(October 26, 2013 at 8:07 pm)leodeo Wrote: When I was 16 my pastor took me to a guy who could speak in toyngues and the guy prayed for me and said some stuff in tongues, and was like "I can feel you are very depressed, but someday things will get better"...so do you think he was just bsing me and making up random noises? He was like 40 years old.
Speaking in tongues? Are you serious? That's no miracle. Anyone can babble incoherently and pretend it's some "ancient" language. But when those "languages" are studied, they're just found to be gibberish. I believe one once claimed to be speaking Aramaic but when language scholars studied a recording of his speech it was definitely not Aramaic or any other known language. "Speaking in tongues" is total bullshit.
Quote:Another time I was in church a guy came to speak and when he was done and everyone was kinda mingling, he took a look at me and the first thing he said was "you are going to be blessed this week"... And the next day my parents got me a golden retriever.
I guess you probably also believe in astrology, because this is such a general prediction that just about anything good that happens in the next week will fit, and true believers will make that mental connection. That's how "psychics," horoscopes, and other cons work. People make their own mental connections when something fits the "prediction," and ignore all the other stuff which doesn't fit.
Kind of like how Jeanne Dixon, the famous "psychic" always ran around claiming she predicted the JFK assassination (actually she made some vague prediction that he would die before leaving office, along with a few other "or possibly this" claims which covered all her bases) while she made hundreds of predictions every year which never came true. She always focused on the few hits and not the thousands of misses.
Quote:Also for skyrim fans have u seen the fus roh day in church where the priest says something and everyone falls down? Do u think that was a set up?
You obviously don't understand the sheep-like mentality of people who go to churches like that. When a few people start falling down, the rest think that's what they're supposed to do also and don't want to be the only one still standing. And if Benny Hinn's church is anything like a Catholic mass, there are certain times where everyone sits, everyone stands, and everyone kneels. At any rate, it's definitely not a miracle.
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