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Speaking in tongues?
#21
RE: Speaking in tongues?
It is a comedic act!
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#22
RE: Speaking in tongues?
(May 7, 2013 at 2:59 pm)That guy who asked questions Wrote: was shown, not even in the frontal cortex (If you don't know, that is where the language center of the brain is).

There are two main language centres of the brain, not one. Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Brocas is in the frontal lobe, under the primary motor cortex and near the border of the temporal lobe. Wernicke's in in the temporal lobe, extending from the auditory areas to up near the borders of the occipital and pareital lobes. For the vast majority of people these centres are only in the left side of their brain (a small minority have theirs on the right, or on both sides).
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They have different functions, Broca's deals with grammar, Wernicke's deals with vobab/meaning.

That nothing much is lighting up when speaking gibberish (Speaking in tongues/Glossolalia) isn't much of a surprise tbh. What use is a grammar centre when just randomly stringing english sounds together?

As I understand it glossolalia is speaking in tongues (to god) like they do in those churches, xenoglossia (xeno as in foreign) is what the disciples reportedly did when they spoke all languages after the holy ghost visited them.

I remember reading about glossolalia a while ago (so I don't have a citation for this, it's from memory), and it turned out that the sounds in their speech were all sounds from their native tongues (or ones they've been exposed to by bilinguals in their congregation). The English speakers are all using sounds found in the english language, while around the world people are making clicking noises and whatever is in their native languages.

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#23
RE: Speaking in tongues?
1 Corinthians 14:22 Wherefore tongues/languages are for a sign, NOT to them that believe, BUT to them that believe NOT: This first part of the verse explains that the deciples spoke to unbelievers purposely in their own tongue, as a sign in which they were to be believed, as the rest of the verse points out that prophecy only serves believers . How the deciples speaking to strangers in there own language became this "mumbo jumbo" amongst bretheren within a church, is beyond my grasp.
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#24
RE: Speaking in tongues?
(May 7, 2013 at 4:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: F fotqiok;hGFL>k etHLKJU teeeaollKk,klo eGRWTSIl; 1@!!!

Means repent you sinners repent, before it's to late.Cool Shades
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#25
RE: Speaking in tongues?
(May 8, 2013 at 7:01 am)Godschild Wrote:
(May 7, 2013 at 4:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: F fotqiok;hGFL>k etHLKJU teeeaollKk,klo eGRWTSIl; 1@!!!

Means repent you sinners repent, before it's to late.Cool Shades

Huh, and here I thought that was Cat (walks over the keyboard) Speak Big Grin
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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#26
RE: Speaking in tongues?
(May 8, 2013 at 8:00 am)Kayenneh Wrote: Huh, and here I thought that was Cat (walks over the keyboard) Speak Big Grin

Hehe. Cats speak in tongues, too, afterall.



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#27
RE: Speaking in tongues?
(May 8, 2013 at 3:28 am)Maelstrom Wrote:
(May 8, 2013 at 3:26 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Learn to read. The topic has been about one form of speaking in tongues: to speak in another language.

It is clearly understood that speaking in tongues has nothing to do with language. It is babble.

Babbling is what the jesus freaks do best.
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#28
RE: Speaking in tongues?
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.

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.
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#29
RE: Speaking in tongues?
Quote:Know why? It denies reason and accountability of former believers of any faith and makes their experiences into nothing

Right. They are nothing. Certainly not evidence worthy of the name.
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#30
RE: Speaking in tongues?
(May 8, 2013 at 8:46 pm)LaffinAtchu Wrote: I will assume that you are denying a higher being's language/aura/communication that you do not understand.

Thinking

More babble.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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