speaking_in_tongues amorfus pentacostal plebians play Pliny's pleasure-o-phone. no, nevermind, i have nothing to say. 000509 ... Merigrace I wish I could speak in tongues. Or at least hear someone speak in tongues. Oh well, someday. Right? Of course. 000805 ... typhoid i've spoken in tongues. mmm. muffins ;) couldn't figure out how to find a tape recorder though. sorry. 000805 ... moonshine ---Witness. Speaking in tongues, Alice in Wonderland, none the less. Really he was quite the spectacle. Prime example of why to Say no to Muffins. 000805 ... startfires hammmna kleshto sa bockthani. ahamma kleshto sa bockthani. umb da da la limba da la nightga da la kleshto sa bockthatni. 001114 ... jesus right on! 001114 ... yummychuckle I had a dream I was speaking in tongues once. very different from the real thing. and I'd like to hear someone sometime. 010602 ... The Truth I've seen what I classify as two types of speaking in toungues. Type a Was what (IN MY OPINION) was a staged, rehearsed production used in attempt to trick poor unsuspecting christians. The preacher said, "And now, we will hear someone speak in tongues." And this old woman sitting in front of me said some stuff in some language. Then the preacher said, "And now we will hear the translation." And this old man sitting in front of me said, "Repent and ye shalt be saved." And I'm sorry, but I don't think God would say speak in that King Jamesish type of way. (Ye, thou, shalt, thine) Plus, The Spirit probably can't be invoked on the commanding word of a small town preacher. Type B Was very real. I was a child and my recently divorced mother was in her room, on her hands and knees, kneeling by her bed. She was sobbing and praying, wailing. I stood in the hallway watching her, she didn't know I was there. After a while I heard her start speaking in tongues. Very loudly, very profusely. She was giving praise to God (every few minutes or so she would say, Praise you God, thank you Jesus, those were the only English words she said). I was amazed, and very frightened. I had no idea what was going on... 010602 ... god oon vator flortch squillo! 010602 ... stealth vator blergh minde 010602 ... farmfish when i was little i always spoke in this weird language but i was simply pretending i was speaking a foreign language. yet, it made me feel at peace whenever i did it. and later, when i discovered that people actually spoke in tongues, i felt deflated, like "hey, that's what i do, don't fucking label it." so, i still do it. by myself. because it gets the shit out of my soul that clogs my vision. just say, "koliashamba...and on and on..." in a few minutes i'm all clean. uh huh. 010603 ... silentbob but were you talking to god when you did it? 020421 ... werewolf smarf lapper toshikan duroo duroo miikoo fop nanan jyapuppy french kissing in the usa! now that's speaking in tongues 020421 ... oon flarchsquidlery 020421 ... The Truth It's amazing how drastically life can change following the glorious experience of communicating on the Supernatural Level. The power of Life and death dwell within the tongue. Life, Spiritual Life, given to simple human utterance ushers in a new dimension to the power of prayer. A Power I had not known before; The Power of the Holy Spirit. 030717 ... ferret "What in God's name is that thing?" "he seems to be the reason i'm pursued!" "does it have a name?" "yes..... tonguey" 030717 ... oldephebe Okay I've never spoken in tongues but I used to be part of a pentecostal touring church band - boy i never really got used to seeing it. I was always a little awed and frightened by it. and yeah like the truth said i have seen more than a few cases where you know the whole thing was choreographed to draw attention - look at me i'm so holy and really loud and inchoherent - but imagine my piety - to under go these gyrations and transfiurations of being - ya gotta admit i must be like practically sin free - God i find that kind of ersatz exhibitionism abhorrent. 030717 ... ShilohLives honestly...it dosen't feel as wierd as you would think.. It is really nice because you can just let your soul cry to the Lord. You have to Trust the Holy Spirit and you will pray what you truly need and what the Lord whats for you. It's the most awesome thing in the world and you can use it for youre private prayer all quiet and just between you and God. Like I said It is an awesome thing. 030927 ... oldEphebe i'm sure it's probably the quintessential spiritually orgasmic sensory experience..once your in the paroxyms of your holy ardor..it's the people who fake it..who deify idiosyncratic experiences..and extrapolate it as an authentic indice of ones spirituality, or suitability for ministry..church membership..and even entrance into thesesuper..holy roller cliques that develope in pentacostal and holiness churches. i have gotten "happy" before..and been lifted up and out of the pew..ran roaring towards the pulpit to be..ah gently contained by two burly deacons..yeah its happend to me on seveal occasions, but what really feeds my spritually estranged soul is the cultivation of an intimate relationship with god..i think that if people can see how you walk..in gentleness and humility and quiet confidence through your day that is what will be the beacon that brings men/women to Christ ... 030929 ... Terence McKenna And what they meant was use your voice to make an object. And as I understood, I felt a bubble kind of grow inside of me. And I watched these little elf tykes jumping in and out of my chest; they like to do that to reassure you. And they said, 'Do it.' And I felt language rise up in me that was unhooked from english, and I began to speak.. like this, 'Ehh yo ca dem wa, etc.. .. or words to that effect. And I wondered then what it all meant and why it felt so good if it didn't mean anything. And I thought about it, a few years actually, and I decided that meaning and language are two different things. And that what the alien voice in the psychedelic experience wants to reveal is the syntactical nature of reality. That the real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish. (More unintelligible tongue here..) And one of the things that I learned about DMT was that if you've ever had it, even just once, then you can have a dream, and in this dream somebody will pull out a little glass pipe, and then it will happen! It will happen just like the real thing. Because there's a button somewhere inside each and every one of us that gives you a look into the other side. And that's the button that resets the compass that tells you where you want to sail. Good luck... 031210 ... zeke do you think in english? i do not think in verbal language speaking, for me is a process of translation and is really an aproximation of the idea that impelled me to speak 031211 ... oE TM, Zeke, very interesting.. ya'll are some deep brothahs..wait..i'm using a black idiom not to characterize your ethnic extract or anything..ah i'm paying you a tribute..still though..ya'll are deep.. 031211 ... zeke OE: I am .5 romainian, .125 algonquin and .375 german - my ancestors came to america between 80 an 30,000 years ago 031211 ... oE you still deep brah..no offense intended 031211 ... zeke none implied aint no big thang 031211 ... zeke glossalalia 031211 what's it to you? who go blather from