.

    • @beyondz55
      @beyondz55 Год назад

      Which the 70s film with Chris Lee shows its a satanic pagan cult that sacrifices innocents, virgins and Christians to their fake idols. Sick

  • @mattterry9674
    @mattterry9674 2 года назад +9

    Just for the record, Black Rock City is so named because Burning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada.

    • @mattterry9674
      @mattterry9674 2 года назад +1

      @@marekfoolforchrist What does that even mean? I’m from Northern Nevada. I remember these jerks stealing bicycles every year. It’s in the Black Rock Desert. Why else could it possibly be named that?

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      Are you claiming some sort of time travel? Are you claiming the geology over a huge area is a result of recent activity?

  • @HannahSquats
    @HannahSquats 2 года назад +3

    I didn't know psychedelics had an effect on your spirit. I've never done them, but after listening to this, it makes me never want to try them.

  • @YquemHurley
    @YquemHurley 9 месяцев назад +1

    Camps dont pay any extra fees. Individual tickets are currently 475 each. There are also more expensive tickets at 1500 you can get early, but you dont get anything more for that cost, only the guarantee of a ticket. Motivation for those is simply ticket scarcity.

  • @BonIvermectin
    @BonIvermectin Год назад +4

    Interesting that it takes place at Black Rock City when black rock or saturn worship is at the center of a lot of occult/freemason/luciferian practice

    • @beyondz55
      @beyondz55 Год назад +3

      Yup and the transnational super corporation BlackRock part of the WEF

  • @Longe
    @Longe 2 года назад +3

    Burning Man starts at 22:00. You're welcome!

  • @brigidambuul621
    @brigidambuul621 Год назад +1

    This whole discussion makes the synergy kombucha on the table look incredibly ironic lol

  • @jdj8983
    @jdj8983 Год назад +4

    Sounds just like Bohemian Grove. Even the burning of an effigy of a man.

  • @mirandawhite1596
    @mirandawhite1596 2 года назад +5

    I would love if y'all did a video of the International Church of Christ/The Boston Movement (different from just the Church of Christ). My parents were in it when I was born and left shortly after. Praise God! But they never want to talk about it and I have tried to find out stuff myself and haven't really found anything.

    • @pysq8
      @pysq8 2 года назад

      Boston, as in just-made-a-new-strain-of-cov Boston? What's going on in that place?

  • @dirkhoekstra727
    @dirkhoekstra727 Год назад

    Awesome conversation! As a South African, I know about AfrikaBurn... It takes part in a large open semi-desert area in an area called the Tankwa Karoo. And it is just as messed up and pagan as its American counterpart.

  • @joshnichols1438
    @joshnichols1438 2 года назад +4

    Tuned out the first couple minutes and spent the rest of the podcast thinking this was Jeff 😂

  • @matthewdavidlandberg91588
    @matthewdavidlandberg91588 2 года назад +13

    Christianity is & was Jesus the Messiah & HIS teachings & sayings. The Gospels written by the apostles are intregal to the Christian life and less of the self. Christianity is about self denial not self seeking. The new age (Hinduism, Buddhism, crystal healing, yoga, and etc) philosophy trys to add Jesus the person to their teachings but none of his actual teachings.

  • @KyleBrock007
    @KyleBrock007 2 года назад +8

    Hey I was there when he burnt the cards!
    I burnt my vax card right after... at least 5 times 🤣

    • @davidfrisken1617
      @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

      Wow you have joined a very extremist cult. Is your new cult belief based on any sort of evidence or mainly feelings?

  • @theoscillation
    @theoscillation Год назад +3

    Very interesting interview. In the filming The Burning Man they sacrifice the paranoid Christian detective in a literal burning man as an offering to their pagan gods for the harvest..

    • @beyondz55
      @beyondz55 Год назад

      Yes but the film is called The Wicker Man from the 1970s with Christopher Lee who also made a film called the Devil Rides Out where he battles a satanic cult

  • @estimatingonediscoveringthree
    @estimatingonediscoveringthree 2 года назад +1

    The appointed times are very important to celebrate…they are the Gospel lived out

  • @AverageChristian1
    @AverageChristian1 2 месяца назад

    Please pray for my friend Carrie. She goes every year.

  • @estimatingonediscoveringthree
    @estimatingonediscoveringthree 2 года назад +3

    Any “one-ist” view has a huge problem; who/what is the creator and arbiter of the rules of the system? They don’t have a answer

    • @MrRudePolite
      @MrRudePolite 2 года назад +1

      They do. The answer is you. The authorities that are over you are your perception of authorities over you. Essentially the rules of your life are a mirage.

  • @thefaithfullservantemmanue8227
    @thefaithfullservantemmanue8227 2 года назад

    Add the link to his website please

  • @ke2588
    @ke2588 3 месяца назад

    That is by far the best flavor of kombucha.

  • @claycook5773
    @claycook5773 Год назад +2

    This makes me sad. It is only by turning Burners into cartoonish stereotypes that you can condemn us all as hedonistic patrons of the orgy tent. Of course, others do the same to Christians. It's wrong both times. Jesus ate with sinners. The Pharisees locked themselves into their ivory tower and condemned those who didn't live up to their standards. Which are you?

  • @kylearmstrong1188
    @kylearmstrong1188 2 года назад

    The dopamine detox you must experience on the way has to be awful

  • @jody2873
    @jody2873 2 года назад +2

    Unfortunately, though the header said, " how I met Jesus at burning man", didn't hear the how he met Jesus at burning man in this video

    • @harveyudell9650
      @harveyudell9650 8 месяцев назад +1

      I agree with ya. It says nothing about the essential point: being born from Above[the correct original translation from John 3.] Regarding entrance into the true Kingdom of the only true God,the God of Heaven. There was tons of superficial 'man bonding' and experiences of new age confusion. Discern, brethren.

  • @dand4485
    @dand4485 2 года назад +7

    Hard to understand how or why a Christian would go to burning man...

    • @gregshell8570
      @gregshell8570 2 года назад +6

      To witness.

    • @dand4485
      @dand4485 2 года назад

      @@gregshell8570 Sure, witness all you want anywhere else... But it seems the Bible would take issue...
      2 Cor 6:14) Do not be mismatched with unbelievers; for what do righteousness and lawlessness share together, or what does light have in common with darkness? 15) Or what harmony does Christ have with Belial, or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16) Or what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell among them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 17) Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate,” says the Lord. “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will welcome you.
      By attending are you not partaking and joining yourself with them. Or if you witness to a person there fried out of their mind on drugs... You really think you are going to make an impact? Might look at any seed you share will be like the seeds hitting the hard ground and the birds of the air will snatch it away...
      Then another problem.
      Eph 5:11) Do not participate in the useless deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them; 12) for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. 13) But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. 14) For this reason it says, “Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.” 15) So then, be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise, 16) making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 17) Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
      No problem with witnessing, have done and do it a lot myself... Given as we read in v 12 " for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret"... You are saying one should actively watch and join themselves with them...
      Sorry seems a bit arrogant and insensitive to the spirit in the Bible. Surprised you didn't use the verse where Paul says "To all men i became all things..." and want to say see we have a license to sin "In the Name of the Lord..."
      Not sure i see what you are advocating in the Bible. If you are really interested in as you say "Witnessing", any street corner would do just as well, so then why attend burning man? You might assert "Because there are a lot of people there..." Ah so God is restrained to only working where there are a lot of people? Nope would say you aren't interested in witnessing as to be entertained by the evil... In the back of my mind i can't reconcile Phil 4:8 with a person going to burning man, then again if i want to clean rinse my mouth, ah... all the better lets got some dirty toilet water...?

    • @spencerra4544
      @spencerra4544 2 года назад

      @@dand4485 tough job for those christian reporters

    • @spencerra4544
      @spencerra4544 2 года назад

      @@dand4485 why do people read?

    • @KyleBrock007
      @KyleBrock007 2 года назад +1

      @@dand4485 burning man has lots of cultures and subcultures. There are people that use drugs, people that don't, that are there just for the music and the art, people that are there for hating the stick reasons. Can't lump the entire event into one group or behavior because burning Man officially doesn't promote one over the other.
      So basically your point is valid if you're painting with a really wide brush. Be used against Christians riding public transit or going to a sporting event or concert. By going you are condoning the actions of other people in the crowd.

  • @CP-mb2ge
    @CP-mb2ge 2 года назад

    Sounds like you need to wear a lot of pieces of flair at Burning Man!

  • @S_F_D_
    @S_F_D_ 2 года назад

    😁👍

  • @00teatime
    @00teatime 10 месяцев назад

    @ApologiaStudios why do y'all have on guest that are complete brats on Twitter?😂

  • @SlainDragons
    @SlainDragons 2 года назад

    I am continually impressed at how bad this man is at remembering his guests story/fact pattern. Do better lmao

  • @michellemarie9526
    @michellemarie9526 6 месяцев назад

    There is no difference between Jesuit and Catholic theology :)

  • @davidfrisken1617
    @davidfrisken1617 2 года назад

    Thank you for the honesty in admitting this channel is a part of a cult and accepting other cults.

  • @collectivecalling6534
    @collectivecalling6534 2 года назад +1

    First

  • @shlevings
    @shlevings 2 года назад +1

    these guys are full of absolute bull - S. and "litrally" is not word.

    • @wenmoonson
      @wenmoonson 2 года назад

      Boom, roasted.

    • @repentandfollowjesus3474
      @repentandfollowjesus3474 2 года назад +5

      Because you are spiritually blind, you need Jesus to enlighten you
      For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
      I Corinthians 1:18‭-‬25

  • @heidipekarek7494
    @heidipekarek7494 2 года назад +3

    I might be misunderstanding the question, but Burning Man takes place in the Black Rock Desert (i.e. official name on the map 🏜️😉). As Christians in CA we play out there other times of the year/riding dirt bikes etc 😁

  • @thefaithfullservantemmanue8227
    @thefaithfullservantemmanue8227 2 года назад +2

    Add the link to his website please