Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!avi From: avi@pegasus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Speaking in forked tongues Message-ID: <938@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 02:40:32 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.938 Posted: Tue Feb 14 02:40:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:37:46 EST References: <581@orca.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 19 I still don't understand what all this stuff about talking in tongues is about? Why is talking without making any sense considered useful, or a gift from G-D? I can understand (somewhat) if people magically learn to use a new language. However, random sounds seem rather silly. In many societies, this was considered evidence of possession by a demon (not the UNIX(TM) kind) and many epileptics and senile individuals were killed. What do these tongue-twisters want? Do they wish to join the rabble babbling meaninglessly at the tower of Babel? Is there any effect similar to TM, or to hypnosis, when repeating nonsense syllables? I too speak many tongues, but they are all recognized in countries around the globe. They were also not granted as a gift -- I worked at them. I could probably pass in some of these churches, because I could chant a medley of words that would mean little to the average 1.2 language well-educated American. :-) P.S. It is hard to be a false prophet when you didn't really say anything. -- -=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241 suggested paths: [ihnp4, allegra, cbosg, hogpc, ...]!pegasus!avi