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No, not in those words. You said that doing so lowers one's resistance to suggestability. That is, reduces one's ability to think on a critical level. That at least sounds like advice to not speak in tonges. I'm going to join you on the other thread.

Thanks, erkjohn, for digging a little deeper. I had to come out of lurkdom to agree with you on this one. I also want to comment on Waysider's statement that "Speaking in tongues has been proven to decrease your level of resistance to suggestibility. (Reduces your ability to think on a critical level)." The Wikipedia article you quoted only cites 3 references under the "Neuroscience" subhead. One reference, as erkjohn has already pointed out, is to the study that involved only 5 subjects who, by the way, claimed that they SIT'd involuntarily, that they had no control over it. As erkjohn also has pointed out, a study with only 5 subjects hardly constitutes scientific "proof," regardless of whether it reached the conclusion you say it did. The second reference is to a poster presented at a meeting by some radiologists who evaluated only 3 subjects, which offers even less evidence than the study in the first reference. The third reference is to a NY Times article basically rehashing the 5-subject study and expanding on it. I'm defintely not seeing any "proof" here. I'm not interested in arguing the validity of SIT. I have my opinion and Waysider clearly has his. But what Waysider claims is "proven" clearly has not been proven. Getting back to the original subject of this thread, I have to say that those long, twi-leadership-heavy "lift lists" were tedious as he|| and stifled people's sponteneity and heartfelt prayer. Trying to legislate people's private prayer lives is just one more example of how twi leadership tried to stuff people into their mold. But it has no bearing on whether I SIT or not. I did it long before, during, and after twi--and today certanly not with an 8-page list of someone else's idea of who and what I should pray for. I don't think we have to throw out everything that was associated with twi. Sometimes at meals at HQ we ate strawberry shortcake. I enjoyed eating it before I was in twi, during my time in twi, and I still enjoy it today. I'm not going to stop eating strawberry shortcake or try to prove how bad it was just because it was served to me while on twi HQ staff.

Earlier tonight a rather heated conversation fell out with Mrs. OldSkool. During the argument we came to yet another false paradigm set in place by Victor Paul Wierwille, continued and perfected by Lloyd Craig "The Forehead" Martindale, and silently perpetuated by the current short bus driver, Frau-The Blue-Q-Tip. That is that the founders of the way international and it's current board of directors are the experts in life. Then they set all these impossibly high standards that no one can live up to and that they themselves do not live. Who the hell made them the experts on life and living? Who in the hell said farming was God's preferred lifestyle? If that's the case why does he descend New Jerusalem from Heaven at the end of Revelation and not New Green Acres? What the hell business is it of theirs if I call dinner lunch and supper dinner? And who gives a crap how a farmer eats a light breakfast, big dinner, and light supper? You pencil pushing wimps sure as hell aren't farmers!! :realmad: :CUSSING: :mooner: And that's all I got to say about that...

Welcome, What About It!! Glad to see you posting here! Ya, the courtesy folds were repetitively ingrained in us while in-residence, if you had the misfortune to work housekeeping. Thinking oneself an expert in all things seems a lot like megalomania! Yes, I think that was Doc Vic. Megalomaniac! It has left it's scars on me. Again, welcome to Da Spot!!

Oh yeah, from the very simple things in life, like the toilet paper must be folded a certain way, to some of the bigger issues, like believers must exercise our right to vote, and while we're there, vote Republican. Isn't that just a little too much to take on in life, anyway? To think that you must be the expert in all things? Run while you still can! If only I had ran sooner...