Talking to God

[megaadvice 0]

So basically I was talking to one of my friends today who I have known for about 5 years, we were talking about religion (duno how we got onto the subject) anyway she is a christian and she told me that when she prays she acually talks to God, she says she speaks to him in a whole different language. I asked her to speak some of it but she would'nt, she then sort of got wired about the whole thing, I could tell by the tone of her voice she wasnt joking she was being dedly serious. I trust her and trust me she was NOT making this up.

 

Anyway the question I want to ask is has anyone had this "talking to God" experience or has anyone heard anything about it?

 

Please no replies of "shes lying" or "its a load of shit"

[2GOLD 0]

Well, I won't say your friend is nuts...but it's entirely possible your friend is delusional.

 

I've heard of people who claim they talk to God, but none of them mentioned an entirely different language. And even then, lots of them were whacked out of their minds.

 

It's possible just put their sub-conscious into voice form and that is the voice of God. This....not too sure.

[Nighthawk 0]

It's common among certain Pentacostal denominations, and comes from misinterpreting a verse in 1 Corinthians. Nothing strange, that is to say, unusual.

[1234-5678 0]

It's a tumor. Haven't you ever watched "Deadwood"?

[Dr. Tom 0]

Well, I won't say your friend is nuts...

I will.

 

Your friend is nuts.

[GreatWhiteNope 0]

My friend's ex-girlfriend is a born-again Christian.

 

One time him and some friends were sitting in her living room waiting for her to get ready so they could go out, and she runs manically down the stairs yelling "PRAISE GOD MY SAVIOR", opens the front door and dives headfirst into a snowbank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made up the snowbank part, but she did run outside and fall down crying.

 

My friend said she was the best sex he ever had.

 

Then she cheated on him.

[Nighthawk 0]

I bet brainwashing Tom would be surprisingly easy.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

megaadvice, your friend is either lying, or insane.

[Nighthawk 0]

To elaborate a bit, it works much the same way as speaking in tongues. Speaking in tongues is very easy, you can make any crowd of people do it as long as they're willing to follow instructions. Now, once you have the ability to speak in a "language" you believe to be outside of your control, all you need is initiative. The verse they use talks of speaking in the tongues of men and angels, which they interpret as meaning a divine language. If they're told that they're supposed to speak this language when they pray, and they have learned the speaking in tongues dynamic, naturally that's what will happen.

The only crazy part would be if you classify interpreting the Bible in that way as crazy, the actual speaking to God part is normal neurological response to the accompanying stimuli. So this person is not crazy, just under a crazy belief system.

[Nevermortal 0]

That post reminded me of that one time where Roddy Piper snapped on Hogan and spoke in tongues.

 

Bad times.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I'll just say that you can hear something talking back to you if you want to hear it enough.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

The doll's trying to kill me, and the toaster's been laughing at me.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Basically when a person prays that's talking to God. That's completely normal and every Christian does it. It's a poor choice of wording on her part because someone not in the loop of Christian teachings is going to get freaked out about it. The tongues thing I tend to agree with IDRM that it's BS. Most Christians you encounter will tend to agree or be extremely skeptical about it.

 

The only time it's a problem if they start saying God's talking back and start justifying non-sensical actions with "God told me to." That tends to lead to progressively more crazy and dangerous actions.

[Guest Vitamin X]

The only time it's a problem if they start saying God's talking back and start justifying non-sensical actions with "God told me to." That tends to lead to progressively more crazy and dangerous actions.

[Guest netslob]

they're not talking to god, they're talking to Alan Rickman.

 

or they're talking to themselves.

[Guest sek69]

They say the only difference between praying and schitzophrenia is the occaisonal "amen".

 

Don't they know if a human heard the voice of God, their head would explode?

 

 

 

God: HELLO, PUNY HUMAN!

 

Result:

 

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

I suppose that's as good an excuse as any to bust that .gif out again.

[Guest sek69]

Any time's a good time for Exploding Head Guy.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

One day someone came into the bookstore where I work and asked if we had Prayer for Dummies. I really wanted to bust out laughing, being the secular bastard that I am.

[Vern Gagne 0]

Could someone who talks to god, ask him if it's ok for me to eat some chicken noodle soup? It's Lent, and it find of feels like i'm coming down with a cold.

[Matt Young 0]

They say the only difference between praying and schitzophrenia is the occaisonal "amen".

 

Don't they know if a human heard the voice of God, their head would explode?

 

 

 

God: HELLO, PUNY HUMAN!

 

Result:

 

It's funny because he's an ordained minister.

 

Are you still into researching religion and stuff? I've been waiting for your book for years now.

 

I didn't mean any of that to sound sarcastic or condescending, either. I really am interested.

 

At any rate, I was raised Christian and I still believe in God, but the original poster's friend is definitely wacko.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Could someone who talks to god, ask him if it's ok for me to eat some chicken noodle soup? It's Lent, and it find of feels like i'm coming down with a cold.

I recall from my catholic days that it's okay to eat any non-red meat. Although fish is preferable, so go eat some clam chowder or something if you're still not sure.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Or "chowdah" as half this board would probably say it.

[2GOLD 0]

Could someone ask God if pets get into Heaven? Cause that was really a question that has never been answered and Jesus has been ducking me for months!

[Guest Vitamin X]

Pretty sure they do, but good luck trying to find them.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

How would some loopy tongues-speaking church feel about someone asking nicely to record some of it on tape?

[Nighthawk 0]

I bet some wouldn't care, though it wouldn't be hard to do surreptitiously. In the height of it's popularity they used to do it on the radio.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

How would some loopy tongues-speaking church feel about someone asking nicely to record some of it on tape?

It's been done--a lot. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of tongue-speaking have been captured on tape and studied relentlessly by researchers. None of it has turned out to be any actual language.

[Nighthawk 0]

I think he wants to sample it in a band.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Precisely. I'm working on an EP of religious chant and industrial noise.