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Fightlinker


When I read Quinton Jackson's lawyer's version of the events that caused him to try and escape from the police, I was left wondering "Where's all that crazy God shit we were hearing about before?" Well, it's right here:
Jackson, a former UFC champion who is one of the biggest names in one of the fastest-growing sports, said he also felt there was a spiritual war going on in his mind between God and the devil when he raced down Newport Boulevard on July 15, leaving a wake of rumpled cars, frightened pedestrians and angry police.

He said he thought he was on a mission to save a friend – who had recently lost his faith in God – and was unaware that he had hit any other cars or was being pursued by a phalanx of police cars.

"I thought I heard the voice of God telling me to go save Brian," he said in an interview Thursday after his arraignment on two felony evading arrest charges. "I felt if I didn't get to Brian, he would die."

Now, he says, he believes he was irrational because of lack of sleep and nutrition.

"What was I thinking?" he said. "l know now that Brian was never in danger. ...But I really thought at the time that he was about to die."

If you were thinking "Wow, that's fucking nuts", just wait because it gets even crazier:
And then to compound things, Jackson said, he stayed awake for most of the night before the wild pursuit watching the movie "The Secret" on his DVD player, over and over again. "The Secret" is a story about using free will to make things happen in life. The film has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show and has been used as motivation in court-ordered classes for drunken-drivers, according to Lavacot.

Jackson said he watched the movie to the end that night and saw its message in a new light. Jackson, who became a born-again Christian about four years ago, said he connected the teachings of the movie with the teachings of the Bible.

"The Bible told me to have faith," he said. "But 'The Secret' taught me how to have faith."

But then he also remembered he had loaned a copy of "The Secret" to his friend Brian Talbert, also a UFC fighter. He said he somehow got it in his mind that if he didn't warn his friend to watch the movie all the way to the end, Brian would die.

I'm gonna let Jake take care of explaining what 'The Secret' is about in another post and why it's so fucking retarded. Suffice to say it's perhaps the dumbest new age crap to ever come out. Like, dumber than homeopathy and astrology added together and then multiplied 10,000 times. Yes, it's that dumb.

I don't think I've been this dissapointed in a fighter since Rich Franklin cut the ribbon at the Creationist museum.
Portland MMA
Oh thank you for the laugh. I just want to get this right "But then he also remembered he had loaned a copy of "The Secret" to his friend Brian Talbert, also a UFC fighter. He said he somehow got it in his mind that if he didn't warn his friend to watch the movie all the way to the end, Brian would die." If I had a dollar every time some thing on Oprah's book club saved my life. Like the time I had a feeling a friend was smoking crack and we had to get him the Poisonwood Bible ASAP. hah he's such a humble Christian too.
Hurley-Intl
man, you just spew ignorance about christianity and God when you speak of your disappointment in rich franklin for believing in creationism. people complain about christians being intollerant, but you're flat out ignorant of the possibility that God could create everything here, as opposed to a STILL THEORY of evolution that this little molecule magically evolved over billions of years and happened to place itself just right that i turned into a thinking human being. i reject the ignorance that is evolution completely and label all of its subscribers as blind to the realm of realism.
Márcio
I felt strangely uncomfortable watching that.
He doesn't seem fine to me.
Swedish guy
OMFG. I'm flabbergasted – both at the post and mr(s?) hurleys comment.
Márcio
You guys think he's talking about Juanito when he mentions the friend that betrayed him?
Gza
<sigh> Concern for Rampage just turned into pity.

"i reject the ignorance that is evolution completely and label all of its subscribers as blind to the realm of realism."

Oh no! Not the reject n' label! I'm canceling my subscription to evolution right now.
Gza
Here's an episode of Skeptoid on The Secret for those who don't want to wait for Jake to splain it: [Link]
CriticalBeatdown
How could any states athletic commission see that and say he's fit to fight? Good thing he's got a friend like Dana to look out for him. A fight with Shogun is just what he needs right now, obviously.
Captain
God I fuckin hate Oprah and all that new age shit. I have XM and have to listen to commercials about that bitch every goddamn day.

Oh, and I believe in God and evolution. Take that you ignorant bitches!
CriticalBeatdown
If God is so tight with Rampage, he should have told him to watch out for those leg kicks.
Portland MMA
Dude your name is a poser skate brand = your 16 and you should probably figure out what you want to say before you say it. So it doesn't sound like "you're ignorant to be ignorant to the fact that ignorance exists in ignorance and evolution and stuff."
JoeRoganIsAnAss
Odds he get's off clean at BETUS
Teddy Da Russian
[Link]
garth
as soon as someone says "EVOLUTION IS JUST A THEORY!!!!1ein!!!" then you can pretty much eliminate them from having anything like a rational brain, because they can't even get ONE WORD RIGHT.

and, uh, Hurley? provide a scrap o' evidence showing "God created everything!" and i'd consider it. i've been on the planet 35 years and haven't seen a single bit.
CriticalBeatdown
Ace and Rampage both lost their belts, so where is your God now, Hurley? WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!
garth
^gold medal

also, i just wanted to add, "the secret" is such a huge gooey load of rancid man-butter. who would swallow that?
Gong
Dumb.

Also, evolution at it's most tolerant isn't shunning creationism outright. There's still a bunch of holes here and there and hey, who's to say that God didn't create the swirling bunch of spacedust that started it all?

Anyway, I hope Rampage gets ... rehab (or something) with his probation. :/ They can't just fine this shit.
garth
evolution in no way makes any claim about the beginning of the universe. it's a description of the mechanisms by which species change and adapt.
cheeseypoof
lol @ how in his CBS interview ([Link]) he claims he doesn't remember what he said to the cops, but then goes into detail about what he said (aka being a child of god vs. being a child of lust). Later, if asked about the contradiction he'll probably claim he was delirious during the interview too.
garth
fuck it's makin me a little delirious right now
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