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the 50 SET of 4.7GB or GIGABYTE ON A PLASTIC SPINDLE IN A PLASTIC CASE! Some of the 25 SET were put out for FREE by Ted on WORLD Earth and are IN PUBLIC DOMAIN and can be COPIED HOW MANY TIMES WANTED and or NEEDED and or REQUIRED and or DESIRED owing Ted NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's a lot that's fascinating about this guy. I see in a lot of his anxieties over the literal truth of the bible the sorts of things that got my discipline off the ground in the eighteenth century. Unfortunately, he's a schizophrenic, so he's got personal revelation as an answer instead of reason.
But, I can almost imagine a prophet in Judah in the 6th century BCE ranting and raving like this over the survival of their message into the future. Of course, waving around a roll of papyrus instead of a spindle of DVD's.
He's obviously minimally stable, since he says he's been having revelations for ten years. And he's not completely divorced from reality. In the last minute of this video, he talks about his early days as a messiah when he thought he could walk on water and control the weather. He looks almost chagrined when he admits that he had to change his idea of what kind of god he was when he sank in the swimming pool.