My dad's running on the treadmill outside of my room right now and he's just yelling in tongues and it's annoying and creepy.
Wait a second, people actually do this shit? Like, there are people who just babble nonsense syllables because religion or something? Really? In the year 2020 people are out here thinking they "speak in tongues" or whatever? What? My mind is just boggled. This is a thing? How? How is this a thing?
Lol stadium churches don't got nothing on old southern churches with 15 members. It will literally turn into a mosh pit when the organ gets going.
https://youtu.be/J6LA5d8jq7Q This is what going to church every Sunday till I moved out was like. I felt so out of place cause I just couldn't get into it.
I see where they got the inspiration for those scenes in the Blues Brothers now
pasta da pizzeria oh gabagooly un statenda islendo de lookoutto im shakawalkin here
It's interesting, the first one seems like an obvious grifter (maybe she believes she's for real, I don't know, but it seems super grifty) but the second one seems sincere, and I just don't know what to make of that. Like, what is her brain doing that it feels to her she's speaking an angel language or whatever? How are brains so very weird?
That's weird as fuck, I didn't know people actually legitimately felt like they could speak in tongues. Thanks for video evidence, I guess. Holy fuck, humans are weird.
I could be out of line, but big televangelist pastors have got to know they're putting on a show to swoon marks.
In regards to the second video, I believe it's just faith. She's probably seen her family members and other churchgoers do it for so long that she's able to crush down any doubt within herself to do it. My dad will tell me conversations he's had with God, including God speaking directly to him. He even told me that God revealed to him that his next wife's name will be Elizabeth, so he knows what to keep an eye out for. He'll tell me Satan is telling him bad things about himself, but he knows it's the devil trying to provoke him and sow doubt within his spirit. He doesn't believe that stuff is his own conscience, it's God and the Devil talking inside of him.
I largely believe that most of what goes on in my conscience is of my conscience, but I’ve only had a handful of things that make me think, “okay, maybe there is something out there that loves us...” and Yknow, it’s comforting. It doesn’t seem demanding or jealous, just...love. I’m a very grounded, very cynical person who believes in science and materialism, but I do leave a chair at the table for a little bit of reasonable faith and hope. I guess what I’m saying is if something gets someone through a rough patch or through their day even, I’m not going to kick them while they’re down, but I sure as hell will shove them if they try to make me do the same as them. That’s my take on religion in a socialist society: people can pray and believe in God and heaven and all that if it helps them deal with the big questions and tragedy and stuff beyond human control, but that’s a personal thing and don’t expect others to kowtow to your beliefs.
Yep. The crazier ones even dance with snakes. But hey if it wasn't for gospel mixed with blues we wouldn't have rock so idk.
I took Latin when I attended a Catholic high school for a bit and our teacher was a 70+ super-religious guy and if we ever felt like not learning Latin we'd ask him one of two things:
- Did you hear what Bill O'Reilly said last night? Isn't he a real patriot?
Or
- Can you pray in tongues for us?
And he'd be off. Usually took him most of the class period.
Catholicism is the most syncretic religion on the planet man, there is no practise within Christianity not done by at least some Catholics.
It's not common, but this guy was very old school, hence the Latin. I think he dropped out of the seminary prior to Vatican II.
oh they fucking do. They call it the Charismatic tradition or some other shit.
can report that it does not cure chronic childhood ailments and that a medical specialist is preferable.
Lmao. It's just really weird seeing people in their 50s and 60s speaking gibberish and claiming it's a divine language that only God and angels can understand. It's literally just gibberish, it doesn't make up a coherent language structure.
Every time I hear it I just think it's a racist imitation of whatever language they think of when they hear the word "Asian".
They are jealous of jewish people because they know hebrew which is the language of the OG scriptures (¿right?). So instead of learning it, they made up this shit which is totally childish
I mean if you wanted to read the OG jesus books you'd need to learn some form of old Greek. Hebrew is only for Old Testament I think
I thought a key part of jewish "rituals" was learning to read the scriptures.
No, but Jesus was Jewish which meant he would’ve been literate in at least Hebrew, but also Aramaic and most likely passable Latin. I think the poster above you meant that Jesus was literate in Hebrew due to Jewish rituals, not that Jesus is part of Jewish rituals now.
Sure, they were prob literate but they didn't write any christian scripture themselves is what i mean
Or maybe they did, but those gospels "didn't survive" the official redaction of the NewTestament™ in 450 BC.
That's a good take, lol. I think the biblical origin of tongues had the apostles break out into speaking in existing languages they didn't previously know. But when modern speaking in tongues started around 1900, it was just converted to babbling the language of angels or something.
Always wanted to confront a dude speaking in tongue and pretend he just said something in coptic or some shit.
Let he who has never been overly confident about their language skills throw the first clay tablet.
1 Corinthians, Chapter 14: 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, two—or at the most three—should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.given this, why do people do the group tongue speak thing? it seems like the intent is for it to be interpreted?
At the church I was raised at someone would interpret sometimes, as an example the pastor or a choir member would speak in tongues, and maybe the pastor's wife's best friend would translate it into english.
Were you ever raised to speak in tongues? I remember being eight or nine at church, and they were baptizing us in the Holy Spirit. The pastor would lay hands on each kid one at a time, yell at them to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the kids would start mumbling. When they got to me, I remember wanting the Holy Spirit really badly, but I wasn't feeling anything. So when the pastor was yelling harder and scaring me, I just started babbling, "shaka hummuna kashiki babodosio shaka humunga" until he left me alone lol.
Wasn't raised to do it because it felt weird to me. Not to mention i didn't like the preacher cause he would make a point to make a big deal about people (me) not sweating, dancing etc up and down the aisle. Its a small family church so its awkward as fuck. Also he was stealing funds from the church which so it made it seem like a show. I kinda believe the bible was talking about actual languages instead of heavenly ones so they could evangelize.
Haha you probably know about being "slain in the spirit" then too. The last time I saw somebody being slain in the spirit, the pastor put his hand on someone's forehead, yelled for the Holy Spirit to enter their body, and the guy fell back and took out like 6 chairs and cut his elbow open.
Fucking tent revivals are wild for that shit. Hot night, mosquitos everywhere a barely coherent sermon with hours of shouting and old ladies falling out on the floor and getting home at midnight. The only reason I even cared to go was the food my aunts made for everyone beforehand.
Maybe it's just because I was raised Catholic, but this whole like...display of the Holy Spirit thing seems weird to me. Like it's more about showing how special and pious you are then everyone else or the people who don't "feel it".
A clip someone else linked seemed more like people were just dancing as part of worship which is more understandable, but idk.
If anything I imagine the Holy Spirit would be a calming presence, but idk if any of this has scriptural basis.
I know a guy who's Pentecostal and he's convinced he's going to hell because he hasn't spoken in tongues like every other dipshit he goes to church with. It's kind of sad but I don't really feel bad because he's homophobic as fuck lol
when i was young in the chuch community, i was DISTRAUGHT because everyone else could speak tongues before me.
also I am convinced almost everyone knows what they're doing is bullshit, but too afraid to say so. I did a few times but felt so fake, so i just stopped.
i've never heard of speaking in tongues during exercise, picturing out-of-breath gibberish is killing me lol. i thought it was saved for special occasions? will they just do it anywhere/anytime? i have so many questions
intended it to be the stock pop-culture 'hallelujah' soundbite and not an edgy New Atheist dig
https://youtu.be/lwQmDvuORY0
Glósóli - Sigur Rós
Can't believe that's 15 years old.
It's times like this I'm glad my parents are lapsed Catholics and that I don't live with them anymore
Lol I'd be glad too. Living here was my last option because my credit is shit and can't afford an apartment. Hopefully I'll be out of here in a few months.
Best of luck to you
My advice is to check your water heaters real good before you settle in
Had two of them explode on me, first one ruined my floor and a bunch of my books and the second one thankfully didn't do much damage (but it could have)
I'm trying to stop bringing up Snow Crash all the time and you people aren't making it any easier
What the fuck? The times when I am glad my father was just a checked out alcoholic.
Ugh now I'm remembering the couple of times I invited my friends to church on Wednesday nights. They were probably really freaked out.
Are you sure he's not just singing to a song he barely knows with a headset on?
