What do you guys think of speaking in tongues?
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heheh Tourette's Syndrome. The thing is I've always found the speaking in tongues thing (which a good Christian friend of mine totally believes in) is one of the most bizarre practices of Chrisianity. That is why I found it very odd that there is some sort of scientific confirmation.
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Didn't exorcist prove that God usually isn't the one talking when you're speaking in tongues?
I find this TS syndrome fascinating, I suppose those who know no swear words stick to the insipid silly or stupid rather than the groundbreaking and altogether more awe inspiring ones...
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Just wanted to add that glossolalia is not exclusively a Christian phenomenon. Many other traditions (some older than Christianity) engage in it. Various shamanistic traditions, some Hindu traditions, etc.
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Take a look at the video. Apparently there is a scientific confirmation.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZbQBajYnEc
Scientific confirmation??? Are you joking?
If anything it's scientific confirmation that they are NOT SPEAKING A LANGUAGE. Some people are really gullible. The study proved that the language portion of the brain was not activated when they were speaking in tongues. That's EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT WHEN SPEAKING SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A LANGUAGE.
If you go LALALALALALAHAHAHAHAALLALALAHAHAH... The brain software will show you have no activity in the language portion of your brain. That's exactly what happened in these studies, because no language was being spoken! It would be a true miracle of the brain scan showed that people WERE activating the language portion of their brain, even though they didnt know the language.. Instead, it was exactly what you would expect.
If you listen closely to different groups that speak in tongues, they all say the same types of sounds in their group. Then you go to another group and they will all talk in a different way. Then you notice the same people say the same things over and over again... This is because it's not a language, it's just a bunch of lost souls speaking gibberish, trying to imitate a Semitic language because they love how beautiful Arabic sounds.
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Scientific confirmation??? Are you joking?
.... it's just a bunch of lost souls speaking gibberish, trying to imitate a Semitic language because they love how beautiful Arabic sounds.
Prophet Mohamed spoke in tongues.
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Prophet Mohamed spoke in tongues.
Peace be upon him.Says who?
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sigh
Never mind.
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Selam
Don't believe the hype. Another money making scheme by man made religions to control our lives through cult mentality. Wake up and smell the coffee ;D Besides looking like fools I guess its only benefits is to destress. ;D Looks like fun though if you want a good laugh rotfl
Peace
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I was born in the American south. I can understand ecstatic vocalization but 'speaking in tongues' is completely fake. Evangelical kids are taught to hop around and speak gibberish from day one.
Moreover, in Christianity speaking in tongues is a misunderstanding of the New Testament claim that people could miraculously preach in foreign languages. The backwood Christians misunderstood and claimed it was an angelic language.
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I was born in the American south. I can understand ecstatic vocalization but 'speaking in tongues' is completely fake. Evangelical kids are taught to hop around and speak gibberish from day one.
Moreover, in Christianity speaking in tongues is a misunderstanding of the New Testament claim that people could miraculously preach in foreign languages. The backwood Christians misunderstood and claimed it was an angelic language.
I heard that it is mentioned more than 20 times in the Bible, is that correct?
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There are a lot of things mentioned in the Bible.
Try to look at it for simply what it is...
ecstatic vocalization is probably a good term for it.But this implies many things.. or could.
A lot of information can be carried in the song of birds.And I'm not trying to poetic ...I'm being serious.
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What about speaking with tongues? When I see people impressed by gibberish and nonsense, I lose all hope for humanity. What happened to critical thinking?
Peace,
Edip -
You were employing critical thinking by insulting us?
If this is hope, I would rather doubt.
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It's all gibberish.
It just becomes localized, after awhile.
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Salaam,
I wrote a short essay on Pentacostalism, here's the bit on Speaking in tongues.
http//servantofthelight.com/content/view/100/132/
This can be traced back to the Charles Parham?s Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, where Agnes Ozman began to speak in "tongues" in 1901 when hands were laid on her. It was claimed, though never credibly confirmed, that Ozman spoke in Chinese for three days, unable to speak English, and on the second day she spoke in Bohemian, again never established as true. Soon, most of the others at the school were speaking and singing "in tongues." Parham claimed that language professors and other linguistically educated people confirmed that the tongues were languages, but this has never been established outside of the movement.
Newspaper reporters of the day described the phenomenon merely as "gibberish."
In 1914, Charles Shumway diligently sought evidence to prove that early Pentecostal tongues were real languages. He failed to find even one person to corroborate the claims which had been made, so establishing they were talking gibberish.
Parham's Bible school students jotted down strange writings which they claimed were the product of the gift of tongues. They claimed these writings were foreign languages, such as Chinese, but when they were examined by knowledgeable people, they were found to be mere indecipherable scratching?s. The press called these writings "quaint and indistinguishable hieroglyphics".
Parham was so enthused that he said missionaries would go to the ends of the earth and would not have to learn the languages. In fact, most of the early Pentecostals believed this. It didn't work that way, though. When A.G. Garr travelled to India and attempted to speak to the people in supernatural tongues, he quickly found that he could not communicate.