Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by anna09 » Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:10 pm

rachelsinatra wrote:
Ghatanothoa wrote:My money is on mass hysteria
Definitely mostly this. I grew up doing it so it's a little different (not sure how grown adults are brought into it), but basically you are encouraged when you are young to "just start making noises even if it seems strange and God will start to speak through you". So I did, cause I was a kid and then eventually it becomes a sort of trance-like state and you become conditioned to respond that way to certain cues. It's pretty fucked, really :dono:
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Post by QuarkyGideon » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:31 pm

Brilliant stuff! That video is brilliant stuff. :funny:
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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by JimC » Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:35 pm

And the courts take this crap seriously... :roll:

Talk about enabling lunacy! :lay:
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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by Nautilidae » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:27 pm

anna09 wrote::shock: :?


I wonder what's actually happening to them when they're flailing around like that. Are they making it up? Are they having a siezure? Perhaps an orgasm? :eddy:
The disappointing thing is that people actually take it seriously.
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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by Trolldor » Fri Mar 26, 2010 2:58 am

The power of suggestion.
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by statichaos » Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:21 am

I faked speaking in tongues once in order to get out of a nasty situation.
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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by Trolldor » Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:23 am

?
"The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement but few can argue with it."
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Re: Sued for failing to speak in tongues!?

Post by statichaos » Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:24 am

It would require a thread of its own. I'll log onto my LiveJournal for the first time in a long time to bring it here.

EDIT: Here we go.

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=10619
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