Research On Speaking In Tongues?

Fnord said:
Okay, here's my plan.

The next time subject of The Gift Of Speaking In Tongues comes up, I'm gonna start twitching and then say in my best doomsday voice, "Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudya yamahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesm ahasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamp hrasit!"

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I oughta get a few miles out of that one. Whaddaya think?
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Nah, some smart@$$ is bound to say "Hey, you speak Thai!"
 
Why do we need to study people pretending to do something? Next you'll be telling me someone did a study of what people who talk to themselves do to help the sick.
 
Huntsman said:
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A) Have a lot of people gibber like gibbons in a bunch of unknown languages that no one can understand, which you either have to give someone else the ability to translate and/or run the risk of some oppurtunistic proto-Hitler creatively translating for his own benefit

or

B) Have someone speak the words you want said and let everyone hear them, thus showing off your awesomeness, understanding, spreading your message, and getting not only a bunch of new followers (allowing you to get the Sea Monkey Super Castle Habitat) but also a couple virgins for the night (Who's your Messiah! WHO'S YOUR MESSIAH, BABY!!!)
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Or C) Write "I EXIST!!!" in flaming letters across the sky.

I'm actually curious now. I want to be worked into a state of glossolalia just to see what it's like. Then try one of those exorcisms I've been hearing so much about. :flamed:
 
Kahalachan said:
I think it's called glossolalia?

Anyways, one of the things I'm interested along with studying the brain is language.

What I'd be interesting in is how people speaking in tongues is studied across cultures.

I noticed when I was younger and attended a Pentacostal church and seeing Jesus Camp and other times where people spoke in tongues, people seem to alternate between consonant and vowel in what tries to sound Aramaic.

"Hagarabashiba" or something along these lines.

What about Japanese people who are Christians that speak in tongues? I think they would avoid the "L" and "R" sound and vowels that deviate from their native language. I haven't heard anything from English speaking people of sounds that deviate from their own language.

I would like to read about or hear about studies with tongue speaking across cultures. It would beg the question of why people don't speak with sounds outside of their native language if this is a divine language.

I'm curious about the neurology and how people feel this euphoria from babbling.
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Look up James Randi and Carlos' treatment of the Austrialian media. It was featured on "The Power of Belief" and a few other specials.
 
Just where is this place called "Gibber"? You know, the place where they speak Gibberish? ;) :D

I'd also like to know why some people (especially some Americans) can't seem to say or type the word "HELL". They either substitute words like "HECK" or something like H E double hockysticks - even confirmed sceptics do it. It sort of reminds me of someone I knew who wouldn't say "Piss", but would say "Niss" instead, she'd eff & blind with the best (worst?) of them, but couldn't bring herself to say "Piss".

All I've got to say to that is, "Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-ftang-zoom-boing-mumble-mumble."
 
Thanks for that, I haven't seen the movie in quite a while & I don't have it memorised
(unlike some people ;) ).
I got this from Sacred-Texts & I had to edit it slightly (ftang for pikang).

Would you also remember the very long name from the election sketch in the TV series?
 
I just had a look at the Sacred Texts homepage - it appears to be a must for any devotee of Woo! They can pick'n'choose anything they like to prove anything their heart desires from there
 
Nope, "neewom" is one of the sacred words the Knights guarded before becoming the Knights Who Say "Ecky-ecky-ecky..." Get your Python Lore straight. :P
 
Ducky said:
Wow.

I'm betting you ran around the ren fest quoting the movie.
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Na. I live in an area where almost nobody has heard of Pythons. Which saddens me to no end. :(

Thanks for the link though. We're friends now, right? :)
 
Everything I ever needed to know about speaking in tongues, I learned from watching Robert Tilton in the mid-80s when he was still at the top of his game in Dallas. (I STILL haven't forgiven Diane Sawyer of "exposing" Tilton, thereby robbing me of some exquisite cheap entertainment.)

My great grandmother was only about two or three notches less religiously deranged than Appalachian snake handlers, and even SHE thought" speaking in tongues" was a load of crap.
 
I've always found it to be an odd phenomenon myself. I was once a member of a pentacostal church where this sort of thing was encouraged. I always felt very silly doing it.
 
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ksbluesfan said:
Different churches have different approaches to tongues. Some claim that you can only speak in tongues if there is somebody in your presence who understands what you are saying.
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Back when I was in high school, I attended church a few times with a girl with whom I was smitten.

This church (I don't recall the denomination) believed that god would not give someone in the church the gift of tongues without also giving someone else the gift to interpret it.

It was bizarre to watch, and my girlfriend was very embarrassed by it. It was evidently a matter of debate amongst the congregation as to whether this was a good thing or not.

Anyway, I was always amused that evidently, god would give someone a gft to spout gibberish for a minute, which would subsequently, after a pause, be interpreted as a paraphrase of some commonly-known bible verse.
 
TX50 said:
That's probably what God thinks too when someone says "shabalabalama" to him.
"What the #$%k is this!?"
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Reading that, what I'm hearing in my head is Andrew Eldritch's laconic "Shalalala" refrain in the song Vision Thing. If speaking in tongues gave results like the Sisters of Mercy at their best, I'd be queueing up to give it a try on a Sunday morning.


On a more serious note, I freaked out Mrs Malbui early in our relationship when she woke up hearing me speak gibberish in my sleep. It turned out to be Irish, which she'd never heard me speak before and which bubbles up in my dreams occasionally.
 
I remember vividly as a child waking up one late night and hearing my Mother and Aunt practicing their speaking in tongues. Wouldn't you know it the very next night they began magically saying the very gibberish they were practicing the night before.
 
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