Comments on: Peter Popoff’s Miracle Spring Water

By: Seattle Miracle Spring Water - Pop Occulture

Seattle Miracle Spring Water - Pop Occulture — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:20:15 +0000

[...] ng water. It’s annoying the crap out of me. See, I wrote a post about a fellow named Peter Popoff (real name) who gives away (for a donation) magical [...]

By: Haeresis

Haeresis — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:54:58 +0000

The Kabbalah Center was giving away little a “free” book for awhile…but the shiping was thirteen dollars.

By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:38:55 +0000

holy crap, that thing with leaving messages on the entire office voice mail is amazing!

By: garrett kelly

garrett kelly — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:28:29 +0000

I meant “unintelligiable” but intelligiable is funny too.

I love 1800-numbers. I’ve always been a big fan: ever since 9th grade when we found out if you called 1-800-Fat-Lady you could talk to a phone sex operator for free. That didn’t last very long, but…

There is this one number, which I will not disclose, that my friends have been calling for a long time. It was great cause you could push the number 2 and it would replay your message!!!!. Anyplace we were on the planet we would call and leave diary type entries, or play music, or leave wierd messages.

The other day I called some 800 number and got a random old guys private line or something. I asked him if he believed in time travel and he said no. Then I asked him what he thought about being on the planet earth and he told me to read the bible. I said “thanks for talking to me, we’ll probably never meet again, but I hope you have a nice life.” I always get scared when I say that cause it sounds like I’m a serial killer - but I mean it seriously, I hope their life goes well.

One time my friend Jake called a random 800 number and got a directory for a whole office building. WE left messages on everyone’s private voicemail and thought about how crazy it would be the next day in the office. We wondered if anyone would talk about it over the water-cooler. Our messages were things like “why don’t you take the day off today? It’s so nice outside…” etc.

I recommend it. Just find a payphone and dial at random - 1800, or 1888.

By: alistair

alistair — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:42:10 +0000

i like to call these 1-800 numbers and ask the operator if the head guy there speaks directly to god,and when the operator goes”uh huh” i say “well ask your boss,next time he`s speaking with god,to tell the man to stop starving whole countries in africa and sending hurricaines up the gulf of mexico.and making wars around the planet.”
well,it makes me feel better,anyway.

By: JK

JK — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:14:54 +0000

My point was to make prayers so intelligiable that God couldnâ€™t understand them.

Brilliant! And not at all tangent-y.

By: Garrett Kelly

Garrett Kelly — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:46:58 +0000

My friend KC was really into Popoff back in college. He sent away for that vial of water ( I think) but instead they sent him a “cloud from heaven” which was really just a piece of cotton. Did they really think they could fool anyone with that shit?

My personal favorite has always been Benny Hinn for some reason.

Did any of you ever recieve that folded map with Jesus’s face on it? It came randomly in the mail one day and you were supposed to pray on it and send it back - I think it had an optical illusion in it also, so that people might go “Holy Shit! His eyes are following me! Then join up for a hefty membership fee.”

Ever seen Through the Eyes of Tammy Faye?

Somewhere I have all these insane prayer requests that I would send off through electronic mail to christian sites that promised to peruse over them and pray for your needs. My point was to make prayers so intelligiable that God couldn’t understand them. Sometimes the people would write back and try to address whatever point they thought I was trying to convey. I should of saved the list of sites because I swear there was one that would transmit your prayers into radio signals and send them to a planet which was supposed to be the last known place god was had resided.

Sorry this is all tangent-y.

By: J. Puma

J. Puma — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:28:37 +0000

i used to work at ‘the fountain of youth historical park’ in st. augustine, fl. it was supposedly where ponce de leon landed and found a spring that could have been the ‘fountain of youth.’ for seven bucks (i’m sure it’s more by now), tourists could visit the spring and get a plastic shot-glass full of sulphur water from the ‘fountain.’ invariably half of the people who drank the water made utterly stupid and repetitive jokes like ‘where’s the fountain of vodka?’ ‘i’ll bet you’re eighty years old, right?’ then we’d have an historical questions and answers session about st. augustine, when people would ask stuff like ’so, when the pilgrims lived here, did they get here before or after columbus’? like they learned their history from bugs bunny cartoons. the whole thing was a huge bilk. ponce never set foot there. we filled the water bottles out of a tap that led into the same aquifer that supplied the tourists’ hotel bathrooms. we also sold little vials of the water in the gift shop for $5 a pop.

i guess the moral is that some people will do really stupid shit sometimes.

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:11:32 +0000

I was watching Popoff’s show the other night. Whew! It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. Plus, they seem to be VERY stingy with the Miracle Water. It LOOKED like about a thumb-size container! So as to appear even more precious and rare, I suppose.

I have a bottle of Lourdes Water that someone gave me in the ’80s. Works GREAT on a hangover!