oeesordy > 12-04-2026, 03:19 AM
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oeesordy > 12-04-2026, 05:34 AM
Quote:Because they are sadly uneducated and uncatechized on the matter, and have mistaken the occultic practice of incantation/ululation with “the gift of tongues” in the New Testament.
By You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the same 5–13 syllables multiple times, especially (but not necessarily) with gradually increasing speed, volume, and intensity and working to a climax, one induces an altered state of consciousness and often auto-hysteria.
It is in fact a practice condemned in Scripture, in both the Old Testament and the New.
Apostolic “tongues", by contrast, sounds like a language — with a discernible grammar, vocabulary, morphology, and syntax, and in fact often is an actual other human language that the speaker has no knowledge of.
(I was accompanying a friend on a mission trip in Eastern Europe 25 years ago, and at a small town in southeast Poland the host asked me to preach at a village gathering with the host translating. 3 lines into the sermon —though I speak not a word of Polish — I broke into perfect native Polish, and not the kind you'd learn in school, but this town's obscure dialect and accent — at least that's what they all told me. All I know is I was trying to speak in English, but all the words kept coming out funny.)
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JoJo_Jost > 13-04-2026, 10:50 AM
oeesordy > 13-04-2026, 07:16 PM
(13-04-2026, 10:50 AM)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What exactly do you mean by glossolalia? Because VMS is far too structured for normal glossolalia; that has already been proven.
Quote:No, the theory that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a form of glossolalia (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) has not been disproven. Instead, it remains a serious, albeit debated, hypothesis that explains the manuscript's internal structure without requiring a coherent language, with some analyses even suggesting it closely parallels glossolalic patterns.
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Quote:No Consensus: Because the manuscript has never been deciphered, no theory—including glossolalia—has been proven or disproven definitively
oeesordy > 14-04-2026, 05:53 AM
Quote:3. The Month Abbreviation: October 1006
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Quote:The aspect of this rock art panel that caught my attention was the figure at upper left, which resembles other Hohokam glyphs thought to represent scorpions. It is an oriented figure facing right with what appear to be chelae (hinged pincer-like claws), legs, and a tail. These are creatures with which the desert-dwelling Hohokam would have been very familiar. The juxtaposition of figures that could plausibly be interpreted as a scorpion and bright sky object, in their relative positions, immediately reminded me of the positions of the classical constellation Scorpius and the bright supernova recorded by European and Chinese astronomers that first appeared in the night sky in the early hours of 1 May 1006 CE. The object would have been visible from the location of the petroglyph, rising some 20 degrees above the southern horizon just before midnight. With a peak visual brightness of magnitude -7.5, it outshone every other object in the night sky. For the inhabitants of the area, it would have been an unforgettable sight.
Quote:Yes, the Lupus constellation features a distinct triangle-shaped asterism within its boundary, which is often used to mark the head of the wolf.
oeesordy > 15-04-2026, 12:44 AM
Quote:Yes, the constellation Carina contains a prominent, roughly square-shaped asterism
Quote:Yes, the Carina constellation represents the keel (or hull) of the ship Argo Navis,
Quote:Yes, you can see the constellation Scorpius in October, but only for a very short time just after sunset, low on the southwestern horizon. It is a summer constellation that departs the sky by mid-September in the northern hemisphere, but the bright, red heart star Antares can still be spotted in early October.
ReneZ > 15-04-2026, 04:59 AM