I have heard so much about people speaking in tongues while supposedly in some religious trance. However I have never seen nor heard an example. Is there somewhere on the net I can go to hear it for myself? I know it is baloney but I would like to actually hear it for my own curiosity.
fishbait
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If you are lucky enough to catch a Robert Tilton broadcast on one of the whacky fundie stations, you will hear him speaking in tongues every few sentences while spouting his religion-for-Smurfs nonsense.
An approximation of the process would be:
1. Go to the dentist
2. Have him saturate your tongue with novocaine
3. Rapidly repeat the phrase "Rubber baby buggy bumpers"
4. Rinse and repeat
You are now saved! Hallalooya!
An approximation of the process would be:
1. Go to the dentist
2. Have him saturate your tongue with novocaine
3. Rapidly repeat the phrase "Rubber baby buggy bumpers"
4. Rinse and repeat
You are now saved! Hallalooya!
swstephe
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Robert Tilton: (wait a second, I can't stop laughing at those faces he is making on that webpage ... okay ... I'm cool) http://home1.gte.net/evande/skeptic/tvevan.htm -- there are some short WAV files you can listen to him speak in tongues.
There is this one:
http://www.bible.ca/tongues-audio-video-documentation.htm with lots of video and audio clips. The website's purpose is to expose those well-known personalities as false prophets.
For personal reference, during a devestating time in my life, I ended up in a "charismatic church" which taught that salvation was impossible unless each individual "spoke in tongues". I was eventually able to achieve this babbling, but as an ameteur linguist I couldn't deny that what I was saying or anyone else was saying couldn't have been a language in any form. My girlfriend at the time, being far too practical, dropped out with me to a more conservative church. I saw that that church had bought into that "88 reasons for 1988" baloney and had sold their possessions in expectations for the end of the world in 1988. I've come a long way since then.
There is this one:
http://www.bible.ca/tongues-audio-video-documentation.htm with lots of video and audio clips. The website's purpose is to expose those well-known personalities as false prophets.
For personal reference, during a devestating time in my life, I ended up in a "charismatic church" which taught that salvation was impossible unless each individual "spoke in tongues". I was eventually able to achieve this babbling, but as an ameteur linguist I couldn't deny that what I was saying or anyone else was saying couldn't have been a language in any form. My girlfriend at the time, being far too practical, dropped out with me to a more conservative church. I saw that that church had bought into that "88 reasons for 1988" baloney and had sold their possessions in expectations for the end of the world in 1988. I've come a long way since then.
arcticpenguin
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Try contacting Ruby. She used to attend a church where they did speaking in tongues.
fishbob
Seasonally Disaffected
One of the scariest things I ever did was attend a charismatic church service - sort of by accident. During my second year of college, I went along on a weekend trip to the beach with a high school friend I had not seen for a while, and some friends of his. They asked me to stop by church on Sunday morning before we headed home from the weekend. The preacher was frothing, the congregation was in rapt attention, my former friend included. Every once in a while somebody would jump up, wave their arms, and begin to babble loudly - and nobody paid any attention.
Imagine yourself in a classroom or movie theatre and somebody started gibbering wildly, everybody would look. It is too strange not to wonder about - except in that church service.
Although I was worried, they didn't kill me and eat me. The people I was with seemed normal enough again when we left the service. They must be some kind of pod people to be able to turn on that wierdness for an hour then turn it back off in public.
The closest I ever got to weirdness like that is when I walked by a church of what were called Holy Rollers. The doors were wide open because of the heat and people in their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes were flip flopping all over the aisles. Like you said, when they came out they were just like anyother congregation walking and talking as if nothing unusual had happened.
A few years later I experienced the same sort of behaviour at a rock concert where people were jumping around and acting crazy. In this case the cause was clearly evident.
A few years later I experienced the same sort of behaviour at a rock concert where people were jumping around and acting crazy. In this case the cause was clearly evident.
Goobly-woobly
Shortly after my exorcism, I went to a community church meeting. I watched incredulous as the speaker at the front whipped the crowd into a frenzy, promising that god's spirit was going to descend tonight...
Then the crowd around me started singing, in a wierd language I've never heard before... next thing I knew I was singing right along with them.
There was some excitement at this, taken as a "sign" that my exorcism had actually worked. The pastor from the local church I was going to, who had attended my exorcism, actually joining in the laying on of hands. He was very exited that I had been "blessed" with the "gift" of "speaking in tongues". He too saw it as a sign of success.
Looking back, I can see now it was just a crowd being driven into a frenzy by the excited speakers at the front. Nobody spoke in foreign languages - nor in "angelic song", as they put it. I can still speak in tongues now, though I do it for my own amusement and not because it has the slightest bit of meaning.
Shortly after my exorcism, I went to a community church meeting. I watched incredulous as the speaker at the front whipped the crowd into a frenzy, promising that god's spirit was going to descend tonight...
Then the crowd around me started singing, in a wierd language I've never heard before... next thing I knew I was singing right along with them.
There was some excitement at this, taken as a "sign" that my exorcism had actually worked. The pastor from the local church I was going to, who had attended my exorcism, actually joining in the laying on of hands. He was very exited that I had been "blessed" with the "gift" of "speaking in tongues". He too saw it as a sign of success.
Looking back, I can see now it was just a crowd being driven into a frenzy by the excited speakers at the front. Nobody spoke in foreign languages - nor in "angelic song", as they put it. I can still speak in tongues now, though I do it for my own amusement and not because it has the slightest bit of meaning.