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bigdre45 wrote: Try this one to get started: http://www.inplainsite.or...ml/tongues_part_iii.html
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oppressednomore wrote:While we are on this subject...I have to ask...and I'm almost afraid to bring it up, it was that tramatic. When I was a tongue-talker, fully looking for the supernatural --because that would mean God was right there--I would have some terrible things happen when I was sleeping. I'd have dreams about having powers and lights coming out of my hands and all of a sudden I'd wake up hissing!! It'd scare the crap out of me and it happened more than once. I'd be so terrified I'd just keep saying Jesus' name over and over because I felt like something OTHER than He was after me. My husband can attest to these episodes, it would wake him up.I really began to feel I was dabbling in the supernatural in a bad way and I wanted no part of it. I suppose it all boils down to whether one believe in an "evil" side or not...but I stay way away from it all now. I've not had those occurences since. Was I opening myself up to the occult..I don't know. It feel real and it felt bad!
May 25 12 12:01 AM
Elizabeth Niederer wrote: bigdre45 wrote: Try this one to get started: http://www.inplainsite.or...ml/tongues_part_iii.htmlHmmm. I think I'm going to hunt around in some of the academic search options and see what I can find. I wouldn't trust a word of anything posted on a site where the owner offers no identification or or ability to verify his/her/their claims or even existence. The Youtube videos are interesting. But whoever runs that site is so full of personal agenda that I wouldn't read anything written by him/her/them.
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Would either of you, Stubborn Envelop or Nitebreez, happen to remember the name of the book/s that you got this information from? I would really love to read more on these subject, thanks.
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lovemylife wrote:Don't believe in it. Faked it when I was about 16 years old just to get the insane congregation off my back. I certainly spent a lot of time watching and hearing others speaking in tongues and I never saw anybody derive any benefit from it, except the speaker who was of course proving how righteous they were.
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Miss Piggy wrote:I don't believe it either. I definitely said some made-up words because I wanted so badly to speak in tongues and fit in. In 18 years, I never experienced a trance state or anything similar. I definitely felt emotional when singing and worshiping, but I felt like I wasn't truly spirit-filled because I thought speaking in tongues should be an overpoweringly ecstatic experience. I remember feeling less spiritual, or less anointed, because I didn't really speak in tongues or get slain in the spirit. As my beliefs have changed and shifted over the years, I came up with many theories for speaking in tongues, one of them being possession by other spirits. Now that I don't believe in evil spirits, I think speaking in tongues is basically a mix of mass-psychosis/the emperor's new clothes.
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