Have you ever experianced it? NO? Then shut up cause you have no idea what the hell your talking about... Like i said it [speaking in tongues] sounds like Jibberish but it is not.
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Aliont jirgi ulin tiron seras!
I didn't just randomly hit letters on my keyboard to make pronounceable gibberish, I'm speaking in tongues! Surprise! Now you're cursed with syphilis.
Like i said it [speaking in tongues] sounds like Jibberish but it is not.
I once had a dream in which I composed an epic poem that rhymed beautifully and scanned perfectly (it was based partially on the Cthulhu mythos, and I dreamed I composed it in a nuclear bunker with these thick vines growing everywhere - OK, so I have weird dreams, STFU!).
When I woke up and thought back, I realised it was incoherent garbage. What I could remember of it didn't rhyme, it didn't scan, it didn't even parse - I just dreamed that it did.
My point is that when your brain gets detached from reality like that, then your perception of anything that goes on at the time means squat. If you ever did "speak in tongues" and perceived it to make sense, you were almost certainly talking shit that sounded like sense to you because you were thinking shit at the same time.
"You talk to God, you are religious
God talks to you, you are delusional"
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Lots of cultures have rituals similar to speaking in tongues, they say ancestor/God/Gods/Animal talk through them. It's just an outlet to touching the unknown, none with more convincing evidence than others
Peyote does that to people.
Does someone's private language mean anything to the rest of the world? Have phrase books been published? Are the rules of grammar and syntax meticulously followed?
I would like to read of a case where an American fundie spontaneously recited a speech in Aramaic. But that's about as likely as a man giving birth to the Prophet.
In Elizabethan English "tongues" meant "languages," i.e., speech meant to be understood by foreigners. And it IS gibberish, Nydas!
Hell, I was born here, an' I was raished here, an' dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter! - Gabby Johnson, Blazing Saddles
Now THAT was 'authentic frontier jibberish', Nydas' post is just plain old dumbass.
Speaking in tongues, regardless of what Pentecostals think, means Xenoglossia, not Glossolalia. Most passages in Acts and 1 Corinthians refer explicitly to tongues as a speech that would be understood by other people in the room.
Yeah, as far as I remember it, speaking in tongues meant speaking an actual language that people can understand. Not just blurting out random shit and saying its speaking in tongues. No, its just blurting out random shit.
you don't even know what speaking in tongues actually meant originally, originally it was when the apostles were preaching and everybody could understand even if they didn't speak the same language. So yeah, nonsensical gibberish that nobody can understand is pretty much the opposite of the original meaning of speaking in tongues.
Dumb Pentecostals and charismatics should learn about their own bloody mythology.
"Nydas" is obviously referring to "religious experiences".
Yes, I experienced that. I was around 12 years of age. My whole childhood I was told of God and Jesus. "With God, you always have a friend", and other blabber. "God always answers your prayers". As a child, I wanted to believe that. Somehow, God didn't answer my prayers. But when the adults tell me, it must be right, isn't it?
Ironically, my life-changing experience was in a church. I was kneeling, and praying hard to the promised "friend".
Then it happened. It was really some kind of super-natural revelation. Completely overwhelming. I have nearly no words for it.
This experience was: I suddenly realized that all of this is nothing but BS. There is no God. All the adults lied to me. I'm doing nothing here but to sit in a cold church and make a fool out of myself. Religion and the "holy texts" are nothing but nonsense.
I stood up, shook my head, took a deep breath, and I realized that I just made a huge step further in life. Then I left the church, never to look back again.
I once attended a Pentecostal service and was quite amused by the desperate attempts of the people there to "speak in tongues." Apparently, the holy spirit is incapable of granting people the ability to pronounce letters that do not have an equivalent in English. Furthermore, the holy spirit is powerless to deal with accents.
Frankly, gibberish would have been more dignified.
Confused?
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