Speaking in tongues?

[Polaris]

This one is easy. It doesn't light up the language centers because it is not language. It takes virtually no brain power to make inarticulate sounds. These people are charlatans. They are not crazy or disturbed. They are thieves or are helping thieves. They know exactly what they are doing and should be prosecuted for it.

What the fuck did I steal?

[Shell B]

Ew, you're trying to claim you spoke in tongues? Well, you are either delusional or a liar. Only you can know if it is the latter. As for what you stole, you personally may not have stolen anything, but I bet someone in your circle of lying assholes made some money off of your baloney. I'm really sorry if you are delusional, but the absolute and utter bullshit that is speaking in tongues is something I won't pussyfoot around. Lying to yourself is one thing . . .

[fr0d0]

I've spoken in tongues. I haven't spoken in 'another language'.

I agree on the bs surrounding what is supposed to be the other kind. A lot is made, in my experience, of the 'spiritual' gift, when in reality it's little more than relaxed babbling. I enjoyed it, don't get me wrong. And the pastor of that church was an incredibly sensible, sensitive and intelligent guy, which is how that church grew to such success.

Isn't it odd that you don't see many Pentecostals online. Especially given the apparent popularity. Stand up and be counted guys!

[Faith No More]

You know, in order for all of you to be atheists, you must have experienced this type of abnormal/paranormal/spiritual activity. Otherwise, for you to just assume it's gibberish is to conform to the intellect of scientists that you do not even know personally... which I abhor.

Nonsense can be dismissed as such, even without firsthand experience. I abhor when people assert that nonsense must be taken seriously.

Know why? It denies reason and accountability of former believers of any faith and makes their experiences into nothing. I consider this not only immature but unfavorable to the cause of searching and finding if there truly is no God. So until each and every one of you can testify from your own mouths that it is gibberish from your own practicing, I will assume that you are denying a higher being's language/aura/communication that you do not understand.

I can take one look at a person and automatically tell what their happiest memory is by reading their mind. Until you have personally experienced that I cannot, I will consider your dismissal of my powers immature and assume that you are simply denying a power you do not understand.

[Neo-Scholastic]

I don't speak in tongues; I just spout bullshit.

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I can take one look at a person and automatically tell what their happiest memory is by reading their mind.

There's a Japanese movie about that...I cannot remember the title.

[Creed of Heresy]

This one is easy. It doesn't light up the language centers because it is not language. It takes virtually no brain power to make inarticulate sounds. These people are charlatans. They are not crazy or disturbed. They are thieves or are helping thieves. They know exactly what they are doing and should be prosecuted for it.

What the fuck did I steal?

...Hm...

Ew, you're trying to claim you spoke in tongues?

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[Mononoke]

You know, in order for all of you to be atheists, you must have experienced this type of abnormal/paranormal/spiritual activity.

I don't see why.

Otherwise, for you to just assume it's gibberish is to conform to the intellect of scientists that you do not even know personally... which I abhor.

Why is it abhorrent to, after reasoned thought, defer to the experts and accept their findings?

Know why? It denies reason and accountability of former believers of any faith and makes their experiences into nothing.

It makes them into people who are sadly deluded, or pressured, or have not-so-sadly acted deviously. I know what religious experiences feel like, though I have not spoken in tongues, and they were incredible; they just weren't supernatural although I believed them to be such. I have taken the experiences of myself and others, and I have thought about them, and I have concluded that speaking in tongues is no different. It doesn't lessen the experience or mean that I consider the speaker less intelligent, it just means that I think the experience had a different cause and the speaker is not aware of it, or is aware of natural causes but for other reasons assumes their experience was supernatural.

I consider this not only immature but unfavorable to the cause of searching and finding if there truly is no God. So until each and every one of you can testify from your own mouths that it is gibberish from your own practicing, I will assume that you are denying a higher being's language/aura/communication that you do not understand.

It takes far less assumption to assume that there is no supernatural cause.

[Minimalist]

There's a Japanese movie about that...I cannot remember the title.

Godzilla v The Smog Monster.

[Polaris]

Ew, you're trying to claim you spoke in tongues? Well, you are either delusional or a liar. Only you can know if it is the latter. As for what you stole, you personally may not have stolen anything, but I bet someone in your circle of lying assholes made some money off of your baloney. I'm really sorry if you are delusional, but the absolute and utter bullshit that is speaking in tongues is something I won't pussyfoot around. Lying to yourself is one thing . . .

And I'm the delusional one?

[Shell B]

Yeah, I don't think we could ever be friends. You actually find it funny that I do not take you seriously when you claim to have spoken in tongues.