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Speaking In Tongues

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Speaking In Tongues
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Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 5:59 pm
The whole concept scares the crap out of me. I'm usually a little weary of someone's character if I know they are religious, but if I ever met someone who claims to have spoken in tongues, I'm not even sure what I would do. Definitely not associate with them.

Creepy stuff.
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 6:06 pm
It's weird how a few hundred years ago, speaking in tongues would have got you burned for witchcraft...
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Yes! It's also pretty hilarious how it only really became popular in the last 100 years or so, and follows a very clear pattern in regards to it's spread and rise in popularity.

It's so obviously full of shit it's astonishing.
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 6:27 pm (This post was last modified: September 7, 2008 at 6:28 pm by Mystic Monkey.)
Last time I checked I am pretty sure you need 1 tounge to speek. To me this sounds a bit like religius opression against freedom of speech. Please explain more on this topic as I don't quite understand.
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 7:08 pm
It's actually hard to explain without sounding like I'm making it up.

It's biggest within Pentecostal Christian sects (which accounts for 30 million americans!), and is basically people who "feel the holy spirit" and start babbling random nonsense syllables. It's mentioned a handful of times in the Bible.

If you search Youtube for "speaking in tongues" I'm sure you'll find more than enough video footage of this strange phenomenon.
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 10:02 pm
(September 7, 2008 at 7:08 pm)Meatball Wrote: It's actually hard to explain without sounding like I'm making it up.

lol Scientology

Well I am familiar with this "Toung2 thing, just never looked into it.

You can tlak to snakes and they think your a freak.
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 7, 2008 at 11:23 pm
So *that's* what the woman was saying in the documentary 'Jesus Camp'. She broke out in what I assumed at the time was a foreign biblical language (and she seemed incredibly prowd of her single line performance) and my partner and I laughed pretty darned hard. In retrospect, she was obviously making it up. Reading between the 'lines', it sounds like a cry for attention "Look at me, I'm important, the holy spirit speaks through me!"
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 8, 2008 at 6:15 am
speaking in tongues is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. I laugh my arse off everytime I hear it.

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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 8, 2008 at 6:23 am
Habal-bababa-lalalalalala-shishishi-dadadada!!!
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RE: Speaking In Tongues
September 8, 2008 at 8:38 am
(September 8, 2008 at 6:23 am)Tiberius Wrote: Habal-bababa-lalalalalala-shishishi-dadadada!!!

How dare you talk about my mother like that!
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