It all happens for a reason - SRF's reason.

Props to Psychdoctorate for providing the inspiration I needed to write this article.

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Every time I have an evil thought about Sarah Palin, SRF takes a dollar from someone.  Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc!

Damn.  Now I have to get treatment Tiger Woods style. 

OK, so that's a crappy example.  Here are two much better ones:

From Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T. Edward Damer:
"I can't help but think that you are the cause of this problem; we never had any problem with the furnace until you moved into the apartment." The manager of the apartment house, on no stated grounds other than the temporal priority of the new tenant's occupancy, has assumed that the tenant's presence has some causal relationship to the furnace's becoming faulty.

From With Good Reason by S. Morris Engel:
More and more young people are attending high schools and colleges today than ever before. Yet there is more juvenile delinquency and more alienation among the young. This makes it clear that these young people are being corrupted by their education.

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"Post hoc ergo propter hoc" is the belief that an event is caused by whatever happens before it no matter when that previous thing happened, no matter how it happened, no matter if that first thing is totally not connected to what happens afterwards.  It's like saying "step on a crack and break your mother's back" and is considerd a logical fallacy.  It can explain some predictable and reproducable events (like if I bash my thumb with a hammer, I curse loudly - it's true!  Ask Joy about it!) but not much more. 

Oddly, it seems to be a basis for people to believe "everything happens for a reason" - you know, like when the trained psychotics at the Spiritual Rights Foundation say "you mocked it up!".

Cults and "spiritual" organizations rely on the fallacy of "post hoc ergo propter hoc" to maintain the illusion of effectiveness and truth of their teachings.

When they have an example of a miracle, they rely on that delusion and kindergartener logic to support and promote their unreliable and morally bankrupt teachings by touting that a favorable and beneficial event was certainly a result of their enlightened and spiritual activities.

SRF used it all the time.  I encountered it from the day I wandered in the door, thinking I was visiting a hair replacement center.

The first thing I remember is the time William Duby was hospitalized for a diabetic crisis, having an elevated blood glucose level. Bill's blood sugars was claimed to be the highest ever seen and scared the living crap out of his doctors. He responded to treatment and was released. For years, his recovery was attributed to his strong psychic skills - not to good medical treatment.

I was hospitalized for heart failure. I came into the ER with a record-setting heart ejection fraction (EF) of only 15%. That is so low, my doctors nearly dropped from heart failure themselves - normal is about 55% to 65%.  With cautions that I would experience only a limited recovery, I responded to treatment and was released from the hospital with an armload of medicines and comprehensive treatment program to follow.

My recovery took much longer but was as miraculous as Bill's.  I can walk and do more than I expected.  While there is no complete recovery from a serious illness (Bill Duby and I had to take lots of medicines to remain in recovery and maintain our health - I will always need them), I had said and still say it's my strict adherance to my treatment plan that effected my recovery. I did receive psychic healings and all that. However even then, I was clear that I believed the miracle of modern medicine healed me - the healings helped me just calm down and focus on maintaining my treatment.

Of course, there were several oddballs who came by to offer new age and spiritual healing advice.  They gave recommendation for full body scans for nutritional deficiencies to Indian healing rituals to the use of vitamins, minerals, motor oil, recycled pond water and re-processed rat poison to purge my body of the negative forces consuming me.

For reasons unclear to me, one of the cult members, considered to be their resident "health and body healing expert" dropped in to deliver a special healing concoction and instructed me to take a full dose three times a day. 

Each dose of this new age mess of "healing minerals" contained about twice the amount of salt and potassium a healthy person should have per day.  For them, taking this stuff three times a day can lead to heart health problems.  Big problems.  Like what I had.  For those of us with cardiovascular issues (hypertension and heart disease) that much salt and potassium can lead to death.  Ask your doctor if you need to know why.

Yes, that result is  predictable and reproducable and no, I am not about to participate in your reproduction experiment.  However if you follow the next execution at a Texas prison, you'll see how salt and potassium are used to send a condemned person to meet his maker.

I never took the stuff and that person is still the SRF healer.  I recovered despite that person's help.

Unfrotunately, my recovery gave SRF a reason to believe their deluded, psychotic healing methods caused my heart to work a lot better. If they were responsible for my recovery, it would be the only time in medical history that heart failure was treated successfully by doing not a damn thing.

In fact, they gave me a "healing" just before I dragged my one-foot-in-the-grave ass to the ER of our local hospital.  That alone should tell you how effective that "healing" was - instead of a pathway to a prosperous life, it was a near-death experience I hope they will not foist upon you.

Despite being in a post-recovery haze of prescription medicine side-effects (which still plagues me) I wrote about that healing in the SRF organ "American Spirit Newspaper". In the past, they touted my recovery as the reason to come in to SRF for healing.  They've read my article on the air and proudly waved it in front of prospective victims.

Now that I am on the other side, all that changed.  As I am an official SRF infidel, my words are suspect, corrupt, blasphemous, deceitful.  Yet they remain on the SRF web site and is still prominently displayed on the American Spirit.  How in hell are they going to explain THAT?

I just love the irony.

At any rate, whenever someone has a small victory in thier life - one that would have happened even without SRF, they jump in front of the parade waving their arms and any other parts of their bodies exclaiming the power of their techniques and the strength of conviction that SRF and only SRF will heal your cracked-up life.
 
But if you have a personal crisis or encouter one of the many speed bumps along the road of life, those same caring, warm and nourishing psychics of the Spritual Rights Foundation turn away, blaming your troubles on your innate evil and your habit of "mocking-up" issues that are not in your best interest.  SRF healings are available, though, for a nominal fee and are recommended to you for the duration of your troubles - which is usually forever.
 
In order to prevent more evil from entering your un-spiritual life, you will be hounded to "bring your tithing space into present time".  You will be advised that by following God's law to give the head psychotics of SRF up to 30% of your assets every year and up to 30% of your income on top of that, you will remove the evil, deceit and overall bad energy from your life and will maintain a truly spiritual and holy existance.
 
Don't those women staring into crystal balls, chopping off chicken's heads and doing things with religious icons I don't want to hear about say exactly the same thing?  Aren't many of them jailed and sued as well?
 
Can you put your faith into an organization and a group of people whos only support for their dysfunctional operations and outrageous claims is "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc."?
 
Many of us did.
 
And because we did, we continue to pay the price in rebuilding lost assets and wages.  We struggle to re-establish the relationships with our families and friends that fell apart.  We pray daily we can continue to maintain the freedom of our lives.
 
If you believe that because one thing happened a subsequent event is always related, then the Spiritual Rights Foundation is for you.
 
Yes, if you knock over a glass of water, you will get a spill.  If you crash your car and don't wear a seat belt, you'll be injured.  Those kind of events are predictable and reproducable. 
 
But if you think a man who proudly called himself "legally insane" healed himself from diabetes by using the same psychic energy techniques he used to con you out of your life savings, your weekly paycheck, your spouse, your children and any self-respect you ever had maybe you might think twice about accepting that something happens for a reason.

If you think the wives of that same man are annointed to carry on the delusional and idiotic teachings of their spiritual husband, if you believe they and they alone must be presented with your hard-won assets and hard-earned wages because, well, their husband said they could and they have always done it so you'd better hand it over, please take some time to reconsider the reasons why.

Because many of those reasons are all the wrong ones.