LordWolf, I like ya, but there are a few problems with some of what you're saying. I'm sure Beastt will address it himself anyway, but there are a few problems with your reasoning.
thats alot of extrapolation. sort of like extrapolating that if a poisonous snake lives in a particular pond, then all animals in that pond must therefore be poisonous snakes.
More accurately, it would be like a person seeing a poisonous snake in a pond and assuming it lives there, then another person seeing the same snake in another pond and assuming it lives there instead. The idea of speaking in tongues has been used as 'evidence' of past lives to some (you) and it has been used as evidence of following the 'true faith'.
i had an experience and since that experience was in the context of past life regression, i think it lends credence to it. if someone going to a particular church is able to speak a lingo that he/she previously didnt know, then perhaps that is a sign of the intervention of a diety. i dont see how there could be any evidence of a "one true god" as miraculous events are associated with almost every belief system known to mankind.
'Having an experience' is interesting enough, but it doesn't necessarily confirm anything. There's a problem with this though. People 'speak in tongues' at churches all over the world, but it's most often churches that believe their one denomination is the one true faith, and that their god has specifically laid out their religion. So we have a bit of a contradiction here. Either there are deities fighting over something as petty as being the 'one true god' or they're fucking with people. Neither one lends much credence to the idea. If people are having these not-so-miraculous experiences for a number of religious reasons, we might want to look into the cause of these fits in the first place.
if you have another idea of how i might instantly learn a foreign lingo, please tell me...i want to sell the idea to roseta stone and make a mint!
I don't know the cause of 'speaking in tongues', since I'm far from an expert, but something I can suggest that doesn't involve anything mystical: you hear a phrase, or even a few lines or more in a certain language. You don't understand them, but the syllables stay in your short-term memory for a while. Eventually, they passed into your long-term memory and are buried in your subconscious. Weeks, months, years later, you see a regressionist, expecting to uncover a past life, and expecting something 'cool' or miraculous. You get hypnotized, and old memories resurface. You speak out the snippet you heard that one time, not necessarily aware of where it came from (that's all been forgotten), and your expectations have been fulfilled. Nothing more to see here, you've just spoken a language you only knew in a past life. It doesn't necessarily confirm the existence of a past life, or the existence of a god.
Now ^^^ that is PURELY speculation, so if someone who knows more about the mechanisms of memory and the mind than I do can show that not to be a possibility, I'd be glad to hear it.
